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Moisés Caicedo

Chelsea
Ball-winning 6 (destroyer) DM
14.8 defensive actions/90
defensive midtempo controllerpress resistancescreening
273
minutes
4 apps
152
passes
90% completed
90%
pass completion
152 passes
6
progressive passes
2.0/90
45
defensive actions
14.8/90
13
tackles + interceptions
83% tackle win
6
recoveries
2.0/90
7
line-breaking passes
2.3/90
Overview

The player

Who he is and how he compares with his peers.

Thin sample this season. Moisés Caicedo has played 4 matches (273 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 (68% of his 152 passes)
90% completion · 152× in 4/4 matches
↓
PROGRESS CENTRAL
break a line through the middle
2.0 prog/90 · 7× in 3/4 matches
↓
SCREEN / WIN BALL
protect the back four
6.3 ball-wins/90 · 19× in 4/4 matches
↓
RECYCLE / PROGRESS
keep it ticking, feed the final third
3.0 f3-entries/90 · 9× in 3/4 matches
Signature: Receive → Progress Central → Screen / Win Ball → Recycle / Progress — the only steps proven repeatable this season (4 of 5 in the full pattern). Not enough evidence yet for the rest of the chain below.
Not a pattern: escape pressure — 2× (low confidence, shown as a number only, no tactical conclusion drawn) — omitted from the signature rather than presented as one.
14

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 →
38
passes / match
14.8
def actions / 90
2–63
pass range (matches)
6
clearances
Pass range = his fewest and most passes in any single match this season (2 at the low end, 63 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

25 tracked carries (8.2/90, 7 progressive, 238m 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.

12%8%12%4%12%24%16%8%4%
progressivelateral/short% of his 25 carries originating in each zone · own goal left, attacking →
Every carry, exact path — median 9m, longest 20m
By zone — where the carry started → where it ended
4Outside → Inside
19Inside → Inside
2Outside → Outside
First (13)Second (12)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).

6
tackle duels
5
won
1
beaten · 17%
brighter band = more tackle duels · own goal left, attacking →
INSIDE 50%
OUTSIDE 50%
Tackle-duel location — 3 inside · 3 outside
Right Wing
3 · 50%
Right Half-Space
0 · 0%
Central
2 · 33%
Left Half-Space
1 · 17%
Left Wing
0 · 0%
Vision AI beaten in 1 of 6 tackle duels (17% loss rate) — a solid 1v1 defensive record.
Every tackle duel, exact location
wonlost — dribbled pastown goal left, attacking →

He attempted only 2 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?

4%
vertical passes
3×
5%
switches
4×
19%
carries
15×
72%
short circulation
57×
Answer: he escapes the press primarily through carrying — stepping out with the ball; he almost never carries (15×), 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 →RWRHSCLHSLWRW1450%736%514%2RHS3818%726%1047%185%23%1C6111%721%1338%2326%163%2LHS1712%224%435%629%5LW743%357%4FROM
Rows normalised: each row sums to 100% of that lane's completed passes. Grey number = passes from that lane.

Primary route: the right half-space in the middle third → central areas in the final third — 1 progressive passes (25% of his progression) at 0.054 xT each. He moves it inside.

His progression is inward: 75% of progressive passes move the ball toward the middle versus 0% going wider — he cuts in rather than holding width.

Only 7% of his passes switch play, so his threat is same-side — contain the flank he occupies and the route closes.

Quality behind the volume: 1 line-breaking passes and 9 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
1%2%10%10%5%1%1%13%20%20%1%1%5%5%3%3%
completedincomplete152 passes · any zone → any zone · own goal left, attacking →
152
passes
90%
completed
15
lost
Vision AIIn line with his 90% season completion rate.
06

How does he create chances?

1 key passes (0.33/90), 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:
100%
chance creation (1)assist (0)% of the selected group's key passes originating in each zone
04

Where does he become vulnerable?

16 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.

3
attacking third (cheap)
10
middle third
3
own third (dangerous)
Vision AI 19% of losses are in the attacking third — a notable share happen deeper, which invites transitions.
Mistake danger (proxy): 2.25 danger-index/90 · 0.427 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?

152
passes attempted
44%
mostly sideways
59%
mostly short
Direction
Forward
48 · 32%
Sideways
67 · 44%
Backward
37 · 24%
Length (completed)
Short (<15m)
81 · 59%
Medium
50 · 36%
Long (>30m)
6 · 4%
07

Where Does He Receive?

The zones where Moisés Caicedo 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
33%
Primary
Central, Middle third
18%
Secondary
Right Half-Space, Middle third
11%
Third
Central, Defensive 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 Moisés Caicedo 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:
1784422031311223161581
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%2%10%10%5%1%1%13%20%20%1%1%5%5%3%3%
own goal left, attacking →
10

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.

1Key pass
6Progressive
7Long ball
5Switch
By zone — where the pass started → where it landed
10Outside → Inside
94Inside → Inside
11Outside → Outside
22Inside → Outside
By direction
48Forward
37Backward
67Sideways
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 switches it out from the right hs to the right wing, advancing it forward in the middle third — 2 passes worth 0.11 xT.
Where do his chances come from?
Of 1 key passes, his busiest route is a delivery where he plays inside from the left wing toward the left hs in the final 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 left half-space in the middle third: 14% of his 14 touches there are lost (2 times).
—4 touches · too few—5 touches · too few12%2/17 lost—4 touches · too few—4 touches · too few9%1/11 lost0%0/27 lost10%5/50 lost14%2/14 lost—2 touches · too few—2 touches · too few—7 touches · too few—1 touch · too few—2 touches · too few—2 touches · too fewRWRHSCLHSLWDEFMIDATT
Out of possession

Out of possession

Where and how he defends and presses.

11

How & where does he defend?

45 defensive actions across the season (14.8/90). 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 →
6
tackles · 83% won
7
interceptions · 2.3/90
6
recoveries · 2.0/90
6
clearances · 2.0/90
2
blocks
38
avg action height
6
won high (att 3rd)
18
middle third
21
own third
Vision AI A mid-block defender. He wins the ball mainly by stepping in — tackles, interceptions & recoveries outweigh clearances. 19 proactive ball-wins (6.3/90), tackle success 83%. He defends mostly around the middle third.
Team

Team context

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

12

Impact on the Team

Chelsea's output per match with Moisés Caicedo (4 matches) versus without him (4 matches). Insufficient evidence — the without-sample is only 4 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 (4)
WITHOUT (4)
Δ
goals against /match
1.50
2.25
-0.75
points /match
2.25
1.00
+1.25
goals for /match
2.75
1.50
+1.25
xG for /match
1.35
0.00
+1.35
13

His Share of the Team

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

category
share
him / team
interceptions
15%
66 / 453
tackles
12%
93 / 802
zone-14 entries
10%
43 / 414
Recruitment

Style and verdict

Style profile, closest comparables, and the summary.

15

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.

Tempo controller80%Deep-lying playmaker78%Ball-winning 674%
Why Tempo controller 80%: a weighted blend of retention 82 (weight 35%) + build-up 87 (weight 30%) + press resistance 55 (weight 20%) + progression 62 (weight 15%). The score reflects how distinctively his profile SHAPE matches this archetype vs his peers.
Elite
build-up
Strong
retention, receiving zones, ball-winning, carrying
Average
transition, final-third threat, progression, line-breaking, creativity, press resistance, defensive aggression, crossing, box threat, dribbling, passing directness, through-balls
Weak
territory (wide vs central)
Unknown
aerial ability, marking, off-ball running — not in event data
Build-up
87
Retention
82
Receiving zones
80
Ball-winning
76
Carrying
71
Transition ~proxy
64
Final-third threat
63
Progression
62
Line-breaking
61
Creativity
56
Press resistance ~proxy
55
Defensive aggression
55
Crossing
47
Box threat
47
Dribbling
43
Passing directness
42
Through-balls ~proxy
42
Territory (wide vs central)
2
16

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 / 80 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.

Equi Fernández Leverkusen · Bundesliga · 178 cm / 70 kg
75%
Driven by: build-up (15%), ball-winning (14%), receiving zones (13%). Different mechanism — Caicedo more via through-balls, crossing; Fernández more via dribbling, box threat.
Senne Lynen Werder Bremen · Bundesliga · 185 cm / 80 kg
74%
Driven by: build-up (32%), territory (wide vs central) (20%), ball-winning (12%). Different mechanism — Caicedo more via dribbling, retention; Lynen more via passing directness.
Éderson Atalanta · Serie A · 183 cm / 83 kg
70%
Driven by: territory (wide vs central) (21%), receiving zones (18%), retention (14%). Different mechanism — Caicedo more via build-up, ball-winning; Éderson more via box threat.
Jobe Bellingham Borussia Dortmund · Bundesliga · 188 cm / 73 kg
70%
Driven by: territory (wide vs central) (27%), receiving zones (16%), ball-winning (16%). Different mechanism — Caicedo more via build-up; Bellingham more via creativity, defensive aggression.
Samir El Mourabet Strasbourg · Ligue 1 · 187 cm / 72 kg
69%
Driven by: build-up (24%), territory (wide vs central) (22%), retention (16%). Different mechanism — Caicedo more via passing directness, box threat; Mourabet more via dribbling, press resistance.
Shea Charles Fulham · 189 cm / 87 kg
69%
Driven by: build-up (30%), territory (wide vs central) (18%), retention (17%). Different mechanism — Caicedo more via line-breaking, progression; Charles more via dribbling, press resistance.
17

Summary

Moisés Caicedo is a tempo controller / deep-lying playmaker: 90% completion, 7 line-breaks and 2.0 progressive passes /90, resisting pressure with 50% dribble success. A central controller. [Off-ball screening position and scanning need tracking data.]

Based on 4 matches (273 minutes) — an early read, treat with caution until more minutes are logged. He profiles as a tempo controller / deep-lying playmaker — best used in a system built around that identity. His biggest room for growth is press resistance — even a modest improvement there would meaningfully lift his overall tempo controller profile.
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