Franck Honorat

Borussia M'gladbach · Forward · France · 1,987 min

Ballity Verdict

What makes this player special?

Confidence · medium

Franck Honorat is at his best when the game opens into one-versus-one battles out wide. For Borussia M'gladbach, that means stretch, isolation, and the ability to beat a full-back before the box gets crowded — not a pure chance-creation spreadsheet profile. The headline trait is playmaking winger.

He is not trying to be everything. The profile is concentrated: do playmaking winger at a high level, and let secondary tasks stay secondary.

On the pitch he has actually been used as RW / CF (#9). That matters: skill-set breadth is one thing; demonstrated deployment is another. Honorat's authenticity claim starts from those minutes, not from a role board alone.

The trade-off is real: creator 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

  • Clearest current facet: playmaking winger (great)
  • Shown minutes: RW / CF (#9)
  • Known caveat: creator
Receipts
  • · Player Profile
  • · Role Breadth
  • · Deployment authenticity
  • · Sample · featured

Position

Wide Forward

Appearances

28

Great+ roles

1

Age

29

Preferred foot

Right

Height

180 cm

Ballity insights

Peer context vs wingers — how often they get the ball and what they do with it. Separate from role tiers above. Attackers also split separation into on-ball (dribble-created) and off-ball (movement).

Usage rate

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

8.3% team touches

Peer band · Low

Pool percentile

40.9%

Also 43.7 touches/90 (season aggregate).

Efficiency

Output quality per action for wingers.

27 score

Peer band · Average

Pool percentile

69.4%

xA per key pass 0.1441v1 win rate 44.7Cross accuracy 29

On-ball separation

Dribble-created space and self-made shot quality.

40 score

Peer band · Average

Pool percentile

67.5%

1v1 win % 44.7Adv touchline % 33.5Wide channel (self-created) % 14.3Unblocked (self-created) % 57.1Shadow zone (self-created) % 57.1Fast break (self-created) % 42.9Half-space % 18.4

Off-ball separation

Movement-created space on assisted attempts.

45 score

Peer band · Low

Pool percentile

42.5%

Unblocked (assisted) % 70Shadow zone (assisted) % 30Arrival zone (assisted) % 60Wide channel (assisted) % 40xG per assisted shot 0.1

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.

One-wayWinger

Strong as Creator (Great)

Weak routes

Duelist · LimitedPhysicality · Limited

Defensive contribution

Proxy only · confidence: proxynot a role tier

Does not clear

Proxy p30 · Actions p28 within winger peers

Stat profile

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

Defending 53Tempo 52Creation 49High XA Creator
Creation49
Ball Progressor6
Carrying46
Finishing6
Defending53
Duels43
Tempo52
Box threat12

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 · 2 roles
35/ 100

Index

35.1

Breadth 26.8 · Depth 8.3

FullbacksCentre-backsMidfielders · EliteWingers · EliteForwards
  • ·Midfielders: Creator (Elite)
  • ·Wingers: Playmaking Winger (Elite)

Versatility shape

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

Great

Specialist

Great Specialist
1

Distinct Great+

1 Great+ roles total

Where he plays

Positions with deployment evidence — not statistical guesses.

Natural

CFCFPoacher
RWRWPlaymaking Winger

Role translations

Where the profile could fit. Tap a position — then see which role style suits it.

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 winger 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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