AFC 1903

Duk

Advanced creator2024–25 · final Aberdeen season
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Apps
939
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What kind of attacking midfielder is Duk?
Percentiles vs Aberdeen attacking / wide mids · all player-seasons 2021–22 to 2026–27 · min 200 minutes (1 player-seasons)
No stand-out trait vs this pool — a balanced (or low-minutes) profile.
Key Passes / 901.2550th
xA / 900.1950th
Big Chances / 900.2950th
Shots / 902.450th
xG / 900.2550th
Crosses / 901.550th
Ball Rec / 903.950th
Duel Win %43%50th
A style profile, not a rating — percentiles are within Aberdeen player pools only, not league-wide.
Chance Creation · WhoScored events
10
Key Passes
1
Assists
3
Pre-Assists
23
Prog. Passes
16
Box Entries
23
Dribbles
Key passes = passes that led to a shot. Pre-assists = the pass before the assist. 19 apps, 998 mins · squad ranks among 300+ min players.
Role fingerprint · style, not ability · vs Aberdeen attacking / wide mids, player-seasons 2021–22 to 2026–27, 450+ minutes
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Advanced creator2024-25 role · from this player’s strongest traits vs attacking / wide mids
Duk profiles as an advanced creator: strongest on carrying, receiving; passing threat is the least dominant part of the profile. Style vs other Aberdeen attacking / wide mids — not a rating.
Threat added by passes (xT), per 90Passing7th pct0.06 xT/90Threat of the positions where they receive the ball (xT), per 90Receiving87th pct0.18 xT/90Threat added by carries and dribbles (xT), per 90Carrying97th pct0.43 xT/90Goals scored — finishing outputShooting13th pct0 goalsTackles, interceptions and recoveries per 90Ball-winning19th pct6.0/90
Plays like
Toyosi Olusanya26-27 · Advanced creatorRyan Duncan22-23 · Central midfielderConnor McLennan21-22 · Central midfielder
Similarity is style, not ability — nearest profile among Aberdeen forward-seasons by the five threat categories, not a performance ranking.
A style fingerprint, not a rating — single-club sample. How these numbers work
Rank vs 146 player-seasons, 2021–27 (200+ min)

Shooting

70
Goals
00.00/90
76th
xG
2.590.25/90
25th
Shots
252.40/90
28th
Shots on Target
111.05/90
17th
Conversion
0%
76th

Creation

81
Assists
10.10/90
19th
xA
2.030.19/90
25th
Key Passes
100.96/90
50th
Big Chances
30.29/90
20th

Passing

30
Passes
19318.50/90
106th
Pass Accuracy
69%
113th
Receptions
24223.19/90
Crosses
161.53/90
68th
Long Balls
60.58/90
127th

Defending

46
Tackles
191.82/90
58th
Interceptions
00.00/90
129th
Recoveries
413.93/90
84th
Duels Won
848.05/90
53rd
Aerials Won
222.11/90
52nd
Clearances
90.86/90
101st

Touch Heatmap

Season — 19 apps612 touches
ATTACKING →
Style archetype

Inside Forward Winger

percentile vs 17 Aberdeen seasons
Inside Forward91st
Dribbler67th
Creator33rd
Wide Provider27th

How well supported: 65%. Clustering the same 17 seasons without our labels puts 65% of them in the group our archetype names would predict. That is a weak match — read the four scores, not the headline label. No position separates cleanly into discrete types (silhouette 0.25); these are continua, and the scores describe position along them.

A percentile, not a success rate: 67th means he did more of it than two thirds of the 17 Aberdeen winger / wide forward seasons on record. Context, not a league benchmark. Style, not rating: goals, assists and conversion feed none of these scores. Evidence behind it: high confidence (98) on 939 minutes, 19 of 19 matches with event data.

Service profile

What suits him

Where he contests headers
Own third4 duels · won 50%
Middle third26 duels · won 42%
Attacking third12 duels · won 67%
won contested
Box touches / 90
7.38
Lay-offs completed
50%
Pass completion
69%
Offsides
2

Reading, not a measurement. 26 of his 42 aerial duels came in the middle third and he won 42% of them, which is a poor return for that volume. His box work is worth 7.4 touches per 90 by comparison. On that split, his value is arriving in the box rather than winning the first ball in midfield. Nothing here records who passed to him — the data has no receiving-player field — so this is an inference from where he competed, not a measurement of the service he got.

Formation fit

Which shape he plays in

ShapeAppsMinG/90Sh/90Aerial %
4-2-3-1199390.002.4051%

Shape is the side's starting formation for each match, so a game where Aberdeen changed at half time counts wholly to what they started in — mid-match spells are only recorded for the current season.

Aberdeen history

Plays most like

  1. Duk2023/24his own season82
    closest on Pass xT, npxG, Box touches
  2. Duk2022/23his own season79
    closest on Take-ons, Into the final third, Fouls won
  3. Pape Habib Gueye2024/2575
    closest on Pass xT, Shots, Take-on success

Nearest style profile among 17 Aberdeen winger / wide forward seasons, across the model’s on-ball dimensions. Not a ranking: this asks who he plays like, not who was better.

Outside Aberdeen

Against other clubs

Percentile against 90 players from 10 other Scottish clubs, in their matches against Aberdeen. Shares of his own actions rather than per-90: opponent minutes are derived from the lineup, good enough to require 450 of them but not precise enough to divide by.

Take-ons per 100 touches99th
Share of touches in the box99th
Shots per 100 touches91st
Passes into the box per 100 touches79th
Key passes per 100 touches76th
Aerial duels per 100 touches72nd
Crosses per 100 touches64th
Headed share of passes59th
Tackles + interceptions per 100 touches44th
Pass completion38th
Clearances per 100 touches20th
Progressive passes per 100 touches17th
Passes per 100 touches0th

Celtic and Rangers are left out of the pool. With them in, they held 8 of the top 10 for passing and none of the top 10 for aerials — they distorted every feature one way or the other. Without them the remaining ten clubs behave alike enough that a player's club explains under a sixth of the variance in any of these, so all of them are readable as the player rather than the team.

Based on 19 Aberdeen matches and 471 touches this season, against opponents with at least 450 minutes against us across five years. Every feature shown agrees with itself when a player's matches are split in half and measured twice; aerial win rate and take-on success do not on this sample, so they are left out. These are still matches against one specific side — enough to place a player, not to quote as league form.

Profile match

Who else plays like this

Players from 10 other Scottish clubs who reach Duk's level on all four of the things that most characterise him.

Matched on
Take-ons per 100 toucheshim 99th·needs 89th
Share of touches in the boxhim 99th·needs 89th
Shots per 100 toucheshim 91st·needs 81st
Passes into the box per 100 toucheshim 79th·needs 69th
  1. Élie YouanHibernian99 · 96 · 97 · 91
  2. Martin BoyleHibernian97 · 95 · 92 · 98
  3. Simon MurrayDundee FC95 · 99 · 99 · 81

3 of 90 pool players match. The pool is opponents with at least 450 minutes against Aberdeen across five years — roughly four matches a season each, and only against us. This is a prompt to go and watch someone, not a scouting verdict, and it cannot see anyone who has not played us.

Match-by-match breakdown is available for the current season only.
Data via Sofascore