Thin sample this season. Alejandro Garnacho has played 3 matches (51 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 →
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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, Attacking third — mostly in the attacking third (62% of his 16 passes)
100% of touches wide left · 16× in 2/2 matches
Signature: Only Receive shows a proven, repeatable pattern this season — too little evidence yet (2 matches loaded) for a fuller signature chain.
Not a pattern: carry / beat man — 1× (low confidence, shown as a number only, no tactical conclusion drawn); progress — 0× (insufficient confidence, hidden — not enough evidence yet); create / finish — 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.
Aston Villa's output per match with Alejandro Garnacho (3 matches) versus without him (5 matches). Insufficient evidence — the without-sample is only 5 matches; treat every Δ below as noise until more games exist. A proper on-off model needs many more minutes.
WITH (3)
WITHOUT (5)
Δ
goals for /match
0.00
1.80
-1.80
xG for /match
0.70
0.85
-0.15
goals against /match
1.67
1.40
+0.27
points /match
0.33
2.00
-1.67
03
His Share of the Team
Of everything Aston Villa produced this season, the categories where the biggest share ran through Alejandro Garnacho specifically — his share of the team total, not a per-90 rate.
category
share
him / team
zone-14 entries
8%
24 / 309
half-space entries
8%
92 / 1224
shots
7%
33 / 444
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 180 wingers 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.
aerial ability, marking, off-ball running — not in event data
Territory (wide vs central)
97
Receiving zones
91
Line-breaking
84
Carrying
81
Creativity
79
Progression
69
Build-up
68
Retention
66
Box threat
64
Final-third threat
55
Transition ~proxy
50
Defensive aggression
50
Press resistance ~proxy
43
Ball-winning
33
Through-balls ~proxy
24
Dribbling
22
Crossing
18
Passing directness
3
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: 180 cm / 73 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.
Ernest Poku Leverkusen · Bundesliga 25/26 · 173 cm / 63 kg
58%
Driven by: passing directness (28%), receiving zones (14%), carrying (14%). Different mechanism — Garnacho more via line-breaking, territory (wide vs central); Poku more via dribbling, crossing.
Amad Diallo Man Utd · 173 cm / 72 kg
52%
Driven by: passing directness (16%), build-up (16%), territory (wide vs central) (15%). Different mechanism — Garnacho more via line-breaking; Diallo more via ball-winning, crossing.
Marcus Rashford Man Utd · 188 cm / 80 kg
49%
Driven by: receiving zones (17%), creativity (14%), territory (wide vs central) (14%). Different mechanism — Garnacho more via carrying, transition; Rashford more via crossing, through-balls.
Callum Hudson-Odoi Nottingham Forest · 182 cm / 76 kg
48%
Driven by: creativity (16%), receiving zones (16%), territory (wide vs central) (13%). Different mechanism — Garnacho more via defensive aggression, box threat; Hudson-Odoi more via crossing, passing directness.
Luis Díaz Bayern · Bundesliga · 180 cm / 70 kg
47%
Driven by: passing directness (19%), receiving zones (19%), carrying (14%). Different mechanism — Garnacho more via territory (wide vs central); Díaz more via dribbling, crossing.
Jack Grealish Everton · 180 cm / 77 kg
46%
Driven by: creativity (17%), receiving zones (15%), carrying (13%). Different mechanism — Garnacho more via territory (wide vs central), box threat; Grealish more via crossing, passing directness.
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Summary
Alejandro Garnacho is a wide, outside-first left carrier: 100% of dribbles in the wing lane, 88% of passes from wide — but 40% land inside. 0.0 progressive passes and 0.00 key passes /90 plus 0 goals from 0.00 xG. A carry-and-deliver threat.
Based on 3 matches (51 minutes) — an early read, treat with caution until more minutes are logged. He profiles as a half-space creator / inside forward — 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 half-space creator profile.
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