Thin sample this season. Pablo Durán has played 7 matches (385 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.
Signature: Link → Finish → Convert — the only steps proven repeatable this season (3 of 4 in the full pattern). Not enough evidence yet for the rest of the chain below.
Not a pattern: receive / move — 0× (insufficient confidence, hidden — not enough evidence yet) — omitted from the signature rather than presented as one.
In possession
In possession
What he does with the ball: build-up, progression, creation, carrying and finishing.
31 tracked carries (7.2/90, 4 progressive, 297m 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.
progressivelateral/short% of his 31 carries originating in each zone · own goal left, attacking →
Every carry, exact path — median 7m, longest 29m
By zone — where the carry started → where it ended
First (19)Second (12)grouped by carry pattern (start + end position), largest group first
startendown goal left, attacking →
Dribbles (1v1s)
Does he drop to link or stay central? Touches by channel. Season rate: 1.87 dribbles attempted /90.
brighter band = more dribbles · own goal left, attacking →
INSIDE 75%
OUTSIDE 25%
Dribble location — 6 inside · 2 outside
Right Wing
1 · 12%
Right Half-Space
1 · 12%
Central
4 · 50%
Left Half-Space
1 · 12%
Left Wing
1 · 12%
Vision AI His touches are central and high — a penalty-box striker.
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How does he create chances?
2 key passes (0.47/90), 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:
chance creation (2)assist (0)% of the selected group's key passes originating in each zone
Box deliveries — key passes reaching the final third, by flank
from the left (1)from the right (1)of 2 key passes landing in the final thirdattacking ↑ toward goal
06
Where does he become vulnerable?
28 possessions lost. Directness has a cost — the question is where. Attacking-third losses are cheap; deep ones are dangerous.
16
attacking third (cheap)
10
middle third
2
own third (dangerous)
Vision AI 57% of losses are in the attacking third — he gambles where a turnover costs little.
Mistake danger (proxy): 1.55 danger-index/90 · 0.237 avg/turnover. Weights each loss by threat conceded at that location. True xT-conceded needs the opponent possession model; positional proxy.
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 →
Where do his chances come from?
Of 2 key passes, his busiest route is a delivery where he switches it out from the central to the right wing, advancing it forward in the middle 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 central in the final third: 38% of his 8 touches there are lost (3 times).
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 31 ball-carries, his dominant tendency is that he drives along the touchline (35%). He carries from outside into the middle 6 times and out toward the touchline 3 — a genuine inside forward who cuts in with the ball.
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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 · 3%
Progressive / key pass
5 · 16%
Simple pass
14 · 45%
No clean link
11 · 35%
Of 31 carries, 3% flow straight into a shot of his own, 16% into a key or progressive pass — a genuine end product to the carry, not just ball retention. 35% have no clean link to a next touch of his own close to where the carry ended.
33 defensive actions across the season (7.7/90). 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 →
3
tackles · 33% won
1
interceptions · 0.2/90
8
recoveries · 1.9/90
2
clearances · 0.5/90
2
blocks
50
avg action height
6
won high (att 3rd)
20
middle third
7
own third
Vision AI A front-foot / high defender. He wins the ball mainly by stepping in — tackles, interceptions & recoveries outweigh clearances. 12 proactive ball-wins (2.8/90), tackle success 33%. He defends high, stepping out to intercept — suits a high line.
Defensive work in the attacking half
Ball-wins in the attacking half only (own half vs. attacking half, a simple 2-way split, not the usual thirds) — the clearest single signal of how much he presses and recovers the ball high up the pitch.
17
attacking-half actions · 3.97/90
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Against Different Pressing Intensities
Split by how hard the opponent pressed (opponent PPDA — lower = more intense press). Does Pablo Durán 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 4.6, 2m)
0.09
1.0
0.98
0%
Mid press (PPDA 6.1, 2m)
0.14
0.6
0.00
100%
Low press (PPDA 7.6, 3m)
0.30
0.0
0.61
0%
Team
Team context
How much of the team runs through him, and what changes without him.
Celta Vigo's output per match with Pablo Durán (7 matches) versus without him (3 matches). Insufficient evidence — the without-sample is only 3 matches; treat every Δ below as noise until more games exist. A proper on-off model needs many more minutes.
WITH (7)
WITHOUT (3)
Δ
goals for /match
1.00
1.00
+0.00
xG for /match
0.80
0.64
+0.15
goals against /match
0.43
1.33
-0.90
points /match
1.14
1.33
-0.19
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His Share of the Team
Of everything Celta Vigo produced this season, the categories where the biggest share ran through Pablo Durán specifically — his share of the team total, not a per-90 rate.
category
share
him / team
goals
25%
2 / 8
expected goals (xG)
10%
5.2 / 50.5
shots
10%
44 / 447
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 299 strikers 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
Line-breaking
87
Receiving zones
82
Through-balls ~proxy
77
Progression
74
Ball-winning
73
Build-up
70
Carrying
61
Creativity
60
Transition ~proxy
53
Final-third threat
53
Crossing
52
Territory (wide vs central)
44
Retention
40
Press resistance ~proxy
35
Box threat
33
Defensive aggression
32
Dribbling
30
Passing directness
20
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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: 176 cm / 72 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 La Liga, Bundesliga, Ligue 1, 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.
Mohammed Amoura Nice · Ligue 1 · 170 cm / 61 kg
66%
Driven by: line-breaking (16%), progression (12%), ball-winning (12%). Different mechanism — Amoura more via territory (wide vs central), carrying.
Antoine Griezmann Atletico 25/26 · 176 cm / 73 kg
63%
Driven by: receiving zones (14%), line-breaking (13%), build-up (13%). Different mechanism — Griezmann more via passing directness, final-third threat.
Jack Harrison Leeds · Serie A 25/26 · 175 cm / 70 kg
63%
Driven by: line-breaking (14%), build-up (13%), progression (12%). Different mechanism — Harrison more via territory (wide vs central), passing directness.
Isaac Romero Sevilla · 184 cm / 70 kg
62%
Driven by: ball-winning (20%), line-breaking (13%), through-balls (11%). Different mechanism — Durán more via receiving zones; Romero more via passing directness, territory (wide vs central).
Sebastiano Esposito Sassuolo · Serie A · 183 cm / 76 kg
60%
Driven by: line-breaking (14%), ball-winning (13%), progression (11%). Different mechanism — Esposito more via passing directness, territory (wide vs central).
Alexis Sánchez Sevilla 25/26 · 169 cm / 62 kg
59%
Driven by: line-breaking (15%), ball-winning (14%), through-balls (12%). Different mechanism — Sánchez more via passing directness, territory (wide vs central).
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Summary
Pablo Durán is a false 9: 2 goals from 1.06 xG (+0.94 vs expected), 7 shots, 0 box entries. A clinical finisher. [Off-ball runs, aerials and hold-up under contact need tracking/aerial data.]
Based on 7 matches (385 minutes) — an early read, treat with caution until more minutes are logged. He profiles as a false 9 — 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 false 9 profile.
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