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TRO

Dermane Karim

Troyes
Half-space creator CM
47% of actions in the half-spaces
Capability Analysis
Successful Dribble71%vs 31 central mids
"Can he beat a man in a straight 1v1?"
Successful take-ons /901.284%
Take-on success42.86%58%
Progression40%vs 31 central mids
"Can he move the team forward with a pass, not just recycle it sideways?"
Progressive passes /902.5329%
Line-breaking passes /901.3348%
Threat added by passing /900.73xT26%
Pass accuracy82.97%58%
Ball-Carrying73%vs 31 central mids
"Does he advance the ball himself when the pass isn't on?"
Progressive carries /904.5768%
Carry distance /90140.97m81%
Successful take-ons /901.284%
Take-on success42.86%58%
Chance Creation26%vs 31 central mids
"Does he create real chances for others?"
Expected assists /900.07xA48%
Through balls /900.00%
Threat added by passing /900.73xT26%
Box entries (pass) /901.1132%
central midtransition runnerprogressionbox-to-box
557
minutes
7 apps
22
progressive passes
3.6/90
84%
pass completion
250 passes
4
key passes
0.65/90
5
box entries
0.81/90
18
final-3rd entries
2.9/90
12
dribbles
58% won
46
possessions lost
2.55 danger/90
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 Half-Space, Middle third — mostly in the middle third (54% of his 250 passes)
84% completion · 250× in 7/7 matches
↓
PROGRESS
drive or pass into the final third
3.6 prog/90 · 22× in 7/7 matches
↓
ARRIVE
get into the box late
4 key passes · 5× in 3/7 matches
↓
CREATE / FINISH
cut-back or shot from inside
0.65 key passes /90 · 0 goals · 14× in 4/7 matches
Signature: receive → progress → arrive in the box → create or finish. A box-to-box midfielder judged across every phase.
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 →
36
passes / match
2.4
dribbles / match
3–49
pass range (matches)
1–3
dribble range (matches)
Pass range = his fewest and most passes in any single match this season (3 at the low end, 49 at the high) — a measure of match-to-match involvement, not pass distance. Dribble range works the same way, for dribbles/carries per match.
In possession

In possession

What he does with the ball: build-up, progression, creation, carrying and finishing.

09

How dangerous are his carries?

Real ball-carries

69 tracked carries (11.1/90, 8 progressive, 593m total) — the ball moving with his touches, a different signal from dribbles below (beating an opponent 1v1). this counts every touch-carry, not just his dribble attempts below — a fuller picture of how much of his ball-carrying is control-and-move rather than beating a man.

3%3%10%3%1%10%13%14%7%1%6%6%13%9%
progressivelateral/short% of his 69 carries originating in each zone · own goal left, attacking →
Every carry, exact path — median 7m, longest 25m
By zone — where the carry started → where it ended
3Outside → Inside
53Inside → Inside
7Outside → Outside
6Inside → Outside
First (23)Second (18)Third (15)Fourth (13)grouped by carry pattern (start + end position), largest group first
startendown goal left, attacking →

Dribbles (1v1s)

Dermane Karim's signature is the dribble. Does he carry outside (down the left wing) or inside (into the half-space / centre)? Every dribble classified by channel. Season rate: 1.94 dribbles attempted /90.

brighter band = more dribbles · own goal left, attacking →
INSIDE 83%
OUTSIDE 17%
Dribble location — 10 inside · 2 outside
Right Wing
0 · 0%
Right Half-Space
0 · 0%
Central
5 · 42%
Left Half-Space
5 · 42%
Left Wing
2 · 17%
Vision AI 17% of his dribbles are in the wide left lane — he attacks the full-back on the outside, then threatens to cut inside onto his right foot.
11

How does he build & move 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 →RWRHSCLHSLWRW1662%1019%319%3RHS4646%2128%1322%102%12%1C5315%813%725%1330%1617%9LHS597%415%922%1327%1629%17LW3526%929%1046%16FROM
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 defensive third → the left wing in the middle third — 1 progressive passes (6% of his progression) at 0.061 xT each. He keeps it in the same lane.

His progression is inward: 38% of progressive passes move the ball toward the middle versus 6% going wider — he cuts in rather than holding width.

16% of his passes are cross-field switches — he changes the point of attack often.

Quality behind the volume: 6 line-breaking passes and 18 final-third entries, 1.3 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
1%3%4%8%9%0%1%6%10%12%6%2%5%9%12%10%2%
completedincomplete250 passes · any zone → any zone · own goal left, attacking →
250
passes
84%
completed
41
lost
Vision AIIn line with his 84% season completion rate.
04

How does he progress play?

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

22
progressive · 3.6/90
18
final-third entries · 2.9/90
5
box entries · 0.81/90
13
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.
05

How does he create chances?

4 key passes (0.65/90), 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:
50%25%25%
chance creation (4)assist (0)% of the selected group's key passes originating in each zone
12

Where does he become vulnerable?

46 possessions lost. Directness has a cost — the question is where. Attacking-third losses are cheap; deep ones are dangerous.

14
attacking third (cheap)
23
middle third
9
own third (dangerous)
Vision AI 30% of losses are in the attacking third — a notable share happen deeper, which invites transitions.
Mistake danger (proxy): 2.55 danger-index/90 · 0.343 avg/turnover. Weights each loss by threat conceded at that location. True xT-conceded needs the opponent possession model; positional proxy.
13

What is his passing profile?

250
passes attempted
48%
mostly forward
50%
mostly medium
Direction
Forward
120 · 48%
Sideways
66 · 26%
Backward
64 · 26%
Length (completed)
Short (<15m)
78 · 37%
Medium
105 · 50%
Long (>30m)
26 · 12%
10

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.

0.460.250.210.200.190.14
own goal left, attacking →
Highest-value routes (xT)
0.46
Left Half-Space Mid third → Left Wing Att third
4 passes
0.25
Central Att third → Central Att third
1 passes
0.21
Right Half-Space Att third → Right Half-Space Att third
1 passes
0.20
Right Wing Att third → Right Wing Att third
1 passes
0.19
Left Half-Space Att third → Left Half-Space Att third
1 passes
0.14
Central Mid third → Right Wing Mid third
3 passes
07

Where Does He Receive?

The zones where Dermane Karim 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
18%
Primary
Left Half-Space, Middle third
16%
Secondary
Central, Middle third
9%
Third
Right Half-Space, Middle third
These are the zones where he collected the ball most.
08

Where Does He Operate? — Every Zone

Every on-ball touch (pass, dribble, shot) binned into a 6×3 grid — raw counts of where Dermane Karim 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:
41624302443172830245281019231
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.

1%3%4%8%9%0%1%6%10%12%6%2%5%9%12%10%2%
own goal left, attacking →
14

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.

4Key pass
1Cross
22Progressive
28Long ball
18Switch
By zone — where the pass started → where it landed
25Outside → Inside
98Inside → Inside
26Outside → Outside
60Inside → Outside
By direction
120Forward
64Backward
66Sideways
own goal left, attacking →
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 →
How does he progress the ball forward?
His most common route for progressing play: he switches it out from the left hs to the left wing, advancing it forward in the middle third — 4 passes worth 0.46 xT.
Where do his chances come from?
Of 4 key passes, his busiest route is a delivery where he plays inside from the right wing toward the central in the final third — 1 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 right wing in the middle third: 60% of his 10 touches there are lost (6 times).
—4 touches · too few0%0/9 lost0%0/14 lost38%3/8 lost40%4/10 lost60%6/10 lost4%1/23 lost21%8/39 lost11%5/45 lost5%1/19 lost0%0/8 lost17%3/18 lost27%3/11 lost30%6/20 lost8%1/12 lostRWRHSCLHSLWDEFMIDATT
03

Does he carry inside or outside — his ball-carries across the pitch

Four arrows, one per movement class of his ball-carries: outside→inside (cutting in with the ball), inside→outside (carrying wide), outside→outside (down the touchline) and inside→inside (through the middle). Each count is measured from the carry's real start and end coordinates.

own goal left, attacking →
Across 69 ball-carries, his dominant tendency is that he carries through central areas (77%). He carries from outside into the middle 3 times and out toward the touchline 6 — a width-holder who drives down the line.
06

What happens right after he carries the ball

Every carry's end point matched against his own very next pass or shot in the same match, when one starts almost exactly there — the direct continuation of that touch, not a separate stat. “No clean link” means no pass or shot of his own started close enough to count (often the carry ended in a tackle or a loss); it isn't a claim about exactly what happened, only that nothing traceable followed.

Shot
2 · 3%
Progressive / key pass
4 · 6%
Simple pass
56 · 81%
No clean link
7 · 10%
Of 69 carries, 3% flow straight into a shot of his own, 6% into a key or progressive pass — a genuine end product to the carry, not just ball retention. 10% have no clean link to a next touch of his own close to where the carry ended.
Out of possession

Out of possession

Where and how he defends and presses.

15

How & where does he defend?

119 defensive actions across the season (19.2/90). 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 →
18
tackles · 72% won
6
interceptions · 1.0/90
51
recoveries · 8.2/90
7
clearances · 1.1/90
4
blocks
40
avg action height
15
won high (att 3rd)
51
middle third
53
own third
Vision AI A mid-block defender. He wins the ball mainly by stepping in — tackles, interceptions & recoveries outweigh clearances. 75 proactive ball-wins (12.1/90), tackle success 72%. He defends high, stepping out to intercept — suits a high line.
16

Against Different Pressing Intensities

Split by how hard the opponent pressed (opponent PPDA — lower = more intense press). Does Dermane Karim keep producing when the game is tight and the press is high? Tiers of ~2-3 matches — directional evidence, not proof.

press tier
xT /90
prog /90
key P /90
dribble%
High press (PPDA 3.8, 2m)
1.05
4.1
0.82
50%
Mid press (PPDA 4.1, 2m)
0.46
1.5
0.51
67%
Low press (PPDA 5.2, 3m)
1.04
4.6
0.66
60%
Team

Team context

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

17

Impact on the Team

Troyes's output per match with Dermane Karim (7 matches) versus without him (1 matches). Insufficient evidence — the without-sample is only 1 matches; treat every Δ below as noise until more games exist. A proper on-off model needs many more minutes.

WITH (7)
WITHOUT (1)
Δ
goals for /match
0.71
0.00
+0.71
xG for /match
1.22
0.48
+0.74
goals against /match
2.29
0.00
+2.29
points /match
0.57
1.00
-0.43
18

His Share of the Team

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

category
share
him / team
zone-14 entries
43%
28 / 65
successful take-ons
43%
27 / 63
ball recoveries
28%
140 / 502
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 383 central mids 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.

Transition runner67%Box-to-box runner66%Advanced playmaker (8)57%Tempo controller56%
Why Transition runner 67%: a weighted blend of transition 76 (weight 45%) + defensive aggression 52 (weight 30%) + box threat 46 (weight 25%). The score reflects how distinctively his profile SHAPE matches this archetype vs his peers.
Elite
—
Strong
carrying, transition, dribbling, receiving zones
Average
ball-winning, creativity, press resistance, crossing, retention, line-breaking, territory (wide vs central), progression, defensive aggression, through-balls, final-third threat, passing directness, box threat, build-up
Weak
—
Unknown
aerial ability, marking, off-ball running — not in event data
Carrying
85
Transition ~proxy
76
Dribbling
76
Receiving zones
73
Ball-winning
65
Creativity
64
Press resistance ~proxy
64
Crossing
62
Retention
59
Line-breaking
58
Territory (wide vs central)
58
Progression
54
Defensive aggression
52
Through-balls ~proxy
52
Final-third threat
49
Passing directness
47
Box threat
46
Build-up
45
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: 193 cm) 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.

Pablo Barrios Atletico · La Liga · 183 cm / 75 kg
74%
Driven by: carrying (18%), transition (18%), dribbling (15%). Different mechanism — Barrios more via final-third threat, progression.
Kévin Danois Auxerre · 183 cm / 72 kg
73%
Driven by: dribbling (15%), transition (15%), carrying (14%). Different mechanism — Karim more via territory (wide vs central); Danois more via final-third threat, progression.
Curtis Jones Inter · Serie A · 185 cm / 78 kg
72%
Driven by: transition (20%), carrying (19%), dribbling (12%). Different mechanism — Jones more via final-third threat, progression.
Jacob Ramsey Newcastle · Premier League · 180 cm / 75 kg
65%
Driven by: receiving zones (16%), press resistance (14%), carrying (14%). Different mechanism — Karim more via transition, carrying; Ramsey more via retention.
Khéphren Thuram Juventus · Serie A · 192 cm / 80 kg
63%
Driven by: carrying (22%), transition (17%), dribbling (14%). Different mechanism — Karim more via territory (wide vs central), crossing; Thuram more via box threat, passing directness.
Lovro Majer Wolfsburg · Bundesliga 25/26 · 178 cm / 76 kg
63%
Driven by: carrying (30%), dribbling (19%), transition (18%). Different mechanism — Karim more via line-breaking; Majer more via box threat.
22

Summary

Dermane Karim is a transition runner / box-to-box runner: 3.6 progressive passes, 0.65 key passes /90, 5 box entries, 0 goals from 0.52 xG. A box-to-box contributor across every phase.

Based on 7 matches (557 minutes) — an early read, treat with caution until more minutes are logged. He profiles as a transition runner / box-to-box runner — best used in a system built around that identity. His biggest room for growth is box threat — even a modest improvement there would meaningfully lift his overall transition runner profile.
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