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Player reportSerie A 2025/26

Reda Belahyane

Lazio
Half-space creator CM
41% of actions in the half-spaces
Capability Analysis
Successful Dribble38%vs 16 defensive mids
"Can he beat a man in a straight 1v1?"
Successful take-ons /900.5869%
Take-on success34.62%6%
Progression61%vs 16 defensive mids
"Can he move the team forward with a pass, not just recycle it sideways?"
Progressive passes /903.3656%
Line-breaking passes /901.3656%
Threat added by passing /900.97xT44%
Pass accuracy90.18%88%
Ball-Carrying41%vs 16 defensive mids
"Does he advance the ball himself when the pass isn't on?"
Progressive carries /903.0444%
Carry distance /9090.39m44%
Successful take-ons /900.5869%
Take-on success34.62%6%
Chance Creation34%vs 16 defensive mids
"Does he create real chances for others?"
Expected assists /900.08xA62%
Through balls /900.00%
Threat added by passing /900.97xT44%
Box entries (pass) /900.7831%
central midtempo controllerprogressionbox-to-box
1396
minutes
21 apps
50
progressive passes
3.2/90
90%
pass completion
733 passes
12
key passes
0.77/90
11
box entries
0.71/90
64
final-3rd entries
4.1/90
26
dribbles
35% won
89
possessions lost
1.92 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
Central, Middle third — mostly in the middle third (63% of his 733 passes)
90% completion · 733× in 20/20 matches
↓
PROGRESS
drive or pass into the final third
3.2 prog/90 · 50× in 15/20 matches
↓
ARRIVE
get into the box late
12 key passes · 11× in 10/20 matches
↓
CREATE / FINISH
cut-back or shot from inside
0.77 key passes /90 · 0 goals · 18× in 12/20 matches
Signature: receive → progress → arrive in the box → create or finish. A box-to-box midfielder judged across every phase.
20

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 →
37
passes / match
2.2
dribbles / match
2–89
pass range (matches)
1–6
dribble range (matches)
Pass range = his fewest and most passes in any single match this season (2 at the low end, 89 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.

12

How dangerous are his carries?

Real ball-carries

153 tracked carries (9.9/90, 25 progressive, 1290m 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.

1%5%11%12%2%8%16%11%4%1%2%5%15%5%1%
progressivelateral/short% of his 153 carries originating in each zone · own goal left, attacking →
Every carry, exact path — median 7m, longest 43m
By zone — where the carry started → where it ended
12Outside → Inside
104Inside → Inside
21Outside → Outside
16Inside → Outside
First (45)Second (38)Third (37)Fourth (33)grouped by carry pattern (start + end position), largest group first
startendown goal left, attacking →

Dribbles (1v1s)

Reda Belahyane's signature is the dribble. Does he carry outside (down the right wing) or inside (into the half-space / centre)? Every dribble classified by channel. Season rate: 1.68 dribbles attempted /90.

brighter band = more dribbles · own goal left, attacking →
INSIDE 50%
OUTSIDE 50%
Dribble location — 13 inside · 13 outside
Right Wing
7 · 27%
Right Half-Space
6 · 23%
Central
4 · 15%
Left Half-Space
3 · 12%
Left Wing
6 · 23%
Vision AI 50% of his dribbles are in the wide right lane — he attacks the full-back on the outside, then threatens to cut inside onto his left foot.
06

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 →RWRHSCLHSLWRW9559%5640%381%1RHS14537%5334%4921%316%83%4C20310%2116%3233%6633%669%18LHS1333%49%1222%2920%2746%61LW852%225%2173%62FROM
Rows normalised: each row sums to 100% of that lane's completed passes. Grey number = passes from that lane.

Primary route: the right wing in the middle third → the right wing in the final third — 4 progressive passes (8% of his progression) at 0.082 xT each. He keeps it in the same lane.

His progression is inward: 48% of progressive passes move the ball toward the middle versus 8% going wider — he cuts in rather than holding width.

Only 7% of his passes switch play, so his threat is same-side — contain the flank he occupies and the route closes.

Quality behind the volume: 21 line-breaking passes and 64 final-third entries, 6.0 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%5%8%11%7%0%0%7%14%11%6%0%1%3%6%12%6%1%
completedincomplete733 passes · any zone → any zone · own goal left, attacking →
733
passes
90%
completed
72
lost
Vision AIIn line with his 90% season completion rate.
02

How does he progress play?

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

50
progressive · 3.2/90
64
final-third entries · 4.1/90
11
box entries · 0.71/90
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.
04

How does he create chances?

12 key passes (0.77/90), 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:
17%8%33%25%17%
chance creation (12)assist (0)% of the selected group's key passes originating in each zone
09

Where does he become vulnerable?

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

25
attacking third (cheap)
49
middle third
15
own third (dangerous)
Vision AI 28% of losses are in the attacking third — a notable share happen deeper, which invites transitions.
Mistake danger (proxy): 1.92 danger-index/90 · 0.335 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?

733
passes attempted
40%
mostly sideways
61%
mostly short
Direction
Forward
288 · 39%
Sideways
291 · 40%
Backward
154 · 21%
Length (completed)
Short (<15m)
403 · 61%
Medium
222 · 34%
Long (>30m)
36 · 5%
07

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.

0.510.470.400.310.300.27
own goal left, attacking →
Highest-value routes (xT)
0.51
Right Half-Space Mid third → Right Wing Att third
2 passes
0.47
Right Wing Mid third → Right Wing Att third
2 passes
0.40
Right Wing Mid third → Right Half-Space Att third
1 passes
0.31
Right Half-Space Mid third → Right Wing Mid third
4 passes
0.30
Left Wing Mid third → Left Wing Att third
2 passes
0.27
Left Wing Att third → Left Wing Att third
3 passes
10

Where Does He Receive?

The zones where Reda Belahyane 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
19%
Primary
Central, Middle third
14%
Secondary
Right Half-Space, Middle third
13%
Third
Left Half-Space, Middle third
These are the zones where he collected the ball most.
11

Where Does He Operate? — Every Zone

Every on-ball touch (pass, dribble, shot) binned into a 6×3 grid — raw counts of where Reda Belahyane 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:
7244791498350103834735386585525
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%5%8%11%7%0%0%7%14%11%6%0%1%3%6%12%6%1%
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.

12Key pass
4Cross
4Cutback
50Progressive
44Long ball
24Switch
By zone — where the pass started → where it landed
62Outside → Inside
320Inside → Inside
118Outside → Outside
161Inside → Outside
By direction
288Forward
154Backward
291Sideways
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 switches it out from the right hs to the right wing, advancing it forward in the middle third — 2 passes worth 0.51 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 — 3 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 defensive third: 26% of his 23 touches there are lost (6 times).
26%6/23 lost5%1/22 lost7%3/46 lost5%1/19 lost8%1/13 lost13%8/62 lost10%10/104 lost6%8/141 lost10%10/100 lost7%4/54 lost8%2/26 lost9%3/33 lost18%6/33 lost17%5/30 lost15%4/27 lostRWRHSCLHSLWDEFMIDATT
05

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 153 ball-carries, his dominant tendency is that he carries through central areas (68%). He carries from outside into the middle 12 times and out toward the touchline 16 — a width-holder who drives down the line.
08

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
1 · 1%
Progressive / key pass
9 · 6%
Simple pass
123 · 80%
No clean link
20 · 13%
Of 153 carries, 1% 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. 13% have no clean link to a next touch of his own close to where the carry ended.
15

Crosses & Cutbacks

4 crosses (0.26/90, 3 completed) and 4 cutbacks (0.26/90, 1 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.

16

How & where does he defend?

168 defensive actions across the season (10.8/90). 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 →
29
tackles · 59% won
7
interceptions · 0.5/90
82
recoveries · 5.3/90
14
clearances · 0.9/90
12
blocks
39
avg action height
12
won high (att 3rd)
93
middle third
63
own third
Vision AI A mid-block defender. He wins the ball mainly by stepping in — tackles, interceptions & recoveries outweigh clearances. 118 proactive ball-wins (7.6/90), tackle success 59%. He defends mostly around the middle third.
17

Against Different Pressing Intensities

Split by how hard the opponent pressed (opponent PPDA — lower = more intense press). Does Reda Belahyane keep producing when the game is tight and the press is high? Tiers of ~7-7 matches — directional evidence, not proof.

press tier
xT /90
prog /90
key P /90
dribble%
High press (PPDA 5.0, 7m)
0.77
2.2
0.64
17%
Mid press (PPDA 7.2, 7m)
1.13
4.4
0.99
75%
Low press (PPDA 11.5, 7m)
1.07
3.4
0.76
31%
Team

Team context

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

18

Impact on the Team

Lazio's output per match with Reda Belahyane (8 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 (8)
WITHOUT (1)
Δ
goals for /match
2.62
1.00
+1.62
xG for /match
1.57
0.59
+0.98
goals against /match
0.88
0.00
+0.88
points /match
2.75
3.00
-0.25
19

His Share of the Team

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

category
share
him / team
zone-14 entries
4%
16 / 411
ball recoveries
4%
82 / 2334
tackles
3%
29 / 829
Recruitment

Style and verdict

Style profile, closest comparables, and the summary.

21

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.

Tempo controller71%Deep-lying playmaker65%Box-to-box runner50%Advanced playmaker (8)46%
Why Tempo controller 71%: a weighted blend of retention 77 (weight 35%) + build-up 76 (weight 30%) + press resistance 55 (weight 20%) + progression 40 (weight 15%). The score reflects how distinctively his profile SHAPE matches this archetype vs his peers.
Elite
passing directness
Strong
retention, build-up, receiving zones
Average
transition, creativity, ball-winning, press resistance, final-third threat, crossing, defensive aggression, line-breaking, dribbling, progression
Weak
carrying, territory (wide vs central), through-balls, box threat
Unknown
aerial ability, marking, off-ball running — not in event data
Passing directness
90
Retention
77
Build-up
76
Receiving zones
70
Transition ~proxy
66
Creativity
66
Ball-winning
63
Press resistance ~proxy
55
Final-third threat
48
Crossing
47
Defensive aggression
45
Line-breaking
44
Dribbling
43
Progression
40
Carrying
38
Territory (wide vs central)
26
Through-balls ~proxy
20
Box threat
13
22

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: 169 cm / 53 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 Serie A, Bundesliga, La Liga, Ligue 1 and Premier League, 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.

Stanislav Lobotka Napoli · 168 cm / 68 kg
80%
Driven by: box threat (18%), build-up (14%), retention (12%). Different mechanism — Belahyane more via ball-winning, territory (wide vs central).
Fran Beltrán Girona · La Liga 25/26 · 170 cm / 66 kg
79%
Driven by: build-up (14%), retention (12%), box threat (11%). Different mechanism — Belahyane more via line-breaking, territory (wide vs central); Beltrán more via carrying.
Idrissa Gana Gueye Everton · Premier League 25/26 · 174 cm / 66 kg
76%
Driven by: passing directness (17%), through-balls (12%), weight (9%). Different mechanism — Belahyane more via dribbling, line-breaking; Gueye more via box threat.
Máximo Perrone Como · 177 cm / 72 kg
73%
Driven by: build-up (20%), retention (13%), territory (wide vs central) (12%). Different mechanism — Belahyane more via territory (wide vs central); Perrone more via box threat, receiving zones.
Hicham Boudaoui Nice · Ligue 1 · 175 cm / 61 kg
73%
Driven by: weight (18%), passing directness (16%), territory (wide vs central) (12%). Different mechanism — Boudaoui more via box threat, carrying.
Miguel Román Celta Vigo · La Liga · 178 cm / 70 kg
70%
Driven by: box threat (16%), territory (wide vs central) (13%), passing directness (12%). Different mechanism — Belahyane more via dribbling, territory (wide vs central).
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Summary

Reda Belahyane is a tempo controller / deep-lying playmaker: 3.2 progressive passes, 0.77 key passes /90, 11 box entries, 0 goals from 0.44 xG. A box-to-box contributor across every phase.

Based on 21 matches (1396 minutes) — a reasonable read, still building toward a full-season sample. He profiles as a tempo controller / deep-lying playmaker — best used in a system built around that identity. His biggest room for growth is progression — even a modest improvement there would meaningfully lift his overall tempo controller profile.
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