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 (56% of his 54 passes)
89% completion · 54× in 5/5 matches
Signature: Only Receive shows a proven, repeatable pattern this season — too little evidence yet (5 matches loaded) for a fuller signature chain.
Not a pattern: progress — 2× (low confidence, shown as a number only, no tactical conclusion drawn); arrive — 0× (insufficient confidence, hidden — not enough evidence yet); create / finish — 3× (low confidence, shown as a number only, no tactical conclusion drawn) — 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.
1 key passes (0.89/90), 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
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chance creation (1)assist (0)% of the selected group's key passes originating in each zone
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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 1 key passes, his busiest route is a delivery where he plays straight through 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 left half-space in the middle third: 11% of his 9 touches there are lost (1 times).
Team
Team context
How much of the team runs through him, and what changes without him.
Fulham's output per match with César Palacios (5 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. A proper on-off model needs many more minutes.
WITH (5)
WITHOUT (33)
Δ
goals for /match
2.00
2.03
-0.03
xG for /match
1.12
0.26
+0.86
goals against /match
0.80
0.94
-0.14
points /match
2.40
2.24
+0.16
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His Share of the Team
Of everything Fulham produced this season, the categories where the biggest share ran through César Palacios specifically — his share of the team total, not a per-90 rate.
category
share
him / team
successful take-ons
2%
11 / 526
expected goals (xG)
1%
1.2 / 94.7
interceptions
1%
4 / 335
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 433 central mids 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.
Tempo controller76%Deep-lying playmaker63%Transition runner42%Box-to-box runner35%
Why Tempo controller 76%: a weighted blend of retention 89 (weight 35%) + press resistance 94 (weight 20%) + build-up 60 (weight 30%) + progression 9 (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
Dribbling
99
Press resistance ~proxy
94
Retention
89
Box threat
80
Territory (wide vs central)
73
Ball-winning
63
Build-up
60
Receiving zones
58
Defensive aggression
51
Creativity
44
Carrying
42
Transition ~proxy
25
Line-breaking
15
Final-third threat
10
Progression
9
Crossing
6
Through-balls ~proxy
3
Passing directness
1
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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: 182 cm / 68 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.
Warren Kamanzi Toulouse · Ligue 1 25/26 · 177 cm / 70 kg
84%
Driven by: crossing (22%), press resistance (16%), dribbling (12%). Different mechanism — Palacios more via ball-winning, defensive aggression; Kamanzi more via progression, carrying.
Nelson Deossa Real Betis · La Liga · 185 cm / 71 kg
82%
Driven by: press resistance (18%), dribbling (17%), crossing (13%). Different mechanism — Palacios more via retention, build-up; Deossa more via transition, passing directness.
Khalis Merah Lyon · Ligue 1 · 178 cm
76%
Driven by: passing directness (16%), press resistance (13%), progression (11%). Different mechanism — Palacios more via box threat, dribbling; Merah more via crossing, carrying.
Alpha Touré Metz · Ligue 1 25/26 · 180 cm
73%
Driven by: crossing (16%), passing directness (11%), final-third threat (11%). Different mechanism — Palacios more via box threat, territory (wide vs central).
Mahmoud Dahoud Eintracht Frankfurt · Bundesliga 25/26 · 178 cm / 68 kg
72%
Driven by: crossing (30%), press resistance (13%), through-balls (11%). Different mechanism — Palacios more via territory (wide vs central), dribbling; Dahoud more via passing directness, transition.
Mahdi Camara Rennes · Ligue 1 · 178 cm / 73 kg
72%
Driven by: press resistance (20%), retention (16%), passing directness (16%). Different mechanism — Palacios more via dribbling, box threat; Camara more via crossing, final-third threat.
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Summary
César Palacios is a tempo controller / deep-lying playmaker: 1.8 progressive passes, 0.89 key passes /90, 0 box entries, 0 goals from 0.18 xG. A box-to-box contributor across every phase.
Based on 5 matches (101 minutes) — an early read, treat with caution until more minutes are logged. 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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