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Individual Match Analysis

One player, one match: touch and pressing involvement, shot and xG output, read against the player's own season baseline, not a highlight reel. A worked example below, G. Zechiël's full match report from Feyenoord 2-2 Go Ahead Eagles, Eredivisie 2026/27 MD2, built from the same event data and confidence-tiering approach as every Individual Player Analysis report: data-only, no video and no eye-test grading.

The player profile: every headline number on one page

Touches, pass completion, progressive passes, shots and goals, defensive actions and duels won, all read together rather than as isolated stats. Zechiël started, played the full 93 minutes, and scored the equalizer in the 31st minute.

The report opens with the full headline picture, not a single highlight stat. Feyenoord 2-2 Go Ahead Eagles, Eredivisie 2026/27 MD2.

Touch and pressing involvement

Every touch, plotted and split by third, shows where a player actually spent the match rather than where the highlight clips suggest. 33 of Zechiël's 77 touches came in the attacking third, against 15 in his own defensive third, the shape of a player pinned high rather than one shuttling box to box.

Touch map showing all 77 of G. Zechiel's touches plotted on the pitch, split into 33 in the attacking third, 28 in the middle third, and 15 in the defensive third, with a star marking his goal — 77 touches, plotted and split by third: 33 attacking, 28 middle, 15 defensive. The star marks his 31st-minute goal.

Shot and xG output

Every shot, sized by xG and logged with its minute and outcome, so a goal reads in context of the chance it actually was, not just as a scoreline entry. Zechiël's four shots totalled 0.50 xG; his goal came from the best of them, a 0.19 xG chance in the 31st minute.

Shot map showing G. Zechiel's 4 shots against Go Ahead Eagles, sized by xG, totalling 0.50 xG and 1 goal, with a shot log listing each attempt's minute, outcome, and xG value — 4 shots, 0.50 xG, 1 goal: the 31st-minute equalizer was the single highest-value chance of his four attempts.

Contextual xT: the proprietary layer

Beyond touches and shots, every on-ball action is priced by Waltzing Analytics' own contextual xT model, a Bellman state-value model rather than a fixed zone grid, so the value of a pass or carry reflects the actual game state it happened in. Zechiël contributed 1.24 cumulative contextual xT across the 93 minutes, with the clearest jumps around his goal and a late second-half spell.

Line chart showing G. Zechiel's cumulative contextual expected threat rising to 1.24 across the 93 minutes, priced by a trained Bellman state-value model, with his goal marked by a dotted gold line at minute 31 — 1.24 cumulative contextual xT across the match, priced by a trained Bellman state-value model, not a static zone grid. Dotted line marks the goal.

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