Thin sample this season. Jake O'Brien has played 4 matches (143 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
Left Half-Space, Defensive third — wide or inverted — mostly in the middle third (44% of his 52 passes)
87% completion · 52× in 4/4 matches
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PROGRESS
carry or combine up the flank
1.9 prog/90 · 3× in 2/4 matches
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DEFEND
1v1 and cover on his side
20 def actions · lost 42% deep · 20× in 4/4 matches
Signature: Receive → Progress → Defend — 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: dribble — 0× (insufficient confidence, hidden — not enough evidence yet); deliver — 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.
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
03
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 defensive third: 0% of his 9 touches there are lost (0 times).
20 defensive actions across the season (12.6/90). 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 →
0
tackles · 0% won
0
interceptions · 0.0/90
3
recoveries · 1.9/90
13
clearances · 8.2/90
0
blocks
28
avg action height
2
won high (att 3rd)
5
middle third
13
own third
Vision AI A deep-defending defender. He wins the ball mainly by clearing and blocking — a reactive, protect-the-box profile. 3 proactive ball-wins (1.9/90), tackle success 0%. He defends deep, protecting his box — a last-line stopper.
Team
Team context
How much of the team runs through him, and what changes without him.
Everton's output per match with Jake O'Brien (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
1.00
1.25
-0.25
points /match
1.25
1.25
+0.00
goals for /match
0.75
1.25
-0.50
xG for /match
1.16
1.09
+0.07
06
His Share of the Team
Of everything Everton produced this season, the categories where the biggest share ran through Jake O'Brien specifically — his share of the team total, not a per-90 rate.
category
share
him / team
clearances
11%
165 / 1466
progressive passes
10%
202 / 2077
threat added by passing (xT)
8%
38.4 / 471.4
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 233 full-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.
Overlapping full-back29%Inverted full-back20%
Why Overlapping full-back 29%: a weighted blend of crossing 51 (weight 30%) + transition 37 (weight 25%) + final-third threat 32 (weight 25%) + dribbling 10 (weight 20%). The score reflects how distinctively his profile SHAPE matches this archetype vs his peers.
aerial ability, marking, off-ball running — not in event data
Passing directness
89
Through-balls ~proxy
70
Defensive aggression
64
Territory (wide vs central)
55
Crossing
51
Line-breaking
45
Box threat
45
Build-up
38
Transition ~proxy
37
Progression
36
Final-third threat
32
Creativity
26
Ball-winning
22
Receiving zones
16
Press resistance ~proxy
13
Retention
11
Dribbling
10
Carrying
5
08
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: 197 cm / 92 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.
Adam Smith Bournemouth · 180 cm / 78 kg
79%
Driven by: press resistance (18%), carrying (15%), dribbling (13%). Different mechanism — O'Brien more via box threat, through-balls.
Jeremy Toljan Levante · La Liga · 182 cm / 74 kg
76%
Driven by: press resistance (20%), carrying (14%), dribbling (14%). Different mechanism — O'Brien more via defensive aggression, through-balls; Toljan more via creativity.
Robin Gosens Schalke · Bundesliga · 183 cm / 80 kg
76%
Driven by: press resistance (26%), dribbling (19%), carrying (15%). Different mechanism — O'Brien more via through-balls; Gosens more via receiving zones, box threat.
Marvin Senaya Auxerre · Ligue 1 25/26 · 181 cm / 76 kg
72%
Driven by: press resistance (20%), retention (15%), carrying (15%). Different mechanism — O'Brien more via crossing, territory (wide vs central); Senaya more via ball-winning.
Nicolò Savona Nottingham Forest 25/26 · 192 cm / 80 kg
71%
Driven by: press resistance (16%), carrying (13%), dribbling (11%). Different mechanism — O'Brien more via through-balls, defensive aggression.
Christian Günter Freiburg · Bundesliga · 185 cm / 83 kg
70%
Driven by: carrying (14%), press resistance (14%), ball-winning (14%). Different mechanism — O'Brien more via through-balls, passing directness.
09
Summary
Jake O'Brien is an overlapping full-back: 1.9 progressive passes and 0 box entries, delivering 0 key passes. Inverted full-back. [1v1 recovery pace and off-ball overlap timing need tracking.]
Based on 4 matches (143 minutes) — an early read, treat with caution until more minutes are logged. He profiles as an overlapping full-back — best used in a system built around that identity.
His biggest room for growth is dribbling — even a modest improvement there would meaningfully lift his overall overlapping full-back profile.
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