Noah Cadiou
Lorient · Midfielder · Guadeloupe · 1,881 min
Ballity Verdict
What makes this player special?
Noah Cadiou is the kind of midfielder coaches build possession around. At Lorient, his real value is not goals or highlight assists — it is how cleanly he moves the team from safe zones into dangerous ones, almost never giving the ball away cheaply. Ballity's clearest read is deep-lying playmaker: he controls games more than he decides them.
Beyond the headline job, Cadiou remains plausible as box crasher and carrier. The secondary roles matter for how a coach can reorganise without changing the XI entirely.
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. Cadiou's authenticity claim starts from those minutes, not from a role board alone.
The trade-off is real: chance_creation 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: deep-lying playmaker, box crasher, carrier
- Shown minutes: CM (#8) / AM (#10)
- Known caveat: chance_creation
Receipts
- · Player Profile
- · Role Breadth
- · Deployment authenticity
- · Sample · featured
Position
Midfielder
Appearances
28
Great+ roles
1
Age
27
Preferred foot
Right
Height
191 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.
14.5% team touches
Peer band · Average
Pool percentile
47.7%
Also 67.6 touches/90 (season aggregate).
Efficiency
Output quality per action for midfielders.
67 score
Peer band · High
Pool percentile
84.0%
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.
Strong as Chance Creation (Great), Ball Progressor (Great)
Weak routes
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
17.3
Breadth 10.1 · Depth 7.2
- ·Midfielders: Deep-Lying Playmaker (Great), Box Crasher (Good), Carrier (Good)
Versatility shape
Coarse directional pattern (Specialist / Dual-threat / Generalist) — not the 0–100 Index above.
Specialist
Great SpecialistDistinct Great+
1 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.
Morgan Sanson
Nice · Ligue 1
Closest roles
Deep-Lying PlaymakerΔ11
Box CrasherΔ2
CarrierΔ11
Marc Roca
Real Betis · La Liga
Closest roles
- Deep-Lying PlaymakerΔ12
- Box CrasherΔ11
- CarrierΔ11
Aljoscha Kemlein
1. FC Union Berlin · Bundesliga 24/25
Closest roles
- Box CrasherΔ4
- Deep-Lying PlaymakerΔ21
- CarrierΔ20