Jae-sung Lee

1. FSV Mainz 05 · Midfielder · South Korea · 2,031 min

Ballity Verdict

What makes this player special?

Confidence · medium

Jae-sung Lee earns his standing through how he shapes phases of play for 1. FSV Mainz 05 — not through a single viral trait. Ballity's strongest current profile is box crasher.

He is not trying to be everything. The profile is concentrated: do box crasher 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. Lee'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 crasher (great)
  • 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

23

Great+ roles

1

Age

33

Preferred foot

Left

Height

180 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.

12.4% team touches

Peer band · Minimal

Pool percentile

23.3%

Also 50.0 touches/90 (season aggregate).

Efficiency

Output quality per action for midfielders.

60 score

Peer band · Low

Pool percentile

34.3%

Press resistance 0.76Pass accuracy 80xA per key pass 0.132

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 Great+ primaryMidfielder

No Elite/Great axis on this position's job board, so no weakness flag.

Stat profile

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

Finishing 93Box threat 86Creation 77
Creation77
Ball Progressor19
Carrying29
Finishing93
Defending49
Duels41
Tempo27
Box threat86

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 · 5 roles
34/ 100

Index

33.5

Breadth 20.1 · Depth 13.4

FullbacksCentre-backsMidfielders · GreatWingersForwards · Great
  • ·Midfielders: Box Crasher (Great), Box-to-Box Midfielder (Good), Deep-Lying Playmaker (Good)
  • ·Forwards: Poacher (Great), Target Man (Great)

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

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 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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