Thin sample this season. Nico Serrano has played 1 match (10 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
Right Wing, Middle third — between the lines — mostly in the middle third (67% of his 6 passes)
50% completion · 6× in 1/1 matches
↓
TURN / BEAT MAN
face forward in the pocket
0% won · 1× in 1/1 matches
↓
FINISH
arrive and shoot from central zones
0 goals · 0.09 xG · 1× in 1/1 matches
Signature: Receive → Turn / Beat Man → Finish — the only steps proven repeatable this season (3 of 4 in the full pattern). Not enough evidence yet for the rest of the chain below.
Not a pattern: create — 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.
Athletic Club's output per match with Nico Serrano (1 matches) versus without him (8 matches). Insufficient evidence — the without-sample is only 8 matches; treat every Δ below as noise until more games exist. A proper on-off model needs many more minutes.
WITH (1)
WITHOUT (8)
Δ
goals for /match
0.00
1.50
-1.50
xG for /match
1.92
0.80
+1.12
goals against /match
0.00
1.12
-1.12
points /match
1.00
1.38
-0.38
03
His Share of the Team
Of everything Athletic Club produced this season, the categories where the biggest share ran through Nico Serrano specifically — his share of the team total, not a per-90 rate.
category
share
him / team
shots
3%
17 / 611
box entries
3%
15 / 583
zone-14 entries
2%
7 / 315
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 294 attacking mids in the pool (min 180 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.
Advanced playmaker (8)73%Half-space creator67%
Why Advanced playmaker (8) 73%: a weighted blend of progression 85 (weight 25%) + creativity 54 (weight 35%) + final-third threat 72 (weight 25%) + box threat 80 (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
Line-breaking
90
Progression
85
Box threat
80
Carrying
77
Receiving zones
74
Final-third threat
72
Crossing
64
Transition ~proxy
63
Defensive aggression
62
Territory (wide vs central)
62
Dribbling
59
Creativity
54
Through-balls ~proxy
54
Ball-winning
53
Passing directness
53
Press resistance ~proxy
37
Build-up
23
Retention
16
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: 181 cm / 72 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.
Robert Navarro Athletic Club · 178 cm / 65 kg
78%
Driven by: line-breaking (21%), progression (18%), carrying (13%). Different mechanism — Serrano more via defensive aggression; Navarro more via retention, through-balls.
Álex Berenguer Athletic Club · 175 cm / 73 kg
76%
Driven by: line-breaking (17%), progression (16%), retention (15%). Different mechanism — Serrano more via dribbling, carrying; Berenguer more via through-balls, creativity.
Florian Thauvin Lens · Ligue 1 · 179 cm / 70 kg
73%
Driven by: progression (17%), box threat (15%), line-breaking (15%). Different mechanism — Serrano more via ball-winning; Thauvin more via through-balls, passing directness.
Reda Khadra Le Havre · Ligue 1 25/26 · 180 cm / 72 kg
69%
Driven by: build-up (26%), retention (17%), line-breaking (16%). Different mechanism — Serrano more via box threat, receiving zones; Khadra more via through-balls, territory (wide vs central).
Paulo Dybala Roma · Serie A · 177 cm / 75 kg
68%
Driven by: box threat (19%), progression (18%), line-breaking (16%). Different mechanism — Dybala more via through-balls, creativity.
David Brooks Bournemouth · Premier League · 173 cm / 62 kg
66%
Driven by: box threat (21%), line-breaking (19%), progression (14%). Different mechanism — Serrano more via carrying; Brooks more via passing directness, creativity.
06
Summary
Nico Serrano is an advanced playmaker (8) / half-space creator: 0.00 key passes /90, 0.0 progressive passes, 0 goals from 0.09 xG. A between-the-lines creator. [Off-ball movement into pockets needs tracking.]
Based on 1 matches (10 minutes) — an early read, treat with caution until more minutes are logged. He profiles as an advanced playmaker (8) / half-space creator — best used in a system built around that identity.
His biggest room for growth is creativity — even a modest improvement there would meaningfully lift his overall advanced playmaker (8) profile.
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