Djibril Sow
Sevilla · Midfielder · Switzerland · 1,577 min
Ballity Verdict
What makes this player special?
Djibril Sow is the kind of midfielder coaches build possession around. At Sevilla, 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.
Beyond the headline job, Sow remains plausible as box crasher and deep-lying playmaker. The secondary roles matter for how a coach can reorganise without changing the XI entirely.
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. Sow's authenticity claim starts from those minutes, not from a role board alone.
The trade-off is real: physicality shows up as a structural caveat in the profile. Any club buying the upside has to decide whether that hole is tolerable in their system — or whether they will need complementary players beside him.
Why Ballity says this
- Midfield / role totality: ball winner, box crasher, deep-lying playmaker
- Shown minutes: CM (#8) / DM (#6)
- Known caveat: physicality
Receipts
- · Player Profile
- · Role Breadth
- · Deployment authenticity
- · Sample · featured
Position
Midfielder
Appearances
18
Great+ roles
1
Age
29
Preferred foot
Right
Height
184 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.
16.7% team touches
Peer band · Minimal
Pool percentile
10.4%
Also 55.0 touches/90 (season aggregate).
Efficiency
Output quality per action for midfielders.
67 score
Peer band · High
Pool percentile
83.6%
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.
Strong as Physicality (Great)
Weak routes
Stat profile
Within Midfielder peers — percentile shape (not role scores).
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.
Index
26.0
Breadth 16.8 · Depth 9.3
- ·Midfielders: Ball Winner (Great), Box Crasher (Good), Deep-Lying Playmaker (Good)
- ·Forwards: Target Man (Good)
Versatility shape
Coarse directional pattern (Specialist / Dual-threat / Generalist) — not the 0–100 Index above.
Specialist
Great SpecialistDistinct Great+
1 Great+ roles total
Where he plays
Positions with deployment evidence — not statistical guesses.
Natural
Role translations
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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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Closest roles
Ball WinnerΔ38
Box CrasherΔ29
CarrierΔ13
Malthe Højholt
Pisa · Serie A
Closest roles
- Box CrasherΔ35
Deep-Lying PlaymakerΔ32
Duel DestroyerΔ15
Pathé Ismaël Ciss
Rayo Vallecano · La Liga
Closest roles
- Ball WinnerΔ1
- Box CrasherΔ14
- Deep-Lying PlaymakerΔ37