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Jacques Ekomié

Angers
Defensive full-back FB
13.4 defensive actions/90 · low final-third share 27%
full-backoverlapping full-backprogressioncrossing
2454
minutes
33 apps
76%
pass completion
1004 passes
67
progressive passes
2.5/90
46
final-3rd entries
1.7/90
6
box entries
0.22/90
365
defensive actions
13.4/90
96
tackles + interceptions
59% tackle win
41
dribbles
37% won
Overview

The player

Who he is and how he compares with his peers.

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 Wing, Middle third — wide or inverted — mostly in the middle third (48% of his 1004 passes)
76% completion · 1004× in 33/33 matches
↓
PROGRESS
carry or combine up the flank
2.5 prog/90 · 67× in 26/33 matches
↓
DRIBBLE
beat his man up the line
37% won · 41× in 24/33 matches
↓
DEFEND
1v1 and cover on his side
365 def actions · lost 25% deep · 365× in 33/33 matches
Signature: Receive → Progress → Dribble → Defend — 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: deliver — 6× (low confidence, shown as a number only, no tactical conclusion drawn) — omitted from the signature rather than presented as one.
19

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 →
30
passes / match
13.4
def actions / 90
3–63
pass range (matches)
52
clearances
Pass range = his fewest and most passes in any single match this season (3 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.

08

How dangerous are his carries?

Real ball-carries

207 tracked carries (7.6/90, 80 progressive, 2208m 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.

0%0%1%2%0%1%0%2%0%4%14%28%21%20%5%
progressivelateral/short% of his 207 carries originating in each zone · own goal left, attacking →
Every carry, exact path — median 8m, longest 42m
By zone — where the carry started → where it ended
11Outside → Inside
27Inside → Inside
154Outside → Outside
15Inside → Outside
First (79)Second (62)Third (53)Fourth (13)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).

63
tackle duels
37
won
26
beaten · 41%
brighter band = more tackle duels · own goal left, attacking →
INSIDE 32%
OUTSIDE 68%
Tackle-duel location — 20 inside · 43 outside
Right Wing
0 · 0%
Right Half-Space
2 · 3%
Central
1 · 2%
Left Half-Space
17 · 27%
Left Wing
43 · 68%
Vision AI beaten in 26 of 63 tackle duels (41% loss rate) — a real defensive leak worth flagging.
Every tackle duel, exact location
wonlost — dribbled pastown goal left, attacking →

Dribbles (1v1s)

Does he carry outside (overlap) or inside (invert into midfield)? Every carry by channel. Season rate: 1.50 dribbles attempted /90.

brighter band = more dribbles · own goal left, attacking →
INSIDE 27%
OUTSIDE 73%
Dribble location — 11 inside · 30 outside
Right Wing
0 · 0%
Right Half-Space
0 · 0%
Central
0 · 0%
Left Half-Space
11 · 27%
Left Wing
30 · 73%
Vision AI 73% of his carries are wide — an overlapping full-back who hugs the touchline.
04

How does he build & move the ball?

How does he escape the first line?

12%
vertical passes
46×
1%
switches
3×
26%
carries
98×
62%
short circulation
237×
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 →RWRHSCLHSLWRW967%633%3RHS450%250%2C128%18%142%533%48%1LHS834%325%2137%3134%28LW6601%43%2130%20066%435FROM
Rows normalised: each row sums to 100% of that lane's completed passes. Grey number = passes from that lane.

Primary route: the left wing in the middle third → the left half-space in the middle third — 21 progressive passes (21% of his progression) at 0.009 xT each. He moves it inside.

His progression is inward: 54% of progressive passes move the ball toward the middle versus 0% going wider — he cuts in rather than holding width.

Only 2% of his passes switch play, so his threat is same-side — contain the flank he occupies and the route closes.

Quality behind the volume: 22 line-breaking passes and 46 final-third entries, 9.4 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%0%0%0%0%0%1%1%1%0%0%4%19%23%23%17%9%
completedincomplete1004 passes · any zone → any zone · own goal left, attacking →
1004
passes
76%
completed
236
lost
Vision AIIn line with his 76% season completion rate.
05

How does he progress play?

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

67
progressive · 2.5/90
46
final-third entries · 1.7/90
6
box entries · 0.22/90
15
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.
10

How does he create chances?

12 key passes (0.44/90), 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:
8%33%17%42%
chance creation (12)assist (0)% of the selected group's key passes originating in each zone
14

Can he finish?

14 shots · 1.20 xG · 0 goals (-1.20 vs xG). Mostly left-footed. Circle size = xG.

shots  14
on target  5
goals  0
xG  1.20
xG on target  1.02
xG / shot  0.086
Where he shoots from — click an area of the box
09

Where does he become vulnerable?

262 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.

111
attacking third (cheap)
83
middle third
68
own third (dangerous)
Vision AI 42% of losses are in the attacking third — a notable share happen deeper, which invites transitions.
Mistake danger (proxy): 3.18 danger-index/90 · 0.331 avg/turnover. Weights each loss by threat conceded at that location. True xT-conceded needs the opponent possession model; positional proxy.
11

What is his passing profile?

1004
passes attempted
38%
mostly forward
65%
mostly short
Direction
Forward
377 · 38%
Sideways
320 · 32%
Backward
307 · 31%
Length (completed)
Short (<15m)
498 · 65%
Medium
255 · 33%
Long (>30m)
15 · 2%
12

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.

1.400.850.620.580.390.37
own goal left, attacking →
Highest-value routes (xT)
1.40
Left Wing Mid third → Left Wing Att third
12 passes · 1 to a shot
0.85
Left Wing Def third → Left Wing Mid third
16 passes
0.62
Left Wing Mid third → Left Wing Mid third
8 passes
0.58
Left Wing Att third → Right Half-Space Att third
2 passes
0.39
Left Wing Mid third → Left Half-Space Att third
2 passes · 1 to a shot
0.37
Left Wing Att third → Left Wing Att third
2 passes
06

Where Does He Receive?

The zones where Jacques Ekomié 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
41%
Primary
Left Wing, Middle third
22%
Secondary
Left Wing, Attacking third
20%
Third
Left Wing, Defensive third
These are the zones where he collected the ball most.
07

Where Does He Operate? — Every Zone

Every on-ball touch (pass, dribble, shot) binned into a 6×3 grid — raw counts of where Jacques Ekomié 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:
43200240241173103176761232456
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%0%0%0%0%0%1%1%1%0%0%4%19%23%23%17%9%
own goal left, attacking →
13

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.

12Key pass
21Cross
18Cutback
67Progressive
72Long ball
9Switch
By zone — where the pass started → where it landed
228Outside → Inside
67Inside → Inside
441Outside → Outside
32Inside → Outside
By direction
377Forward
307Backward
320Sideways
own goal left, attacking →
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 →
How does he progress the ball forward?
His most common route for progressing play: he plays straight through the left wing, advancing it forward in the middle third — 12 passes worth 1.40 xT.
Where do his chances come from?
Of 12 key passes, his busiest route is a delivery where he plays inside from the left hs toward the central in the final third — 4 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 final third: 67% of his 42 touches there are lost (28 times).
—3 touches · too few—2 touches · too few—4 touches · too few13%4/30 lost27%55/207 lost—3 touches · too few—2 touches · too few40%4/10 lost23%13/56 lost14%58/413 lost38%3/8 lost—3 touches · too few—5 touches · too few67%28/42 lost29%63/216 lostRWRHSCLHSLWDEFMIDATT
02

Crosses & Cutbacks

21 crosses (0.77/90, 5 completed) and 18 cutbacks (0.66/90, 7 completed) — two separate wide-delivery patterns into the box, each its own map with a completed/failed filter. Neither is a tagged event, so both are inferred from pass geometry — the intended end point of a failed attempt is still real data (an interception doesn’t erase where the ball was aimed): a cross is a pass aimed into the box starting from a wide channel; a cutback starts almost on the byline but is squared back rather than driven forward, aimed centrally around the box. The completed-cross count was checked against this platform’s own real match-level cross totals and lands within about 1 cross of the true count.

Crosses — close-up on the final third
Cutbacks — close-up on the final third
completedfailed (dashed)close-up on the box — attacking ↑ toward goal
Out of possession

Out of possession

Where and how he defends and presses.

15

How & where does he defend?

365 defensive actions across the season (13.4/90). 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 →
63
tackles · 59% won
33
interceptions · 1.2/90
109
recoveries · 4.0/90
52
clearances · 1.9/90
41
blocks
33
avg action height
32
won high (att 3rd)
127
middle third
206
own third
Vision AI A mid-block defender. He wins the ball mainly by stepping in — tackles, interceptions & recoveries outweigh clearances. 205 proactive ball-wins (7.5/90), tackle success 59%. He defends mostly around the middle third.
16

Can he play under pressure?

Split by how hard the opponent pressed (opponent PPDA — lower = more intense press). Can Jacques Ekomié still play out when the opponent presses high? His build-up quality split by press intensity — the key question for a ball-playing defender. Tiers of ~11-11 matches — directional evidence, not proof.

press tier
completion
prog /90
line-breaks /90
xT /90
High press (PPDA 4.0, 11m)
73%
2.4
2.7
0.50
Mid press (PPDA 5.5, 11m)
76%
1.8
1.5
0.54
Low press (PPDA 7.6, 11m)
79%
3.3
4.1
1.11
Team

Team context

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

17

Impact on the Team

Angers's output per match with Jacques Ekomié (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
2.00
1.86
+0.14
points /match
0.00
1.14
-1.14
goals for /match
0.00
1.29
-1.29
xG for /match
1.94
1.22
+0.72
18

His Share of the Team

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

category
share
him / team
tackles
8%
63 / 754
interceptions
8%
33 / 411
progressive passes
6%
101 / 1728
Recruitment

Style and verdict

Style profile, closest comparables, and the summary.

20

Playing-Style Profile

Not raw event counts — football style scores: weighted models scored 0–100 against the 232 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-back24%Inverted full-back20%
Why Overlapping full-back 24%: a weighted blend of dribbling 56 (weight 20%) + transition 42 (weight 25%) + crossing 27 (weight 30%) + final-third threat 9 (weight 25%). The score reflects how distinctively his profile SHAPE matches this archetype vs his peers.
Elite
—
Strong
territory (wide vs central), defensive aggression
Average
ball-winning, dribbling, carrying, press resistance, transition, box threat
Weak
passing directness, retention, build-up, crossing, creativity, through-balls, progression, receiving zones, line-breaking, final-third threat
Unknown
aerial ability, marking, off-ball running — not in event data
Territory (wide vs central)
84
Defensive aggression
78
Ball-winning
70
Dribbling
56
Carrying
47
Press resistance ~proxy
43
Transition ~proxy
42
Box threat
41
Passing directness
31
Retention
30
Build-up
28
Crossing
27
Creativity
23
Through-balls ~proxy
20
Progression
18
Receiving zones
13
Line-breaking
12
Final-third threat
9
21

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: 179 cm / 74 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 Ligue 1, Bundesliga, La Liga, 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.

Giacomo Quagliata Deportivo · La Liga · 180 cm / 69 kg
76%
Driven by: build-up (15%), territory (wide vs central) (14%), final-third threat (12%). Different mechanism — Ekomié more via ball-winning, passing directness; Quagliata more via receiving zones, crossing.
Daouda Guindo Brest 25/26 · 183 cm / 68 kg
73%
Driven by: final-third threat (20%), creativity (15%), receiving zones (12%). Different mechanism — Ekomié more via carrying, defensive aggression; Guindo more via line-breaking.
Iñigo Arguibide Osasuna · La Liga · 178 cm / 70 kg
72%
Driven by: final-third threat (15%), receiving zones (11%), line-breaking (10%). Different mechanism — Ekomié more via ball-winning, defensive aggression.
Davinchi Getafe · La Liga · 182 cm / 73 kg
67%
Driven by: creativity (12%), build-up (12%), defensive aggression (11%). Different mechanism — Ekomié more via carrying, ball-winning; Davinchi more via passing directness, through-balls.
Jon Aramburu Real Sociedad · La Liga · 176 cm / 71 kg
67%
Driven by: creativity (13%), defensive aggression (11%), crossing (11%). Different mechanism — Ekomié more via carrying, dribbling; Aramburu more via passing directness, final-third threat.
Lukas Ullrich Borussia Monchengladbach · Bundesliga · 178 cm / 69 kg
67%
Driven by: progression (15%), final-third threat (15%), creativity (12%). Different mechanism — Ekomié more via defensive aggression, carrying; Ullrich more via through-balls, box threat.
22

Summary

Jacques Ekomié is an overlapping full-back: 2.5 progressive passes and 6 box entries, delivering 12 key passes. Overlap-first full-back. [1v1 recovery pace and off-ball overlap timing need tracking.]

Based on 33 matches (2454 minutes) this season — a reliable read. He profiles as an overlapping full-back — best used in a system built around that identity. His biggest room for growth is final-third threat — even a modest improvement there would meaningfully lift his overall overlapping full-back profile.
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