Pepelu
Valencia · Midfielder · Spain · 2,232 min
Ballity Verdict
What makes this player special?
Pepelu is the kind of midfielder coaches build possession around. At Valencia, 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, Pepelu remains plausible as box crasher. 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) / DM (#6). That matters: skill-set breadth is one thing; demonstrated deployment is another. Pepelu'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
- Shown minutes: CM (#8) / DM (#6)
- Known caveat: chance_creation
Receipts
- · Player Profile
- · Role Breadth
- · Deployment authenticity
- · Sample · featured
Position
Midfielder
Appearances
31
Great+ roles
1
Age
27
Preferred foot
Right
Height
185 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.
14.9% team touches
Peer band · Elite
Pool percentile
87.2%
Also 69.2 touches/90 (season aggregate).
Efficiency
Output quality per action for midfielders.
65 score
Peer band · High
Pool percentile
75.0%
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 (Elite), Ball Progressor (Elite)
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
36.6
Breadth 20.1 · Depth 16.5
- ·Fullbacks: Playmaking FB (Great), Defensive FB (Good)
- ·Midfielders: Deep-Lying Playmaker (Great), Box Crasher (Good), Ball Winner (Good), Box-to-Box Midfielder (Good), Duel Destroyer (Good)
Versatility shape
Coarse directional pattern (Specialist / Dual-threat / Generalist) — not the 0–100 Index above.
Specialist
Elite SpecialistDistinct Great+
1 Great+ roles total
Where he plays
Positions with deployment evidence — not statistical guesses.
Natural
Role translations
Where the profile could fit. Tap a position — then see which role style suits it.
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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.
Manu Morlanes
Mallorca · La Liga
Closest roles
Box CrasherΔ2
Deep-Lying PlaymakerΔ30
Box-to-BoxΔ2
Hugo Larsson
Eintracht Frankfurt · Bundesliga 24/25
Closest roles
- Deep-Lying PlaymakerΔ12
- Box CrasherΔ3
- Box-to-BoxΔ2
Alessandro Deiola
Cagliari · Serie A
Closest roles
- Box CrasherΔ30
- Deep-Lying PlaymakerΔ46
Duel DestroyerΔ14