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Benjamin Pavard

Inter
Ball-playing centre-back CB
4.5 progressive passes/90 · 1.7 line-breaking/90
centre-backball-playing centre-backbuild-upline-breaking
218
minutes
3 apps
171
passes
96% completed
96%
pass completion
171 passes
11
progressive passes
4.5/90
13
line-breaking passes
5.4/90
37
defensive actions
15.3/90
9
tackles + interceptions
40% tackle win
9
clearances
3.7/90
Overview

The player

Who he is and how he compares with his peers.

Thin sample this season. Benjamin Pavard has played 3 matches (218 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 (54% of his 171 passes)
96% completion · 171× in 3/3 matches
↓
BREAK A LINE
vertical pass past the opponent midfield
4.5 prog/90 · 13× in 3/3 matches
↓
SWITCH PLAY
diagonal to the far side
cross-field balls · 7× in 3/3 matches
↓
PROGRESS
entries into the final third
3.7/90 · 9× in 2/3 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.
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 →
57
passes / match
15.3
def actions / 90
31–99
pass range (matches)
9
clearances
Pass range = his fewest and most passes in any single match this season (31 at the low end, 99 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

31 tracked carries (12.8/90, 10 progressive, 267m 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.

29%39%13%3%3%10%3%
progressivelateral/short% of his 31 carries originating in each zone · own goal left, attacking →
Every carry, exact path — median 8m, longest 16m
By zone — where the carry started → where it ended
4Outside → Inside
16Inside → Inside
9Outside → Outside
2Inside → Outside
First (19)Second (12)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 20%
OUTSIDE 80%
Tackle-duel location — 1 inside · 4 outside
Right Wing
4 · 80%
Right Half-Space
1 · 20%
Central
0 · 0%
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.

02

How does he build & move the ball?

How does he escape the first line?

9%
vertical passes
10×
5%
switches
6×
22%
carries
25×
64%
short circulation
73×
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 →RWRHSCLHSLWRW6053%3232%1915%9RHS8649%4221%1822%198%7C1513%227%440%620%3LHS3100%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 middle third → the right half-space in the middle third — 3 progressive passes (27% of his progression) at 0.029 xT each. He moves it inside.

His progression is inward: 64% of progressive passes move the ball toward the middle versus 0% going wider — he cuts in rather than holding width.

Only 6% of his passes switch play, so his threat is same-side — contain the flank he occupies and the route closes.

Quality behind the volume: 4 line-breaking passes and 9 final-third entries, 2.0 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
4%27%27%17%5%4%1%2%6%5%2%1%
completedincomplete171 passes · any zone → any zone · own goal left, attacking →
171
passes
96%
completed
7
lost
Vision AIIn line with his 96% season completion rate.
09

How does he create chances?

1 key passes (0.41/90), 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
04

What is his passing profile?

171
passes attempted
49%
mostly forward
56%
mostly short
Direction
Forward
83 · 49%
Sideways
57 · 33%
Backward
31 · 18%
Length (completed)
Short (<15m)
92 · 56%
Medium
63 · 38%
Long (>30m)
9 · 5%
05

Where Does He Receive?

The zones where Benjamin Pavard 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
28%
Primary
Right Half-Space, Middle third
23%
Secondary
Right Half-Space, Defensive third
19%
Third
Right Wing, 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 Benjamin Pavard 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:
1411832646472996
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%27%27%17%5%4%1%2%6%5%2%1%
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.

1Key pass
1Cross
3Cutback
11Progressive
13Long ball
7Switch
By zone — where the pass started → where it landed
28Outside → Inside
60Inside → Inside
32Outside → Outside
44Inside → Outside
By direction
83Forward
31Backward
57Sideways
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 hs, advancing it forward in the middle third — 3 passes worth 0.45 xT.
Where do his chances come from?
Of 1 key passes, his busiest route is a delivery where he plays inside from the right wing toward the central in the final 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: 13% of his 15 touches there are lost (2 times).
0%0/15 lost0%0/39 lost—3 touches · too few—0 touches · too few—0 touches · too few0%0/32 lost8%4/48 lost0%0/11 lost—2 touches · too few—0 touches · too few13%2/15 lost—4 touches · too few—1 touch · too few—1 touch · too few—0 touches · too fewRWRHSCLHSLWDEFMIDATT
Out of possession

Out of possession

Where and how he defends and presses.

10

How & where does he defend?

37 defensive actions across the season (15.3/90). 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
4
interceptions · 1.7/90
6
recoveries · 2.5/90
9
clearances · 3.7/90
1
blocks
34
avg action height
2
won high (att 3rd)
12
middle third
23
own third
Vision AI A mid-block defender. He wins the ball mainly by stepping in — tackles, interceptions & recoveries outweigh clearances. 15 proactive ball-wins (6.2/90), tackle success 40%. He defends mostly around the middle third.
Team

Team context

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

11

Impact on the Team

Inter's output per match with Benjamin Pavard (3 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 (3)
WITHOUT (5)
Δ
goals against /match
1.00
1.40
-0.40
points /match
3.00
2.60
+0.40
goals for /match
3.00
2.80
+0.20
xG for /match
2.50
1.51
+1.00
12

His Share of the Team

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

category
share
him / team
clearances
10%
87 / 884
interceptions
9%
31 / 346
final-third entries
6%
155 / 2789
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 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-back53%Stopper centre-back49%
Why Ball-playing centre-back 53%: a weighted blend of retention 60 (weight 30%) + build-up 55 (weight 30%) + progression 59 (weight 25%) + press resistance 30 (weight 15%). The score reflects how distinctively his profile SHAPE matches this archetype vs his peers.
Elite
—
Strong
final-third threat, receiving zones, creativity
Average
carrying, crossing, territory (wide vs central), retention, progression, transition, build-up, box threat, ball-winning, line-breaking, defensive aggression, passing directness, through-balls
Weak
press resistance, dribbling
Unknown
aerial ability, marking, off-ball running — not in event data
Final-third threat
84
Receiving zones
81
Creativity
72
Carrying
66
Crossing
64
Territory (wide vs central)
60
Retention
60
Progression
59
Transition ~proxy
58
Build-up
55
Box threat
52
Ball-winning
49
Line-breaking
47
Defensive aggression
45
Passing directness
43
Through-balls ~proxy
41
Press resistance ~proxy
30
Dribbling
8
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: 186 cm / 76 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.

Nathan Aké Man City · Premier League 25/26 · 180 cm / 84 kg
70%
Driven by: dribbling (29%), final-third threat (18%), press resistance (10%). Different mechanism — Pavard more via ball-winning, defensive aggression; Aké more via box threat, through-balls.
Robert Andrich Leverkusen · Bundesliga · 186 cm / 87 kg
70%
Driven by: dribbling (40%), receiving zones (21%), press resistance (14%). Different mechanism — Pavard more via territory (wide vs central), final-third threat; Andrich more via line-breaking.
David Alaba Udinese · 180 cm / 78 kg
68%
Driven by: dribbling (26%), final-third threat (20%), receiving zones (12%). Different mechanism — Pavard more via ball-winning, territory (wide vs central); Alaba more via passing directness, progression.
Sadibou Sané Monaco · Ligue 1 · 185 cm / 76 kg
66%
Driven by: dribbling (24%), final-third threat (13%), receiving zones (13%). Different mechanism — Pavard more via box threat; Sané more via ball-winning, line-breaking.
Manuel Akanji Inter · 188 cm / 91 kg
64%
Driven by: dribbling (19%), final-third threat (18%), receiving zones (18%). Different mechanism — Akanji more via through-balls, line-breaking.
Amos Pieper Werder Bremen · Bundesliga · 192 cm / 86 kg
63%
Driven by: dribbling (42%), press resistance (24%), final-third threat (13%). Different mechanism — Pavard more via receiving zones, creativity; Pieper more via through-balls, passing directness.
16

Summary

Benjamin Pavard is a ball-playing centre-back: 96% pass completion, 13 line-breaking passes and 4.5 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 3 matches (218 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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