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Diego Carlos

Parma Calcio 1913
Ball-playing centre-back CB
5.7 progressive passes/90 · 1.3 line-breaking/90
centre-backball-playing centre-backbuild-upline-breaking
425
minutes
6 apps
269
passes
85% completed
85%
pass completion
269 passes
27
progressive passes
5.7/90
45
line-breaking passes
9.5/90
84
defensive actions
17.8/90
13
tackles + interceptions
57% tackle win
33
clearances
7.0/90
Overview

The player

Who he is and how he compares with his peers.

Thin sample this season. Diego Carlos has played 6 matches (425 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 defensive third (55% of his 269 passes)
85% completion · 269× in 6/6 matches
↓
BREAK A LINE
vertical pass past the opponent midfield
5.7 prog/90 · 45× in 6/6 matches
↓
SWITCH PLAY
diagonal to the far side
cross-field balls · 16× in 6/6 matches
↓
PROGRESS
entries into the final third
4.7/90 · 22× in 6/6 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.
18

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 →
45
passes / match
17.8
def actions / 90
25–68
pass range (matches)
33
clearances
Pass range = his fewest and most passes in any single match this season (25 at the low end, 68 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.

08

How dangerous are his carries?

Real ball-carries

47 tracked carries (10.0/90, 5 progressive, 322m 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.

9%26%21%2%2%15%17%2%2%2%2%
progressivelateral/short% of his 47 carries originating in each zone · own goal left, attacking →
Every carry, exact path — median 6m, longest 17m
By zone — where the carry started → where it ended
4Outside → Inside
29Inside → Inside
9Outside → Outside
5Inside → Outside
First (23)Second (22)Third (2)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).

7
tackle duels
4
won
3
beaten · 43%
brighter band = more tackle duels · own goal left, attacking →
INSIDE 57%
OUTSIDE 43%
Tackle-duel location — 4 inside · 3 outside
Right Wing
3 · 43%
Right Half-Space
2 · 29%
Central
2 · 29%
Left Half-Space
0 · 0%
Left Wing
0 · 0%
Vision AI beaten in 3 of 7 tackle duels (43% 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.

02

How does he build & move the ball?

How does he escape the first line?

12%
vertical passes
22×
7%
switches
14×
23%
carries
43×
58%
short circulation
110×
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 →RWRHSCLHSLWRW5836%2133%1929%172%1RHS8336%3010%841%3410%84%3C7915%1215%1241%3224%195%4LHS911%122%233%333%3LW0FROM
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 defensive third → the right wing in the final third — 3 progressive passes (21% of his progression) at 0.228 xT each. He keeps it in the same lane.

His progression is inward: 29% of progressive passes move the ball toward the middle versus 14% going wider — he cuts in rather than holding width.

9% of his passes are cross-field switches — he changes the point of attack often.

Quality behind the volume: 6 line-breaking passes and 22 final-third entries, 3.7 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
Filter: from to
10%22%16%9%1%1%10%13%9%5%0%1%1%1%1%0%
completedincomplete269 passes · any zone → any zone · own goal left, attacking →
269
passes
85%
completed
40
lost
Vision AIIn line with his 85% season completion rate.
04

How does he progress play?

How much he drives the ball forward. Progressive = completed pass advancing ≥15 toward goal.

27
progressive · 5.7/90
22
final-third entries · 4.7/90
2
box entries · 0.42/90
15
progression index /90
Progression index: one composite number — progressive passes + progressive carries + 2% of total distance progressed + 8× positive xT added, all per 90. Weights VOLUME and THREAT together rather than counting progressive actions alone.
13

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
09

Where does he become vulnerable?

40 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.

5
attacking third (cheap)
15
middle third
20
own third (dangerous)
Vision AI 12% of losses are in the attacking third — a notable share happen deeper, which invites transitions.
Mistake danger (proxy): 4.29 danger-index/90 · 0.506 avg/turnover. Weights each loss by threat conceded at that location. True xT-conceded needs the opponent possession model; positional proxy.
05

What is his passing profile?

269
passes attempted
52%
mostly forward
49%
mostly medium
Direction
Forward
139 · 52%
Sideways
79 · 29%
Backward
51 · 19%
Length (completed)
Short (<15m)
93 · 41%
Medium
113 · 49%
Long (>30m)
23 · 10%
10

Preferred Progression Routes — xT-weighted

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.

0.680.440.380.280.180.18
own goal left, attacking →
Highest-value routes (xT)
0.68
Right Wing Def third → Right Wing Att third
3 passes
0.44
Right Half-Space Mid third → Left Half-Space Att third
1 passes
0.38
Central Mid third → Left Half-Space Att third
2 passes
0.28
Right Half-Space Mid third → Right Half-Space Att third
2 passes
0.18
Right Half-Space Def third → Right Half-Space Att third
1 passes
0.18
Central Def third → Right Half-Space Mid third
1 passes
06

Where Does He Receive?

The zones where Diego Carlos 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
20%
Primary
Right Half-Space, Defensive third
18%
Secondary
Central, Defensive third
16%
Third
Right Half-Space, 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 Diego Carlos 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:
2231127352413152658442533
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.

10%22%16%9%1%1%10%13%9%5%0%1%1%1%1%0%
own goal left, attacking →
11

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.

3Cross
3Cutback
27Progressive
45Long ball
16Switch
By zone — where the pass started → where it landed
36Outside → Inside
119Inside → Inside
22Outside → Outside
52Inside → Outside
By direction
139Forward
51Backward
79Sideways
own goal left, attacking →
03

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 right wing, advancing it forward in the defensive third — 3 passes worth 0.68 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 right wing in the defensive third: 29% of his 41 touches there are lost (12 times).
29%12/41 lost11%6/53 lost4%2/49 lost—6 touches · too few—0 touches · too few18%6/33 lost17%7/42 lost3%1/31 lost—3 touches · too few—1 touch · too few—5 touches · too few—1 touch · too few—3 touches · too few—1 touch · too few—0 touches · too fewRWRHSCLHSLWDEFMIDATT
12

Crosses & Cutbacks

3 crosses (0.64/90, 0 completed) and 3 cutbacks (0.64/90, 1 completed) — two separate wide-delivery patterns into the box, each its own map with a completed/failed filter. Neither is a tagged event, so both are inferred from pass geometry — the intended end point of a failed attempt is still real data (an interception doesn’t erase where the ball was aimed): a cross is a pass aimed into the box starting from a wide channel; a cutback starts almost on the byline but is squared back rather than driven forward, aimed centrally around the box. The completed-cross count was checked against this platform’s own real match-level cross totals and lands within about 1 cross of the true count.

Crosses — close-up on the final third
Cutbacks — close-up on the final third
completedfailed (dashed)close-up on the box — attacking ↑ toward goal
Out of possession

Out of possession

Where and how he defends and presses.

14

How & where does he defend?

84 defensive actions across the season (17.8/90). 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 →
7
tackles · 57% won
6
interceptions · 1.3/90
16
recoveries · 3.4/90
33
clearances · 7.0/90
0
blocks
23
avg action height
3
won high (att 3rd)
13
middle third
68
own third
Vision AI A deep-defending defender. He wins the ball mainly by clearing and blocking — a reactive, protect-the-box profile. 29 proactive ball-wins (6.1/90), tackle success 57%. He defends deep, protecting his box — a last-line stopper.
15

Can he play under pressure?

Split by how hard the opponent pressed (opponent PPDA — lower = more intense press). Can Diego Carlos still play out when the opponent presses high? His build-up quality split by press intensity — the key question for a ball-playing defender. Tiers of ~2-2 matches — directional evidence, not proof.

press tier
completion
prog /90
line-breaks /90
xT /90
High press (PPDA 3.4, 2m)
86%
3.6
6.0
0.62
Mid press (PPDA 4.4, 2m)
86%
6.8
10.8
1.43
Low press (PPDA 5.5, 2m)
83%
7.0
13.0
1.24
Team

Team context

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

16

Impact on the Team

Parma Calcio 1913's output per match with Diego Carlos (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. 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 (6)
WITHOUT (2)
Δ
goals against /match
2.00
1.50
+0.50
points /match
0.67
0.00
+0.67
goals for /match
0.83
0.00
+0.83
xG for /match
0.93
0.00
+0.93
17

His Share of the Team

Of everything Parma Calcio 1913 produced this season, the categories where the biggest share ran through Diego Carlos specifically — his share of the team total, not a per-90 rate.

category
share
him / team
clearances
16%
154 / 971
interceptions
10%
28 / 289
threat added by passing (xT)
9%
27.7 / 311.0
Recruitment

Style and verdict

Style profile, closest comparables, and the summary.

19

Playing-Style Profile

Not raw event counts — football style scores: weighted models scored 0–100 against the 515 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.

Ball-playing centre-back62%Stopper centre-back45%
Why Ball-playing centre-back 62%: a weighted blend of build-up 82 (weight 30%) + retention 62 (weight 30%) + progression 43 (weight 25%) + press resistance 29 (weight 15%). The score reflects how distinctively his profile SHAPE matches this archetype vs his peers.
Elite
—
Strong
build-up
Average
retention, passing directness, box threat, through-balls, defensive aggression, line-breaking, receiving zones, transition, final-third threat, progression, ball-winning
Weak
carrying, creativity, press resistance, territory (wide vs central), crossing, dribbling
Unknown
aerial ability, marking, off-ball running — not in event data
Build-up
82
Retention
62
Passing directness
58
Box threat
54
Through-balls ~proxy
53
Defensive aggression
49
Line-breaking
49
Receiving zones
44
Transition ~proxy
44
Final-third threat
44
Progression
43
Ball-winning
41
Carrying
39
Creativity
39
Press resistance ~proxy
29
Territory (wide vs central)
18
Crossing
14
Dribbling
8
20

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 / 79 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.

Niklas Stark Werder Bremen · Bundesliga · 190 cm / 88 kg
83%
Driven by: dribbling (28%), crossing (21%), press resistance (14%). Different mechanism — Carlos more via line-breaking.
Pablo Marí Fiorentina 25/26 · 193 cm / 87 kg
80%
Driven by: dribbling (24%), crossing (21%), build-up (19%). Different mechanism — Carlos more via box threat, carrying.
Alexsandro Lille · Ligue 1 · 191 cm / 82 kg
79%
Driven by: dribbling (26%), build-up (24%), crossing (13%). Different mechanism — Carlos more via through-balls, line-breaking; Alexsandro more via carrying.
Moritz Jenz Wolfsburg · Bundesliga 25/26 · 190 cm / 86 kg
77%
Driven by: dribbling (23%), crossing (14%), build-up (13%). Different mechanism — Carlos more via line-breaking, box threat.
Rav van den Berg Koln · Bundesliga · 190 cm / 75 kg
75%
Driven by: dribbling (22%), build-up (20%), crossing (15%). Different mechanism — Carlos more via box threat, final-third threat.
Daniele Rugani Fiorentina · 190 cm / 84 kg
71%
Driven by: dribbling (19%), crossing (16%), build-up (15%). Different mechanism — Carlos more via line-breaking, box threat; Rugani more via passing directness.
21

Summary

Diego Carlos is a ball-playing centre-back: 85% pass completion, 45 line-breaking passes and 5.7 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 6 matches (425 minutes) — an early read, treat with caution until more minutes are logged. He profiles as a ball-playing centre-back — best used in a system built around that identity. His biggest room for growth is press resistance — even a modest improvement there would meaningfully lift his overall ball-playing centre-back profile.
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