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Player reportSerie A 2025/26

Juan Jesus

Venezia
Stopper centre-back CB
15.2 defensive actions/90 · 4.0 progressive/90 — defends first
Capability Analysis
Aerial & Box Defending10%vs 50 centre-backs
"Can he win the individual defensive battle in his own box?"
Aerial duels won /900.00%
Aerial win rate: 0.0%
Clearances /903.3920%
Ball-Winning68%vs 50 centre-backs
"How actively does he win the ball back?"
Interceptions /901.578%
Ball recoveries /904.2582%
Tackles /901.9376%
Duels won /901.6938%
Breaking Pressure
only 46 pressured-passing actions across 1 high-press match -- not enough sample (needs 5+ matches and 12+ actions)
Progression54%vs 50 centre-backs
"Can he move the team forward with a pass, not just recycle it sideways?"
Progressive passes /902.4832%
Line-breaking passes /900.5940%
Threat added by passing /900.98xT64%
Pass accuracy91.25%80%
Ball-Carrying66%vs 50 centre-backs
"Does he advance the ball himself when the pass isn't on?"
Progressive carries /904.5756%
Carry distance /90143.67m76%
centre-backstopper centre-backbuild-upline-breaking
1790
minutes
24 apps
1386
passes
91% completed
91%
pass completion
1386 passes
80
progressive passes
4.0/90
96
line-breaking passes
4.8/90
303
defensive actions
15.2/90
67
tackles + interceptions
58% tackle win
63
clearances
3.2/90
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 (58% of his 1386 passes)
91% completion · 1386× in 24/24 matches
↓
BREAK A LINE
vertical pass past the opponent midfield
4.0 prog/90 · 96× in 22/24 matches
↓
SWITCH PLAY
diagonal to the far side
cross-field balls · 46× in 17/24 matches
↓
PROGRESS
entries into the final third
3.1/90 · 61× in 16/24 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 — 4× (insufficient confidence, hidden — not enough evidence yet) — omitted from the signature rather than presented as one.
17

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 →
58
passes / match
15.2
def actions / 90
4–120
pass range (matches)
63
clearances
Pass range = his fewest and most passes in any single match this season (4 at the low end, 120 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.

10

How dangerous are his carries?

Real ball-carries

317 tracked carries (15.9/90, 42 progressive, 2533m 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.

3%5%7%3%1%3%14%18%8%1%4%14%11%7%0%
progressivelateral/short% of his 317 carries originating in each zone · own goal left, attacking →
Every carry, exact path — median 6m, longest 36m
By zone — where the carry started → where it ended
28Outside → Inside
221Inside → Inside
46Outside → Outside
22Inside → Outside
First (94)Second (84)Third (83)Fourth (56)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).

40
tackle duels
23
won
17
beaten · 42%
brighter band = more tackle duels · own goal left, attacking →
INSIDE 52%
OUTSIDE 48%
Tackle-duel location — 21 inside · 19 outside
Right Wing
6 · 15%
Right Half-Space
3 · 8%
Central
7 · 18%
Left Half-Space
11 · 28%
Left Wing
13 · 32%
Vision AI beaten in 17 of 40 tackle duels (42% loss rate) — a real defensive leak worth flagging.
Every tackle duel, exact location
wonlost — dribbled pastown goal left, attacking →

He attempted only 2 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.

02

How does he build & move the ball?

How does he escape the first line?

7%
vertical passes
65×
4%
switches
34×
26%
carries
253×
64%
short circulation
614×
Answer: he escapes the press primarily through carrying — stepping out with the ball.

How he moves the ball — his 4 busiest progression routes, not where every pass starts and ends separately. Arrow width = how often, colour = xT gained, dashed = switch of play. The full breakdown is in the lane matrix below.

own goal left, attacking →
Lane transition matrix — when he receives in a lane, where does it go?
TO →RWRHSCLHSLWRW11442%4830%3427%311%1RHS21242%9013%2730%6413%281%3C36613%4628%10222%7925%9313%46LHS3601%511%3834%12418%6536%128LW21625%5530%6544%96FROM
Rows normalised: each row sums to 100% of that lane's completed passes. Grey number = passes from that lane.

Primary route: the left wing in the middle third → the left half-space in the final third — 6 progressive passes (12% of his progression) at 0.156 xT each. He moves it inside.

His progression is inward: 57% of progressive passes move the ball toward the middle versus 2% going wider — he cuts in rather than holding width.

11% of his passes are cross-field switches — he changes the point of attack often.

Quality behind the volume: 11 line-breaking passes and 61 final-third entries, 12.4 total xT added.

Origin and destination are measured on the same event row — no receiver inference. Receiver identity is not recoverable from this data source.
All passes — origin zone share
Filter: from to
3%6%8%5%0%2%12%15%7%1%0%5%13%13%9%1%
completedincomplete1386 passes · any zone → any zone · own goal left, attacking →
1386
passes
91%
completed
118
lost
Vision AIIn line with his 91% season completion rate.
03

How does he progress play?

How much he drives the ball forward. Progressive = completed pass advancing ≥15 toward goal.

80
progressive · 4.0/90
61
final-third entries · 3.1/90
2
box entries · 0.10/90
16
progression index /90
Progression index: one composite number — progressive passes + progressive carries + 2% of total distance progressed + 8× positive xT added, all per 90. Weights VOLUME and THREAT together rather than counting progressive actions alone.
12

How does he create chances?

3 key passes (0.15/90), 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:
33%67%
chance creation (3)assist (0)% of the selected group's key passes originating in each zone
06

Where does he become vulnerable?

120 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.

3
attacking third (cheap)
56
middle third
61
own third (dangerous)
Vision AI 2% of losses are in the attacking third — a notable share happen deeper, which invites transitions.
Mistake danger (proxy): 3.33 danger-index/90 · 0.552 avg/turnover. Weights each loss by threat conceded at that location. True xT-conceded needs the opponent possession model; positional proxy.
05

What is his passing profile?

1386
passes attempted
47%
mostly forward
56%
mostly medium
Direction
Forward
654 · 47%
Sideways
495 · 36%
Backward
237 · 17%
Length (completed)
Short (<15m)
491 · 39%
Medium
712 · 56%
Long (>30m)
65 · 5%
07

Preferred Progression Routes — xT-weighted

His progressive passes as zone→zone routes, weighted by expected threat (xT) added — arrow width and the number are the total xT generated on each route, not just how often he plays it. This is where he actually moves the needle.

0.610.460.430.430.410.35
own goal left, attacking →
Highest-value routes (xT)
0.61
Left Wing Mid third → Left Half-Space Att third
3 passes · 1 to a shot
0.46
Left Wing Def third → Left Half-Space Mid third
4 passes
0.43
Central Mid third → Central Att third
3 passes
0.43
Left Half-Space Def third → Left Half-Space Mid third
5 passes
0.41
Left Half-Space Mid third → Left Wing Mid third
7 passes
0.35
Left Half-Space Mid third → Left Half-Space Att third
2 passes
08

Where Does He Receive?

The zones where Juan Jesus 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
17%
Primary
Central, Middle third
17%
Secondary
Left Half-Space, Middle third
11%
Third
Left Half-Space, Defensive third
These are the zones where he collected the ball most.
09

Where Does He Operate? — Every Zone

Every on-ball touch (pass, dribble, shot) binned into a 6×3 grid — raw counts of where Juan Jesus 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:
681801791321026164209103943888112645
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.

3%6%8%5%0%2%12%15%7%1%0%5%13%13%9%1%
own goal left, attacking →
11

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.

3Key pass
3Cross
1Cutback
80Progressive
96Long ball
46Switch
By zone — where the pass started → where it landed
186Outside → Inside
620Inside → Inside
144Outside → Outside
318Inside → Outside
By direction
654Forward
237Backward
495Sideways
own goal left, attacking →
04

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 inside from the left wing toward the left hs, advancing it forward in the middle third — 3 passes worth 0.61 xT.
Where do his chances come from?
Of 3 key passes, his busiest route is a delivery where he switches it out from the left hs to the left wing in the defensive 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: 28% of his 126 touches there are lost (35 times).
11%6/54 lost4%4/89 lost4%6/136 lost6%9/152 lost28%35/126 lost10%7/70 lost5%6/131 lost6%14/242 lost7%16/230 lost9%12/130 lost—4 touches · too few—2 touches · too few11%1/9 lost—3 touches · too few12%1/8 lostRWRHSCLHSLWDEFMIDATT
Out of possession

Out of possession

Where and how he defends and presses.

13

How & where does he defend?

303 defensive actions across the season (15.2/90). 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 →
40
tackles · 58% won
27
interceptions · 1.4/90
87
recoveries · 4.4/90
63
clearances · 3.2/90
12
blocks
32
avg action height
12
won high (att 3rd)
118
middle third
173
own third
Vision AI A deep-defending defender. He wins the ball mainly by stepping in — tackles, interceptions & recoveries outweigh clearances. 154 proactive ball-wins (7.7/90), tackle success 58%. He defends mostly around the middle third.
14

Can he play under pressure?

Split by how hard the opponent pressed (opponent PPDA — lower = more intense press). Can Juan Jesus 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 ~8-8 matches — directional evidence, not proof.

press tier
completion
prog /90
line-breaks /90
xT /90
High press (PPDA 6.2, 8m)
89%
3.3
4.1
0.73
Mid press (PPDA 8.6, 8m)
90%
3.0
5.5
0.91
Low press (PPDA 13.7, 8m)
95%
6.0
5.0
1.49
Team

Team context

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

15

Impact on the Team

Venezia's output per match with Juan Jesus (24 matches) versus without him (14 matches). 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 (24)
WITHOUT (14)
Δ
goals against /match
0.96
0.93
+0.03
points /match
2.21
1.64
+0.57
goals for /match
1.54
1.50
+0.04
xG for /match
1.43
0.99
+0.44
16

His Share of the Team

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

category
share
him / team
interceptions
12%
38 / 318
clearances
9%
86 / 931
tackles
8%
49 / 652
Recruitment

Style and verdict

Style profile, closest comparables, and the summary.

18

Playing-Style Profile

Not raw event counts — football style scores: weighted models scored 0–100 against the 517 centre-backs 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.

Stopper centre-back81%Ball-playing centre-back61%
Why Stopper centre-back 81%: a weighted blend of ball-winning 84 (weight 40%) + defensive aggression 70 (weight 35%) + retention 62 (weight 15%) + transition 64 (weight 10%). The score reflects how distinctively his profile SHAPE matches this archetype vs his peers.
Elite
—
Strong
ball-winning, build-up
Average
defensive aggression, transition, retention, carrying, passing directness, receiving zones, progression, territory (wide vs central), final-third threat, line-breaking, crossing
Weak
creativity, press resistance, through-balls, box threat, dribbling
Unknown
aerial ability, marking, off-ball running — not in event data
Ball-winning
84
Build-up
76
Defensive aggression
70
Transition ~proxy
64
Retention
62
Carrying
56
Passing directness
51
Receiving zones
48
Progression
47
Territory (wide vs central)
47
Final-third threat
43
Line-breaking
42
Crossing
41
Creativity
40
Press resistance ~proxy
32
Through-balls ~proxy
27
Box threat
18
Dribbling
9
19

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: 185 cm / 83 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 Serie A, Bundesliga, La Liga, Ligue 1 and Premier League, 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.

Alessandro Buongiorno Napoli 25/26 · 190 cm / 86 kg
79%
Driven by: dribbling (28%), build-up (13%), transition (10%). Different mechanism — Jesus more via ball-winning; Buongiorno more via box threat, final-third threat.
Eivind Helland Bologna · 196 cm
79%
Driven by: dribbling (22%), build-up (17%), ball-winning (12%). Different mechanism — Jesus more via crossing, passing directness.
Willian Pacho PSG · Ligue 1 · 188 cm / 81 kg
73%
Driven by: dribbling (21%), build-up (16%), ball-winning (14%). Different mechanism — Jesus more via territory (wide vs central), line-breaking; Pacho more via box threat, receiving zones.
Tosin Adarabioyo Tottenham · Premier League · 197 cm / 80 kg
69%
Driven by: dribbling (23%), build-up (21%), box threat (17%). Different mechanism — Jesus more via territory (wide vs central), crossing; Adarabioyo more via passing directness.
Bafodé Diakité Bournemouth · Premier League · 185 cm / 74 kg
67%
Driven by: dribbling (31%), box threat (26%), press resistance (12%). Different mechanism — Jesus more via ball-winning, territory (wide vs central); Diakité more via passing directness.
Robin Le Normand Atletico · La Liga · 187 cm / 80 kg
66%
Driven by: dribbling (27%), box threat (14%), through-balls (11%). Different mechanism — Jesus more via ball-winning, receiving zones; Normand more via passing directness.
20

Summary

Juan Jesus is a stopper centre-back / ball-playing centre-back: 91% pass completion, 96 line-breaking passes and 4.0 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 24 matches (1790 minutes) this season — a reliable read. He profiles as a stopper centre-back / ball-playing centre-back — best used in a system built around that identity. His biggest room for growth is retention — even a modest improvement there would meaningfully lift his overall stopper centre-back profile.
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