Every pass he plays from the middle third: was the line-breaking pass on, and did he play it?
How often the pass was on, and how often he found it
"How many times can he find this line-breaking pass, compared to how often the possibility was there?"
Every free man between the lines, played or not
One marker per free team-mate standing between the opponent's midfield and defensive lines at the moment he plays. Free = no opponent within 3 m, no opponent within 1.5 m of the passing lane, and within 38 m of him.
How often the pass was on, by how strict you are
How many were free, and how often he played one
Take rate by how far the man was
Against the opponent's block
Who the free man was
What he does instead
"And if he does not play it, what did he do?"
The pass he played when a free man was standing between the lines
The wide-open ones on the pitch
The moments where the man between the lines was wide open and the ball went somewhere else. Solid arrow = the pass he played, hollow ring = the man he did not play. Drawing all 393 free-man moments here turned the pitch into a blur, so this is the strict set.
Where the ball went instead
The pass itself
Does it cost anything
What the possession did next
The rest of the same possession after his pass: the furthest point it reached, and whether it ended in a shot. Season view is in the read text.
Completion and risk
How often each kind of pass arrives. The line-breaking pass is harder than the safe one; the question is whether the gap is big enough to justify never playing it.
The moments, frame by frame
Real tracking frames at the instant he plays the pass. Gold ring = a free man between the lines, dashed gold = the pass that was on, solid = the pass he played. Season view.
Match by match
Chances to break the line, and what he did with them
One column per match he played, in date order. Click a column to add or remove that match from the selection.
The same test for the other centre-backs
Same moments, same definition, for every centre-back with at least 60 settled passes from the middle third this season. Season view.