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Player reportPremier League 2026

Enzo Fernández

Man City
Box-to-box midfielder CM
1.6 box entries/90 with 13.8 defensive actions/90
Capability Analysis
Successful Dribble10%vs 25 central mids
"Can he beat a man in a straight 1v1?"
Successful take-ons /900.3516%
Take-on success24.19%4%
Progression76%vs 25 central mids
"Can he move the team forward with a pass, not just recycle it sideways?"
Progressive passes /904.8172%
Line-breaking passes /902.1976%
Threat added by passing /901.46xT80%
Pass accuracy83.66%76%
Ball-Carrying46%vs 25 central mids
"Does he advance the ball himself when the pass isn't on?"
Progressive carries /905.5180%
Carry distance /90149.76m84%
Successful take-ons /900.3516%
Take-on success24.19%4%
Chance Creation57%vs 25 central mids
"Does he create real chances for others?"
Expected assists /900.12xA76%
Through balls /900.00%
Threat added by passing /901.46xT80%
Box entries (pass) /902.5772%
central midadvanced playmaker (8)progressionbox-to-box
507
minutes
7 apps
34
progressive passes
6.0/90
86%
pass completion
389 passes
9
key passes
1.60/90
9
box entries
1.60/90
40
final-3rd entries
7.1/90
6
dribbles
33% won
59
possessions lost
2.86 danger/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
Central, Middle third — mostly in the middle third (62% of his 389 passes)
86% completion · 389× in 7/7 matches
↓
PROGRESS
drive or pass into the final third
6.0 prog/90 · 34× in 7/7 matches
↓
ARRIVE
get into the box late
9 key passes · 9× in 6/7 matches
↓
CREATE / FINISH
cut-back or shot from inside
1.60 key passes /90 · 1 goals · 18× in 7/7 matches
Signature: receive → progress → arrive in the box → create or finish. A box-to-box midfielder judged across every phase.
20

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 →
56
passes / match
1.2
dribbles / match
21–84
pass range (matches)
1–2
dribble range (matches)
Pass range = his fewest and most passes in any single match this season (21 at the low end, 84 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.

09

How dangerous are his carries?

Real ball-carries

85 tracked carries (15.1/90, 16 progressive, 740m 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.

1%5%16%4%1%4%15%8%5%9%11%12%9%
progressivelateral/short% of his 85 carries originating in each zone · own goal left, attacking →
Every carry, exact path — median 7m, longest 36m
By zone — where the carry started → where it ended
9Outside → Inside
53Inside → Inside
18Outside → Outside
5Inside → Outside
First (26)Second (22)Third (22)Fourth (15)grouped by carry pattern (start + end position), largest group first
startendown goal left, attacking →

Dribbles (1v1s)

Only 6 dribbles attempted this season — too little volume to map a location pattern.

11

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 →RWRHSCLHSLWRW5753%3035%2011%62%1RHS6841%2831%2121%143%24%3C9712%1218%1747%4613%139%9LHS676%47%525%1728%1933%22LW452%17%39%436%1647%21FROM
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 — 4 progressive passes (12% of his progression) at 0.128 xT each. He moves it inside.

His progression is inward: 58% of progressive passes move the ball toward the middle versus 0% going wider — he cuts in rather than holding width.

9% of his passes are cross-field switches — he changes the point of attack often.

Quality behind the volume: 17 line-breaking passes and 40 final-third entries, 4.8 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
0%3%6%14%6%3%1%3%10%14%8%0%0%3%7%10%6%4%
completedincomplete389 passes · any zone → any zone · own goal left, attacking →
389
passes
86%
completed
55
lost
Vision AIIn line with his 86% season completion rate.
05

How does he progress play?

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

34
progressive · 6.0/90
40
final-third entries · 7.1/90
9
box entries · 1.60/90
25
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.
03

How does he create chances?

9 key passes (1.60/90), 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:
29%14%14%29%14%
chance creation (7)assist (0)% of the selected group's key passes originating in each zone
12

Where does he become vulnerable?

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

25
attacking third (cheap)
26
middle third
8
own third (dangerous)
Vision AI 42% of losses are in the attacking third — a notable share happen deeper, which invites transitions.
Mistake danger (proxy): 2.86 danger-index/90 · 0.273 avg/turnover. Weights each loss by threat conceded at that location. True xT-conceded needs the opponent possession model; positional proxy.
13

What is his passing profile?

389
passes attempted
40%
mostly forward
57%
mostly short
Direction
Forward
155 · 40%
Sideways
138 · 35%
Backward
96 · 25%
Length (completed)
Short (<15m)
192 · 57%
Medium
111 · 33%
Long (>30m)
31 · 9%
10

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.

0.590.380.360.350.350.28
own goal left, attacking →
Highest-value routes (xT)
0.59
Left Wing Att third → Right Half-Space Att third
2 passes · 1 to a shot
0.38
Right Wing Att third → Right Wing Att third
2 passes
0.36
Right Half-Space Mid third → Right Half-Space Att third
1 passes
0.35
Right Wing Mid third → Left Half-Space Att third
1 passes
0.35
Left Wing Att third → Left Half-Space Att third
1 passes
0.28
Right Half-Space Att third → Left Half-Space Att third
1 passes
07

Where Does He Receive?

The zones where Enzo Fernández 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
13%
Secondary
Left Half-Space, Middle third
12%
Third
Right Half-Space, Middle 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 Enzo Fernández 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:
11229412415214395637511023562613
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.

0%3%6%14%6%3%1%3%10%14%8%0%0%3%7%10%6%4%
own goal left, attacking →
14

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.

9Key pass
8Cross
1Cutback
34Progressive
39Long ball
26Switch
By zone — where the pass started → where it landed
50Outside → Inside
154Inside → Inside
52Outside → Outside
78Inside → Outside
By direction
155Forward
96Backward
138Sideways
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 inside from the left wing toward the right hs in the final third — 2 passes worth 0.59 xT.
Where do his chances come from?
Of 9 key passes, his busiest route is a delivery where he plays inside from the left wing 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 final third: 36% of his 22 touches there are lost (8 times).
—5 touches · too few25%2/8 lost18%2/11 lost17%2/12 lost—3 touches · too few10%4/42 lost15%7/47 lost4%3/74 lost13%6/46 lost6%2/31 lost25%5/20 lost19%5/27 lost11%2/19 lost23%5/22 lost36%8/22 lostRWRHSCLHSLWDEFMIDATT
04

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 85 ball-carries, his dominant tendency is that he carries through central areas (62%). He carries from outside into the middle 9 times and out toward the touchline 5 — a genuine inside forward who cuts in with the ball.
06

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
0 · 0%
Progressive / key pass
6 · 7%
Simple pass
71 · 84%
No clean link
8 · 9%
Of 85 carries, 0% flow straight into a shot of his own, 7% into a key or progressive pass — a genuine end product to the carry, not just ball retention. 9% have no clean link to a next touch of his own close to where the carry ended.
15

Crosses & Cutbacks

8 crosses (1.42/90, 5 completed) and 1 cutbacks (0.18/90, 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.

17

How & where does he defend?

78 defensive actions across the season (13.8/90). 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 →
4
tackles · 75% won
6
interceptions · 1.1/90
19
recoveries · 3.4/90
4
clearances · 0.7/90
6
blocks
46
avg action height
15
won high (att 3rd)
38
middle third
25
own third
Vision AI A front-foot / high defender. He wins the ball mainly by stepping in — tackles, interceptions & recoveries outweigh clearances. 29 proactive ball-wins (5.1/90), tackle success 75%. He defends high, stepping out to intercept — suits a high line.
16

Against Different Pressing Intensities

Split by how hard the opponent pressed (opponent PPDA — lower = more intense press). Does Enzo Fernández keep producing when the game is tight and the press is high? Tiers of ~2-3 matches — directional evidence, not proof.

press tier
xT /90
prog /90
key P /90
dribble%
High press (PPDA 4.5, 2m)
1.47
4.1
1.02
33%
Mid press (PPDA 5.5, 2m)
1.99
7.3
1.56
0%
Low press (PPDA 6.9, 3m)
1.64
6.8
2.28
100%
Team

Team context

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

18

Impact on the Team

Man City's output per match with Enzo Fernández (6 matches) versus without him (2 matches). Insufficient evidence — the without-sample is only 2 matches; treat every Δ below as noise until more games exist. A proper on-off model needs many more minutes.

WITH (6)
WITHOUT (2)
Δ
goals for /match
2.33
3.00
-0.67
xG for /match
1.65
0.00
+1.65
goals against /match
1.17
1.00
+0.17
points /match
2.50
3.00
-0.50
19

His Share of the Team

Of everything Man City produced this season, the categories where the biggest share ran through Enzo Fernández specifically — his share of the team total, not a per-90 rate.

category
share
him / team
expected assists (xA)
13%
5.0 / 39.2
box entries
12%
109 / 884
zone-14 entries
12%
62 / 516
Recruitment

Style and verdict

Style profile, closest comparables, and the summary.

21

Playing-Style Profile

Not raw event counts — football style scores: weighted models scored 0–100 against the 383 central 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.

Advanced playmaker (8)89%Transition runner73%Box-to-box runner69%Deep-lying playmaker65%
Why Advanced playmaker (8) 89%: a weighted blend of creativity 92 (weight 35%) + final-third threat 90 (weight 25%) + progression 86 (weight 25%) + box threat 92 (weight 15%). The score reflects how distinctively his profile SHAPE matches this archetype vs his peers.
Elite
receiving zones, box threat, creativity, final-third threat, through-balls, line-breaking, progression
Strong
carrying, crossing
Average
transition, build-up, retention, passing directness, defensive aggression
Weak
territory (wide vs central), press resistance, ball-winning, dribbling
Unknown
aerial ability, marking, off-ball running — not in event data
Receiving zones
96
Box threat
92
Creativity
92
Final-third threat
90
Through-balls ~proxy
89
Line-breaking
86
Progression
86
Carrying
76
Crossing
72
Transition ~proxy
64
Build-up
62
Retention
58
Passing directness
56
Defensive aggression
55
Territory (wide vs central)
39
Press resistance ~proxy
38
Ball-winning
31
Dribbling
20
22

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: 178 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.

Fabián Ruiz PSG · Ligue 1 · 189 cm / 70 kg
88%
Driven by: creativity (13%), receiving zones (13%), final-third threat (11%). Different mechanism — Fernández more via box threat; Ruiz more via passing directness, retention.
Pascal Groß Brighton · 181 cm / 78 kg
88%
Driven by: final-third threat (14%), progression (12%), crossing (11%). Different mechanism — Fernández more via box threat, creativity; Groß more via dribbling.
Adrián Bernabé Parma Calcio 1913 · Serie A · 170 cm / 66 kg
85%
Driven by: creativity (21%), final-third threat (13%), receiving zones (11%). Different mechanism — Fernández more via box threat, receiving zones.
Corentin Tolisso Lyon · Ligue 1 · 181 cm / 81 kg
81%
Driven by: box threat (19%), receiving zones (13%), final-third threat (11%). Different mechanism — Fernández more via carrying, creativity; Tolisso more via defensive aggression.
Ruslan Malinovskyi Genoa · Serie A 25/26 · 181 cm / 79 kg
81%
Driven by: box threat (20%), creativity (15%), through-balls (14%). Different mechanism — Fernández more via receiving zones, progression; Malinovskyi more via dribbling, press resistance.
Christian Eriksen Wolfsburg · Bundesliga 25/26 · 182 cm / 76 kg
81%
Driven by: creativity (22%), box threat (16%), final-third threat (16%). Different mechanism — Fernández more via carrying, progression; Eriksen more via dribbling.
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Summary

Enzo Fernández is an advanced playmaker (8) / transition runner: 6.0 progressive passes, 1.60 key passes /90, 9 box entries, 1 goals from 0.62 xG. A box-to-box contributor across every phase.

Based on 7 matches (507 minutes) — an early read, treat with caution until more minutes are logged. He profiles as an advanced playmaker (8) / transition runner — 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 advanced playmaker (8) profile.
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