Georginio Rutter

Brighton & Hove Albion · Midfielder · France · 1,673 min

Ballity Verdict

What makes this player special?

Confidence · high

Georginio Rutter is at his best when the game opens into one-versus-one battles out wide. For Brighton & Hove Albion, 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 box crasher.

What separates Rutter from ordinary specialists is breadth inside a coherent family: credible as box crasher, and still trustworthy when asked to step toward duelist winger. That is versatility with a purpose — not a random scatter of average roles.

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. Rutter's authenticity claim starts from those minutes, not from a role board alone.

The trade-off is real: duelist 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: box crasher, duelist winger
  • Shown minutes: CM (#8) / AM (#10)
  • Known caveat: duelist
Receipts
  • · Player Profile
  • · Role Breadth
  • · Deployment authenticity
  • · Sample · featured

Position

Midfielder

Appearances

19

Great+ roles

2

Age

24

Preferred foot

Left

Height

182 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.

10.6% team touches

Peer band · Minimal

Pool percentile

15.5%

Also 39.8 touches/90 (season aggregate).

Efficiency

Output quality per action for wingers.

20 score

Peer band · Minimal

Pool percentile

17.3%

xA per key pass 0.0871v1 win rate 42.2Cross accuracy 11.1

On-ball separation

Dribble-created space and self-made shot quality.

36 score

Peer band · Minimal

Pool percentile

11.4%

1v1 win % 42.2Adv touchline % 16.3Wide channel (self-created) % 8Unblocked (self-created) % 60Shadow zone (self-created) % 80Fast break (self-created) % 4Half-space % 23

Off-ball separation

Movement-created space on assisted attempts.

44 score

Peer band · Low

Pool percentile

37.7%

Unblocked (assisted) % 60Shadow zone (assisted) % 72Arrival zone (assisted) % 40Wide channel (assisted) % 0xG 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.

Weak routesWinger

Strong as Duelist (Great)

Weak routes

Creator · Limited

Defensive contribution

Proxy only · confidence: proxynot a role tier

Clears

Proxy p82 · Actions p83 within winger peers

Stat profile

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

Duels 78Defending 55Box threat 48
Creation27
Ball Progressor26
Carrying17
Finishing42
Defending55
Duels78
Tempo8
Box threat48

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.

3 groups · 6 roles
41/ 100

Index

41.2

Breadth 26.8 · Depth 14.4

FullbacksCentre-backsMidfielders · GreatWingers · GreatForwards · Good
  • ·Midfielders: Box Crasher (Great), Deep-Lying Playmaker (Good)
  • ·Wingers: Duelist Winger (Great), Raumdeuter (Good)
  • ·Forwards: Target Man (Good), Poacher (Good)

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

AMAMBox Crasher
CMCMBox Crasher

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 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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