Thin sample this season. Ainsley Maitland-Niles has played 0 matches (0 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.
Signature: Not enough matches loaded yet to establish a repeatable signature for him.
Not a pattern: receive — 0× (insufficient confidence, hidden — not enough evidence yet); progress — 0× (insufficient confidence, hidden — not enough evidence yet); dribble — 0× (insufficient confidence, hidden — not enough evidence yet); deliver — 0× (insufficient confidence, hidden — not enough evidence yet); defend — 0× (insufficient confidence, hidden — not enough evidence yet) — omitted from the signature rather than presented as one.
Team
Team context
How much of the team runs through him, and what changes without him.
Insufficient sample: Ainsley Maitland-Niles played nearly every Everton match in the loaded data, so there is no meaningful "without him" comparison yet. This section fills in as more matches (and the rest of the season) are scraped.
03
His Share of the Team
Of everything Everton produced this season, the categories where the biggest share ran through Ainsley Maitland-Niles specifically — his share of the team total, not a per-90 rate.
category
share
him / team
interceptions
13%
34 / 260
tackles
12%
63 / 528
progressive passes
12%
174 / 1465
Recruitment
Style and verdict
Style profile, closest comparables, and the summary.
Not raw event counts — football style scores: weighted models scored 0–100 against the 232 full-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.
Inverted full-back51%Overlapping full-back31%
Why Inverted full-back 51%: a weighted blend of build-up 54 (weight 35%) + retention 63 (weight 30%) + progression 32 (weight 25%) + press resistance 59 (weight 10%). The score reflects how distinctively his profile SHAPE matches this archetype vs his peers.
aerial ability, marking, off-ball running — not in event data
Box threat
63
Retention
63
Receiving zones
61
Press resistance ~proxy
59
Build-up
54
Dribbling
53
Ball-winning
50
Line-breaking
49
Through-balls ~proxy
47
Defensive aggression
45
Crossing
42
Creativity
42
Final-third threat
32
Progression
32
Territory (wide vs central)
31
Passing directness
29
Transition ~proxy
27
Carrying
23
05
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: 180 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 Ligue 1, Bundesliga, La Liga, 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.
Lukas Kübler Freiburg · Bundesliga · 182 cm / 78 kg
71%
Driven by: transition (25%), carrying (18%), progression (11%). Different mechanism — Maitland-Niles more via receiving zones, dribbling.
Ivan Smolcic Como · Serie A · 181 cm / 78 kg
69%
Driven by: transition (30%), carrying (21%), passing directness (13%). Different mechanism — Smolcic more via defensive aggression, line-breaking.
Josha Vagnoman Stuttgart · Bundesliga · 190 cm / 90 kg
67%
Driven by: transition (23%), carrying (13%), progression (12%). Different mechanism — Maitland-Niles more via through-balls, ball-winning; Vagnoman more via territory (wide vs central).
Sacha Boey Bayern · Bundesliga · 178 cm / 70 kg
66%
Driven by: transition (18%), progression (18%), carrying (18%). Different mechanism — Maitland-Niles more via line-breaking, through-balls; Boey more via territory (wide vs central).
Simone Cinquegrano Sassuolo · Serie A · 192 cm
63%
Driven by: transition (24%), progression (14%), passing directness (12%). Different mechanism — Maitland-Niles more via line-breaking, through-balls; Cinquegrano more via territory (wide vs central), dribbling.
Nacho Vidal Real Oviedo · La Liga 25/26 · 180 cm / 75 kg
63%
Driven by: transition (20%), final-third threat (16%), progression (15%). Different mechanism — Maitland-Niles more via receiving zones, line-breaking; Vidal more via territory (wide vs central).
06
Summary
Ainsley Maitland-Niles is an inverted full-back: 0.0 progressive passes and 0 box entries, delivering 0 key passes. Inverted full-back. [1v1 recovery pace and off-ball overlap timing need tracking.]
Based on 0 matches (0 minutes) — an early read, treat with caution until more minutes are logged. He profiles as an inverted full-back — best used in a system built around that identity.
His biggest room for growth is progression — even a modest improvement there would meaningfully lift his overall inverted full-back profile.
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