Paco Cortés

His repeatable signature. A step only appears if its reliability score (sample size × match coverage) reaches at least Medium confidence — pattern mining, not anecdotes.

12 tracked carries (9.1/90, 4 progressive, 173m 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.

Only 5 dribbles attempted this season — too little volume to map a location pattern.

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

Levante's output per match with Paco Cortés (6 matches) versus without him (4 matches). Insufficient evidence — the without-sample is only 4 matches; treat every Δ below as noise until more games exist. A proper on-off model needs many more minutes.

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

Not raw event counts — football style scores: weighted models scored 0–100 against the 180 wingers 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.

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: 178 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 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.

Paco Cortés is a wide, outside-first left carrier: 60% of dribbles in the wing lane, 74% of passes from wide — but 47% land inside. 0.0 progressive passes and 0.00 key passes /90 plus 0 goals from 0.10 xG. A carry-and-deliver threat.