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Tyler Adams

Bournemouth
Ball-winning 6 (destroyer) DM
16.8 defensive actions/90
Capability Analysis
Breaking Pressure
only 48 pressured-passing actions across 2 high-press matches -- not enough sample (needs 5+ matches and 12+ actions)
Progression25%vs 23 defensive mids
"Can he move the team forward with a pass, not just recycle it sideways?"
Progressive passes /902.569%
Line-breaking passes /900.939%
Threat added by passing /900.75xT9%
Pass accuracy87.42%74%
Ball-Winning60%vs 23 defensive mids
"How actively does he win the ball back?"
Interceptions /901.6787%
Ball recoveries /904.9748%
Tackles /902.3457%
Duels won /901.0748%
defensive midball-winning 6press resistancescreening
567
minutes
8 apps
331
passes
88% completed
88%
pass completion
331 passes
26
progressive passes
4.1/90
106
defensive actions
16.8/90
22
tackles + interceptions
30% tackle win
38
recoveries
6.0/90
24
line-breaking passes
3.8/90
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 (66% of his 331 passes)
88% completion · 331× in 8/8 matches
↓
ESCAPE PRESSURE
turn out of a tight central area
0% won · 4× in 3/8 matches
↓
PROGRESS CENTRAL
break a line through the middle
4.1 prog/90 · 24× in 6/8 matches
↓
SCREEN / WIN BALL
protect the back four
9.5 ball-wins/90 · 60× in 8/8 matches
↓
RECYCLE / PROGRESS
keep it ticking, feed the final third
5.9 f3-entries/90 · 37× in 6/8 matches
Signature: drop to receive → escape the press on the turn → progress centrally or recycle → screen the counter. Block the central lane and press his first touch to force him backwards.
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 →
41
passes / match
16.8
def actions / 90
10–66
pass range (matches)
10
clearances
Pass range = his fewest and most passes in any single match this season (10 at the low end, 66 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

68 tracked carries (10.8/90, 11 progressive, 584m 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.

6%15%4%3%12%21%19%4%6%9%1%
progressivelateral/short% of his 68 carries originating in each zone · own goal left, attacking →
Every carry, exact path — median 8m, longest 20m
By zone — where the carry started → where it ended
5Outside → Inside
57Inside → Inside
4Outside → Outside
2Inside → Outside
First (28)Second (16)Third (14)Fourth (10)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
3
won
7
beaten · 70%
brighter band = more tackle duels · own goal left, attacking →
INSIDE 80%
OUTSIDE 20%
Tackle-duel location — 8 inside · 2 outside
Right Wing
2 · 20%
Right Half-Space
2 · 20%
Central
2 · 20%
Left Half-Space
4 · 40%
Left Wing
0 · 0%
Vision AI beaten in 7 of 10 tackle duels (70% 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.

02

How does he build & move the ball?

How does he escape the first line?

13%
vertical passes
20×
7%
switches
10×
28%
carries
43×
52%
short circulation
80×
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 →RWRHSCLHSLWRW1839%744%817%3RHS6734%2322%1531%2112%8C1147%825%2821%2432%3616%18LHS7611%818%1429%2242%32LW176%147%847%8FROM
Rows normalised: each row sums to 100% of that lane's completed passes. Grey number = passes from that lane.

Primary route: the right half-space in the middle third → central areas in the middle third — 3 progressive passes (13% of his progression) at 0.017 xT each. He moves it inside.

His progression is inward: 57% of progressive passes move the ball toward the middle versus 17% going wider — he cuts in rather than holding width.

8% of his passes are cross-field switches — he changes the point of attack often.

Quality behind the volume: 8 line-breaking passes and 37 final-third entries, 1.7 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%4%8%10%2%0%2%10%20%16%7%0%1%5%4%9%2%
completedincomplete331 passes · any zone → any zone · own goal left, attacking →
331
passes
88%
completed
39
lost
Vision AIIn line with his 88% season completion rate.
04

How does he progress play?

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

26
progressive · 4.1/90
37
final-third entries · 5.9/90
3
box entries · 0.48/90
17
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.
12

How does he create chances?

2 key passes (0.32/90), 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
05

Where does he become vulnerable?

43 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.

6
attacking third (cheap)
23
middle third
14
own third (dangerous)
Vision AI 14% of losses are in the attacking third — a notable share happen deeper, which invites transitions.
Mistake danger (proxy): 2.87 danger-index/90 · 0.421 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?

331
passes attempted
42%
mostly forward
53%
mostly medium
Direction
Forward
139 · 42%
Sideways
112 · 34%
Backward
80 · 24%
Length (completed)
Short (<15m)
117 · 40%
Medium
154 · 53%
Long (>30m)
21 · 7%
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.

0.360.330.300.210.160.14
own goal left, attacking →
Highest-value routes (xT)
0.36
Left Wing Mid third → Left Half-Space Att third
1 passes · 1 to a shot
0.33
Left Half-Space Mid third → Left Wing Att third
2 passes
0.30
Central Mid third → Left Half-Space Mid third
3 passes
0.21
Central Att third → Left Half-Space Att third
1 passes
0.16
Right Half-Space Mid third → Central Mid third
2 passes
0.14
Right Half-Space Mid third → Right Wing Mid third
2 passes
08

Where Does He Receive?

The zones where Tyler Adams 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
27%
Primary
Central, Middle third
15%
Secondary
Right Half-Space, Middle third
14%
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 Tyler Adams 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:
217152966346753242312253471
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%4%8%10%2%0%2%10%20%16%7%0%1%5%4%9%2%
own goal left, attacking →
11

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.

2Key pass
1Cross
1Cutback
26Progressive
24Long ball
14Switch
By zone — where the pass started → where it landed
20Outside → Inside
176Inside → Inside
15Outside → Outside
81Inside → Outside
By direction
139Forward
80Backward
112Sideways
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 inside from the left wing toward the left hs, advancing it forward in the middle third — 1 passes worth 0.36 xT.
Where do his chances come from?
Of 2 key passes, his busiest route is a delivery where he plays inside from the left wing toward the left 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 central in the defensive third: 19% of his 21 touches there are lost (4 times).
—4 touches · too few10%2/21 lost19%4/21 lost12%3/24 lost—3 touches · too few16%3/19 lost14%7/50 lost10%9/91 lost0%0/47 lost15%2/13 lost—3 touches · too few—7 touches · too few12%2/17 lost0%0/8 lost—3 touches · too fewRWRHSCLHSLWDEFMIDATT
Out of possession

Out of possession

Where and how he defends and presses.

13

How & where does he defend?

106 defensive actions across the season (16.8/90). 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 · 30% won
12
interceptions · 1.9/90
38
recoveries · 6.0/90
10
clearances · 1.6/90
9
blocks
40
avg action height
8
won high (att 3rd)
57
middle third
41
own third
Vision AI A mid-block defender. He wins the ball mainly by stepping in — tackles, interceptions & recoveries outweigh clearances. 60 proactive ball-wins (9.5/90), tackle success 30%. 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 Tyler Adams 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 ~2-4 matches — directional evidence, not proof.

press tier
completion
prog /90
line-breaks /90
xT /90
High press (PPDA 3.2, 2m)
80%
2.8
0.9
0.77
Mid press (PPDA 4.1, 2m)
91%
3.1
3.1
0.77
Low press (PPDA 4.8, 4m)
89%
5.2
5.2
1.25
Team

Team context

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

15

Impact on the Team

Insufficient sample: Tyler Adams played nearly every Bournemouth 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.

16

His Share of the Team

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

category
share
him / team
interceptions
12%
45 / 376
tackles
9%
63 / 707
final-third entries
8%
131 / 1688
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.

Ball-winning 662%Tempo controller62%Deep-lying playmaker58%
Why Ball-winning 6 62%: a weighted blend of ball-winning 69 (weight 40%) + defensive aggression 51 (weight 30%) + retention 65 (weight 15%) + progression 42 (weight 15%). The score reflects how distinctively his profile SHAPE matches this archetype vs his peers.
Elite
—
Strong
build-up
Average
ball-winning, passing directness, retention, transition, carrying, defensive aggression, receiving zones, progression
Weak
line-breaking, press resistance, final-third threat, territory (wide vs central), crossing, creativity, dribbling, box threat, through-balls
Unknown
aerial ability, marking, off-ball running — not in event data
Build-up
77
Ball-winning
69
Passing directness
67
Retention
65
Transition ~proxy
64
Carrying
55
Defensive aggression
51
Receiving zones
46
Progression
42
Line-breaking
39
Press resistance ~proxy
38
Final-third threat
38
Territory (wide vs central)
35
Crossing
32
Creativity
32
Dribbling
19
Box threat
16
Through-balls ~proxy
9
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: 175 cm / 72 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.

Jon Gorrotxategi Real Sociedad · La Liga · 177 cm / 74 kg
76%
Driven by: through-balls (24%), box threat (23%), build-up (10%). Different mechanism — Adams more via passing directness; Gorrotxategi more via dribbling.
Óscar Valentín Rayo Vallecano · La Liga · 177 cm / 72 kg
69%
Driven by: through-balls (21%), dribbling (14%), crossing (11%). Different mechanism — Adams more via build-up, line-breaking; Valentín more via box threat, territory (wide vs central).
Lorenzo Amatucci Deportivo · La Liga · 173 cm / 73 kg
67%
Driven by: dribbling (20%), build-up (18%), creativity (9%). Different mechanism — Adams more via passing directness; Amatucci more via through-balls, carrying.
Harry Winks Cagliari · Serie A · 178 cm / 65 kg
65%
Driven by: build-up (19%), through-balls (18%), box threat (13%). Different mechanism — Adams more via line-breaking, territory (wide vs central); Winks more via press resistance, dribbling.
Senne Lynen Werder Bremen · Bundesliga · 185 cm / 80 kg
62%
Driven by: build-up (25%), dribbling (20%), box threat (10%). Different mechanism — Adams more via territory (wide vs central); Lynen more via through-balls, progression.
Charles Vanhoutte Nice · Ligue 1 25/26 · 182 cm / 76 kg
58%
Driven by: box threat (37%), through-balls (22%), crossing (16%). Different mechanism — Adams more via ball-winning, build-up; Vanhoutte more via dribbling, creativity.
20

Summary

Tyler Adams is a ball-winning 6 / tempo controller: 88% completion, 24 line-breaks and 4.1 progressive passes /90, resisting pressure with 0% dribble success. A central controller. [Off-ball screening position and scanning need tracking data.]

Based on 8 matches (567 minutes) — an early read, treat with caution until more minutes are logged. He profiles as a ball-winning 6 / 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 ball-winning 6 profile.
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