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Taiwo Awoniyi

Coventry
Penalty-box poacher ST
2.3 shots/90 · 0.16 xG per shot — shoots from high-value spots · 0.36 xG/90
strikerpressing forwardbox threatfinishing
354
minutes
6 apps
0
goals
1.41 xG
1.4
xG
9 shots
9
shots
0.16 xG/shot
0
box entries
0.00/90
2
key passes
0.51/90
7
dribbles
71% won
80%
pass completion
44 passes
Overview

The player

Who he is and how he compares with his peers.

Thin sample this season. Taiwo Awoniyi has played 6 matches (354 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.

LINK
lay-off and combine
2 key passes · 80% completion · 44× in 6/6 matches
↓
FINISH
shoot from central zones
1.41 xG · 9× in 4/6 matches
Signature: Link → Finish — the only steps proven repeatable this season (2 of 4 in the full pattern). Not enough evidence yet for the rest of the chain below.
Not a pattern: receive / move — 0× (insufficient confidence, hidden — not enough evidence yet); convert — 0× (insufficient confidence, hidden — not enough evidence yet) — 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.

04

How dangerous are his carries?

Real ball-carries

18 tracked carries (4.6/90, 4 progressive, 189m 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.

11%17%6%6%17%17%6%22%
progressivelateral/short% of his 18 carries originating in each zone · own goal left, attacking →
Every carry, exact path — median 7m, longest 30m
By zone — where the carry started → where it ended
1Outside → Inside
13Inside → Inside
4Outside → Outside
First (18)grouped by carry pattern (start + end position), largest group first
startendown goal left, attacking →

Dribbles (1v1s)

Only 7 dribbles attempted this season — too little volume to map a location pattern.

02

How does he create chances?

2 key passes (0.51/90), 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 (2)assist (0)% of the selected group's key passes originating in each zone
Box deliveries — key passes reaching the final third, by flank
from the left (0)from the right (2)of 2 key passes landing in the final thirdattacking ↑ toward goal
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 →
Where do his chances come from?
Of 2 key passes, his busiest route is a delivery where he plays inside from the right hs 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 left half-space in the middle third: 30% of his 10 touches there are lost (3 times).
—0 touches · too few—0 touches · too few—2 touches · too few—0 touches · too few—0 touches · too few—3 touches · too few—3 touches · too few0%0/8 lost30%3/10 lost—5 touches · too few—2 touches · too few—1 touch · too few—6 touches · too few—2 touches · too few—2 touches · too fewRWRHSCLHSLWDEFMIDATT
Out of possession

Out of possession

Where and how he defends and presses.

06

How & where does he defend?

40 defensive actions across the season (10.2/90). 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 →
1
tackles · 100% won
1
interceptions · 0.3/90
9
recoveries · 2.3/90
2
clearances · 0.5/90
1
blocks
59
avg action height
17
won high (att 3rd)
19
middle third
4
own third
Vision AI A front-foot / high defender. He wins the ball mainly by stepping in — tackles, interceptions & recoveries outweigh clearances. 11 proactive ball-wins (2.8/90), tackle success 100%. He defends high, stepping out to intercept — suits a high line.

Defensive work in the attacking half

Ball-wins in the attacking half only (own half vs. attacking half, a simple 2-way split, not the usual thirds) — the clearest single signal of how much he presses and recovers the ball high up the pitch.

29
attacking-half actions · 7.37/90
05

Against Different Pressing Intensities

Split by how hard the opponent pressed (opponent PPDA — lower = more intense press). Does Taiwo Awoniyi keep producing when the game is tight and the press is high? Tiers of ~2-2 matches — directional evidence, not proof.

press tier
xT /90
prog /90
key P /90
dribble%
High press (PPDA 2.8, 2m)
0.09
0.5
0.00
75%
Mid press (PPDA 3.6, 2m)
0.00
0.0
0.00
100%
Low press (PPDA 6.1, 2m)
0.03
0.0
1.45
50%
Team

Team context

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

07

Impact on the Team

Coventry's output per match with Taiwo Awoniyi (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. A proper on-off model needs many more minutes.

WITH (6)
WITHOUT (2)
Δ
goals for /match
0.17
2.50
-2.33
xG for /match
0.92
0.00
+0.92
goals against /match
2.33
0.50
+1.83
points /match
0.00
3.00
-3.00
08

His Share of the Team

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

category
share
him / team
expected goals (xG)
21%
4.3 / 21.1
shots
11%
24 / 222
expected assists (xA)
5%
0.7 / 12.6
Recruitment

Style and verdict

Style profile, closest comparables, and the summary.

09

Playing-Style Profile

Not raw event counts — football style scores: weighted models scored 0–100 against the 299 strikers 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.

Pressing forward62%Transition runner61%Target man55%Poacher52%
Why Pressing forward 62%: a weighted blend of defensive aggression 67 (weight 45%) + ball-winning 47 (weight 30%) + transition 54 (weight 25%). The score reflects how distinctively his profile SHAPE matches this archetype vs his peers.
Elite
retention
Strong
press resistance, dribbling
Average
build-up, defensive aggression, carrying, transition, box threat, through-balls, creativity, ball-winning
Weak
final-third threat, crossing, receiving zones, progression, passing directness, territory (wide vs central), line-breaking
Unknown
aerial ability, marking, off-ball running — not in event data
Retention
89
Press resistance ~proxy
77
Dribbling
71
Build-up
68
Defensive aggression
67
Carrying
57
Transition ~proxy
54
Box threat
54
Through-balls ~proxy
49
Creativity
47
Ball-winning
47
Final-third threat
32
Crossing
29
Receiving zones
25
Progression
22
Passing directness
20
Territory (wide vs central)
16
Line-breaking
10
10

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: 183 cm / 84 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.

Jovan Milosevic Werder Bremen · Bundesliga 25/26 · 190 cm / 84 kg
83%
Driven by: line-breaking (12%), retention (11%), press resistance (10%). Different mechanism — Awoniyi more via through-balls, transition; Milosevic more via territory (wide vs central).
Yassir Zabiri Racing Santander · La Liga · 182 cm / 73 kg
74%
Driven by: retention (16%), press resistance (13%), territory (wide vs central) (11%). Different mechanism — Awoniyi more via transition, crossing; Zabiri more via receiving zones, box threat.
William Osula Newcastle · 180 cm / 81 kg
70%
Driven by: line-breaking (17%), retention (17%), passing directness (14%). Different mechanism — Awoniyi more via through-balls, dribbling; Osula more via crossing.
Keke Topp Werder Bremen · Bundesliga 25/26 · 192 cm / 81 kg
67%
Driven by: retention (22%), line-breaking (20%), press resistance (17%). Different mechanism — Topp more via territory (wide vs central), receiving zones.
Randy Nteka Rayo Vallecano · La Liga · 189 cm / 75 kg
62%
Driven by: retention (24%), press resistance (19%), progression (12%). Different mechanism — Awoniyi more via through-balls, carrying; Nteka more via passing directness, territory (wide vs central).
Christian Kofane Leverkusen · Bundesliga · 189 cm / 80 kg
61%
Driven by: retention (22%), line-breaking (14%), press resistance (13%). Different mechanism — Awoniyi more via transition, through-balls; Kofane more via receiving zones, creativity.
11

Summary

Taiwo Awoniyi is a pressing forward / transition runner: 0 goals from 1.41 xG (-1.41 vs expected), 9 shots, 0 box entries. Under-performing his chances. [Off-ball runs, aerials and hold-up under contact need tracking/aerial data.]

Based on 6 matches (354 minutes) — an early read, treat with caution until more minutes are logged. He profiles as a pressing forward / transition runner — best used in a system built around that identity. His biggest room for growth is ball-winning — even a modest improvement there would meaningfully lift his overall pressing forward profile.
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