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Player reportLa Liga 2025/26

Ferran Torres

PSG
Penalty-box poacher ST
3.0 shots/90 · 0.15 xG per shot — shoots from high-value spots · 0.46 xG/90
strikerfalse 9box threatfinishing
2040
minutes
33 apps
16
goals
10.32 xG
10.3
xG
69 shots
69
shots
0.15 xG/shot
11
box entries
0.49/90
22
key passes
0.97/90
30
dribbles
30% won
76%
pass completion
478 passes
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 / MOVE
occupy the box, drop or run channel — mostly in the middle third (51% of his 478 passes)
0.49 box entries/90 · 11× in 8/33 matches
↓
LINK
lay-off and combine
22 key passes · 76% completion · 478× in 33/33 matches
↓
FINISH
shoot from central zones
10.32 xG · 69× in 26/33 matches
↓
CONVERT
goals vs expected
16 goals (+5.7 vs xG) · 16× in 26/33 matches
Signature: occupy / move → link → shoot → convert.
21

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 →
14
passes / match
1.4
dribbles / match
2–46
pass range (matches)
1–3
dribble range (matches)
Pass range = his fewest and most passes in any single match this season (2 at the low end, 46 at the high) — a measure of match-to-match involvement, not pass distance. Dribble range works the same way, for dribbles/carries per match.
In possession

In possession

What he does with the ball: build-up, progression, creation, carrying and finishing.

11

How dangerous are his carries?

Real ball-carries

82 tracked carries (3.6/90, 13 progressive, 768m 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.

2%4%7%10%1%1%7%11%15%1%10%11%17%2%
progressivelateral/short% of his 82 carries originating in each zone · own goal left, attacking →
Every carry, exact path — median 7m, longest 50m
By zone — where the carry started → where it ended
6Outside → Inside
43Inside → Inside
25Outside → Outside
8Inside → Outside
First (24)Second (23)Third (18)Fourth (17)grouped by carry pattern (start + end position), largest group first
startendown goal left, attacking →

Dribbles (1v1s)

Does he drop to link or stay central? Touches by channel. Season rate: 1.19 dribbles attempted /90.

brighter band = more dribbles · own goal left, attacking →
INSIDE 97%
OUTSIDE 3%
Dribble location — 29 inside · 1 outside
Right Wing
1 · 3%
Right Half-Space
3 · 10%
Central
18 · 60%
Left Half-Space
8 · 27%
Left Wing
0 · 0%
Vision AI His touches are central and high — a penalty-box striker.
16

How does he build & move 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 →RWRHSCLHSLWRW4461%2730%139%4RHS4840%1948%2312%6C1455%717%2462%9012%175%7LHS668%527%1838%2527%18LW593%234%2063%37FROM
Rows normalised: each row sums to 100% of that lane's completed passes. Grey number = passes from that lane.

Primary route: the left wing in the final third → the left half-space in the final third — 5 progressive passes (20% of his progression) at 0.061 xT each. He moves it inside.

His progression is inward: 48% of progressive passes move the ball toward the middle versus 4% going wider — he cuts in rather than holding width.

Only 4% of his passes switch play, so his threat is same-side — contain the flank he occupies and the route closes.

Quality behind the volume: 12 line-breaking passes and 23 final-third entries, -2.2 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%7%7%2%0%12%13%20%4%3%8%7%9%3%
completedincomplete478 passes · any zone → any zone · own goal left, attacking →
478
passes
76%
completed
116
lost
Vision AIIn line with his 76% season completion rate.
14

How does he progress play?

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

19
progressive · 0.8/90
23
final-third entries · 1.0/90
11
box entries · 0.49/90
5
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.
07

How does he create chances?

22 key passes (0.97/90), 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:
5%9%5%9%41%23%5%5%
chance creation (22)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 (15)from the right (7)of 22 key passes landing in the final thirdattacking ↑ toward goal
02

Can he finish?

69 shots · 10.32 xG · 16 goals (+5.68 vs xG). Mostly right-footed. Circle size = xG.

shots  69
on target  48
goals  16
xG  10.32
xG on target  8.08
xG / shot  0.150
Where he shoots from — click an area of the box
06

Where does he become vulnerable?

137 possessions lost. Directness has a cost — the question is where. Attacking-third losses are cheap; deep ones are dangerous.

79
attacking third (cheap)
49
middle third
9
own third (dangerous)
Vision AI 58% of losses are in the attacking third — he gambles where a turnover costs little.
Mistake danger (proxy): 1.37 danger-index/90 · 0.226 avg/turnover. Weights each loss by threat conceded at that location. True xT-conceded needs the opponent possession model; positional proxy.
08

What is his passing profile?

478
passes attempted
42%
mostly sideways
73%
mostly short
Direction
Forward
129 · 27%
Sideways
201 · 42%
Backward
148 · 31%
Length (completed)
Short (<15m)
266 · 73%
Medium
84 · 23%
Long (>30m)
12 · 3%
15

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.

0.530.290.240.230.220.14
own goal left, attacking →
Highest-value routes (xT)
0.53
Central Mid third → Left Half-Space Att third
2 passes · 1 to a shot
0.29
Left Wing Att third → Central Att third
1 passes
0.24
Central Att third → Right Half-Space Att third
1 passes
0.23
Right Half-Space Att third → Right Half-Space Att third
1 passes
0.22
Right Wing Mid third → Right Half-Space Att third
1 passes · 1 to a shot
0.14
Left Half-Space Mid third → Left Half-Space Att third
1 passes · 1 to a shot
09

Where Does He Receive?

The zones where Ferran Torres 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
20%
Primary
Central, Middle third
19%
Secondary
Central, Attacking third
9%
Third
Right Half-Space, Attacking third
These are the zones where he collected the ball most.
10

Where Does He Operate? — Every Zone

Every on-ball touch (pass, dribble, shot) binned into a 6×3 grid — raw counts of where Ferran Torres 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:
13383343162566411678626333914
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%7%7%2%0%12%13%20%4%3%8%7%9%3%
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.

22Key pass
3Cross
13Cutback
19Progressive
16Long ball
8Switch
By zone — where the pass started → where it landed
39Outside → Inside
208Inside → Inside
64Outside → Outside
51Inside → Outside
By direction
129Forward
148Backward
201Sideways
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 switches it out from the central to the left hs, advancing it forward in the middle third — 2 passes worth 0.53 xT.
Where do his chances come from?
Of 22 key passes, his busiest route is a delivery where he plays inside from the left hs toward the central in the final third — 5 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: 38% of his 16 touches there are lost (6 times).
—5 touches · too few—1 touch · too few—0 touches · too few—4 touches · too few30%3/10 lost21%9/42 lost27%6/22 lost14%14/101 lost14%6/44 lost33%12/36 lost38%6/16 lost30%13/44 lost28%23/81 lost36%14/39 lost15%5/33 lostRWRHSCLHSLWDEFMIDATT
05

Does he carry inside or outside — his ball-carries across the pitch

Four arrows, one per movement class of his ball-carries: outside→inside (cutting in with the ball), inside→outside (carrying wide), outside→outside (down the touchline) and inside→inside (through the middle). Each count is measured from the carry's real start and end coordinates.

own goal left, attacking →
Across 82 ball-carries, his dominant tendency is that he carries through central areas (52%). He carries from outside into the middle 6 times and out toward the touchline 8 — a width-holder who drives down the line.
04

What happens right after he carries the ball

Every carry's end point matched against his own very next pass or shot in the same match, when one starts almost exactly there — the direct continuation of that touch, not a separate stat. “No clean link” means no pass or shot of his own started close enough to count (often the carry ended in a tackle or a loss); it isn't a claim about exactly what happened, only that nothing traceable followed.

Shot
5 · 6%
Progressive / key pass
8 · 10%
Simple pass
51 · 62%
No clean link
18 · 22%
Of 82 carries, 6% flow straight into a shot of his own, 10% into a key or progressive pass — a genuine end product to the carry, not just ball retention. 22% have no clean link to a next touch of his own close to where the carry ended.
13

Crosses & Cutbacks

3 crosses (0.13/90, 1 completed) and 13 cutbacks (0.57/90, 3 completed) — two separate wide-delivery patterns into the box, each its own map with a completed/failed filter. Neither is a tagged event, so both are inferred from pass geometry — the intended end point of a failed attempt is still real data (an interception doesn’t erase where the ball was aimed): a cross is a pass aimed into the box starting from a wide channel; a cutback starts almost on the byline but is squared back rather than driven forward, aimed centrally around the box. The completed-cross count was checked against this platform’s own real match-level cross totals and lands within about 1 cross of the true count.

Crosses — close-up on the final third
Cutbacks — close-up on the final third
completedfailed (dashed)close-up on the box — attacking ↑ toward goal
Out of possession

Out of possession

Where and how he defends and presses.

18

How & where does he defend?

117 defensive actions across the season (5.2/90). 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 →
7
tackles · 71% won
3
interceptions · 0.1/90
36
recoveries · 1.6/90
10
clearances · 0.4/90
11
blocks
52
avg action height
36
won high (att 3rd)
54
middle third
27
own third
Vision AI A front-foot / high defender. He wins the ball mainly by stepping in — tackles, interceptions & recoveries outweigh clearances. 46 proactive ball-wins (2.0/90), tackle success 71%. 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.

61
attacking-half actions · 2.69/90
17

Against Different Pressing Intensities

Split by how hard the opponent pressed (opponent PPDA — lower = more intense press). Does Ferran Torres keep producing when the game is tight and the press is high? Tiers of ~11-11 matches — directional evidence, not proof.

press tier
xT /90
prog /90
key P /90
dribble%
High press (PPDA 7.3, 11m)
0.33
0.9
0.64
33%
Mid press (PPDA 9.9, 11m)
0.32
1.0
1.28
36%
Low press (PPDA 14.1, 11m)
0.28
0.6
1.02
14%
Team

Team context

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

19

Impact on the Team

PSG's output per match with Ferran Torres (33 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. A proper on-off model needs many more minutes.

WITH (33)
WITHOUT (5)
Δ
goals for /match
2.42
3.00
-0.58
xG for /match
2.06
0.81
+1.25
goals against /match
0.97
0.80
+0.17
points /match
2.39
3.00
-0.61
20

His Share of the Team

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

category
share
him / team
goals
19%
16 / 86
expected goals (xG)
12%
12.1 / 101.4
shots
10%
85 / 890
Recruitment

Style and verdict

Style profile, closest comparables, and the summary.

22

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.

False 971%Target man67%Poacher63%Transition runner34%
Why False 9 71%: a weighted blend of creativity 69 (weight 30%) + box threat 72 (weight 25%) + build-up 64 (weight 25%) + progression 56 (weight 20%). The score reflects how distinctively his profile SHAPE matches this archetype vs his peers.
Elite
receiving zones
Strong
line-breaking, box threat
Average
creativity, passing directness, retention, build-up, progression, final-third threat, press resistance
Weak
defensive aggression, through-balls, territory (wide vs central), transition, dribbling, crossing, ball-winning, carrying
Unknown
aerial ability, marking, off-ball running — not in event data
Receiving zones
91
Line-breaking
74
Box threat
72
Creativity
69
Passing directness
66
Retention
65
Build-up
64
Progression
56
Final-third threat
50
Press resistance ~proxy
42
Defensive aggression
34
Through-balls ~proxy
33
Territory (wide vs central)
33
Transition ~proxy
29
Dribbling
25
Crossing
22
Ball-winning
22
Carrying
18
23

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: 182 cm / 80 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.

Serhou Guirassy Borussia Dortmund · Bundesliga · 187 cm / 82 kg
66%
Driven by: receiving zones (19%), ball-winning (17%), box threat (12%). Different mechanism — Torres more via passing directness, line-breaking; Guirassy more via press resistance, carrying.
Artem Dovbyk Bologna · Serie A · 189 cm / 92 kg
66%
Driven by: crossing (18%), receiving zones (16%), transition (15%). Different mechanism — Torres more via passing directness, line-breaking; Dovbyk more via defensive aggression, creativity.
Jørgen Strand Larsen Crystal Palace · Premier League · 193 cm / 79 kg
65%
Driven by: crossing (21%), ball-winning (15%), receiving zones (12%). Different mechanism — Torres more via box threat, retention.
Patrik Schick Leverkusen · Bundesliga · 191 cm / 86 kg
62%
Driven by: ball-winning (14%), transition (13%), defensive aggression (12%). Different mechanism — Torres more via line-breaking, passing directness.
Gonzalo García Fulham · Premier League · 182 cm / 74 kg
62%
Driven by: receiving zones (15%), build-up (14%), dribbling (12%). Different mechanism — Torres more via passing directness, box threat; García more via territory (wide vs central), crossing.
Dzenan Pejcinovic Stuttgart · Bundesliga · 188 cm / 78 kg
58%
Driven by: crossing (15%), ball-winning (14%), dribbling (14%). Different mechanism — Torres more via receiving zones, retention; Pejcinovic more via territory (wide vs central), defensive aggression.
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Summary

Ferran Torres is a false 9 / target man: 16 goals from 10.32 xG (+5.68 vs expected), 69 shots, 11 box entries. A clinical finisher. [Off-ball runs, aerials and hold-up under contact need tracking/aerial data.]

Based on 33 matches (2040 minutes) this season — a reliable read. He profiles as a false 9 / target man — 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 false 9 profile.
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