Linton Maina

1. FC Köln · Midfielder · Germany · 1,029 min

Ballity Verdict

What makes this player special?

Confidence · medium

Linton Maina earns his standing through how he shapes phases of play for 1. FC Köln — not through a single viral trait.

Deployment evidence is thinner than the skill-set read — treat any talk of a “natural” secondary position as hypothesis until the minutes show it.

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

No major weakness flags in the current profile

Receipts

· Player Profile
· Role Breadth
· Deployment · thin
· Sample · featured

Position

Wide Forward

Appearances

Great+ roles

Age

Preferred foot

Right

Height

173 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.

12.8% team touches

Peer band · High

Pool percentile

73.6%

Also 41.5 touches/90 (season aggregate).

Efficiency

Output quality per action for wingers.

23 score

Peer band · Low

Pool percentile

26.9%

xA per key pass 0.1191v1 win rate 45Cross accuracy 15.4

On-ball separation

Dribble-created space and self-made shot quality.

39 score

Peer band · Average

Pool percentile

59.2%

1v1 win % 45Adv touchline % 19.8Wide channel (self-created) % 8.3Unblocked (self-created) % 75Shadow zone (self-created) % 58.3Fast break (self-created) % 33.3Half-space % 21.3

Off-ball separation

Movement-created space on assisted attempts.

40 score

Peer band · Minimal

Pool percentile

12.5%

Unblocked (assisted) % 75Shadow zone (assisted) % 50Arrival zone (assisted) % 0Wide channel (assisted) % 12.5xG per assisted shot 0

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+ primaryWinger

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

Defensive contribution

Proxy only · confidence: proxy — not a role tier

Does not clear

Proxy p24 · Actions p24 within winger peers

Stat profile

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

Tempo 58Carrying 50Defending 45

Creation35

Ball Progressor10

Carrying50

Finishing14

Defending45

Duels35

Tempo58

Box threat31

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.

1 group · 1 role

9/ 100

Index

8.8

Breadth 6.7 · Depth 2.1

FullbacksCentre-backsMidfieldersWingers · GoodForwards

·Wingers: Playmaking Winger (Good)

Versatility shape

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

Unclassified

Distinct Great+

0 Great+ roles total

Where he plays

Positions with deployment evidence — not statistical guesses.

Natural

None inferred

Role translations

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

No positions to show.

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.

Marius Wolf

FC Augsburg · Bundesliga

99.8% matchSame league

Closest roles

Playmaking WingerΔ11
Wide RunnerΔ11
RaumdeuterΔ10

Gonçalo Guedes

Real Sociedad · La Liga

99.7% match

Closest roles

Playmaking WingerΔ6
Wide RunnerΔ10
RaumdeuterΔ4

Romano Schmid

SV Werder Bremen · Bundesliga

99.5% match

Closest roles

Playmaking WingerΔ40
Wide RunnerΔ19
RaumdeuterΔ11