Thin sample this season. Abdoulaye Ndiaye has played 1 match (95 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 defensive third (58% of his 60 passes)
90% completion · 60× in 1/1 matches
↓
CARRY OUT
step into midfield to commit a presser
1 carries · 2× in 1/1 matches
↓
BREAK A LINE
vertical pass past the opponent midfield
2.8 prog/90 · 4× in 1/1 matches
Signature: Receive → Carry Out → Break A Line — the only steps proven repeatable this season (3 of 5 in the full pattern). Not enough evidence yet for the rest of the chain below.
Not a pattern: 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.
In possession
In possession
What he does with the ball: build-up, progression, creation, carrying and finishing.
17 tracked carries (16.1/90, 6 progressive, 155m 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.
progressivelateral/short% of his 17 carries originating in each zone · own goal left, attacking →
Every carry, exact path — median 8m, longest 22m
By zone — where the carry started → where it ended
First (17)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).
3
tackle duels
0
won
3
beaten · 100%
brighter band = more tackle duels · own goal left, attacking →
INSIDE 100%
OUTSIDE 0%
Tackle-duel location — 3 inside · 0 outside
Right Wing
0 · 0%
Right Half-Space
0 · 0%
Central
1 · 33%
Left Half-Space
2 · 67%
Left Wing
0 · 0%
Vision AI beaten in 3 of 3 tackle duels (100% loss rate) — a solid 1v1 defensive record.
Every tackle duel, exact location
wonlost — dribbled pastown goal left, attacking →
He attempted only 1 dribble of his own all season — dribbling is not part of this role; his ball-carrying is covered above, his defending against the dribble below.
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How does he create chances?
0 key passes (0.00/90), 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
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chance creation (0)assist (0)% of the selected group's key passes originating in each zone
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 →
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: 29% of his 14 touches there are lost (4 times).
Team
Team context
How much of the team runs through him, and what changes without him.
Parma Calcio 1913's output per match with Abdoulaye Ndiaye (1 matches) versus without him (7 matches). Insufficient evidence — the without-sample is only 7 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 (7)
Δ
goals against /match
1.00
2.00
-1.00
points /match
0.00
0.57
-0.57
goals for /match
0.00
0.71
-0.71
xG for /match
0.68
0.77
-0.09
06
His Share of the Team
Of everything Parma Calcio 1913 produced this season, the categories where the biggest share ran through Abdoulaye Ndiaye specifically — his share of the team total, not a per-90 rate.
category
share
him / team
clearances
5%
50 / 1007
interceptions
4%
12 / 306
tackles
4%
19 / 537
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 515 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.
Stopper centre-back49%Ball-playing centre-back33%
Why Stopper centre-back 49%: a weighted blend of defensive aggression 63 (weight 35%) + ball-winning 51 (weight 40%) + retention 38 (weight 15%) + transition 20 (weight 10%). The score reflects how distinctively his profile SHAPE matches this archetype vs his peers.
aerial ability, marking, off-ball running — not in event data
Box threat
67
Dribbling
66
Defensive aggression
63
Territory (wide vs central)
62
Build-up
52
Press resistance ~proxy
52
Ball-winning
51
Carrying
42
Retention
38
Transition ~proxy
20
Creativity
18
Crossing
11
Progression
11
Through-balls ~proxy
11
Passing directness
10
Final-third threat
9
Receiving zones
5
Line-breaking
3
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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: 185 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.
Nobel Mendy Hull City · Premier League · 187 cm / 78 kg
89%
Driven by: creativity (15%), receiving zones (13%), final-third threat (12%). Different mechanism — Ndiaye more via territory (wide vs central), defensive aggression.
César Tárrega Valencia · La Liga · 194 cm / 78 kg
84%
Driven by: final-third threat (15%), crossing (13%), progression (13%). Different mechanism — Ndiaye more via territory (wide vs central), box threat; Tárrega more via receiving zones, creativity.
Martin Vitík Bologna · 193 cm / 84 kg
82%
Driven by: creativity (17%), crossing (13%), receiving zones (12%). Different mechanism — Ndiaye more via box threat; Vitík more via final-third threat, line-breaking.
Stephan Zagadou Le Havre · Ligue 1 25/26 · 186 cm
81%
Driven by: receiving zones (15%), progression (13%), final-third threat (13%). Different mechanism — Ndiaye more via box threat, ball-winning; Zagadou more via passing directness, retention.
Zeno Van den Bosch Union Berlin · Bundesliga · 191 cm / 78 kg
80%
Driven by: transition (14%), receiving zones (14%), crossing (12%). Different mechanism — Ndiaye more via box threat, carrying; Bosch more via passing directness.
Samir Chergui Paris FC · Ligue 1 · 185 cm / 78 kg
78%
Driven by: transition (17%), progression (14%), line-breaking (13%). Different mechanism — Ndiaye more via carrying; Chergui more via receiving zones, creativity.
09
Summary
Abdoulaye Ndiaye is a stopper centre-back: 90% pass completion, 4 line-breaking passes and 2.8 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 (95 minutes) — an early read, treat with caution until more minutes are logged. He profiles as a stopper centre-back — best used in a system built around that identity.
His biggest room for growth is transition — even a modest improvement there would meaningfully lift his overall stopper centre-back profile.
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