Thin sample this season. Isaak Touré has played 1 match (37 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
in the first line of build-up — mostly in the middle third (75% of his 20 passes)
80% completion · 20× in 1/1 matches
↓
BREAK A LINE
vertical pass past the opponent midfield
0.0 prog/90 · 1× in 1/1 matches
↓
SWITCH PLAY
diagonal to the far side
cross-field balls · 1× in 1/1 matches
↓
PROGRESS
entries into the final third
4.9/90 · 2× in 1/1 matches
Signature: Receive → Break A Line → Switch Play → Progress — 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: carry out — 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.
Lorient's output per match with Isaak Touré (1 matches) versus without him (33 matches). Insufficient evidence — the without-sample is only 33 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 (33)
Δ
goals against /match
0.00
1.55
-1.55
points /match
3.00
1.27
+1.73
goals for /match
4.00
1.33
+2.67
xG for /match
1.17
0.02
+1.15
03
His Share of the Team
Of everything Lorient produced this season, the categories where the biggest share ran through Isaak Touré specifically — his share of the team total, not a per-90 rate.
category
share
him / team
clearances
2%
22 / 913
interceptions
2%
6 / 325
half-space entries
2%
13 / 736
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 586 centre-backs 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.
Ball-playing centre-back68%Stopper centre-back50%
Why Ball-playing centre-back 68%: a weighted blend of progression 79 (weight 25%) + retention 65 (weight 30%) + build-up 58 (weight 30%) + press resistance 52 (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
99
Through-balls ~proxy
99
Crossing
96
Box threat
91
Final-third threat
90
Creativity
88
Receiving zones
84
Territory (wide vs central)
83
Progression
79
Retention
65
Build-up
58
Carrying
54
Press resistance ~proxy
52
Ball-winning
51
Dribbling
49
Defensive aggression
47
Transition ~proxy
44
Passing directness
28
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: 206 cm / 98 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.
Yann Bisseck Inter · Serie A · 196 cm / 83 kg
82%
Driven by: crossing (13%), box threat (13%), line-breaking (11%). Different mechanism — Touré more via creativity, territory (wide vs central); Bisseck more via dribbling, press resistance.
Noahkai Banks Augsburg · Bundesliga · 193 cm / 93 kg
80%
Driven by: creativity (13%), crossing (13%), through-balls (12%). Different mechanism — Touré more via final-third threat, box threat.
Manuel Akanji Inter · Serie A · 188 cm / 91 kg
79%
Driven by: creativity (16%), final-third threat (11%), box threat (11%). Different mechanism — Touré more via territory (wide vs central), dribbling; Akanji more via transition, carrying.
Dávid Hancko Atletico · La Liga · 188 cm / 82 kg
78%
Driven by: creativity (19%), final-third threat (14%), box threat (12%). Different mechanism — Touré more via crossing, through-balls; Hancko more via dribbling, carrying.
Maxima Goffi Lille · 184 cm
77%
Driven by: creativity (17%), crossing (16%), through-balls (12%). Different mechanism — Touré more via passing directness, line-breaking; Goffi more via ball-winning.
Ramy Bensebaini Borussia Dortmund · Bundesliga · 187 cm / 82 kg
77%
Driven by: final-third threat (14%), box threat (14%), crossing (13%). Different mechanism — Touré more via territory (wide vs central), creativity; Bensebaini more via transition, carrying.
06
Summary
Isaak Touré is a ball-playing centre-back: 80% pass completion, 1 line-breaking passes and 0.0 progressive passes /90. A build-and-progress centre-back whose value is in beating the first line with the pass, not in raw defensive volume. [Aerial duels, marking, line-height and 1v1 recovery need aerial-event + tracking data, absent here.]
Based on 1 matches (37 minutes) — an early read, treat with caution until more minutes are logged. He profiles as a ball-playing centre-back — best used in a system built around that identity.
His biggest room for growth is press resistance — even a modest improvement there would meaningfully lift his overall ball-playing centre-back profile.
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