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Who he is and how he compares with his peers.
His repeatable signature. A step only appears if its reliability score (sample size × match coverage) reaches at least Medium confidence — pattern mining, not anecdotes.
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.
What he does with the ball: build-up, progression, creation, carrying and finishing.
72 tracked carries (22.0/90, 18 progressive, 644m 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.
Only 2 dribbles attempted this season — too little volume to map a location pattern.
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.
Primary route: the right wing in the final third → central areas in the final third — 3 progressive passes (14% of his progression) at 0.236 xT each. He moves it inside.
His progression is inward: 55% of progressive passes move the ball toward the middle versus 5% going wider — he cuts in rather than holding width.
12% of his passes are cross-field switches — he changes the point of attack often.
Quality behind the volume: 6 line-breaking passes and 28 final-third entries, 3.9 total xT added.
How much he drives the ball forward. Progressive = completed pass advancing ≥15 toward goal.
12 key passes (3.66/90), 0 of them assists — where his chance creation specifically comes from, 18 zones (6×3), showing his share of key passes originating there.
37 possessions lost. Directness has a cost — the question is where. Attacking-third losses are cheap; deep ones are dangerous.
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.
The zones where Hakan Çalhanoglu 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).
Every on-ball touch (pass, dribble, shot) binned into a 6×3 grid — raw counts of where Hakan Çalhanoglu 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.
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.
Every pass this season, plotted individually — green = completed, grey (dashed) = incomplete, gold = key pass. Filter by outcome or isolate one match below.
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.
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.
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.
Where and how he defends and presses.
52 defensive actions across the season (15.9/90). 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.
Split by how hard the opponent pressed (opponent PPDA — lower = more intense press). Does Hakan Çalhanoglu keep producing when the game is tight and the press is high? Tiers of ~2-2 matches — directional evidence, not proof.
How much of the team runs through him, and what changes without him.
Inter's output per match with Hakan Çalhanoglu (6 matches) versus without him (2 matches). Insufficient evidence — the without-sample is only 2 matches; treat every Δ below as noise until more games exist. A proper on-off model needs many more minutes.
Of everything Inter produced this season, the categories where the biggest share ran through Hakan Çalhanoglu specifically — his share of the team total, not a per-90 rate.
Style profile, closest comparables, and the summary.
Not raw event counts — football style scores: weighted models scored 0–100 against the 383 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.
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; this player: 178 cm / 76 kg) 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 Serie A, Bundesliga, La Liga, Ligue 1 and Premier League, 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.
Hakan Çalhanoglu is a transition runner / box-to-box runner: 6.1 progressive passes, 3.66 key passes /90, 4 box entries, 3 goals from 1.04 xG. A box-to-box contributor across every phase.
Click any stat card to filter its map, hover a dot for the exact match, and use the dropdowns to slice passes zone-to-zone. Nothing here is static.