Exequiel Palacios
Bayer 04 Leverkusen · Midfielder · Argentina · 1,097 min
Ballity Verdict
What makes this player special?
Exequiel Palacios covers both boxes. He is not a specialist who only protects or only arrives late — he is the midfielder who can win it, carry it, and still show up in the final third. That two-way presence is what makes him hard to replace in Bayer 04 Leverkusen's structure.
He is not trying to be everything. The profile is concentrated: do box-to-box midfielder at a high level, and let secondary tasks stay secondary.
On the pitch he has actually been used as CM (#8) / AM (#10). That matters: skill-set breadth is one thing; demonstrated deployment is another. Palacios'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
- Clearest current facet: box-to-box midfielder (good)
- Shown minutes: CM (#8) / AM (#10)
- No major weakness flags in the current profile
Receipts
- · Player Profile
- · Role Breadth
- · Deployment authenticity
- · Sample · featured
Position
Midfielder
Appearances
18
Great+ roles
0
Age
27
Preferred foot
Right
Height
177 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.
16.5% team touches
Peer band · High
Pool percentile
81.1%
Also 111.1 touches/90 (season aggregate).
Efficiency
Output quality per action for midfielders.
69 score
Peer band · Elite
Pool percentile
91.7%
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.
No Elite/Great axis on this position's job board, so no weakness flag.
Stat profile
Within position 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
8.8
Breadth 6.7 · Depth 2.1
- ·Midfielders: Box-to-Box Midfielder (Good)
Versatility shape
Coarse directional pattern (Specialist / Dual-threat / Generalist) — not the 0–100 Index above.
Specialist
Good SpecialistDistinct Great+
0 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
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CarrierΔ35
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Closest roles
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