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Ryan Christie

Bournemouth
Half-space creator CM
51% of actions in the half-spaces
central midtransition runnerprogressionbox-to-box
302
minutes
7 apps
12
progressive passes
3.6/90
77%
pass completion
135 passes
6
key passes
1.79/90
2
box entries
0.60/90
12
final-3rd entries
3.6/90
10
dribbles
40% won
37
possessions lost
3.65 danger/90
Overview

The player

Who he is and how he compares with his peers.

Thin sample this season. Ryan Christie has played 7 matches (302 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
Left Half-Space, Middle third — mostly in the middle third (59% of his 135 passes)
77% completion · 135× in 7/7 matches
↓
PROGRESS
drive or pass into the final third
3.6 prog/90 · 12× in 5/7 matches
↓
CREATE / FINISH
cut-back or shot from inside
1.79 key passes /90 · 0 goals · 14× in 3/7 matches
Signature: Receive → Progress → Create / Finish — the only steps proven repeatable this season (3 of 4 in the full pattern). Not enough evidence yet for the rest of the chain below.
Not a pattern: arrive — 2× (low confidence, shown as a number only, no tactical conclusion drawn) — omitted from the signature rather than presented as one.
13

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 →
19
passes / match
2.0
dribbles / match
1–38
pass range (matches)
1–3
dribble range (matches)
Pass range = his fewest and most passes in any single match this season (1 at the low end, 38 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.

07

How dangerous are his carries?

Real ball-carries

21 tracked carries (6.3/90, 4 progressive, 180m 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.

5%14%5%10%14%10%5%10%14%10%5%
progressivelateral/short% of his 21 carries originating in each zone · own goal left, attacking →
Every carry, exact path — median 7m, longest 21m
By zone — where the carry started → where it ended
1Outside → Inside
16Inside → Inside
3Outside → Outside
1Inside → Outside
First (21)grouped by carry pattern (start + end position), largest group first
startendown goal left, attacking →

Dribbles (1v1s)

Ryan Christie's signature is the dribble. Does he carry outside (down the left wing) or inside (into the half-space / centre)? Every dribble classified by channel. Season rate: 2.98 dribbles attempted /90.

brighter band = more dribbles · own goal left, attacking →
INSIDE 80%
OUTSIDE 20%
Dribble location — 8 inside · 2 outside
Right Wing
2 · 20%
Right Half-Space
1 · 10%
Central
5 · 50%
Left Half-Space
2 · 20%
Left Wing
0 · 0%
Vision AI 20% of his dribbles are in the wide left lane — he attacks the full-back on the outside, then threatens to cut inside onto his right foot.
03

How does he create chances?

6 key passes (1.79/90), 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%17%17%17%17%
chance creation (6)assist (0)% of the selected group's key passes originating in each zone
04

Where does he become vulnerable?

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

12
attacking third (cheap)
18
middle third
7
own third (dangerous)
Vision AI 32% of losses are in the attacking third — a notable share happen deeper, which invites transitions.
Mistake danger (proxy): 3.65 danger-index/90 · 0.331 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 Ryan Christie 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
21%
Primary
Left Half-Space, Middle third
15%
Secondary
Central, Middle third
12%
Third
Right Half-Space, Middle 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 Ryan Christie 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:
817241041513121173516125
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%4%11%8%3%4%8%7%7%1%5%13%17%7%2%
own goal left, attacking →
08

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
12Progressive
15Long ball
4Switch
By zone — where the pass started → where it landed
11Outside → Inside
51Inside → Inside
12Outside → Outside
30Inside → Outside
By direction
58Forward
39Backward
38Sideways
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 switches it out from the left hs to the left wing, advancing it forward in the middle third — 2 passes worth 0.26 xT.
Where do his chances come from?
Of 6 key passes, his busiest route is a delivery where he switches it out from the central to the right hs 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 left wing in the middle third: 27% of his 11 touches there are lost (3 times).
—2 touches · too few—1 touch · too few—3 touches · too few—7 touches · too few—2 touches · too few—6 touches · too few25%4/16 lost11%2/18 lost17%5/29 lost27%3/11 lost—7 touches · too few27%3/11 lost20%2/10 lost22%2/9 lost—3 touches · too fewRWRHSCLHSLWDEFMIDATT
Out of possession

Out of possession

Where and how he defends and presses.

10

How & where does he defend?

67 defensive actions across the season (20.0/90). 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 →
8
tackles · 88% won
6
interceptions · 1.8/90
29
recoveries · 8.6/90
2
clearances · 0.6/90
4
blocks
46
avg action height
16
won high (att 3rd)
30
middle third
21
own third
Vision AI A front-foot / high defender. He wins the ball mainly by stepping in — tackles, interceptions & recoveries outweigh clearances. 43 proactive ball-wins (12.8/90), tackle success 88%. He defends high, stepping out to intercept — suits a high line.
09

Against Different Pressing Intensities

Split by how hard the opponent pressed (opponent PPDA — lower = more intense press). Does Ryan Christie 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 3.4, 2m)
1.06
2.9
2.90
50%
Mid press (PPDA 4.5, 2m)
0.84
3.1
0.00
100%
Low press (PPDA 4.8, 3m)
0.77
3.7
1.86
29%
Team

Team context

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

11

Impact on the Team

Bournemouth's output per match with Ryan Christie (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
1.57
1.00
+0.57
xG for /match
1.71
0.00
+1.71
goals against /match
1.57
2.00
-0.43
points /match
1.29
0.00
+1.29
12

His Share of the Team

Of everything Bournemouth produced this season, the categories where the biggest share ran through Ryan Christie specifically — his share of the team total, not a per-90 rate.

category
share
him / team
successful take-ons
7%
23 / 319
final-third entries
6%
97 / 1688
shots
5%
33 / 627
Recruitment

Style and verdict

Style profile, closest comparables, and the summary.

14

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 runner83%Box-to-box runner81%Advanced playmaker (8)66%Deep-lying playmaker43%
Why Transition runner 83%: a weighted blend of transition 78 (weight 45%) + defensive aggression 72 (weight 30%) + box threat 84 (weight 25%). The score reflects how distinctively his profile SHAPE matches this archetype vs his peers.
Elite
ball-winning
Strong
box threat, passing directness, dribbling, transition, defensive aggression, carrying
Average
final-third threat, receiving zones, creativity, progression, press resistance, line-breaking, through-balls
Weak
build-up, crossing, retention, territory (wide vs central)
Unknown
aerial ability, marking, off-ball running — not in event data
Ball-winning
87
Box threat
84
Passing directness
80
Dribbling
79
Transition ~proxy
78
Defensive aggression
72
Carrying
71
Final-third threat
66
Receiving zones
60
Creativity
58
Progression
54
Press resistance ~proxy
54
Line-breaking
44
Through-balls ~proxy
44
Build-up
39
Crossing
35
Retention
34
Territory (wide vs central)
33
15

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: 178 cm / 71 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 Premier League, Bundesliga, La Liga, Ligue 1 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.

Patrick Wimmer Hoffenheim · Bundesliga · 182 cm / 77 kg
79%
Driven by: ball-winning (26%), defensive aggression (15%), dribbling (11%). Different mechanism — Christie more via final-third threat, build-up; Wimmer more via defensive aggression, territory (wide vs central).
Iñigo Ruiz de Galarreta Athletic Club · La Liga · 175 cm / 69 kg
69%
Driven by: ball-winning (28%), transition (16%), defensive aggression (14%). Different mechanism — Christie more via box threat, territory (wide vs central); Galarreta more via through-balls, line-breaking.
Antoine Bernede Hellas Verona · Serie A 25/26 · 178 cm / 73 kg
69%
Driven by: ball-winning (28%), transition (19%), defensive aggression (18%). Different mechanism — Christie more via box threat, dribbling.
Jacopo Fazzini Cagliari · Serie A · 178 cm / 62 kg
66%
Driven by: ball-winning (40%), dribbling (15%), box threat (10%). Different mechanism — Christie more via passing directness, final-third threat; Fazzini more via territory (wide vs central), through-balls.
Benjamin André Lille · Ligue 1 · 180 cm / 76 kg
65%
Driven by: ball-winning (35%), transition (18%), defensive aggression (14%). Different mechanism — Christie more via box threat, dribbling; André more via retention, build-up.
Rassoul Ndiaye Le Havre · Ligue 1 · 179 cm / 70 kg
65%
Driven by: transition (20%), passing directness (14%), ball-winning (12%). Different mechanism — Christie more via box threat, ball-winning; Ndiaye more via territory (wide vs central), crossing.
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Summary

Ryan Christie is a transition runner / box-to-box runner: 3.6 progressive passes, 1.79 key passes /90, 2 box entries, 0 goals from 0.81 xG. A box-to-box contributor across every phase.

Based on 7 matches (302 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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