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Player reportSerie A 2026

Adrien Rabiot

AC Milan
Half-space creator CM
46% of actions in the half-spaces
Capability Analysis
Successful Dribble46%vs 34 central mids
"Can he beat a man in a straight 1v1?"
Successful take-ons /900.656%
Take-on success37.29%35%
Progression54%vs 34 central mids
"Can he move the team forward with a pass, not just recycle it sideways?"
Progressive passes /904.0256%
Line-breaking passes /901.2847%
Threat added by passing /900.94xT50%
Pass accuracy83.8%65%
Ball-Carrying64%vs 34 central mids
"Does he advance the ball himself when the pass isn't on?"
Progressive carries /905.5982%
Carry distance /90146.63m82%
Successful take-ons /900.656%
Take-on success37.29%35%
Chance Creation35%vs 34 central mids
"Does he create real chances for others?"
Expected assists /900.06xA47%
Through balls /900.00%
Threat added by passing /900.94xT50%
Box entries (pass) /901.2844%
central midtransition runnerprogressionbox-to-box
509
minutes
7 apps
11
progressive passes
1.9/90
87%
pass completion
336 passes
6
key passes
1.06/90
4
box entries
0.71/90
15
final-3rd entries
2.7/90
5
dribbles
40% won
48
possessions lost
2.52 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
Left Half-Space, Middle third — mostly in the middle third (64% of his 336 passes)
87% completion · 336× in 7/7 matches
↓
PROGRESS
drive or pass into the final third
1.9 prog/90 · 11× in 6/7 matches
↓
ARRIVE
get into the box late
6 key passes · 4× in 3/7 matches
↓
CREATE / FINISH
cut-back or shot from inside
1.06 key passes /90 · 4 goals · 15× in 4/7 matches
Signature: receive → progress → arrive in the box → create or finish. A box-to-box midfielder judged across every phase.
17

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 →
48
passes / match
1.7
dribbles / match
13–77
pass range (matches)
1–3
dribble range (matches)
Pass range = his fewest and most passes in any single match this season (13 at the low end, 77 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.

08

How dangerous are his carries?

Real ball-carries

98 tracked carries (17.3/90, 22 progressive, 996m 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.

11%8%9%2%4%18%6%3%2%11%14%8%2%
progressivelateral/short% of his 98 carries originating in each zone · own goal left, attacking →
Every carry, exact path — median 8m, longest 35m
By zone — where the carry started → where it ended
7Outside → Inside
56Inside → Inside
29Outside → Outside
6Inside → Outside
First (35)Second (26)Third (19)Fourth (18)grouped by carry pattern (start + end position), largest group first
startendown goal left, attacking →

Dribbles (1v1s)

Only 5 dribbles attempted this season — too little volume to map a location pattern.

09

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 →RWRHSCLHSLWRW3471%2426%93%1RHS5739%2228%1626%155%32%1C635%316%1046%2925%168%5LHS761%14%334%2629%2232%24LW617%451%3143%26FROM
Rows normalised: each row sums to 100% of that lane's completed passes. Grey number = passes from that lane.

Primary route: the left wing in the final third → the left half-space in the final third — 6 progressive passes (29% of his progression) at 0.069 xT each. He moves it inside.

His progression is inward: 67% of progressive passes move the ball toward the middle versus 10% going wider — he cuts in rather than holding width.

Only 3% of his passes switch play, so his threat is same-side — contain the flank he occupies and the route closes.

Quality behind the volume: 11 line-breaking passes and 15 final-third entries, -0.9 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
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3%8%10%6%1%4%13%8%5%0%0%4%14%11%9%3%
completedincomplete336 passes · any zone → any zone · own goal left, attacking →
336
passes
87%
completed
45
lost
Vision AIIn line with his 87% season completion rate.
04

How does he create chances?

6 key passes (1.06/90), 0 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:
17%17%50%17%
chance creation (6)assist (0)% of the selected group's key passes originating in each zone
10

Where does he become vulnerable?

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

14
attacking third (cheap)
32
middle third
2
own third (dangerous)
Vision AI 29% of losses are in the attacking third — a notable share happen deeper, which invites transitions.
Mistake danger (proxy): 2.52 danger-index/90 · 0.297 avg/turnover. Weights each loss by threat conceded at that location. True xT-conceded needs the opponent possession model; positional proxy.
11

What is his passing profile?

336
passes attempted
37%
mostly sideways
67%
mostly short
Direction
Forward
111 · 33%
Sideways
123 · 37%
Backward
102 · 30%
Length (completed)
Short (<15m)
194 · 67%
Medium
87 · 30%
Long (>30m)
10 · 3%
06

Where Does He Receive?

The zones where Adrien Rabiot 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
16%
Primary
Left Half-Space, Middle third
15%
Secondary
Central, Middle third
13%
Third
Left Wing, Middle third
These are the zones where he collected the ball most.
07

Where Does He Operate? — Every Zone

Every on-ball touch (pass, dribble, shot) binned into a 6×3 grid — raw counts of where Adrien Rabiot 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:
11649383012124427205122832195
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.

3%8%10%6%1%4%13%8%5%0%0%4%14%11%9%3%
own goal left, attacking →
12

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.

6Key pass
3Cross
1Cutback
11Progressive
21Long ball
8Switch
By zone — where the pass started → where it landed
45Outside → Inside
140Inside → Inside
50Outside → Outside
56Inside → Outside
By direction
111Forward
102Backward
123Sideways
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 →
Where do his chances come from?
Of 6 key passes, his busiest route is a delivery where he plays inside from the left hs toward the central in the final third — 3 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 left half-space in the final third: 31% of his 26 touches there are lost (8 times).
—5 touches · too few12%1/8 lost0%0/8 lost0%0/13 lost—5 touches · too few24%5/21 lost16%7/44 lost8%4/52 lost13%7/52 lost16%7/45 lost7%1/14 lost13%2/15 lost22%2/9 lost31%8/26 lost5%1/19 lostRWRHSCLHSLWDEFMIDATT
03

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 98 ball-carries, his dominant tendency is that he carries through central areas (57%). He carries from outside into the middle 7 times and out toward the touchline 6 — balanced between cutting in and holding width.
05

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
2 · 2%
Progressive / key pass
7 · 7%
Simple pass
75 · 77%
No clean link
14 · 14%
Of 98 carries, 2% flow straight into a shot of his own, 7% into a key or progressive pass — a genuine end product to the carry, not just ball retention. 14% have no clean link to a next touch of his own close to where the carry ended.
Out of possession

Out of possession

Where and how he defends and presses.

14

How & where does he defend?

62 defensive actions across the season (11.0/90). 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 →
11
tackles · 73% won
1
interceptions · 0.2/90
19
recoveries · 3.4/90
8
clearances · 1.4/90
1
blocks
40
avg action height
10
won high (att 3rd)
22
middle third
30
own third
Vision AI A mid-block defender. He wins the ball mainly by stepping in — tackles, interceptions & recoveries outweigh clearances. 31 proactive ball-wins (5.5/90), tackle success 73%. He defends high, stepping out to intercept — suits a high line.
13

Against Different Pressing Intensities

Split by how hard the opponent pressed (opponent PPDA — lower = more intense press). Does Adrien Rabiot keep producing when the game is tight and the press is high? Tiers of ~2-3 matches — directional evidence, not proof.

press tier
xT /90
prog /90
key P /90
dribble%
High press (PPDA 4.4, 2m)
0.73
2.8
0.00
0%
Mid press (PPDA 6.8, 2m)
0.88
2.1
0.69
50%
Low press (PPDA 9.2, 3m)
0.95
1.6
1.59
0%
Team

Team context

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

15

Impact on the Team

AC Milan's output per match with Adrien Rabiot (7 matches) versus without him (1 matches). Insufficient evidence — the without-sample is only 1 matches; treat every Δ below as noise until more games exist. A proper on-off model needs many more minutes.

WITH (7)
WITHOUT (1)
Δ
goals for /match
2.00
2.00
+0.00
xG for /match
1.61
0.00
+1.61
goals against /match
1.00
0.00
+1.00
points /match
2.14
3.00
-0.86
16

His Share of the Team

Of everything AC Milan produced this season, the categories where the biggest share ran through Adrien Rabiot specifically — his share of the team total, not a per-90 rate.

category
share
him / team
goals
31%
4 / 13
shots
9%
56 / 602
tackles
9%
68 / 781
Recruitment

Style and verdict

Style profile, closest comparables, and the summary.

18

Playing-Style Profile

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.

Transition runner79%Box-to-box runner74%Advanced playmaker (8)60%Tempo controller58%
Why Transition runner 79%: a weighted blend of transition 76 (weight 45%) + defensive aggression 66 (weight 30%) + box threat 78 (weight 25%). The score reflects how distinctively his profile SHAPE matches this archetype vs his peers.
Elite
—
Strong
carrying, box threat, transition
Average
defensive aggression, ball-winning, receiving zones, retention, passing directness, build-up, progression, creativity, final-third threat, press resistance, territory (wide vs central), dribbling, crossing
Weak
line-breaking, through-balls
Unknown
aerial ability, marking, off-ball running — not in event data
Carrying
79
Box threat
78
Transition ~proxy
76
Defensive aggression
66
Ball-winning
64
Receiving zones
63
Retention
60
Passing directness
60
Build-up
56
Progression
56
Creativity
55
Final-third threat
54
Press resistance ~proxy
52
Territory (wide vs central)
48
Dribbling
48
Crossing
45
Line-breaking
40
Through-balls ~proxy
31
19

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; this player: 191 cm / 86 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.

Khéphren Thuram Juventus · 192 cm / 80 kg
75%
Driven by: carrying (18%), transition (17%), box threat (13%). Different mechanism — Rabiot more via territory (wide vs central); Thuram more via dribbling, press resistance.
Niccolò Pisilli Roma · 181 cm / 73 kg
68%
Driven by: transition (25%), defensive aggression (15%), carrying (11%). Different mechanism — Rabiot more via dribbling, territory (wide vs central); Pisilli more via passing directness, defensive aggression.
Johan Manzambi Aston Villa · Premier League · 183 cm / 76 kg
61%
Driven by: carrying (29%), box threat (26%), transition (25%). Different mechanism — Rabiot more via receiving zones; Manzambi more via dribbling, through-balls.
Ryan Christie Bournemouth · Premier League · 178 cm / 71 kg
61%
Driven by: transition (22%), box threat (21%), ball-winning (18%). Different mechanism — Rabiot more via retention; Christie more via dribbling, ball-winning.
Jude Bellingham Real Madrid · La Liga · 186 cm / 75 kg
61%
Driven by: box threat (23%), defensive aggression (18%), carrying (14%). Different mechanism — Rabiot more via passing directness, territory (wide vs central); Bellingham more via dribbling, defensive aggression.
Hakan Çalhanoglu Inter · 178 cm / 76 kg
58%
Driven by: transition (23%), box threat (19%), carrying (12%). Different mechanism — Rabiot more via territory (wide vs central), dribbling; Çalhanoglu more via final-third threat, through-balls.
20

Summary

Adrien Rabiot is a transition runner / box-to-box runner: 1.9 progressive passes, 1.06 key passes /90, 4 box entries, 4 goals from 1.06 xG. A box-to-box contributor across every phase.

Based on 7 matches (509 minutes) — an early read, treat with caution until more minutes are logged. He profiles as a transition runner / box-to-box runner — best used in a system built around that identity. His biggest room for growth is defensive aggression — even a modest improvement there would meaningfully lift his overall transition runner profile.
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