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Diego Llorente

Real Betis
Stopper centre-back CB
16.1 defensive actions/90 · 2.3 progressive/90 — defends first
centre-backstopper centre-backbuild-upline-breaking
391
minutes
5 apps
178
passes
90% completed
90%
pass completion
178 passes
10
progressive passes
2.3/90
13
line-breaking passes
3.0/90
70
defensive actions
16.1/90
19
tackles + interceptions
40% tackle win
22
clearances
5.1/90
Overview

The player

Who he is and how he compares with his peers.

Thin sample this season. Diego Llorente has played 5 matches (391 min) so far, so sections that need a bigger sample to say anything reliable are not shown here — they are missing on purpose, not broken. See all seasons combined →
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 (53% of his 178 passes)
90% completion · 178× in 5/5 matches
↓
BREAK A LINE
vertical pass past the opponent midfield
2.3 prog/90 · 13× in 5/5 matches
↓
SWITCH PLAY
diagonal to the far side
cross-field balls · 4× in 3/5 matches
Signature: Receive → Break A Line → Switch Play — the only steps proven repeatable this season (3 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); progress — 2× (low confidence, shown as a number only, no tactical conclusion drawn) — omitted from the signature rather than presented as one.
14

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 →
36
passes / match
16.1
def actions / 90
12–54
pass range (matches)
22
clearances
Pass range = his fewest and most passes in any single match this season (12 at the low end, 54 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 dangerous are his carries?

Real ball-carries

36 tracked carries (8.3/90, 9 progressive, 292m total) — the ball moving with his touches, a different signal from dribbles below (beating an opponent 1v1). even a player who rarely dribbles past a man can still carry the ball forward constantly in build-up; this is that.

8%19%17%3%6%14%22%3%6%3%
progressivelateral/short% of his 36 carries originating in each zone · own goal left, attacking →
Every carry, exact path — median 5m, longest 30m
By zone — where the carry started → where it ended
1Outside → Inside
31Inside → Inside
3Outside → Outside
1Inside → Outside
First (18)Second (10)Third (8)grouped by carry pattern (start + end position), largest group first
startendown goal left, attacking →

Beaten in the tackle

How often an attacker gets past him in a 1v1 defensive duel — the closest signal the data has to "dribbled past" (no attacker-beat-defender field exists directly, so this counts tackles he attempted and lost).

5
tackle duels
2
won
3
beaten · 60%
brighter band = more tackle duels · own goal left, attacking →
INSIDE 80%
OUTSIDE 20%
Tackle-duel location — 4 inside · 1 outside
Right Wing
1 · 20%
Right Half-Space
2 · 40%
Central
2 · 40%
Left Half-Space
0 · 0%
Left Wing
0 · 0%
Vision AI beaten in 3 of 5 tackle duels (60% loss rate) — a solid 1v1 defensive record.
Every tackle duel, exact location
wonlost — dribbled pastown goal left, attacking →

He attempted only 0 dribbles of his own all season — dribbling is not part of this role; his ball-carrying is covered above, his defending against the dribble below.

03

How does he build & move the ball?

How does he escape the first line?

7%
vertical passes
9×
3%
switches
4×
25%
carries
33×
65%
short circulation
87×
Answer: he escapes the press primarily through carrying — stepping out with 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 →RWRHSCLHSLWRW1638%625%438%6RHS9738%3714%1434%3313%13C4520%913%618%838%1711%5LHS367%233%1LW0FROM
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 middle third → the right half-space in the middle third — 2 progressive passes (40% of his progression) at 0.048 xT each. He moves it inside.

His progression is inward: 60% of progressive passes move the ball toward the middle versus 0% going wider — he cuts in rather than holding width.

12% of his passes are cross-field switches — he changes the point of attack often.

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
7%20%22%9%1%16%16%6%2%1%1%
completedincomplete178 passes · any zone → any zone · own goal left, attacking →
178
passes
90%
completed
17
lost
Vision AIIn line with his 90% season completion rate.
10

How does he create chances?

1 key passes (0.23/90), 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:
100%
chance creation (1)assist (0)% of the selected group's key passes originating in each zone
08

Where does he become vulnerable?

17 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.

1
attacking third (cheap)
6
middle third
10
own third (dangerous)
Vision AI 6% of losses are in the attacking third — a notable share happen deeper, which invites transitions.
Mistake danger (proxy): 2.16 danger-index/90 · 0.553 avg/turnover. Weights each loss by threat conceded at that location. True xT-conceded needs the opponent possession model; positional proxy.
04

What is his passing profile?

178
passes attempted
42%
mostly sideways
61%
mostly medium
Direction
Forward
74 · 42%
Sideways
75 · 42%
Backward
29 · 16%
Length (completed)
Short (<15m)
57 · 35%
Medium
99 · 61%
Long (>30m)
5 · 3%
05

Where Does He Receive?

The zones where Diego Llorente 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
35%
Primary
Right Half-Space, Middle third
24%
Secondary
Right Half-Space, Defensive third
14%
Third
Central, Defensive third
These are the zones where he collected the ball most.
06

Where Does He Operate? — Every Zone

Every on-ball touch (pass, dribble, shot) binned into a 6×3 grid — raw counts of where Diego Llorente 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:
1122828113113363916
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.

7%20%22%9%1%16%16%6%2%1%1%
own goal left, attacking →
09

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.

1Key pass
10Progressive
13Long ball
4Switch
By zone — where the pass started → where it landed
10Outside → Inside
93Inside → Inside
6Outside → Outside
52Inside → Outside
By direction
74Forward
29Backward
75Sideways
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 inside from the right wing toward the right hs, advancing it forward in the defensive third — 1 passes worth 0.16 xT.
Where do his chances come from?
Of 1 key passes, his busiest route is a delivery where he plays straight through the central in the middle third — 1 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: 27% of his 11 touches there are lost (3 times).
27%3/11 lost7%3/43 lost16%4/25 lost—1 touch · too few—0 touches · too few0%0/8 lost8%5/62 lost4%1/23 lost—1 touch · too few—0 touches · too few—0 touches · too few—0 touches · too few—2 touches · too few—2 touches · too few—0 touches · too fewRWRHSCLHSLWDEFMIDATT
Out of possession

Out of possession

Where and how he defends and presses.

11

How & where does he defend?

70 defensive actions across the season (16.1/90). 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 →
5
tackles · 40% won
14
interceptions · 3.2/90
11
recoveries · 2.5/90
22
clearances · 5.1/90
4
blocks
24
avg action height
1
won high (att 3rd)
14
middle third
55
own third
Vision AI A deep-defending defender. He wins the ball mainly by stepping in — tackles, interceptions & recoveries outweigh clearances. 30 proactive ball-wins (6.9/90), tackle success 40%. 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.

12

Impact on the Team

Real Betis's output per match with Diego Llorente (5 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 (5)
WITHOUT (5)
Δ
goals against /match
1.40
1.40
+0.00
points /match
2.00
2.00
+0.00
goals for /match
1.80
1.40
+0.40
xG for /match
1.22
0.63
+0.60
13

His Share of the Team

Of everything Real Betis produced this season, the categories where the biggest share ran through Diego Llorente specifically — his share of the team total, not a per-90 rate.

category
share
him / team
interceptions
10%
42 / 425
clearances
9%
122 / 1288
tackles
4%
32 / 784
Recruitment

Style and verdict

Style profile, closest comparables, and the summary.

15

Playing-Style Profile

Not raw event counts — football style scores: weighted models scored 0–100 against the 513 centre-backs 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.

Stopper centre-back64%Ball-playing centre-back54%
Why Stopper centre-back 64%: a weighted blend of ball-winning 72 (weight 40%) + defensive aggression 45 (weight 35%) + retention 67 (weight 15%) + transition 55 (weight 10%). The score reflects how distinctively his profile SHAPE matches this archetype vs his peers.
Elite
—
Strong
ball-winning, build-up
Average
retention, transition, passing directness, carrying, defensive aggression, box threat, press resistance
Weak
crossing, dribbling, progression, through-balls, receiving zones, territory (wide vs central), creativity, final-third threat, line-breaking
Unknown
aerial ability, marking, off-ball running — not in event data
Ball-winning
72
Build-up
71
Retention
67
Transition ~proxy
55
Passing directness
51
Carrying
49
Defensive aggression
45
Box threat
44
Press resistance ~proxy
40
Crossing
22
Dribbling
21
Progression
21
Through-balls ~proxy
15
Receiving zones
14
Territory (wide vs central)
13
Creativity
12
Final-third threat
10
Line-breaking
3
16

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: 186 cm / 75 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 La Liga, Bundesliga, 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.

Daniele Rugani Fiorentina · Serie A · 190 cm / 84 kg
84%
Driven by: creativity (18%), line-breaking (11%), receiving zones (10%). Different mechanism — Llorente more via ball-winning, box threat; Rugani more via passing directness.
Fabio Chiarodia Borussia Monchengladbach · Bundesliga · 188 cm / 80 kg
83%
Driven by: creativity (24%), crossing (13%), receiving zones (11%). Different mechanism — Llorente more via defensive aggression; Chiarodia more via territory (wide vs central), final-third threat.
Chancel Mbemba Lille · Ligue 1 25/26 · 182 cm / 81 kg
82%
Driven by: line-breaking (19%), creativity (15%), dribbling (12%). Different mechanism — Llorente more via ball-winning; Mbemba more via final-third threat, receiving zones.
Robin Le Normand Atletico · 187 cm / 80 kg
80%
Driven by: line-breaking (14%), dribbling (13%), receiving zones (12%). Different mechanism — Llorente more via ball-winning; Normand more via passing directness, final-third threat.
Mouctar Diakhaby Valencia · 189 cm / 78 kg
80%
Driven by: creativity (23%), receiving zones (16%), line-breaking (15%). Different mechanism — Llorente more via retention, build-up; Diakhaby more via crossing, territory (wide vs central).
Fernando Calero Malaga · 183 cm / 71 kg
80%
Driven by: line-breaking (14%), final-third threat (12%), territory (wide vs central) (12%). Different mechanism — Llorente more via ball-winning; Calero more via passing directness, creativity.
17

Summary

Diego Llorente is a stopper centre-back: 90% pass completion, 13 line-breaking passes and 2.3 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 5 matches (391 minutes) — an early read, treat with caution until more minutes are logged. He profiles as a stopper centre-back — 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 stopper centre-back profile.
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