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Player reportSerie A 2026

Kingsley Ehizibue

Genoa
Central midfielder CM
balanced central profile
central midbox-to-box runnerprogressionbox-to-box
226
minutes
4 apps
10
progressive passes
4.0/90
69%
pass completion
97 passes
1
key passes
0.40/90
1
box entries
0.40/90
5
final-3rd entries
2.0/90
3
dribbles
0% won
33
possessions lost
4.51 danger/90
Overview

The player

Who he is and how he compares with his peers.

Thin sample this season. Kingsley Ehizibue has played 4 matches (226 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
Right Wing, Middle third — mostly in the middle third (47% of his 97 passes)
69% completion · 97× in 4/4 matches
↓
PROGRESS
drive or pass into the final third
4.0 prog/90 · 10× in 4/4 matches
↓
CREATE / FINISH
cut-back or shot from inside
0.40 key passes /90 · 0 goals · 5× in 1/4 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 — 1× (low confidence, shown as a number only, no tactical conclusion drawn) — omitted from the signature rather than presented as one.
In possession

In possession

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

06

How dangerous are his carries?

Real ball-carries

24 tracked carries (9.6/90, 5 progressive, 194m 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.

25%8%42%8%8%8%
progressivelateral/short% of his 24 carries originating in each zone · own goal left, attacking →
Every carry, exact path — median 7m, longest 25m
By zone — where the carry started → where it ended
2Outside → Inside
9Inside → Inside
13Outside → Outside
First (14)Second (10)grouped by carry pattern (start + end position), largest group first
startendown goal left, attacking →

Dribbles (1v1s)

Only 3 dribbles attempted this season — too little volume to map a location pattern.

02

How does he create chances?

1 key passes (0.40/90), 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:
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chance creation (1)assist (0)% of the selected group's key passes originating in each zone
04

Where does he become vulnerable?

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

12
attacking third (cheap)
11
middle third
10
own third (dangerous)
Vision AI 36% of losses are in the attacking third — a notable share happen deeper, which invites transitions.
Mistake danger (proxy): 4.51 danger-index/90 · 0.343 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 Operate? — Every Zone

Every on-ball touch (pass, dribble, shot) binned into a 6×3 grid — raw counts of where Kingsley Ehizibue 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:
132142216261712
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.

4%21%16%27%16%9%1%3%1%1%
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 inside from the right wing toward the right hs, advancing it forward in the middle third — 1 passes worth 0.44 xT.
Where do his chances come from?
Of 1 key passes, his busiest route is a delivery where he plays straight through the right wing, advancing it forward 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 final third: 47% of his 19 touches there are lost (9 times).
47%8/17 lost—7 touches · too few—0 touches · too few—0 touches · too few—0 touches · too few25%9/36 lost25%2/8 lost—2 touches · too few—0 touches · too few—0 touches · too few47%9/19 lost—7 touches · too few—1 touch · too few—0 touches · too few—0 touches · too fewRWRHSCLHSLWDEFMIDATT
07

Crosses & Cutbacks

4 crosses (1.59/90, 1 completed) and 4 cutbacks (1.59/90, 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.

08

How & where does he defend?

30 defensive actions across the season (11.9/90). 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 →
4
tackles · 75% won
1
interceptions · 0.4/90
12
recoveries · 4.8/90
7
clearances · 2.8/90
0
blocks
33
avg action height
3
won high (att 3rd)
12
middle third
15
own third
Vision AI A mid-block defender. He wins the ball mainly by stepping in — tackles, interceptions & recoveries outweigh clearances. 17 proactive ball-wins (6.8/90), tackle success 75%. He defends mostly around the middle third.
Team

Team context

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

09

Impact on the Team

Genoa's output per match with Kingsley Ehizibue (4 matches) versus without him (4 matches). Insufficient evidence — the without-sample is only 4 matches; treat every Δ below as noise until more games exist. A proper on-off model needs many more minutes.

WITH (4)
WITHOUT (4)
Δ
goals for /match
1.25
0.25
+1.00
xG for /match
1.06
0.00
+1.06
goals against /match
2.00
1.25
+0.75
points /match
1.00
0.75
+0.25
10

His Share of the Team

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

category
share
him / team
progressive passes
8%
97 / 1288
tackles
7%
43 / 659
ball recoveries
6%
88 / 1368
Recruitment

Style and verdict

Style profile, closest comparables, and the summary.

11

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.

Box-to-box runner29%Deep-lying playmaker23%Transition runner23%Tempo controller20%
Why Box-to-box runner 29%: a weighted blend of ball-winning 50 (weight 20%) + transition 31 (weight 30%) + progression 35 (weight 25%) + box threat 27 (weight 15%) + defensive aggression 32 (weight 10%). The score reflects how distinctively his profile SHAPE matches this archetype vs his peers.
Elite
—
Strong
territory (wide vs central)
Average
through-balls, ball-winning, build-up, passing directness
Weak
crossing, progression, line-breaking, defensive aggression, transition, box threat, final-third threat, creativity, press resistance, carrying, retention, dribbling, receiving zones
Unknown
aerial ability, marking, off-ball running — not in event data
Territory (wide vs central)
85
Through-balls ~proxy
57
Ball-winning
50
Build-up
44
Passing directness
41
Crossing
37
Progression
35
Line-breaking
33
Defensive aggression
32
Transition ~proxy
31
Box threat
27
Final-third threat
23
Creativity
18
Press resistance ~proxy
16
Carrying
15
Retention
14
Dribbling
11
Receiving zones
9
12

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: 189 cm / 78 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.

Silvan Widmer Mainz · Bundesliga · 183 cm / 77 kg
89%
Driven by: press resistance (17%), creativity (14%), dribbling (13%). Different mechanism — Widmer more via crossing, passing directness.
Romano Floriani Mussolini Lazio · 188 cm / 72 kg
87%
Driven by: press resistance (14%), receiving zones (10%), dribbling (10%). Different mechanism — Ehizibue more via through-balls; Mussolini more via defensive aggression.
Sascha Britschgi Parma Calcio 1913 · 182 cm / 78 kg
85%
Driven by: creativity (15%), press resistance (14%), receiving zones (11%). Different mechanism — Ehizibue more via ball-winning, through-balls; Britschgi more via carrying.
Mikael Ellertsson Genoa · 182 cm / 74 kg
85%
Driven by: press resistance (13%), retention (11%), carrying (10%). Different mechanism — Ehizibue more via through-balls, build-up.
Jackson Tchatchoua Wolves · Premier League 25/26 · 186 cm / 76 kg
85%
Driven by: press resistance (17%), retention (13%), receiving zones (11%). Different mechanism — Ehizibue more via ball-winning, build-up; Tchatchoua more via carrying, creativity.
Giuseppe Pezzella Cremonese 25/26 · 185 cm / 81 kg
83%
Driven by: receiving zones (17%), territory (wide vs central) (12%), retention (10%). Different mechanism — Pezzella more via dribbling, press resistance.
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Summary

Kingsley Ehizibue is a box-to-box runner: 4.0 progressive passes, 0.40 key passes /90, 1 box entries, 0 goals from 0.17 xG. A box-to-box contributor across every phase.

Based on 4 matches (226 minutes) — an early read, treat with caution until more minutes are logged. He profiles as a box-to-box runner — best used in a system built around that identity. His biggest room for growth is box threat — even a modest improvement there would meaningfully lift his overall box-to-box runner profile.
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