Thin sample this season. Tochukwu Nnadi has played 5 matches (258 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.
RECEIVE
Left Half-Space, Middle third — mostly in the middle third (55% of his 143 passes)
89% completion · 143× in 5/5 matches
↓
PROGRESS
drive or pass into the final third
2.8 prog/90 · 8× in 4/5 matches
Signature: Receive → Progress — the only steps proven repeatable this season (2 of 4 in the full pattern). Not enough evidence yet for the rest of the chain below.
Not a pattern: arrive — 1× (low confidence, shown as a number only, no tactical conclusion drawn); create / finish — 2× (low confidence, shown as a number only, no tactical conclusion drawn) — omitted from the signature rather than presented as one.
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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 →
29
passes / match
2.0
dribbles / match
12–50
pass range (matches)
2–2
dribble range (matches)
Pass range = his fewest and most passes in any single match this season (12 at the low end, 50 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.
33 tracked carries (11.5/90, 4 progressive, 239m 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 33 carries originating in each zone · own goal left, attacking →
Every carry, exact path — median 6m, longest 20m
By zone — where the carry started → where it ended
First (17)Second (16)grouped by carry pattern (start + end position), largest group first
startendown goal left, attacking →
Dribbles (1v1s)
Only 2 dribbles attempted this season — too little volume to map a location pattern.
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How does he create chances?
1 key passes (0.35/90), 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 (1)assist (0)% of the selected group's key passes originating in each zone
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Where does he become vulnerable?
17 possessions lost. Directness has a cost — the question is where. Attacking-third losses are cheap; deep ones are dangerous.
10
attacking third (cheap)
6
middle third
1
own third (dangerous)
Vision AI 59% of losses are in the attacking third — he gambles where a turnover costs little.
Mistake danger (proxy): 1.35 danger-index/90 · 0.228 avg/turnover. Weights each loss by threat conceded at that location. True xT-conceded needs the opponent possession model; positional proxy.
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Where Does He Receive?
The zones where Tochukwu Nnadi 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).
1 = primary, 2 = secondary, 3 = third · own goal left, attacking →
His collection zones
19%
Primary
Left Half-Space, Middle third
13%
Secondary
Central, Middle third
10%
Third
Right Half-Space, Middle third
These are the zones where he collected the ball most.
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Where Does He Operate? — Every Zone
Every on-ball touch (pass, dribble, shot) binned into a 6×3 grid — raw counts of where Tochukwu Nnadi 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:
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.
own goal left, attacking →
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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.
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.
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How does he progress the ball forward?
His most common route for progressing play: he plays inside from the left hs toward the central, advancing it forward in the middle third — 1 passes worth 0.37 xT.
Where do his chances come from?
Of 1 key passes, his busiest route is a delivery where he plays inside from the left hs toward 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 central in the final third: 40% of his 10 touches there are lost (4 times).
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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 33 ball-carries, his dominant tendency is that he carries through central areas (70%). He carries from outside into the middle 2 times and out toward the touchline 3 — a width-holder who drives down the line.
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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
4 · 12%
Simple pass
24 · 73%
No clean link
4 · 12%
Of 33 carries, 3% flow straight into a shot of his own, 12% into a key or progressive pass — a genuine end product to the carry, not just ball retention. 12% have no clean link to a next touch of his own close to where the carry ended.
46 defensive actions across the season (16.0/90). 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 →
5
tackles · 40% won
2
interceptions · 0.7/90
13
recoveries · 4.5/90
6
clearances · 2.1/90
1
blocks
37
avg action height
3
won high (att 3rd)
19
middle third
24
own third
Vision AI A mid-block defender. He wins the ball mainly by stepping in — tackles, interceptions & recoveries outweigh clearances. 20 proactive ball-wins (7.0/90), tackle success 40%. He defends mostly around the middle third.
Team
Team context
How much of the team runs through him, and what changes without him.
Marseille's output per match with Tochukwu Nnadi (5 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 (5)
WITHOUT (3)
Δ
goals for /match
3.00
1.00
+2.00
xG for /match
1.59
0.00
+1.59
goals against /match
1.40
2.00
-0.60
points /match
2.40
0.00
+2.40
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His Share of the Team
Of everything Marseille produced this season, the categories where the biggest share ran through Tochukwu Nnadi specifically — his share of the team total, not a per-90 rate.
category
share
him / team
final-third entries
3%
43 / 1676
tackles
3%
12 / 478
half-space entries
2%
23 / 1057
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 382 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 controller75%Deep-lying playmaker71%Transition runner52%Box-to-box runner48%
Why Tempo controller 75%: a weighted blend of retention 88 (weight 35%) + build-up 56 (weight 30%) + press resistance 74 (weight 20%) + progression 57 (weight 15%). The score reflects how distinctively his profile SHAPE matches this archetype vs his peers.
territory (wide vs central), creativity, box threat
Unknown
aerial ability, marking, off-ball running — not in event data
Retention
88
Press resistance ~proxy
74
Defensive aggression
70
Through-balls ~proxy
70
Crossing
66
Final-third threat
63
Line-breaking
62
Progression
57
Build-up
56
Dribbling
52
Passing directness
52
Transition ~proxy
50
Receiving zones
49
Ball-winning
42
Carrying
41
Territory (wide vs central)
36
Creativity
32
Box threat
31
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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 / 67 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.
James Milner Brighton · Premier League 25/26 · 175 cm / 70 kg
58%
Driven by: retention (25%), crossing (17%), press resistance (14%). Different mechanism — Nnadi more via defensive aggression, territory (wide vs central); Milner more via line-breaking, build-up.
Gonzalo Villar Elche · La Liga · 181 cm / 73 kg
52%
Driven by: retention (27%), crossing (21%), press resistance (17%). Different mechanism — Nnadi more via passing directness, defensive aggression; Villar more via territory (wide vs central).
Santiago Colombatto Real Oviedo · La Liga 25/26 · 180 cm / 71 kg
52%
Driven by: box threat (18%), press resistance (16%), retention (15%). Different mechanism — Nnadi more via defensive aggression, retention; Colombatto more via territory (wide vs central).
Mario Soriano Deportivo · La Liga · 163 cm / 60 kg
51%
Driven by: retention (30%), press resistance (21%), through-balls (10%). Different mechanism — Nnadi more via defensive aggression; Soriano more via build-up, creativity.
Albert Sambi Lokonga Hamburg · Bundesliga · 183 cm / 67 kg
49%
Driven by: retention (38%), press resistance (16%), box threat (12%). Different mechanism — Nnadi more via through-balls, defensive aggression; Lokonga more via build-up.
Lucas da Cunha Como · Serie A · 174 cm / 66 kg
49%
Driven by: retention (27%), press resistance (22%), crossing (10%). Different mechanism — Cunha more via box threat, receiving zones.
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Summary
Tochukwu Nnadi is a tempo controller / deep-lying playmaker: 2.8 progressive passes, 0.35 key passes /90, 1 box entries, 0 goals from 0.06 xG. A box-to-box contributor across every phase.
Based on 5 matches (258 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 build-up — even a modest improvement there would meaningfully lift his overall tempo controller profile.
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