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Ahmed Etman

Ghazl El Mahalla FC
Half-space creator CM
37% of actions in the half-spaces
central midadvanced playmaker (8)progressionbox-to-box
619
minutes
19 apps
23
progressive passes
3.3/90
73%
pass completion
247 passes
10
key passes
1.45/90
6
box entries
0.87/90
21
final-3rd entries
3.1/90
20
dribbles
35% won
79
possessions lost
3.22 danger/90
Overview

The player

Who he is and how he compares with his peers.

01

What Patterns Define Him?

His repeatable signature. A step only appears if its reliability score (sample size × match coverage) reaches at least Medium confidence — pattern mining, not anecdotes.

RECEIVE
Right Wing, Attacking third — mostly in the middle third (49% of his 247 passes)
73% completion · 247× in 18/18 matches
↓
PROGRESS
drive or pass into the final third
3.3 prog/90 · 23× in 13/18 matches
↓
ARRIVE
get into the box late
10 key passes · 6× in 5/18 matches
↓
CREATE / FINISH
cut-back or shot from inside
1.45 key passes /90 · 1 goals · 18× in 7/18 matches
Signature: receive → progress → arrive in the box → create or finish. A box-to-box midfielder judged across every phase.
20

Where is he influential — vs where is he merely present?

Red fill = raw touch territory. Gold rings = zones where his influence (xT added, progression, line-breaks, key passes) outweighs how often he's actually there — one combined map instead of two separate maps to compare by eye. Red with no ring: present but not dangerous. A ring on faint red: rare touches, outsized impact.

own goal left, attacking →
14
passes / match
2.2
dribbles / match
2–42
pass range (matches)
1–3
dribble range (matches)
Pass range = his fewest and most passes in any single match this season (2 at the low end, 42 at the high) — a measure of match-to-match involvement, not pass distance. Dribble range works the same way, for dribbles/carries per match.
In possession

In possession

What he does with the ball: build-up, progression, creation, carrying and finishing.

09

How dangerous are his carries?

Real ball-carries

83 tracked carries (12.1/90, 12 progressive, 871m total) — the ball moving with his touches, a different signal from dribbles below (beating an opponent 1v1). this counts every touch-carry, not just his dribble attempts below — a fuller picture of how much of his ball-carrying is control-and-move rather than beating a man.

7%19%16%29%6%7%2%8%1%1%1%1%
progressivelateral/short% of his 83 carries originating in each zone · own goal left, attacking →
Every carry, exact path — median 8m, longest 54m
By zone — where the carry started → where it ended
19Outside → Inside
30Inside → Inside
27Outside → Outside
7Inside → Outside
First (39)Second (29)Third (8)Fourth (7)grouped by carry pattern (start + end position), largest group first
startendown goal left, attacking →

Dribbles (1v1s)

Ahmed Etman's signature is the dribble. Does he carry outside (down the right wing) or inside (into the half-space / centre)? Every dribble classified by channel. Season rate: 2.91 dribbles attempted /90.

brighter band = more dribbles · own goal left, attacking →
INSIDE 55%
OUTSIDE 45%
Dribble location — 11 inside · 9 outside
Right Wing
8 · 40%
Right Half-Space
9 · 45%
Central
2 · 10%
Left Half-Space
0 · 0%
Left Wing
1 · 5%
Vision AI 45% of his dribbles are in the wide right lane — he attacks the full-back on the outside, then threatens to cut inside onto his left foot.
12

How does he build & move the ball?

How he moves the ball — his 4 busiest progression routes, not where every pass starts and ends separately. Arrow width = how often, colour = xT gained, dashed = switch of play. The full breakdown is in the lane matrix below.

own goal left, attacking →
Lane transition matrix — when he receives in a lane, where does it go?
TO →RWRHSCLHSLWRW8744%3838%3316%141%11%1RHS6926%1835%2426%1813%9C1612%212%238%638%6LHS633%267%4LW3100%3FROM
Rows normalised: each row sums to 100% of that lane's completed passes. Grey number = passes from that lane.

Primary route: the right wing in the final third → central areas in the final third — 9 progressive passes (25% of his progression) at 0.198 xT each. He moves it inside.

His progression is inward: 64% of progressive passes move the ball toward the middle versus 0% going wider — he cuts in rather than holding width.

13% of his passes are cross-field switches — he changes the point of attack often.

Quality behind the volume: 14 line-breaking passes and 21 final-third entries, 4.4 total xT added.

Origin and destination are measured on the same event row — no receiver inference. Receiver identity is not recoverable from this data source.
All passes — origin zone share
Filter: from to
2%9%17%20%23%12%2%4%4%2%1%1%2%0%1%
completedincomplete247 passes · any zone → any zone · own goal left, attacking →
247
passes
73%
completed
66
lost
Vision AIIn line with his 73% season completion rate.
05

How does he progress play?

How much he drives the ball forward. Progressive = completed pass advancing ≥15 toward goal.

23
progressive · 3.3/90
21
final-third entries · 3.1/90
6
box entries · 0.87/90
16
progression index /90
Progression index: one composite number — progressive passes + progressive carries + 2% of total distance progressed + 8× positive xT added, all per 90. Weights VOLUME and THREAT together rather than counting progressive actions alone.
03

How does he create chances?

10 key passes (1.45/90), 1 of them assists — where his chance creation specifically comes from, 18 zones (6×3), showing his share of key passes originating there.

Chance creation — key pass origin zone share
Filter:
11%44%33%11%
chance creation (8)assist (1)% of the selected group's key passes originating in each zone
10

Where does he become vulnerable?

79 possessions lost. Directness has a cost — the question is where. Attacking-third losses are cheap; deep ones are dangerous.

36
attacking third (cheap)
30
middle third
13
own third (dangerous)
Vision AI 46% of losses are in the attacking third — he gambles where a turnover costs little.
Mistake danger (proxy): 3.22 danger-index/90 · 0.280 avg/turnover. Weights each loss by threat conceded at that location. True xT-conceded needs the opponent possession model; positional proxy.
13

What is his passing profile?

247
passes attempted
39%
mostly forward
51%
mostly short
Direction
Forward
96 · 39%
Sideways
79 · 32%
Backward
72 · 29%
Length (completed)
Short (<15m)
92 · 51%
Medium
66 · 36%
Long (>30m)
23 · 13%
11

Preferred Progression Routes — xT-weighted

His progressive passes as zone→zone routes, weighted by expected threat (xT) added — arrow width and the number are the total xT generated on each route, not just how often he plays it. This is where he actually moves the needle.

0.540.380.370.290.210.17
own goal left, attacking →
Highest-value routes (xT)
0.54
Right Half-Space Mid third → Right Half-Space Att third
2 passes
0.38
Right Wing Att third → Right Wing Att third
2 passes
0.37
Right Wing Mid third → Left Half-Space Att third
1 passes · 1 to a shot
0.29
Right Wing Att third → Central Att third
1 passes · 1 to a shot
0.21
Right Half-Space Mid third → Left Half-Space Att third
1 passes
0.17
Right Half-Space Def third → Right Half-Space Mid third
2 passes
07

Where Does He Receive?

The zones where Ahmed Etman gets on the ball — his top three ball-collection areas highlighted (gold = primary). Reception is proxied by where his on-ball actions begin (no explicit receiver is recorded).

123
1 = primary, 2 = secondary, 3 = third · own goal left, attacking →
His collection zones
24%
Primary
Right Wing, Attacking third
21%
Secondary
Right Wing, Middle third
21%
Third
Right Half-Space, Middle third
These are the zones where he collected the ball most.
08

Where Does He Operate? — Every Zone

Every on-ball touch (pass, dribble, shot) binned into a 6×3 grid — raw counts of where Ahmed Etman actually gets on the ball. Hover any zone for its breakdown by action type, its share of all touches, and the exact coordinate range it covers.

Filter:
22422511109342153536133
own goal left, attacking → · brighter + higher number = more touches

Passes only — completed vs incomplete, by zone

Same zone grid, restricted to passes so completed/incomplete and match filters actually mean something — a shot or a dribble has no "completed" in the pass sense.

2%9%17%20%23%12%2%4%4%2%1%1%2%0%1%
own goal left, attacking →
14

Every Pass This Season — completed vs incomplete

Every pass this season, plotted individually — green = completed, grey (dashed) = incomplete, gold = key pass. Filter by outcome or isolate one match below.

10Key pass
2Assist
9Cross
3Cutback
23Progressive
37Long ball
17Switch
By zone — where the pass started → where it landed
48Outside → Inside
67Inside → Inside
42Outside → Outside
24Inside → Outside
By direction
96Forward
72Backward
79Sideways
own goal left, attacking →
02

Tactical patterns — how his football actually looks

Three clustered sequence diagrams from his own event data — his three busiest routes: the way he progresses, the pattern behind his chances, and where a turnover turns dangerous.

own goal left, attacking →
How does he progress the ball forward?
His most common route for progressing play: he plays straight through the right hs, advancing it forward in the middle third — 2 passes worth 0.54 xT.
Where do his chances come from?
Of 10 key passes, his busiest route is a delivery where he plays inside from the right wing toward the central in the final third — 6 times. The receiver isn't identifiable in this data, only where the pass started and ended.
Where does he lose the ball most?
This is a RATE, not a raw count — the share of his touches in each zone that end in a turnover, so a zone he simply plays in more often doesn't automatically look riskier. His weakest zone is the right wing in the defensive third: 50% of his 14 touches there are lost (7 times).
50%7/14 lost33%4/12 lost—2 touches · too few—1 touch · too few—1 touch · too few16%8/49 lost14%7/49 lost38%6/16 lost—6 touches · too few—1 touch · too few39%25/64 lost17%4/23 lost—6 touches · too few—1 touch · too few—2 touches · too fewRWRHSCLHSLWDEFMIDATT
04

Does he carry inside or outside — his ball-carries across the pitch

Four arrows, one per movement class of his ball-carries: outside→inside (cutting in with the ball), inside→outside (carrying wide), outside→outside (down the touchline) and inside→inside (through the middle). Each count is measured from the carry's real start and end coordinates.

own goal left, attacking →
Across 83 ball-carries, his dominant tendency is that he carries through central areas (36%). He carries from outside into the middle 19 times and out toward the touchline 7 — a genuine inside forward who cuts in with the ball.
06

What happens right after he carries the ball

Every carry's end point matched against his own very next pass or shot in the same match, when one starts almost exactly there — the direct continuation of that touch, not a separate stat. “No clean link” means no pass or shot of his own started close enough to count (often the carry ended in a tackle or a loss); it isn't a claim about exactly what happened, only that nothing traceable followed.

Shot
1 · 1%
Progressive / key pass
7 · 8%
Simple pass
44 · 53%
No clean link
31 · 37%
Of 83 carries, 1% flow straight into a shot of his own, 8% into a key or progressive pass — a genuine end product to the carry, not just ball retention. 37% have no clean link to a next touch of his own close to where the carry ended.
15

Crosses & Cutbacks

9 crosses (1.31/90, 3 completed) and 3 cutbacks (0.44/90, 2 completed) — two separate wide-delivery patterns into the box, each its own map with a completed/failed filter. Neither is a tagged event, so both are inferred from pass geometry — the intended end point of a failed attempt is still real data (an interception doesn’t erase where the ball was aimed): a cross is a pass aimed into the box starting from a wide channel; a cutback starts almost on the byline but is squared back rather than driven forward, aimed centrally around the box. The completed-cross count was checked against this platform’s own real match-level cross totals and lands within about 1 cross of the true count.

Crosses — close-up on the final third
Cutbacks — close-up on the final third
completedfailed (dashed)close-up on the box — attacking ↑ toward goal
Out of possession

Out of possession

Where and how he defends and presses.

17

How & where does he defend?

63 defensive actions across the season (9.2/90). Where he wins the ball, and how — the core question for a defender. Aerial duels are not recorded for this competition, so aerial dominance is not measured here.

click a card to isolate that action type · own goal left, attacking →
12
tackles · 92% won
6
interceptions · 0.9/90
31
recoveries · 4.5/90
11
clearances · 1.6/90
3
blocks
34
avg action height
6
won high (att 3rd)
24
middle third
33
own third
Vision AI A mid-block defender. He wins the ball mainly by stepping in — tackles, interceptions & recoveries outweigh clearances. 49 proactive ball-wins (7.1/90), tackle success 92%. He defends mostly around the middle third.
16

Against Different Pressing Intensities

Split by how hard the opponent pressed (opponent PPDA — lower = more intense press). Does Ahmed Etman keep producing when the game is tight and the press is high? Tiers of ~6-6 matches — directional evidence, not proof.

press tier
xT /90
prog /90
key P /90
dribble%
High press (PPDA 7.0, 6m)
0.69
1.6
0.99
44%
Mid press (PPDA 10.5, 6m)
1.01
2.5
1.23
33%
Low press (PPDA 15.8, 6m)
1.78
6.6
2.36
25%
Team

Team context

How much of the team runs through him, and what changes without him.

18

Impact on the Team

Ghazl El Mahalla FC's output per match with Ahmed Etman (3 matches) versus without him (3 matches). Insufficient evidence — the without-sample is only 3 matches; treat every Δ below as noise until more games exist. A proper on-off model needs many more minutes.

WITH (3)
WITHOUT (3)
Δ
goals for /match
0.00
0.33
-0.33
xG for /match
0.59
0.62
-0.03
goals against /match
0.67
2.67
-2.00
points /match
0.33
0.00
+0.33
19

His Share of the Team

Of everything Ghazl El Mahalla FC produced this season, the categories where the biggest share ran through Ahmed Etman specifically — his share of the team total, not a per-90 rate.

category
share
him / team
box entries
3%
15 / 501
expected assists (xA)
3%
1.0 / 35.2
zone-14 entries
2%
7 / 281
Recruitment

Style and verdict

Style profile, closest comparables, and the summary.

21

Playing-Style Profile

Not raw event counts — football style scores: weighted models scored 0–100 against the 445 central mids in the pool (min 450 min). This is what separates players who post similar numbers but play differently. Proxy dimensions are inferred from on-ball data; true off-ball running / under-pressure context is not measured.

Advanced playmaker (8)84%Box-to-box runner77%Transition runner64%Deep-lying playmaker60%
Why Advanced playmaker (8) 84%: a weighted blend of creativity 87 (weight 35%) + progression 87 (weight 25%) + final-third threat 72 (weight 25%) + box threat 74 (weight 15%). The score reflects how distinctively his profile SHAPE matches this archetype vs his peers.
Elite
territory (wide vs central), crossing, creativity, progression, carrying, receiving zones, line-breaking
Strong
ball-winning, box threat, final-third threat
Average
dribbling, transition, defensive aggression, through-balls, press resistance, build-up, retention
Weak
passing directness
Unknown
aerial ability, marking, off-ball running — not in event data
Territory (wide vs central)
92
Crossing
90
Creativity
87
Progression
87
Carrying
87
Receiving zones
87
Line-breaking
86
Ball-winning
79
Box threat
74
Final-third threat
72
Dribbling
63
Transition ~proxy
60
Defensive aggression
50
Through-balls ~proxy
49
Press resistance ~proxy
48
Build-up
48
Retention
43
Passing directness
19
22

Similar Players — in style space

Closest comparables measured on the style scores above, within the same position family — so it separates how players are alike, not just how much they touch the ball. Each line explains the shared strength and the divergent mechanism. A light physical-profile term (height / weight) is included at a quarter of one style axis's weight — enough to break ties between stylistic twins, not to override style. Scope: pooled across the Egyptian Premier League, Bundesliga, La Liga, Ligue 1, Premier League and Serie A, percentiled within each player's own league before comparing — a match from another league is marked with its league name.

Style, not quality: a high match here means two players tend to produce the ball in similar ways — it is not a ranking, a scouting recommendation, or a claim that they are equally good.

Rémy Cabella Nantes · Ligue 1 25/26 · 171 cm / 68 kg
89%
Driven by: crossing (16%), creativity (14%), progression (11%). Different mechanism — Etman more via dribbling; Cabella more via through-balls, final-third threat.
Pablo Fornals Real Betis · La Liga · 178 cm / 67 kg
81%
Driven by: creativity (16%), progression (15%), crossing (14%). Different mechanism — Etman more via ball-winning; Fornals more via passing directness, through-balls.
Diego Moreira AC Milan · Serie A · 179 cm / 73 kg
79%
Driven by: crossing (16%), carrying (14%), ball-winning (10%). Different mechanism — Etman more via receiving zones, creativity; Moreira more via through-balls.
Dominik Szoboszlai Liverpool · Premier League · 186 cm / 74 kg
78%
Driven by: crossing (13%), receiving zones (13%), progression (12%). Different mechanism — Etman more via ball-winning, crossing; Szoboszlai more via through-balls, retention.
Thomas Lemar Elche · La Liga · 171 cm / 63 kg
77%
Driven by: crossing (19%), carrying (14%), territory (wide vs central) (12%). Different mechanism — Etman more via creativity, ball-winning; Lemar more via retention, press resistance.
Nicolò Barella Inter · Serie A · 175 cm / 68 kg
77%
Driven by: crossing (19%), creativity (15%), progression (12%). Different mechanism — Etman more via territory (wide vs central), ball-winning; Barella more via through-balls, press resistance.
23

Summary

Ahmed Etman is an advanced playmaker (8) / box-to-box runner: 3.3 progressive passes, 1.45 key passes /90, 6 box entries, 1 goals from 0.68 xG. A box-to-box contributor across every phase.

Based on 19 matches (619 minutes) — an early read, treat with caution until more minutes are logged. He profiles as an advanced playmaker (8) / box-to-box runner — best used in a system built around that identity. His biggest room for growth is final-third threat — even a modest improvement there would meaningfully lift his overall advanced playmaker (8) profile.
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