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Tommaso Pobega

Bologna
Ball-winning 6 (destroyer) DM
14.9 defensive actions/90
Capability Analysis
Breaking Pressure
only 74 pressured-passing actions across 3 high-press matches -- not enough sample (needs 5+ matches and 12+ actions)
Progression11%vs 16 defensive mids
"Can he move the team forward with a pass, not just recycle it sideways?"
Progressive passes /901.826%
Line-breaking passes /900.6519%
Threat added by passing /900.53xT6%
Pass accuracy79.08%12%
Ball-Winning47%vs 16 defensive mids
"How actively does he win the ball back?"
Interceptions /901.0450%
Ball recoveries /903.120%
Tackles /902.1275%
Duels won /901.0862%
defensive midball-winning 6press resistancescreening
478
minutes
7 apps
203
passes
84% completed
84%
pass completion
203 passes
15
progressive passes
2.8/90
79
defensive actions
14.9/90
17
tackles + interceptions
67% tackle win
27
recoveries
5.1/90
21
line-breaking passes
4.0/90
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 (67% of his 203 passes)
84% completion · 203× in 7/7 matches
↓
ESCAPE PRESSURE
turn out of a tight central area
33% won · 3× in 3/7 matches
↓
PROGRESS CENTRAL
break a line through the middle
2.8 prog/90 · 21× in 6/7 matches
↓
SCREEN / WIN BALL
protect the back four
8.3 ball-wins/90 · 44× in 7/7 matches
↓
RECYCLE / PROGRESS
keep it ticking, feed the final third
3.0 f3-entries/90 · 16× in 6/7 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 →
29
passes / match
14.9
def actions / 90
18–49
pass range (matches)
8
clearances
Pass range = his fewest and most passes in any single match this season (18 at the low end, 49 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

37 tracked carries (7.0/90, 5 progressive, 270m 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%3%8%14%11%3%22%32%5%
progressivelateral/short% of his 37 carries originating in each zone · own goal left, attacking →
Every carry, exact path — median 6m, longest 17m
By zone — where the carry started → where it ended
5Outside → Inside
23Inside → Inside
6Outside → Outside
3Inside → Outside
First (19)Second (13)Third (5)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).

12
tackle duels
8
won
4
beaten · 33%
brighter band = more tackle duels · own goal left, attacking →
INSIDE 67%
OUTSIDE 33%
Tackle-duel location — 8 inside · 4 outside
Right Wing
0 · 0%
Right Half-Space
2 · 17%
Central
2 · 17%
Left Half-Space
4 · 33%
Left Wing
4 · 33%
Vision AI beaten in 4 of 12 tackle duels (33% loss rate) — a solid 1v1 defensive record.
Every tackle duel, exact location
wonlost — dribbled pastown goal left, attacking →

He attempted only 3 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.

03

How does he build & move the ball?

How does he escape the first line?

15%
vertical passes
13×
9%
switches
8×
20%
carries
18×
56%
short circulation
50×
Answer: he escapes the press primarily through carrying — stepping out with the ball; he almost never carries (18×), so pressing his passing lanes beats pressing him.

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 →RWRHSCLHSLWRW475%325%1RHS1450%736%57%17%1C538%425%1328%1526%1413%7LHS775%431%2429%2235%27LW234%113%317%465%15FROM
Rows normalised: each row sums to 100% of that lane's completed passes. Grey number = passes from that lane.

Primary route: central areas in the middle third → central areas in the middle third — 1 progressive passes (11% of his progression) at 0.011 xT each. He keeps it in the same lane.

His progression is inward: 22% of progressive passes move the ball toward the middle versus 11% 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: 5 line-breaking passes and 16 final-third entries, 0.3 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
2%2%1%1%0%8%13%16%3%1%10%16%19%5%1%
completedincomplete203 passes · any zone → any zone · own goal left, attacking →
203
passes
84%
completed
32
lost
Vision AIIn line with his 84% season completion rate.
04

How does he progress play?

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

15
progressive · 2.8/90
16
final-third entries · 3.0/90
1
box entries · 0.19/90
9
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.
11

How does he create chances?

5 key passes (0.94/90), 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:
20%20%20%20%20%
chance creation (5)assist (0)% of the selected group's key passes originating in each zone
05

Where does he become vulnerable?

34 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.

1
attacking third (cheap)
23
middle third
10
own third (dangerous)
Vision AI 3% of losses are in the attacking third — a notable share happen deeper, which invites transitions.
Mistake danger (proxy): 2.74 danger-index/90 · 0.428 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?

203
passes attempted
43%
mostly forward
50%
mostly short
Direction
Forward
87 · 43%
Sideways
52 · 26%
Backward
64 · 32%
Length (completed)
Short (<15m)
86 · 50%
Medium
70 · 41%
Long (>30m)
15 · 9%
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.

0.360.190.180.180.180.14
own goal left, attacking →
Highest-value routes (xT)
0.36
Left Wing Att third → Right Half-Space Att third
1 passes
0.19
Left Half-Space Mid third → Right Half-Space Att third
1 passes
0.18
Left Half-Space Mid third → Left Half-Space Att third
1 passes
0.18
Left Half-Space Mid third → Central Att third
1 passes
0.18
Central Mid third → Left Wing Att third
1 passes
0.14
Left Half-Space Mid third → Left Wing Mid third
2 passes
08

Where Does He Receive?

The zones where Tommaso Pobega 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
30%
Primary
Left Half-Space, Middle third
20%
Secondary
Central, Middle third
10%
Third
Left Wing, 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 Tommaso Pobega 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:
221333812316273210556331
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.

2%2%1%1%0%8%13%16%3%1%10%16%19%5%1%
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.

5Key pass
1Cross
15Progressive
21Long ball
12Switch
By zone — where the pass started → where it landed
9Outside → Inside
99Inside → Inside
18Outside → Outside
45Inside → Outside
By direction
87Forward
64Backward
52Sideways
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 — 1 passes worth 0.36 xT.
Where do his chances come from?
Of 5 key passes, his busiest route is a delivery where he switches it out from the right hs to the right wing 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 right half-space in the middle third: 30% of his 10 touches there are lost (3 times).
—0 touches · too few—5 touches · too few14%2/14 lost26%5/19 lost—5 touches · too few—3 touches · too few30%3/10 lost14%6/42 lost13%8/61 lost25%5/20 lost—1 touch · too few—4 touches · too few—5 touches · too few9%1/11 lost—3 touches · too fewRWRHSCLHSLWDEFMIDATT
Out of possession

Out of possession

Where and how he defends and presses.

13

How & where does he defend?

79 defensive actions across the season (14.9/90). 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 →
12
tackles · 67% won
5
interceptions · 0.9/90
27
recoveries · 5.1/90
8
clearances · 1.5/90
3
blocks
43
avg action height
12
won high (att 3rd)
38
middle third
29
own third
Vision AI A mid-block defender. He wins the ball mainly by stepping in — tackles, interceptions & recoveries outweigh clearances. 44 proactive ball-wins (8.3/90), tackle success 67%. 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 Tommaso Pobega 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 2.8, 2m)
72%
2.0
4.6
0.69
Mid press (PPDA 4.3, 2m)
88%
4.2
6.0
0.58
Low press (PPDA 9.9, 3m)
88%
2.4
1.9
0.66
Team

Team context

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

15

Impact on the Team

Bologna's output per match with Tommaso Pobega (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
1.00
+0.29
points /match
1.14
0.00
+1.14
goals for /match
1.14
0.00
+1.14
xG for /match
1.17
2.38
-1.21
16

His Share of the Team

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

category
share
him / team
goals
12%
1 / 8
tackles
8%
49 / 641
interceptions
7%
24 / 364
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 641%Tempo controller33%Deep-lying playmaker27%
Why Ball-winning 6 41%: a weighted blend of ball-winning 46 (weight 40%) + defensive aggression 58 (weight 30%) + retention 44 (weight 15%) + progression 8 (weight 15%). The score reflects how distinctively his profile SHAPE matches this archetype vs his peers.
Elite
—
Strong
box threat
Average
dribbling, territory (wide vs central), press resistance, defensive aggression, ball-winning, passing directness, retention
Weak
build-up, final-third threat, line-breaking, transition, crossing, carrying, progression, receiving zones, through-balls, creativity
Unknown
aerial ability, marking, off-ball running — not in event data
Box threat
76
Dribbling
66
Territory (wide vs central)
64
Press resistance ~proxy
61
Defensive aggression
58
Ball-winning
46
Passing directness
45
Retention
44
Build-up
30
Final-third threat
26
Line-breaking
19
Transition ~proxy
17
Crossing
14
Carrying
11
Progression
8
Receiving zones
7
Through-balls ~proxy
6
Creativity
5
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: 188 cm / 75 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 Serie A, Bundesliga, La Liga, Ligue 1 and Premier League, 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.

Batista Mendy Sevilla · La Liga 25/26 · 191 cm / 82 kg
87%
Driven by: creativity (16%), progression (14%), crossing (12%). Different mechanism — Pobega more via defensive aggression, passing directness; Mendy more via transition.
João Palhinha Tottenham · Premier League 25/26 · 190 cm / 84 kg
83%
Driven by: creativity (19%), crossing (18%), transition (11%). Different mechanism — Pobega more via dribbling, press resistance; Palhinha more via build-up, through-balls.
Lucas Tousart Brest · Ligue 1 · 185 cm / 83 kg
78%
Driven by: creativity (22%), receiving zones (15%), progression (12%). Different mechanism — Pobega more via territory (wide vs central); Tousart more via passing directness, through-balls.
Lucas Torró Osasuna · La Liga · 190 cm / 77 kg
78%
Driven by: carrying (14%), progression (14%), through-balls (12%). Different mechanism — Pobega more via territory (wide vs central); Torró more via passing directness, creativity.
Ryan Yates Nottingham Forest · Premier League · 190 cm / 87 kg
76%
Driven by: creativity (17%), progression (13%), carrying (12%). Different mechanism — Pobega more via dribbling, press resistance; Yates more via crossing, passing directness.
Soungoutou Magassa West Ham · Premier League 25/26 · 188 cm / 80 kg
74%
Driven by: crossing (18%), receiving zones (14%), progression (12%). Different mechanism — Pobega more via box threat; Magassa more via passing directness, transition.
20

Summary

Tommaso Pobega is a ball-winning 6: 84% completion, 21 line-breaks and 2.8 progressive passes /90, resisting pressure with 33% dribble success. A central controller. [Off-ball screening position and scanning need tracking data.]

Based on 7 matches (478 minutes) — an early read, treat with caution until more minutes are logged. He profiles as a ball-winning 6 — 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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