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Player reportLigue 1 2026

Vincent Sasso

Le Havre
Ball-playing centre-back CB
5.3 progressive passes/90 · 1.1 line-breaking/90
centre-backcentre-backbuild-upline-breaking
171
minutes
3 apps
107
passes
86% completed
86%
pass completion
107 passes
10
progressive passes
5.3/90
6
line-breaking passes
3.2/90
32
defensive actions
16.8/90
8
tackles + interceptions
50% tackle win
8
clearances
4.2/90
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
in the first line of build-up — mostly in the middle third (46% of his 107 passes)
86% completion · 107× in 2/2 matches
↓
BREAK A LINE
vertical pass past the opponent midfield
5.3 prog/90 · 6× in 2/2 matches
↓
SWITCH PLAY
diagonal to the far side
cross-field balls · 2× in 2/2 matches
↓
PROGRESS
entries into the final third
5.3/90 · 10× in 2/2 matches
Signature: Receive → Break A Line → Switch Play → Progress — the only steps proven repeatable this season (4 of 5 in the full pattern). Not enough evidence yet for the rest of the chain below.
Not a pattern: carry out — 0× (insufficient confidence, hidden — not enough evidence yet) — omitted from the signature rather than presented as one.
11

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 →
54
passes / match
16.8
def actions / 90
51–56
pass range (matches)
8
clearances
Pass range = his fewest and most passes in any single match this season (51 at the low end, 56 at the high) — a measure of match-to-match involvement, not pass distance.
In possession

In possession

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

07

How does he create chances?

0 key passes (0.00/90), 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:
chance creation (0)assist (0)% of the selected group's key passes originating in each zone
03

Where does he become vulnerable?

15 times he gave the ball away. For a defender the danger is where — a loss in his own third can turn into a chance against; higher up it costs little.

2
attacking third (cheap)
6
middle third
7
own third (dangerous)
Vision AI 13% of losses are in the attacking third — a notable share happen deeper, which invites transitions.
Mistake danger (proxy): 4.08 danger-index/90 · 0.517 avg/turnover. Weights each loss by threat conceded at that location. True xT-conceded needs the opponent possession model; positional proxy.
05

Where Does He Receive?

The zones where Vincent Sasso 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
Right Wing, Middle third
12%
Secondary
Right Half-Space, Defensive third
10%
Third
Left Half-Space, Middle third
These are the zones where he collected the ball most.
04

Where Does He Operate? — Every Zone

Every on-ball touch (pass, dribble, shot) binned into a 6×3 grid — raw counts of where Vincent Sasso 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:
218611326543121615103
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%15%14%9%3%6%5%4%3%1%2%17%6%10%3%2%
own goal left, attacking →
06

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.

1Cutback
10Progressive
6Long ball
2Switch
By zone — where the pass started → where it landed
21Outside → Inside
35Inside → Inside
18Outside → Outside
18Inside → Outside
By direction
64Forward
21Backward
22Sideways
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 left wing in the final third — 1 passes worth 0.17 xT.
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 wing in the defensive third: 27% of his 11 touches there are lost (3 times).
—5 touches · too few8%1/13 lost9%1/11 lost11%1/9 lost27%3/11 lost12%2/17 lost0%0/9 lost—5 touches · too few9%1/11 lost—7 touches · too few—1 touch · too few—2 touches · too few—1 touch · too few—1 touch · too few—4 touches · too fewRWRHSCLHSLWDEFMIDATT
Out of possession

Out of possession

Where and how he defends and presses.

08

How & where does he defend?

32 defensive actions across the season (16.8/90). 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 →
6
tackles · 50% won
2
interceptions · 1.1/90
9
recoveries · 4.7/90
8
clearances · 4.2/90
0
blocks
28
avg action height
2
won high (att 3rd)
8
middle third
22
own third
Vision AI A deep-defending defender. He wins the ball mainly by stepping in — tackles, interceptions & recoveries outweigh clearances. 17 proactive ball-wins (8.9/90), tackle success 50%. He defends deep, protecting his box — a last-line stopper.
Team

Team context

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

09

Impact on the Team

Le Havre's output per match with Vincent Sasso (3 matches) versus without him (5 matches). Insufficient evidence — the without-sample is only 5 matches; treat every Δ below as noise until more games exist. What his own defending should move — goals conceded and results — leads; attacking output (largely out of a defender's hands) is shown after, for context. A proper on-off model needs many more minutes.

WITH (3)
WITHOUT (5)
Δ
goals against /match
1.67
2.00
-0.33
points /match
0.33
0.20
+0.13
goals for /match
1.00
1.00
+0.00
xG for /match
1.31
1.75
-0.44
10

His Share of the Team

Of everything Le Havre produced this season, the categories where the biggest share ran through Vincent Sasso specifically — his share of the team total, not a per-90 rate.

category
share
him / team
clearances
1%
8 / 559
half-space entries
1%
6 / 443
expected assists (xA)
1%
0.3 / 19.0
Recruitment

Style and verdict

Style profile, closest comparables, and the summary.

12

Summary

Vincent Sasso is a centre-back: 86% pass completion, 6 line-breaking passes and 5.3 progressive passes /90. A build-and-progress centre-back whose value is in beating the first line with the pass, not in raw defensive volume. [Aerial duels, marking, line-height and 1v1 recovery need aerial-event + tracking data, absent here.]

Based on 3 matches (171 minutes) — an early read, treat with caution until more minutes are logged. He profiles as a centre-back — best used in a system built around that identity.
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