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Ezri Konsa

Arsenal
Stopper centre-back CB
16.2 defensive actions/90 · 3.0 progressive/90 — defends first
Capability Analysis
Aerial & Box Defending7%vs 50 centre-backs
"Can he win the individual defensive battle in his own box?"
Aerial duels won /900.00%
Aerial win rate: 0.0%
Clearances /903.3814%
Ball-Winning20%vs 50 centre-backs
"How actively does he win the ball back?"
Interceptions /900.7218%
Ball recoveries /903.0138%
Tackles /900.7510%
Duels won /901.0312%
Breaking Pressure
only 108 pressured-passing actions across 2 high-press matches -- not enough sample (needs 5+ matches and 12+ actions)
Progression38%vs 50 centre-backs
"Can he move the team forward with a pass, not just recycle it sideways?"
Progressive passes /901.632%
Line-breaking passes /900.38%
Threat added by passing /900.94xT44%
Pass accuracy95.31%98%
Ball-Carrying78%vs 50 centre-backs
"Does he advance the ball himself when the pass isn't on?"
Progressive carries /907.5580%
Carry distance /90164.47m76%
centre-backball-playing centre-backbuild-upline-breaking
595
minutes
7 apps
325
passes
96% completed
96%
pass completion
325 passes
20
progressive passes
3.0/90
10
line-breaking passes
1.5/90
107
defensive actions
16.2/90
18
tackles + interceptions
40% tackle win
20
clearances
3.0/90
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
in the first line of build-up — mostly in the middle third (54% of his 325 passes)
96% completion · 325× in 7/7 matches
↓
BREAK A LINE
vertical pass past the opponent midfield
3.0 prog/90 · 10× in 4/7 matches
↓
SWITCH PLAY
diagonal to the far side
cross-field balls · 3× in 2/7 matches
↓
PROGRESS
entries into the final third
2.3/90 · 15× in 5/7 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 — 2× (low confidence, shown as a number only, no tactical conclusion drawn) — omitted from the signature rather than presented as one.
16

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 →
46
passes / match
16.2
def actions / 90
10–82
pass range (matches)
20
clearances
Pass range = his fewest and most passes in any single match this season (10 at the low end, 82 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

71 tracked carries (10.7/90, 12 progressive, 583m 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.

8%27%13%4%1%17%24%6%
progressivelateral/short% of his 71 carries originating in each zone · own goal left, attacking →
Every carry, exact path — median 7m, longest 24m
By zone — where the carry started → where it ended
7Outside → Inside
51Inside → Inside
9Outside → Outside
4Inside → Outside
First (24)Second (22)Third (14)Fourth (11)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).

10
tackle duels
4
won
6
beaten · 60%
brighter band = more tackle duels · own goal left, attacking →
INSIDE 60%
OUTSIDE 40%
Tackle-duel location — 6 inside · 4 outside
Right Wing
3 · 30%
Right Half-Space
4 · 40%
Central
1 · 10%
Left Half-Space
1 · 10%
Left Wing
1 · 10%
Vision AI beaten in 6 of 10 tackle duels (60% loss rate) — a real defensive leak worth flagging.
Every tackle duel, exact location
wonlost — dribbled pastown goal left, attacking →

He attempted only 1 dribble 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?

7%
vertical passes
17×
1%
switches
3×
26%
carries
64×
66%
short circulation
162×
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 →RWRHSCLHSLWRW4939%1943%2116%82%1RHS10825%2722%2447%516%6C14412%1826%3723%3334%495%7LHS714%157%429%2LW333%133%133%1FROM
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 defensive third → the right half-space in the middle third — 1 progressive passes (14% of his progression) at 0.103 xT each. He moves it inside.

His progression is inward: 43% of progressive passes move the ball toward the middle versus 14% going wider — he cuts in rather than holding width.

Only 3% of his passes switch play, so his threat is same-side — contain the flank he occupies and the route closes.

Quality behind the volume: 1 line-breaking passes and 15 final-third entries, 3.4 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
7%18%14%6%0%3%18%20%13%0%0%1%1%0%
completedincomplete325 passes · any zone → any zone · own goal left, attacking →
325
passes
96%
completed
14
lost
Vision AIIn line with his 96% season completion rate.
04

How does he progress play?

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

20
progressive · 3.0/90
15
final-third entries · 2.3/90
1
box entries · 0.15/90
11
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?

1 key passes (0.15/90), 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
08

What is his passing profile?

325
passes attempted
47%
mostly sideways
50%
mostly medium
Direction
Forward
126 · 39%
Sideways
152 · 47%
Backward
47 · 14%
Length (completed)
Short (<15m)
149 · 48%
Medium
154 · 50%
Long (>30m)
8 · 3%
09

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.

0.360.210.170.160.140.11
own goal left, attacking →
Highest-value routes (xT)
0.36
Right Half-Space Mid third → Right Half-Space Att third
1 passes · 1 to a shot
0.21
Right Wing Def third → Right Half-Space Mid third
2 passes
0.17
Right Wing Def third → Left Wing Att third
1 passes
0.16
Central Mid third → Left Half-Space Att third
1 passes
0.14
Right Half-Space Mid third → Right Wing Mid third
3 passes
0.11
Right Wing Mid third → Right Wing Mid third
2 passes
05

Where Does He Receive?

The zones where Ezri Konsa 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
29%
Primary
Central, Middle third
18%
Secondary
Right Half-Space, Defensive third
17%
Third
Right Half-Space, 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 Ezri Konsa 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:
133195764424225844201
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.

7%18%14%6%0%3%18%20%13%0%0%1%1%0%
own goal left, attacking →
10

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
20Progressive
10Long ball
3Switch
By zone — where the pass started → where it landed
31Outside → Inside
207Inside → Inside
21Outside → Outside
52Inside → Outside
By direction
126Forward
47Backward
152Sideways
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 — 1 passes worth 0.36 xT.
Where do his chances come from?
Of 1 key passes, his busiest route is a delivery where he plays straight through the right hs, 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 half-space in the middle third: 13% of his 55 touches there are lost (7 times).
11%4/36 lost0%0/59 lost0%0/49 lost—1 touch · too few—1 touch · too few11%2/19 lost13%7/55 lost0%0/95 lost—5 touches · too few—2 touches · too few—0 touches · too few—1 touch · 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.

12

How & where does he defend?

107 defensive actions across the season (16.2/90). 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 →
10
tackles · 40% won
8
interceptions · 1.2/90
21
recoveries · 3.2/90
20
clearances · 3.0/90
2
blocks
36
avg action height
6
won high (att 3rd)
47
middle third
54
own third
Vision AI A mid-block defender. He wins the ball mainly by stepping in — tackles, interceptions & recoveries outweigh clearances. 39 proactive ball-wins (5.9/90), tackle success 40%. He defends mostly around the middle third.
13

Can he play under pressure?

Split by how hard the opponent pressed (opponent PPDA — lower = more intense press). Can Ezri Konsa 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 ~2-3 matches — directional evidence, not proof.

press tier
completion
prog /90
line-breaks /90
xT /90
High press (PPDA 3.6, 2m)
96%
3.8
1.4
0.89
Mid press (PPDA 4.3, 2m)
93%
1.9
0.9
0.39
Low press (PPDA 7.5, 3m)
97%
3.4
2.1
0.93
Team

Team context

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

14

Impact on the Team

Arsenal's output per match with Ezri Konsa (7 matches) versus without him (1 matches). Insufficient evidence — the without-sample is only 1 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 (7)
WITHOUT (1)
Δ
goals against /match
0.71
0.00
+0.71
points /match
2.57
3.00
-0.43
goals for /match
1.43
3.00
-1.57
xG for /match
1.55
0.00
+1.55
15

His Share of the Team

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

category
share
him / team
clearances
13%
145 / 1078
goals
10%
1 / 10
interceptions
9%
31 / 336
Recruitment

Style and verdict

Style profile, closest comparables, and the summary.

17

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-back76%Stopper centre-back28%
Why Ball-playing centre-back 76%: a weighted blend of retention 89 (weight 30%) + build-up 80 (weight 30%) + press resistance 70 (weight 15%) + progression 33 (weight 25%). The score reflects how distinctively his profile SHAPE matches this archetype vs his peers.
Elite
retention
Strong
build-up, carrying
Average
press resistance, receiving zones, transition, passing directness, creativity, dribbling
Weak
through-balls, crossing, final-third threat, progression, box threat, defensive aggression, ball-winning, territory (wide vs central), line-breaking
Unknown
aerial ability, marking, off-ball running — not in event data
Retention
89
Build-up
80
Carrying
79
Press resistance ~proxy
70
Receiving zones
67
Transition ~proxy
65
Passing directness
63
Creativity
58
Dribbling
56
Through-balls ~proxy
40
Crossing
38
Final-third threat
38
Progression
33
Box threat
32
Defensive aggression
23
Ball-winning
21
Territory (wide vs central)
12
Line-breaking
7
18

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 / 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 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.

John Stones Inter · Serie A · 188 cm / 80 kg
80%
Driven by: retention (17%), ball-winning (14%), press resistance (12%). Different mechanism — Konsa more via build-up; Stones more via dribbling, through-balls.
Vitor Reis Man City · 186 cm / 67 kg
76%
Driven by: retention (15%), build-up (14%), line-breaking (13%). Different mechanism — Konsa more via receiving zones, through-balls; Reis more via ball-winning.
Rúben Dias Man City · 187 cm / 86 kg
75%
Driven by: retention (13%), ball-winning (13%), defensive aggression (12%). Different mechanism — Dias more via final-third threat, passing directness.
Carl Starfelt Celta Vigo · La Liga · 185 cm / 83 kg
75%
Driven by: build-up (18%), retention (15%), territory (wide vs central) (14%). Different mechanism — Konsa more via creativity, dribbling; Starfelt more via ball-winning, passing directness.
Yoel Lago Celta Vigo · La Liga · 185 cm / 70 kg
74%
Driven by: retention (20%), territory (wide vs central) (15%), build-up (13%). Different mechanism — Konsa more via through-balls, box threat; Lago more via ball-winning, defensive aggression.
Alessio Romagnoli Lazio · Serie A · 185 cm / 75 kg
73%
Driven by: retention (20%), build-up (18%), defensive aggression (17%). Different mechanism — Konsa more via carrying, receiving zones; Romagnoli more via line-breaking, progression.
19

Summary

Ezri Konsa is a ball-playing centre-back: 96% pass completion, 10 line-breaking passes and 3.0 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 7 matches (595 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 progression — even a modest improvement there would meaningfully lift his overall ball-playing centre-back profile.
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