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Reinildo Mandava

Sunderland
Defensive full-back FB
18.7 defensive actions/90 · low final-third share 16%
Capability Analysis
Ball-Winning72%vs 21 full-backs
"How actively does he win the ball back?"
Interceptions /901.3790%
Ball recoveries /903.6967%
Tackles /901.5952%
Duels won /901.5381%
Breaking Pressure
only 92 pressured-passing actions across 3 high-press matches -- not enough sample (needs 5+ matches and 12+ actions)
Wide Delivery5%vs 21 full-backs
"Does he create danger from wide areas -- crosses and cutbacks?"
Crosses /900.00%
Cross accuracy: 0.0%
Cutbacks /900.7610%
Ball-Carrying19%vs 21 full-backs
"Does he advance the ball himself when the pass isn't on?"
Progressive carries /902.4814%
Carry distance /9060.97m24%
full-backinverted full-backprogressioncrossing
646
minutes
7 apps
79%
pass completion
337 passes
36
progressive passes
5.0/90
24
final-3rd entries
3.3/90
4
box entries
0.56/90
134
defensive actions
18.7/90
23
tackles + interceptions
55% tackle win
5
dribbles
60% won
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
Left Wing, Middle third — wide or inverted — mostly in the middle third (52% of his 337 passes)
79% completion · 337× in 7/7 matches
↓
PROGRESS
carry or combine up the flank
5.0 prog/90 · 36× in 7/7 matches
↓
DRIBBLE
beat his man up the line
60% won · 5× in 4/7 matches
↓
DELIVER
cross or cut-back into the box
4 key passes · 4× in 4/7 matches
↓
DEFEND
1v1 and cover on his side
134 def actions · lost 38% deep · 134× in 7/7 matches
Signature: receive wide/inverted → progress the flank → deliver into the box → recover to defend 1v1. Attack the space behind him in transition.
18

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 →
48
passes / match
18.7
def actions / 90
31–66
pass range (matches)
30
clearances
Pass range = his fewest and most passes in any single match this season (31 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.

09

How dangerous are his carries?

Real ball-carries

34 tracked carries (4.7/90, 6 progressive, 260m 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.

3%38%24%18%15%3%
progressivelateral/short% of his 34 carries originating in each zone · own goal left, attacking →
Every carry, exact path — median 5m, longest 28m
By zone — where the carry started → where it ended
2Outside → Inside
5Inside → Inside
24Outside → Outside
3Inside → Outside
First (18)Second (16)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).

11
tackle duels
6
won
5
beaten · 45%
brighter band = more tackle duels · own goal left, attacking →
INSIDE 27%
OUTSIDE 73%
Tackle-duel location — 3 inside · 8 outside
Right Wing
0 · 0%
Right Half-Space
0 · 0%
Central
1 · 9%
Left Half-Space
2 · 18%
Left Wing
8 · 73%
Vision AI beaten in 5 of 11 tackle duels (45% loss rate) — a real defensive leak worth flagging.
Every tackle duel, exact location
wonlost — dribbled pastown goal left, attacking →

He attempted only 5 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.

04

How does he build & move the ball?

How does he escape the first line?

19%
vertical passes
29×
1%
switches
2×
14%
carries
22×
66%
short circulation
101×
Answer: he escapes the press primarily through vertical passing — early balls past the first line.

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 →RWRHSCLHSLWRW250%150%1RHS367%233%1C911%122%267%6LHS425%22%136%1529%1229%12LW2100%12%537%7860%126FROM
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 defensive third → the left wing in the middle third — 5 progressive passes (19% of his progression) at 0.041 xT each. He keeps it in the same lane.

His progression is inward: 44% of progressive passes move the ball toward the middle versus 0% going wider — he cuts in rather than holding width.

Only 2% of his passes switch play, so his threat is same-side — contain the flank he occupies and the route closes.

Quality behind the volume: 4 line-breaking passes and 24 final-third entries, 3.6 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%0%0%0%0%1%2%1%1%6%25%25%24%12%2%
completedincomplete337 passes · any zone → any zone · own goal left, attacking →
337
passes
79%
completed
71
lost
Vision AIIn line with his 79% season completion rate.
05

How does he progress play?

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

36
progressive · 5.0/90
24
final-third entries · 3.3/90
4
box entries · 0.56/90
13
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.
06

How does he create chances?

4 key passes (0.56/90), 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:
50%50%
chance creation (4)assist (0)% of the selected group's key passes originating in each zone
10

Where does he become vulnerable?

73 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.

11
attacking third (cheap)
34
middle third
28
own third (dangerous)
Vision AI 15% of losses are in the attacking third — a notable share happen deeper, which invites transitions.
Mistake danger (proxy): 4.70 danger-index/90 · 0.462 avg/turnover. Weights each loss by threat conceded at that location. True xT-conceded needs the opponent possession model; positional proxy.
12

What is his passing profile?

337
passes attempted
45%
mostly forward
55%
mostly short
Direction
Forward
152 · 45%
Sideways
83 · 25%
Backward
102 · 30%
Length (completed)
Short (<15m)
145 · 55%
Medium
108 · 41%
Long (>30m)
13 · 5%
11

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.

0.610.550.520.400.240.14
own goal left, attacking →
Highest-value routes (xT)
0.61
Left Wing Mid third → Left Wing Att third
6 passes
0.55
Left Wing Mid third → Left Wing Mid third
8 passes
0.52
Left Wing Def third → Left Wing Mid third
9 passes
0.40
Left Wing Att third → Left Half-Space Att third
1 passes
0.24
Left Wing Def third → Left Half-Space Att third
1 passes
0.14
Left Wing Mid third → Left Half-Space Att third
1 passes
07

Where Does He Receive?

The zones where Reinildo Mandava 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
44%
Primary
Left Wing, Middle third
26%
Secondary
Left Wing, Defensive third
11%
Third
Left Wing, Attacking third
These are the zones where he collected the ball most.
08

Where Does He Operate? — Every Zone

Every on-ball touch (pass, dribble, shot) binned into a 6×3 grid — raw counts of where Reinildo Mandava 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:
20868480419137332111
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%0%0%0%0%1%2%1%1%6%25%25%24%12%2%
own goal left, attacking →
13

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.

4Key pass
4Cross
2Cutback
36Progressive
49Long ball
4Switch
By zone — where the pass started → where it landed
85Outside → Inside
37Inside → Inside
127Outside → Outside
17Inside → Outside
By direction
152Forward
102Backward
83Sideways
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 plays straight through the left wing, advancing it forward in the middle third — 6 passes worth 0.61 xT.
Where do his chances come from?
Of 4 key passes, his busiest route is a delivery where he plays inside from the left hs toward the central in the final third — 2 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 wing in the defensive third: 28% of his 87 touches there are lost (24 times).
—0 touches · too few—3 touches · too few—3 touches · too few12%2/16 lost28%24/87 lost—1 touch · too few—0 touches · too few—6 touches · too few15%3/20 lost20%29/148 lost—1 touch · too few—0 touches · too few—2 touches · too few27%4/15 lost20%7/35 lostRWRHSCLHSLWDEFMIDATT
03

Crosses & Cutbacks

4 crosses (0.56/90, 1 completed) and 2 cutbacks (0.28/90, 0 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.

14

How & where does he defend?

134 defensive actions across the season (18.7/90). 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 →
11
tackles · 55% won
12
interceptions · 1.7/90
26
recoveries · 3.6/90
30
clearances · 4.2/90
7
blocks
33
avg action height
11
won high (att 3rd)
47
middle third
76
own third
Vision AI A mid-block defender. He wins the ball mainly by stepping in — tackles, interceptions & recoveries outweigh clearances. 49 proactive ball-wins (6.8/90), tackle success 55%. He defends mostly around the middle third.
15

Can he play under pressure?

Split by how hard the opponent pressed (opponent PPDA — lower = more intense press). Can Reinildo Mandava 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 3.3, 2m)
78%
5.2
4.7
0.80
Mid press (PPDA 3.9, 2m)
84%
6.1
5.2
0.89
Low press (PPDA 5.3, 3m)
77%
4.1
9.6
0.96
Team

Team context

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

16

Impact on the Team

Sunderland's output per match with Reinildo Mandava (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
1.29
5.00
-3.71
points /match
0.71
0.00
+0.71
goals for /match
0.43
3.00
-2.57
xG for /match
1.17
0.00
+1.17
17

His Share of the Team

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

category
share
him / team
interceptions
11%
43 / 407
clearances
8%
120 / 1552
tackles
7%
50 / 747
Recruitment

Style and verdict

Style profile, closest comparables, and the summary.

19

Playing-Style Profile

Not raw event counts — football style scores: weighted models scored 0–100 against the 232 full-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.

Inverted full-back53%Overlapping full-back22%
Why Inverted full-back 53%: a weighted blend of retention 73 (weight 30%) + build-up 61 (weight 35%) + press resistance 72 (weight 10%) + progression 8 (weight 25%). The score reflects how distinctively his profile SHAPE matches this archetype vs his peers.
Elite
—
Strong
retention, press resistance
Average
dribbling, build-up, ball-winning, defensive aggression, passing directness
Weak
transition, territory (wide vs central), carrying, final-third threat, crossing, box threat, through-balls, creativity, receiving zones, progression, line-breaking
Unknown
aerial ability, marking, off-ball running — not in event data
Retention
73
Press resistance ~proxy
72
Dribbling
67
Build-up
61
Ball-winning
61
Defensive aggression
58
Passing directness
45
Transition ~proxy
34
Territory (wide vs central)
30
Carrying
22
Final-third threat
22
Crossing
12
Box threat
12
Through-balls ~proxy
11
Creativity
11
Receiving zones
9
Progression
8
Line-breaking
8
20

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 / 73 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.

Genesis Antwi Strasbourg · Ligue 1 · 189 cm
92%
Driven by: creativity (13%), progression (12%), box threat (10%). Different mechanism — Mandava more via passing directness, defensive aggression; Antwi more via retention.
Marius Louër Angers · Ligue 1 · 181 cm / 70 kg
90%
Driven by: progression (13%), receiving zones (12%), box threat (11%). Different mechanism — Louër more via crossing, passing directness.
José Salinas Malaga · La Liga · 179 cm / 69 kg
84%
Driven by: crossing (16%), progression (11%), line-breaking (10%). Different mechanism — Mandava more via passing directness, ball-winning; Salinas more via box threat, carrying.
Fodé Ballo-Touré Metz · Ligue 1 25/26 · 182 cm / 70 kg
80%
Driven by: progression (12%), crossing (12%), receiving zones (11%). Different mechanism — Mandava more via passing directness, ball-winning; Ballo-Touré more via carrying, creativity.
Buba Sangaré Elche · La Liga · 183 cm / 75 kg
77%
Driven by: creativity (16%), progression (13%), box threat (13%). Different mechanism — Mandava more via dribbling, passing directness; Sangaré more via crossing, receiving zones.
Jordy Makengo Freiburg · Bundesliga · 191 cm / 81 kg
76%
Driven by: box threat (15%), progression (13%), line-breaking (12%). Different mechanism — Mandava more via defensive aggression, ball-winning; Makengo more via carrying, crossing.
21

Summary

Reinildo Mandava is an inverted full-back: 5.0 progressive passes and 4 box entries, delivering 4 key passes. Overlap-first full-back. [1v1 recovery pace and off-ball overlap timing need tracking.]

Based on 7 matches (646 minutes) — an early read, treat with caution until more minutes are logged. He profiles as an inverted full-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 inverted full-back profile.
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