Ayumu Seko

Le Havre · Midfielder · Japan · 2,625 min

Ballity Verdict

What makes this player special?

Confidence · high

Ayumu Seko is the kind of midfielder coaches build possession around. At Le Havre, his real value is not goals or highlight assists — it is how cleanly he moves the team from safe zones into dangerous ones, almost never giving the ball away cheaply. Ballity's clearest read is ball winner: he controls games more than he decides them.

What separates Seko from ordinary specialists is breadth inside a coherent family: credible as ball winner, and still trustworthy when asked to step toward deep-lying playmaker. That is versatility with a purpose — not a random scatter of average roles.

On the pitch he has actually been used as CM (#8) / DM (#6). That matters: skill-set breadth is one thing; demonstrated deployment is another. Seko's authenticity claim starts from those minutes, not from a role board alone.

There are no major weakness flags screaming from the current profile — which does not mean he is complete, only that the main story is the strength of what he already does.

Why Ballity says this

  • Midfield / role totality: ball winner, deep-lying playmaker
  • Shown minutes: CM (#8) / DM (#6)
  • No major weakness flags in the current profile
Receipts
  • · Player Profile
  • · Role Breadth
  • · Deployment authenticity
  • · Sample · featured

Position

Midfielder

Appearances

30

Great+ roles

2

Age

26

Preferred foot

Right

Height

186 cm

Ballity insights

Peer context vs midfielders — how often they get the ball and what they do with it. Separate from role tiers above.

Usage rate

Share of team touches (non-GK) among midfielders with match data.

13.8% team touches

Peer band · Low

Pool percentile

39.8%

Also 50.9 touches/90 (season aggregate).

Efficiency

Output quality per action for midfielders.

66 score

Peer band · High

Pool percentile

77.6%

Press resistance 0.86Pass accuracy 84.7xA per key pass 0.111

Balance & structural weaknesses

How complete this player is on the position's job board — strengths and holes.

How we define this

Two-way = Great+ on ≥2 complementary axes. One-way = every other route Limited/closed. Weak routes = Average holes on complementary axes.

Two-wayMidfielder

Strong as Physicality (Elite), Chance Creation (Great), Ball Progressor (Great)

Stat profile

Within position peers — percentile shape (not role scores).

Defending 68Tempo 65Duels 64Press Resistant
Creation8
Ball Progressor43
Carrying58
Finishing3
Defending68
Duels64
Tempo65
Box threat10

Versatility Index

Precise 0–100 score — cross-group breadth (67%) plus within-group depth (33%), quality-scaled by tier. Distinct from the shape card below.

2 groups · 3 roles
29/ 100

Index

29.4

Breadth 20.1 · Depth 9.3

Fullbacks · GoodCentre-backsMidfielders · EliteWingersForwards
  • ·Fullbacks: Playmaking FB (Good)
  • ·Midfielders: Ball Winner (Elite), Deep-Lying Playmaker (Great)

Versatility shape

Coarse directional pattern (Specialist / Dual-threat / Generalist) — not the 0–100 Index above.

Great

Dual-threat

Great Dual-threat
2

Distinct Great+

2 Great+ roles total

Where he plays

Positions with deployment evidence — not statistical guesses.

Natural

CMCMBall Winner
DMDMBall Winner

Role translations

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NaturalValidatedSupportedStrongPlausibleExploratory

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Role-by-role detail

How each role is scored. Expand a row for a radar of role-shaped stats.

Similar players

Shape match across midfielder roles — cosine similarity of role scores (domestic leagues only). Slot 1 is the best same-league match; the rest are the next closest from the full pool.

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