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Lucas Tousart

Brest
Ball-winning 6 (destroyer) DM
14.6 defensive actions/90
Capability Analysis
Breaking Pressure
only 76 pressured-passing actions across 4 high-press matches -- not enough sample (needs 5+ matches and 12+ actions)
Progression11%vs 43 centre-backs
"Can he move the team forward with a pass, not just recycle it sideways?"
Progressive passes /901.372%
Line-breaking passes /900.4632%
Threat added by passing /900.48xT0%
Pass accuracy82.13%9%
Ball-Winning48%vs 43 centre-backs
"How actively does he win the ball back?"
Interceptions /900.9839%
Ball recoveries /902.819%
Tackles /902.2280%
Duels won /901.9664%
defensive midtempo controllerpress resistancescreening
916
minutes
24 apps
273
passes
81% completed
81%
pass completion
273 passes
16
progressive passes
1.6/90
149
defensive actions
14.6/90
37
tackles + interceptions
41% tackle win
33
recoveries
3.2/90
25
line-breaking passes
2.5/90
Overview

The player

Who he is and how he compares with his peers.

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
drop between the centre-backs — mostly in the middle third (58% of his 273 passes)
81% completion · 273× in 24/24 matches
↓
PROGRESS CENTRAL
break a line through the middle
1.6 prog/90 · 25× in 14/24 matches
↓
SCREEN / WIN BALL
protect the back four
6.9 ball-wins/90 · 70× in 24/24 matches
↓
RECYCLE / PROGRESS
keep it ticking, feed the final third
1.8 f3-entries/90 · 18× in 11/24 matches
Signature: Receive → Progress Central → Screen / Win Ball → Recycle / 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: escape pressure — 4× (insufficient confidence, hidden — not enough evidence yet) — omitted from the signature rather than presented as one.
17

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 →
11
passes / match
14.6
def actions / 90
1–55
pass range (matches)
20
clearances
Pass range = his fewest and most passes in any single match this season (1 at the low end, 55 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.

10

How dangerous are his carries?

Real ball-carries

50 tracked carries (4.9/90, 9 progressive, 446m 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.

2%8%8%4%6%16%14%12%2%2%8%8%10%
progressivelateral/short% of his 50 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
5Outside → Inside
37Inside → Inside
6Outside → Outside
2Inside → Outside
First (16)Second (14)Third (12)Fourth (8)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).

29
tackle duels
12
won
17
beaten · 59%
brighter band = more tackle duels · own goal left, attacking →
INSIDE 59%
OUTSIDE 41%
Tackle-duel location — 17 inside · 12 outside
Right Wing
3 · 10%
Right Half-Space
6 · 21%
Central
7 · 24%
Left Half-Space
4 · 14%
Left Wing
9 · 31%
Vision AI beaten in 17 of 29 tackle duels (59% loss rate) — a real defensive leak worth flagging.
Every tackle duel, exact location
wonlost — dribbled pastown goal left, attacking →

He attempted only 4 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.

03

How does he build & move the ball?

How does he escape the first line?

9%
vertical passes
12×
5%
switches
7×
21%
carries
28×
64%
short circulation
85×
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 →RWRHSCLHSLWRW1856%1039%76%1RHS4650%2328%1320%92%1C8722%1921%1826%2320%1711%10LHS482%18%415%733%1642%20LW2218%414%368%15FROM
Rows normalised: each row sums to 100% of that lane's completed passes. Grey number = passes from that lane.

Primary route: the left half-space in the defensive third → the left half-space in the middle third — 1 progressive passes (9% of his progression) at 0.044 xT each. He keeps it in the same lane.

His progression is inward: 45% of progressive passes move the ball toward the middle versus 0% going wider — he cuts in rather than holding width.

10% of his passes are cross-field switches — he changes the point of attack often.

Quality behind the volume: 2 line-breaking passes and 18 final-third entries, -0.3 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
1%5%11%6%5%2%0%12%14%11%4%0%1%5%5%11%3%1%
completedincomplete273 passes · any zone → any zone · own goal left, attacking →
273
passes
81%
completed
52
lost
Vision AIIn line with his 81% season completion rate.
05

How does he progress play?

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

16
progressive · 1.6/90
18
final-third entries · 1.8/90
3
box entries · 0.29/90
6
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.
11

How does he create chances?

3 key passes (0.29/90), 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:
67%33%
chance creation (3)assist (0)% of the selected group's key passes originating in each zone
04

Where does he become vulnerable?

53 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.

16
attacking third (cheap)
30
middle third
7
own third (dangerous)
Vision AI 30% of losses are in the attacking third — a notable share happen deeper, which invites transitions.
Mistake danger (proxy): 1.77 danger-index/90 · 0.339 avg/turnover. Weights each loss by threat conceded at that location. True xT-conceded needs the opponent possession model; positional proxy.
06

What is his passing profile?

273
passes attempted
38%
mostly forward
53%
mostly short
Direction
Forward
103 · 38%
Sideways
92 · 34%
Backward
78 · 29%
Length (completed)
Short (<15m)
118 · 53%
Medium
86 · 39%
Long (>30m)
17 · 8%
07

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.

0.140.130.120.110.100.10
own goal left, attacking →
Highest-value routes (xT)
0.14
Central Mid third → Right Half-Space Mid third
2 passes
0.13
Left Half-Space Def third → Left Wing Mid third
3 passes
0.12
Right Half-Space Mid third → Central Mid third
1 passes
0.11
Left Half-Space Mid third → Left Half-Space Att third
1 passes
0.10
Right Wing Mid third → Right Half-Space Mid third
1 passes
0.10
Right Wing Mid third → Right Wing Att third
1 passes
08

Where Does He Receive?

The zones where Lucas Tousart 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
19%
Primary
Central, Middle third
14%
Secondary
Right Half-Space, Middle third
13%
Third
Left Half-Space, Middle third
These are the zones where he collected the ball most.
09

Where Does He Operate? — Every Zone

Every on-ball touch (pass, dribble, shot) binned into a 6×3 grid — raw counts of where Lucas Tousart 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:
41514319213439301564133016185
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.

1%5%11%6%5%2%0%12%14%11%4%0%1%5%5%11%3%1%
own goal left, attacking →
12

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.

3Key pass
4Cutback
16Progressive
25Long ball
15Switch
By zone — where the pass started → where it landed
15Outside → Inside
108Inside → Inside
25Outside → Outside
73Inside → Outside
By direction
103Forward
78Backward
92Sideways
own goal left, attacking →
02

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 switches it out from the central to the right hs in the middle third — 2 passes worth 0.14 xT.
Where do his chances come from?
Of 3 key passes, his busiest route is a delivery where he plays inside from the right wing toward the left hs 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 middle third: 47% of his 15 touches there are lost (7 times).
—7 touches · too few20%2/10 lost3%1/33 lost7%1/14 lost—6 touches · too few47%7/15 lost24%9/38 lost15%8/54 lost11%4/36 lost13%2/15 lost38%3/8 lost25%3/12 lost36%5/14 lost—7 touches · too few—4 touches · too fewRWRHSCLHSLWDEFMIDATT
Out of possession

Out of possession

Where and how he defends and presses.

13

How & where does he defend?

149 defensive actions across the season (14.6/90). 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 →
29
tackles · 41% won
8
interceptions · 0.8/90
33
recoveries · 3.2/90
20
clearances · 2.0/90
12
blocks
43
avg action height
28
won high (att 3rd)
61
middle third
60
own third
Vision AI A mid-block defender. He wins the ball mainly by stepping in — tackles, interceptions & recoveries outweigh clearances. 70 proactive ball-wins (6.9/90), tackle success 41%. He defends high, stepping out to intercept — suits a high line.
14

Can he play under pressure?

Split by how hard the opponent pressed (opponent PPDA — lower = more intense press). Can Lucas Tousart 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 ~8-8 matches — directional evidence, not proof.

press tier
completion
prog /90
line-breaks /90
xT /90
High press (PPDA 4.3, 8m)
60%
0.7
1.4
0.20
Mid press (PPDA 5.8, 8m)
88%
1.5
2.0
0.37
Low press (PPDA 8.7, 8m)
85%
2.4
3.8
0.43
Team

Team context

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

15

Impact on the Team

Brest's output per match with Lucas Tousart (24 matches) versus without him (10 matches). 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 (24)
WITHOUT (10)
Δ
goals against /match
1.54
1.80
-0.26
points /match
1.21
1.00
+0.21
goals for /match
1.08
1.70
-0.62
xG for /match
1.14
0.30
+0.85
16

His Share of the Team

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

category
share
him / team
clearances
5%
54 / 1115
tackles
4%
34 / 763
interceptions
3%
15 / 441
Recruitment

Style and verdict

Style profile, closest comparables, and the summary.

18

Playing-Style Profile

Not raw event counts — football style scores: weighted models scored 0–100 against the 258 defensive 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.

Tempo controller50%Deep-lying playmaker43%Ball-winning 642%
Why Tempo controller 50%: a weighted blend of retention 54 (weight 35%) + build-up 55 (weight 30%) + press resistance 62 (weight 20%) + progression 14 (weight 15%). The score reflects how distinctively his profile SHAPE matches this archetype vs his peers.
Elite
—
Strong
passing directness, box threat, defensive aggression
Average
press resistance, build-up, retention, dribbling, crossing
Weak
through-balls, transition, ball-winning, territory (wide vs central), carrying, line-breaking, final-third threat, progression, creativity, receiving zones
Unknown
aerial ability, marking, off-ball running — not in event data
Passing directness
78
Box threat
75
Defensive aggression
75
Press resistance ~proxy
62
Build-up
55
Retention
54
Dribbling
49
Crossing
42
Through-balls ~proxy
39
Transition ~proxy
32
Ball-winning
32
Territory (wide vs central)
27
Carrying
16
Line-breaking
16
Final-third threat
15
Progression
14
Creativity
9
Receiving zones
3
19

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: 185 cm / 83 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.

Facundo Bernal Real Betis · La Liga · 189 cm / 80 kg
80%
Driven by: creativity (22%), progression (13%), receiving zones (13%). Different mechanism — Tousart more via passing directness, defensive aggression; Bernal more via ball-winning.
Tommaso Pobega Bologna · Serie A · 188 cm / 75 kg
78%
Driven by: creativity (22%), receiving zones (15%), progression (12%). Different mechanism — Tousart more via passing directness, through-balls; Pobega more via territory (wide vs central).
Ryan Yates Nottingham Forest · Premier League · 190 cm / 87 kg
78%
Driven by: creativity (18%), receiving zones (14%), progression (13%). Different mechanism — Tousart more via through-balls, defensive aggression; Yates more via territory (wide vs central), crossing.
Lucas Torró Osasuna · La Liga · 190 cm / 77 kg
77%
Driven by: carrying (14%), progression (14%), final-third threat (12%). Different mechanism — Tousart more via through-balls, retention; Torró more via creativity, receiving zones.
Julian Niehues Heidenheim · Bundesliga 25/26 · 195 cm / 89 kg
76%
Driven by: creativity (24%), receiving zones (19%), progression (10%). Different mechanism — Tousart more via defensive aggression, passing directness; Niehues more via carrying, through-balls.
João Palhinha Tottenham · Premier League 25/26 · 190 cm / 84 kg
74%
Driven by: creativity (21%), receiving zones (13%), carrying (10%). Different mechanism — Tousart more via crossing, press resistance; Palhinha more via territory (wide vs central), ball-winning.
20

Summary

Lucas Tousart is a tempo controller: 81% completion, 25 line-breaks and 1.6 progressive passes /90, resisting pressure with 75% dribble success. A central controller. [Off-ball screening position and scanning need tracking data.]

Based on 24 matches (916 minutes) — a reasonable read, still building toward a full-season sample. He profiles as a tempo controller — 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 tempo controller profile.
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