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Beñat Turrientes

Real Sociedad
Ball-winning 6 (destroyer) DM
11.3 defensive actions/90
defensive middeep-lying playmakerpress resistancescreening
335
minutes
5 apps
232
passes
92% completed
92%
pass completion
232 passes
16
progressive passes
4.3/90
42
defensive actions
11.3/90
12
tackles + interceptions
36% tackle win
14
recoveries
3.8/90
7
line-breaking passes
1.9/90
Overview

The player

Who he is and how he compares with his peers.

Thin sample this season. Beñat Turrientes has played 5 matches (335 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
drop between the centre-backs — mostly in the middle third (64% of his 232 passes)
92% completion · 232× in 5/5 matches
↓
ESCAPE PRESSURE
turn out of a tight central area
67% won · 3× in 3/5 matches
↓
PROGRESS CENTRAL
break a line through the middle
4.3 prog/90 · 7× in 5/5 matches
↓
SCREEN / WIN BALL
protect the back four
7.0 ball-wins/90 · 26× in 5/5 matches
↓
RECYCLE / PROGRESS
keep it ticking, feed the final third
4.6 f3-entries/90 · 17× in 5/5 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.
16

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 →
46
passes / match
11.3
def actions / 90
26–74
pass range (matches)
9
clearances
Pass range = his fewest and most passes in any single match this season (26 at the low end, 74 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

61 tracked carries (16.4/90, 12 progressive, 505m 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.

5%5%5%7%25%8%3%8%18%10%7%
progressivelateral/short% of his 61 carries originating in each zone · own goal left, attacking →
Every carry, exact path — median 7m, longest 27m
By zone — where the carry started → where it ended
6Outside → Inside
44Inside → Inside
8Outside → Outside
3Inside → Outside
First (24)Second (17)Third (12)Fourth (8)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
4
won
7
beaten · 64%
brighter band = more tackle duels · own goal left, attacking →
INSIDE 82%
OUTSIDE 18%
Tackle-duel location — 9 inside · 2 outside
Right Wing
0 · 0%
Right Half-Space
4 · 36%
Central
2 · 18%
Left Half-Space
3 · 27%
Left Wing
2 · 18%
Vision AI beaten in 7 of 11 tackle duels (64% loss rate) — a real defensive leak worth flagging.
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?

11%
vertical passes
12×
5%
switches
5×
36%
carries
38×
48%
short circulation
50×
Answer: he escapes the press primarily through carrying — stepping out with 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 →RWRHSCLHSLWRW2348%1143%109%2RHS3931%1238%1523%98%3C5411%622%1222%1237%207%4LHS662%12%123%1529%1945%30LW3110%326%865%20FROM
Rows normalised: each row sums to 100% of that lane's completed passes. Grey number = passes from that lane.

Primary route: the right wing in the middle third → the right half-space in the middle third — 2 progressive passes (9% of his progression) at -0.008 xT each. He moves it inside.

His progression is inward: 61% of progressive passes move the ball toward the middle versus 9% 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 17 final-third entries, 1.7 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%4%4%10%6%1%0%8%12%11%3%5%16%10%7%2%
completedincomplete232 passes · any zone → any zone · own goal left, attacking →
232
passes
92%
completed
19
lost
Vision AIIn line with his 92% season completion rate.
04

How does he progress play?

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

16
progressive · 4.3/90
17
final-third entries · 4.6/90
2
box entries · 0.54/90
23
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 (1.34/90), 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%25%25%
chance creation (4)assist (0)% of the selected group's key passes originating in each zone
06

Where does he become vulnerable?

20 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.

4
attacking third (cheap)
14
middle third
2
own third (dangerous)
Vision AI 20% of losses are in the attacking third — a notable share happen deeper, which invites transitions.
Mistake danger (proxy): 2.13 danger-index/90 · 0.396 avg/turnover. Weights each loss by threat conceded at that location. True xT-conceded needs the opponent possession model; positional proxy.
05

What is his passing profile?

232
passes attempted
38%
mostly sideways
60%
mostly short
Direction
Forward
88 · 38%
Sideways
89 · 38%
Backward
55 · 24%
Length (completed)
Short (<15m)
128 · 60%
Medium
80 · 38%
Long (>30m)
5 · 2%
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.

0.220.180.170.130.130.10
own goal left, attacking →
Highest-value routes (xT)
0.22
Left Half-Space Att third → Left Half-Space Att third
1 passes · 1 to a shot
0.18
Central Def third → Right Half-Space Att third
1 passes
0.17
Right Wing Att third → Right Wing Att third
1 passes
0.13
Left Half-Space Mid third → Left Wing Mid third
3 passes
0.13
Central Mid third → Left Half-Space Att third
1 passes
0.10
Left Half-Space Mid third → Left Half-Space Mid third
1 passes
08

Where Does He Receive?

The zones where Beñat Turrientes 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
Left Half-Space, Middle third
17%
Secondary
Central, Middle third
11%
Third
Right Half-Space, 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 Beñat Turrientes 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:
1238231941182925101191023134
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%4%4%10%6%1%0%8%12%11%3%5%16%10%7%2%
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
1Cutback
16Progressive
7Long ball
5Switch
By zone — where the pass started → where it landed
23Outside → Inside
106Inside → Inside
31Outside → Outside
53Inside → Outside
By direction
88Forward
55Backward
89Sideways
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 hs in the final third — 1 passes worth 0.22 xT.
Where do his chances come from?
Of 5 key passes, his busiest route is a delivery where he plays straight through the left hs 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 right half-space in the defensive third: 12% of his 8 touches there are lost (1 times).
—3 touches · too few12%1/8 lost7%1/14 lost0%0/11 lost—4 touches · too few0%0/12 lost7%2/27 lost12%5/41 lost9%4/47 lost10%2/21 lost11%1/9 lost12%1/8 lost—6 touches · too few0%0/12 lost11%1/9 lostRWRHSCLHSLWDEFMIDATT
Out of possession

Out of possession

Where and how he defends and presses.

13

How & where does he defend?

42 defensive actions across the season (11.3/90). 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 · 36% won
1
interceptions · 0.3/90
14
recoveries · 3.8/90
9
clearances · 2.4/90
2
blocks
32
avg action height
2
won high (att 3rd)
14
middle third
26
own third
Vision AI A deep-defending defender. He wins the ball mainly by stepping in — tackles, interceptions & recoveries outweigh clearances. 26 proactive ball-wins (7.0/90), tackle success 36%. He defends mostly around the middle third.
Team

Team context

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

14

Impact on the Team

Real Sociedad's output per match with Beñat Turrientes (5 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. 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 (5)
WITHOUT (5)
Δ
goals against /match
1.40
2.20
-0.80
points /match
1.40
2.40
-1.00
goals for /match
1.00
2.80
-1.80
xG for /match
1.35
1.32
+0.03
15

His Share of the Team

Of everything Real Sociedad produced this season, the categories where the biggest share ran through Beñat Turrientes specifically — his share of the team total, not a per-90 rate.

category
share
him / team
successful take-ons
6%
22 / 357
tackles
6%
51 / 840
final-third entries
5%
101 / 1884
Recruitment

Style and verdict

Style profile, closest comparables, and the summary.

17

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.

Deep-lying playmaker61%Tempo controller60%Ball-winning 652%
Why Deep-lying playmaker 61%: a weighted blend of progression 64 (weight 30%) + build-up 47 (weight 30%) + press resistance 68 (weight 20%) + retention 60 (weight 20%). The score reflects how distinctively his profile SHAPE matches this archetype vs his peers.
Elite
—
Strong
dribbling, crossing, box threat, line-breaking, carrying, through-balls
Average
press resistance, progression, final-third threat, retention, receiving zones, transition, territory (wide vs central), defensive aggression, build-up, ball-winning, creativity
Weak
passing directness
Unknown
aerial ability, marking, off-ball running — not in event data
Dribbling
84
Crossing
81
Box threat
80
Line-breaking
79
Carrying
74
Through-balls ~proxy
70
Press resistance ~proxy
68
Progression
64
Final-third threat
61
Retention
60
Receiving zones
60
Transition ~proxy
54
Territory (wide vs central)
53
Defensive aggression
51
Build-up
47
Ball-winning
47
Creativity
45
Passing directness
30
18

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: 181 cm / 70 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.

Himad Abdelli Marseille · Ligue 1 · 185 cm / 81 kg
76%
Driven by: box threat (20%), carrying (15%), crossing (14%). Different mechanism — Abdelli more via creativity, final-third threat.
Mateus Fernandes Tottenham · Premier League · 178 cm / 72 kg
76%
Driven by: crossing (17%), line-breaking (12%), dribbling (12%). Different mechanism — Fernandes more via creativity, through-balls.
Unai López Rayo Vallecano · 170 cm / 68 kg
75%
Driven by: crossing (14%), dribbling (13%), line-breaking (12%). Different mechanism — Turrientes more via retention; López more via final-third threat, territory (wide vs central).
Manu Morlanes Mallorca 25/26 · 178 cm / 75 kg
69%
Driven by: crossing (24%), line-breaking (11%), press resistance (10%). Different mechanism — Turrientes more via dribbling; Morlanes more via territory (wide vs central), final-third threat.
Eduardo Camavinga Real Madrid · 182 cm / 68 kg
68%
Driven by: dribbling (16%), line-breaking (14%), press resistance (14%). Different mechanism — Turrientes more via box threat, crossing; Camavinga more via retention, receiving zones.
Elliot Anderson Man City · Premier League · 179 cm / 69 kg
63%
Driven by: crossing (16%), dribbling (16%), carrying (12%). Different mechanism — Anderson more via passing directness, creativity.
19

Summary

Beñat Turrientes is a deep-lying playmaker / tempo controller: 92% completion, 7 line-breaks and 4.3 progressive passes /90, resisting pressure with 67% dribble success. A central controller. [Off-ball screening position and scanning need tracking data.]

Based on 5 matches (335 minutes) — an early read, treat with caution until more minutes are logged. He profiles as a deep-lying playmaker / tempo controller — 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 deep-lying playmaker profile.
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