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Geoffrey Kondogbia

Marseille
Ball-winning 6 (destroyer) DM
17.9 defensive actions/90
defensive midtempo controllerpress resistancescreening
593
minutes
10 apps
433
passes
87% completed
87%
pass completion
433 passes
25
progressive passes
3.8/90
118
defensive actions
17.9/90
24
tackles + interceptions
57% tackle win
51
recoveries
7.7/90
24
line-breaking passes
3.6/90
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
drop between the centre-backs — mostly in the middle third (68% of his 433 passes)
87% completion · 433× in 10/10 matches
↓
ESCAPE PRESSURE
turn out of a tight central area
67% won · 9× in 5/10 matches
↓
PROGRESS CENTRAL
break a line through the middle
3.8 prog/90 · 24× in 9/10 matches
↓
SCREEN / WIN BALL
protect the back four
11.4 ball-wins/90 · 75× in 10/10 matches
↓
RECYCLE / PROGRESS
keep it ticking, feed the final third
5.5 f3-entries/90 · 36× in 9/10 matches
Signature: drop to receive → escape the press on the turn → progress centrally or recycle → screen the counter. Block the central lane and press his first touch to force him backwards.
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 →
43
passes / match
17.9
def actions / 90
23–62
pass range (matches)
17
clearances
Pass range = his fewest and most passes in any single match this season (23 at the low end, 62 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

99 tracked carries (15.0/90, 16 progressive, 795m 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.

4%7%6%3%8%21%14%4%4%8%10%8%1%1%
progressivelateral/short% of his 99 carries originating in each zone · own goal left, attacking →
Every carry, exact path — median 6m, longest 28m
By zone — where the carry started → where it ended
5Outside → Inside
83Inside → Inside
8Outside → Outside
3Inside → Outside
First (30)Second (29)Third (22)Fourth (18)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).

14
tackle duels
8
won
6
beaten · 43%
brighter band = more tackle duels · own goal left, attacking →
INSIDE 64%
OUTSIDE 36%
Tackle-duel location — 9 inside · 5 outside
Right Wing
3 · 21%
Right Half-Space
4 · 29%
Central
4 · 29%
Left Half-Space
1 · 7%
Left Wing
2 · 14%
Vision AI beaten in 6 of 14 tackle duels (43% loss rate) — a real defensive leak worth flagging.
Every tackle duel, exact location
wonlost — dribbled pastown goal left, attacking →

Dribbles (1v1s)

Can he escape pressure on the ball? His carries/dribbles in tight central areas, by channel. Season rate: 1.37 dribbles attempted /90.

brighter band = more dribbles · own goal left, attacking →
INSIDE 89%
OUTSIDE 11%
Dribble location — 8 inside · 1 outside
Right Wing
0 · 0%
Right Half-Space
3 · 33%
Central
3 · 33%
Left Half-Space
2 · 22%
Left Wing
1 · 11%
Vision AI 89% of his carries are central — he receives and turns in congested midfield zones rather than out wide.
02

How does he build & move the ball?

How does he escape the first line?

6%
vertical passes
13×
1%
switches
3×
30%
carries
62×
62%
short circulation
126×
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 →RWRHSCLHSLWRW1735%653%912%2RHS9723%2231%3040%394%42%2C1315%718%2436%4734%447%9LHS1032%21%134%3536%3727%28LW2924%741%1234%10FROM
Rows normalised: each row sums to 100% of that lane's completed passes. Grey number = passes from that lane.

Primary route: central areas in the middle third → the right half-space in the final third — 2 progressive passes (11% of his progression) at 0.236 xT each. He works it wider.

His progression is inward: 56% of progressive passes move the ball toward the middle versus 22% going wider — he cuts in rather than holding width.

Only 5% of his passes switch play, so his threat is same-side — contain the flank he occupies and the route closes.

Quality behind the volume: 7 line-breaking passes and 36 final-third entries, 0.4 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
0%4%10%7%2%0%9%15%20%4%2%6%7%9%3%0%
completedincomplete433 passes · any zone → any zone · own goal left, attacking →
433
passes
87%
completed
56
lost
Vision AIIn line with his 87% season completion rate.
04

How does he progress play?

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

25
progressive · 3.8/90
36
final-third entries · 5.5/90
3
box entries · 0.46/90
17
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.
11

How does he create chances?

2 key passes (0.30/90), 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:
50%50%
chance creation (2)assist (0)% of the selected group's key passes originating in each zone
05

Where does he become vulnerable?

59 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.

9
attacking third (cheap)
37
middle third
13
own third (dangerous)
Vision AI 15% of losses are in the attacking third — a notable share happen deeper, which invites transitions.
Mistake danger (proxy): 3.38 danger-index/90 · 0.378 avg/turnover. Weights each loss by threat conceded at that location. True xT-conceded needs the opponent possession model; positional proxy.
06

What is his passing profile?

433
passes attempted
37%
mostly forward
59%
mostly short
Direction
Forward
161 · 37%
Sideways
147 · 34%
Backward
125 · 29%
Length (completed)
Short (<15m)
223 · 59%
Medium
141 · 37%
Long (>30m)
13 · 3%
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.

0.470.300.270.210.190.17
own goal left, attacking →
Highest-value routes (xT)
0.47
Central Mid third → Right Half-Space Att third
2 passes
0.30
Right Half-Space Mid third → Left Wing Att third
2 passes
0.27
Left Half-Space Mid third → Left Half-Space Att third
2 passes
0.21
Central Att third → Left Half-Space Att third
1 passes
0.19
Left Wing Mid third → Left Wing Att third
1 passes
0.17
Left Half-Space Mid third → Left Wing Mid third
3 passes
08

Where Does He Receive?

The zones where Geoffrey Kondogbia 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
25%
Primary
Central, Middle third
19%
Secondary
Right Half-Space, Middle third
17%
Third
Left Half-Space, Middle 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 Geoffrey Kondogbia 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:
9273141122241668620322142338
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.

0%4%10%7%2%0%9%15%20%4%2%6%7%9%3%0%
own goal left, attacking →
12

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.

2Key pass
1Cross
2Cutback
25Progressive
24Long ball
9Switch
By zone — where the pass started → where it landed
30Outside → Inside
261Inside → Inside
16Outside → Outside
70Inside → Outside
By direction
161Forward
125Backward
147Sideways
own goal left, attacking →
03

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 switches it out from the central to the right hs, advancing it forward in the middle third — 2 passes worth 0.47 xT.
Where do his chances come from?
Of 2 key passes, his busiest route is a delivery where he plays inside from the right hs toward the central, advancing it forward in the middle 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 final third: 29% of his 14 touches there are lost (4 times).
—4 touches · too few15%3/20 lost12%4/32 lost7%2/28 lost8%1/12 lost15%2/13 lost12%10/83 lost12%13/107 lost11%8/75 lost17%3/18 lost—4 touches · too few22%2/9 lost18%2/11 lost29%4/14 lost—3 touches · too fewRWRHSCLHSLWDEFMIDATT
Out of possession

Out of possession

Where and how he defends and presses.

13

How & where does he defend?

118 defensive actions across the season (17.9/90). 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 →
14
tackles · 57% won
10
interceptions · 1.5/90
51
recoveries · 7.7/90
17
clearances · 2.6/90
8
blocks
40
avg action height
11
won high (att 3rd)
59
middle third
48
own third
Vision AI A mid-block defender. He wins the ball mainly by stepping in — tackles, interceptions & recoveries outweigh clearances. 75 proactive ball-wins (11.4/90), tackle success 57%. 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 Geoffrey Kondogbia 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 ~3-4 matches — directional evidence, not proof.

press tier
completion
prog /90
line-breaks /90
xT /90
High press (PPDA 6.3, 3m)
86%
2.7
3.6
0.74
Mid press (PPDA 8.1, 3m)
86%
3.9
4.4
0.96
Low press (PPDA 13.6, 4m)
90%
4.8
2.9
1.19
Team

Team context

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

15

Impact on the Team

Marseille's output per match with Geoffrey Kondogbia (10 matches) versus without him (24 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 (10)
WITHOUT (24)
Δ
goals against /match
0.90
1.50
-0.60
points /match
1.90
1.67
+0.23
goals for /match
1.80
1.88
-0.07
xG for /match
1.38
0.49
+0.88
16

His Share of the Team

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

category
share
him / team
clearances
3%
32 / 1007
interceptions
3%
13 / 449
ball recoveries
3%
62 / 2343
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 258 defensive 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 controller87%Deep-lying playmaker84%Ball-winning 673%
Why Tempo controller 87%: a weighted blend of retention 87 (weight 35%) + build-up 91 (weight 30%) + press resistance 79 (weight 20%) + progression 60 (weight 15%). The score reflects how distinctively his profile SHAPE matches this archetype vs his peers.
Elite
carrying, build-up, retention
Strong
press resistance, transition, ball-winning, dribbling
Average
progression, final-third threat, defensive aggression, receiving zones
Weak
line-breaking, creativity, passing directness, through-balls, box threat, territory (wide vs central), crossing
Unknown
aerial ability, marking, off-ball running — not in event data
Carrying
91
Build-up
91
Retention
87
Press resistance ~proxy
79
Transition ~proxy
78
Ball-winning
76
Dribbling
75
Progression
60
Final-third threat
56
Defensive aggression
50
Receiving zones
46
Line-breaking
37
Creativity
32
Passing directness
31
Through-balls ~proxy
24
Box threat
22
Territory (wide vs central)
10
Crossing
5
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: 188 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 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.

Sofyan Amrabat Real Betis · La Liga 25/26 · 185 cm / 77 kg
79%
Driven by: build-up (19%), crossing (14%), transition (12%). Different mechanism — Kondogbia more via ball-winning, carrying; Amrabat more via passing directness, crossing.
Nicolas Seiwald RBL · Bundesliga · 180 cm / 80 kg
74%
Driven by: crossing (23%), build-up (18%), retention (15%). Different mechanism — Kondogbia more via carrying, dribbling; Seiwald more via passing directness, through-balls.
Samir El Mourabet Strasbourg · 187 cm / 72 kg
69%
Driven by: build-up (18%), press resistance (15%), territory (wide vs central) (13%). Different mechanism — Kondogbia more via transition; Mourabet more via crossing, through-balls.
Denis Zakaria Monaco · 191 cm / 76 kg
68%
Driven by: crossing (27%), retention (15%), press resistance (11%). Different mechanism — Kondogbia more via ball-winning, build-up; Zakaria more via passing directness, box threat.
Moisés Caicedo Chelsea · Premier League · 178 cm / 80 kg
66%
Driven by: build-up (26%), territory (wide vs central) (17%), retention (14%). Different mechanism — Kondogbia more via dribbling, press resistance; Caicedo more via crossing, receiving zones.
Pathé Ciss Rayo Vallecano · La Liga · 186 cm / 71 kg
66%
Driven by: crossing (23%), build-up (17%), transition (14%). Different mechanism — Kondogbia more via carrying, dribbling; Ciss more via passing directness, box threat.
20

Summary

Geoffrey Kondogbia is a tempo controller / deep-lying playmaker: 87% completion, 24 line-breaks and 3.8 progressive passes /90, resisting pressure with 67% dribble success. A central controller. [Off-ball screening position and scanning need tracking data.]

Based on 10 matches (593 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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