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Player reportPremier League 2026
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Lucas Herrington

Hull City
Stopper centre-back CB
15.8 defensive actions/90 · 3.0 progressive/90 — defends first
centre-backstopper centre-backbuild-upline-breaking
365
minutes
7 apps
129
passes
86% completed
86%
pass completion
129 passes
12
progressive passes
3.0/90
10
line-breaking passes
2.5/90
64
defensive actions
15.8/90
9
tackles + interceptions
50% tackle win
21
clearances
5.2/90
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
in the first line of build-up — mostly in the middle third (54% of his 129 passes)
86% completion · 129× in 7/7 matches
↓
BREAK A LINE
vertical pass past the opponent midfield
3.0 prog/90 · 10× in 3/7 matches
↓
SWITCH PLAY
diagonal to the far side
cross-field balls · 7× in 5/7 matches
↓
PROGRESS
entries into the final third
2.2/90 · 9× in 5/7 matches
Signature: Receive → Break A Line → Switch Play → Progress — the only steps proven repeatable this season (4 of 5 in the full pattern). Not enough evidence yet for the rest of the chain below.
Not a pattern: carry out — 0× (insufficient confidence, hidden — not enough evidence yet) — omitted from the signature rather than presented as one.
13

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 →
18
passes / match
15.8
def actions / 90
3–51
pass range (matches)
21
clearances
Pass range = his fewest and most passes in any single match this season (3 at the low end, 51 at the high) — a measure of match-to-match involvement, not pass distance.
In possession

In possession

What he does with the ball: build-up, progression, creation, carrying and finishing.

06

How dangerous are his carries?

Real ball-carries

15 tracked carries (3.7/90, 2 progressive, 94m total) — the ball moving with his touches, a different signal from dribbles below (beating an opponent 1v1). even a player who rarely dribbles past a man can still carry the ball forward constantly in build-up; this is that.

7%7%7%7%7%60%7%
progressivelateral/short% of his 15 carries originating in each zone · own goal left, attacking →
Every carry, exact path — median 5m, longest 11m
By zone — where the carry started → where it ended
1Outside → Inside
8Inside → Inside
6Outside → Outside
First (15)grouped by carry pattern (start + end position), largest group first
startendown goal left, attacking →

Beaten in the tackle

How often an attacker gets past him in a 1v1 defensive duel — the closest signal the data has to "dribbled past" (no attacker-beat-defender field exists directly, so this counts tackles he attempted and lost).

6
tackle duels
3
won
3
beaten · 50%
brighter band = more tackle duels · own goal left, attacking →
INSIDE 33%
OUTSIDE 67%
Tackle-duel location — 2 inside · 4 outside
Right Wing
1 · 17%
Right Half-Space
0 · 0%
Central
2 · 33%
Left Half-Space
0 · 0%
Left Wing
3 · 50%
Vision AI beaten in 3 of 6 tackle duels (50% loss rate) — a solid 1v1 defensive record.
Every tackle duel, exact location
wonlost — dribbled pastown goal left, attacking →

He attempted only 0 dribbles of his own all season — dribbling is not part of this role; his ball-carrying is covered above, his defending against the dribble below.

08

How does he create chances?

1 key passes (0.25/90), 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:
100%
chance creation (1)assist (0)% of the selected group's key passes originating in each zone
03

Where does he become vulnerable?

18 times he gave the ball away. For a defender the danger is where — a loss in his own third can turn into a chance against; higher up it costs little.

2
attacking third (cheap)
8
middle third
8
own third (dangerous)
Vision AI 11% of losses are in the attacking third — a notable share happen deeper, which invites transitions.
Mistake danger (proxy): 2.03 danger-index/90 · 0.457 avg/turnover. Weights each loss by threat conceded at that location. True xT-conceded needs the opponent possession model; positional proxy.
04

Where Does He Receive?

The zones where Lucas Herrington 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
30%
Primary
Left Wing, Middle third
19%
Secondary
Left Wing, Defensive third
17%
Third
Left Half-Space, Middle third
These are the zones where he collected the ball most.
05

Where Does He Operate? — Every Zone

Every on-ball touch (pass, dribble, shot) binned into a 6×3 grid — raw counts of where Lucas Herrington 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:
9342727511410322131
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%2%1%1%3%8%2%2%1%7%26%21%21%4%1%
own goal left, attacking →
07

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.

1Key pass
1Cross
12Progressive
10Long ball
7Switch
By zone — where the pass started → where it landed
33Outside → Inside
38Inside → Inside
22Outside → Outside
18Inside → Outside
By direction
66Forward
37Backward
26Sideways
own goal left, attacking →
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 →
How does he progress the ball forward?
His most common route for progressing play: he plays straight through the left hs, advancing it forward in the middle third — 1 passes worth 0.22 xT.
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 wing in the defensive third: 21% of his 24 touches there are lost (5 times).
—2 touches · too few—3 touches · too few—3 touches · too few12%2/17 lost21%5/24 lost—0 touches · too few—0 touches · too few11%1/9 lost5%1/22 lost15%6/39 lost—0 touches · too few—1 touch · too few—3 touches · too few—5 touches · too few—1 touch · too fewRWRHSCLHSLWDEFMIDATT
Out of possession

Out of possession

Where and how he defends and presses.

09

How & where does he defend?

64 defensive actions across the season (15.8/90). 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 →
6
tackles · 50% won
3
interceptions · 0.7/90
10
recoveries · 2.5/90
21
clearances · 5.2/90
3
blocks
25
avg action height
3
won high (att 3rd)
13
middle third
48
own third
Vision AI A deep-defending defender. He wins the ball mainly by clearing and blocking — a reactive, protect-the-box profile. 19 proactive ball-wins (4.7/90), tackle success 50%. He defends deep, protecting his box — a last-line stopper.
10

Can he play under pressure?

Split by how hard the opponent pressed (opponent PPDA — lower = more intense press). Can Lucas Herrington still play out when the opponent presses high? His build-up quality split by press intensity — the key question for a ball-playing defender. Tiers of ~2-3 matches — directional evidence, not proof.

press tier
completion
prog /90
line-breaks /90
xT /90
High press (PPDA 3.1, 2m)
80%
2.6
4.6
0.33
Mid press (PPDA 3.4, 2m)
85%
1.3
1.3
0.33
Low press (PPDA 4.3, 3m)
91%
4.0
1.1
0.75
Team

Team context

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

11

Impact on the Team

Hull City's output per match with Lucas Herrington (7 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. What his own defending should move — goals conceded and results — leads; attacking output (largely out of a defender's hands) is shown after, for context. A proper on-off model needs many more minutes.

WITH (7)
WITHOUT (1)
Δ
goals against /match
0.86
2.00
-1.14
points /match
1.29
1.00
+0.29
goals for /match
1.00
2.00
-1.00
xG for /match
1.00
1.35
-0.35
12

His Share of the Team

Of everything Hull City produced this season, the categories where the biggest share ran through Lucas Herrington specifically — his share of the team total, not a per-90 rate.

category
share
him / team
clearances
4%
21 / 486
expected assists (xA)
3%
0.5 / 14.0
zone-14 entries
2%
2 / 91
Recruitment

Style and verdict

Style profile, closest comparables, and the summary.

14

Playing-Style Profile

Not raw event counts — football style scores: weighted models scored 0–100 against the 585 centre-backs 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.

Stopper centre-back24%Ball-playing centre-back20%
Why Stopper centre-back 24%: a weighted blend of ball-winning 38 (weight 40%) + defensive aggression 29 (weight 35%) + retention 42 (weight 15%) + transition 12 (weight 10%). The score reflects how distinctively his profile SHAPE matches this archetype vs his peers.
Elite
territory (wide vs central)
Strong
—
Average
creativity, receiving zones, retention
Weak
ball-winning, build-up, defensive aggression, passing directness, press resistance, transition, box threat, crossing, dribbling, through-balls, final-third threat, progression, line-breaking, carrying
Unknown
aerial ability, marking, off-ball running — not in event data
Territory (wide vs central)
88
Creativity
66
Receiving zones
45
Retention
42
Ball-winning
38
Build-up
31
Defensive aggression
29
Passing directness
24
Press resistance ~proxy
20
Transition ~proxy
12
Box threat
9
Crossing
8
Dribbling
7
Through-balls ~proxy
7
Final-third threat
7
Progression
6
Line-breaking
4
Carrying
3
15

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: 193 cm / 80 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.

Jozhua Vertrouwd Rayo Vallecano · La Liga · 187 cm / 73 kg
88%
Driven by: carrying (13%), transition (12%), progression (11%). Different mechanism — Herrington more via creativity, territory (wide vs central); Vertrouwd more via line-breaking, press resistance.
Fali Candé Sassuolo · Serie A · 184 cm / 82 kg
84%
Driven by: carrying (14%), press resistance (13%), crossing (11%). Different mechanism — Herrington more via retention; Candé more via line-breaking, defensive aggression.
Vanja Drkusic Espanyol · La Liga · 188 cm / 80 kg
83%
Driven by: transition (13%), press resistance (11%), progression (11%). Different mechanism — Herrington more via receiving zones, retention; Drkusic more via crossing, build-up.
Oier Luengo Real Oviedo · La Liga 25/26 · 183 cm / 82 kg
81%
Driven by: transition (15%), progression (12%), carrying (11%). Different mechanism — Herrington more via creativity, receiving zones; Luengo more via crossing, build-up.
Saba Sazonov Getafe · La Liga · 192 cm / 82 kg
80%
Driven by: transition (15%), press resistance (12%), carrying (12%). Different mechanism — Herrington more via creativity, territory (wide vs central); Sazonov more via crossing, line-breaking.
Ethan Pinnock Coventry · 194 cm / 79 kg
80%
Driven by: transition (16%), carrying (15%), progression (13%). Different mechanism — Herrington more via creativity, receiving zones; Pinnock more via crossing, dribbling.
16

Summary

Lucas Herrington is a stopper centre-back: 86% pass completion, 10 line-breaking passes and 3.0 progressive passes /90. A build-and-progress centre-back whose value is in beating the first line with the pass, not in raw defensive volume. [Aerial duels, marking, line-height and 1v1 recovery need aerial-event + tracking data, absent here.]

Based on 7 matches (365 minutes) — an early read, treat with caution until more minutes are logged. He profiles as a stopper centre-back — best used in a system built around that identity. His biggest room for growth is transition — even a modest improvement there would meaningfully lift his overall stopper centre-back profile.
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