Thin sample this season. Jon Pacheco has played 1 match (28 min) so far, so sections that need a bigger sample to say anything reliable are not shown here — they are missing on purpose, not broken. See all seasons combined →
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 (67% of his 3 passes)
100% completion · 3× in 1/1 matches
↓
BREAK A LINE
vertical pass past the opponent midfield
3.2 prog/90 · 1× in 1/1 matches
Signature: Receive → Break A Line — the only steps proven repeatable this season (2 of 5 in the full pattern). Not enough evidence yet for the rest of the chain below.
Not a pattern: carry out — 0× (insufficient confidence, hidden — not enough evidence yet); switch play — 0× (insufficient confidence, hidden — not enough evidence yet); progress — 0× (insufficient confidence, hidden — not enough evidence yet) — omitted from the signature rather than presented as one.
Team
Team context
How much of the team runs through him, and what changes without him.
Real Sociedad's output per match with Jon Pacheco (1 matches) versus without him (9 matches). Insufficient evidence — the without-sample is only 9 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 (1)
WITHOUT (9)
Δ
goals against /match
2.00
1.78
+0.22
points /match
3.00
1.78
+1.22
goals for /match
3.00
1.78
+1.22
xG for /match
0.72
1.08
-0.36
03
His Share of the Team
Of everything Real Sociedad produced this season, the categories where the biggest share ran through Jon Pacheco specifically — his share of the team total, not a per-90 rate.
category
share
him / team
clearances
9%
108 / 1194
final-third entries
4%
83 / 1884
tackles
4%
37 / 840
Recruitment
Style and verdict
Style profile, closest comparables, and the summary.
Not raw event counts — football style scores: weighted models scored 0–100 against the 513 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-back42%Stopper centre-back42%
Why Ball-playing centre-back 42%: a weighted blend of progression 56 (weight 25%) + retention 44 (weight 30%) + build-up 39 (weight 30%) + press resistance 44 (weight 15%). The score reflects how distinctively his profile SHAPE matches this archetype vs his peers.
aerial ability, marking, off-ball running — not in event data
Through-balls ~proxy
84
Territory (wide vs central)
62
Crossing
62
Final-third threat
60
Creativity
57
Progression
56
Carrying
55
Line-breaking
55
Receiving zones
54
Transition ~proxy
52
Ball-winning
48
Press resistance ~proxy
44
Retention
44
Dribbling
43
Defensive aggression
41
Passing directness
40
Build-up
39
Box threat
27
05
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: 184 cm / 77 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 La Liga, Bundesliga, Ligue 1, 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.
Tino Livramento Newcastle · Premier League · 183 cm / 71 kg
77%
Driven by: through-balls (21%), box threat (13%), crossing (10%). Different mechanism — Pacheco more via passing directness; Livramento more via line-breaking, receiving zones.
Enzo Ebosse Udinese · Serie A · 185 cm / 74 kg
75%
Driven by: box threat (19%), through-balls (18%), defensive aggression (10%). Different mechanism — Pacheco more via ball-winning, passing directness; Ebosse more via carrying, final-third threat.
César Azpilicueta Sevilla 25/26 · 178 cm / 76 kg
72%
Driven by: through-balls (27%), box threat (18%), crossing (11%). Different mechanism — Azpilicueta more via line-breaking, progression.
Arturo Calabresi Pisa · Serie A 25/26 · 186 cm / 75 kg
71%
Driven by: through-balls (27%), build-up (16%), box threat (12%). Different mechanism — Pacheco more via carrying, retention; Calabresi more via territory (wide vs central), line-breaking.
Roger Hinojo Espanyol · 180 cm / 70 kg
70%
Driven by: through-balls (16%), box threat (14%), build-up (12%). Different mechanism — Pacheco more via retention, passing directness; Hinojo more via line-breaking, receiving zones.
Ricardo Rodríguez Torino · Serie A · 182 cm / 83 kg
70%
Driven by: box threat (16%), through-balls (13%), defensive aggression (13%). Different mechanism — Pacheco more via transition, carrying; Rodríguez more via territory (wide vs central), crossing.
06
Summary
Jon Pacheco is a ball-playing centre-back: 100% pass completion, 1 line-breaking passes and 3.2 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 1 matches (28 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 build-up — even a modest improvement there would meaningfully lift his overall ball-playing centre-back profile.
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