D. Happe
Shooting
45Creation
32Passing
46Defending
40Progression
95Shot Map
Touch Heatmap
What he is working on
The squad contests plenty of headers and wins a middling share of them; Rubezic's 74% in 2023-24 is the club standard. 60% would put a centre-back back above the pool median. · set 2026-08-11
Targets are set by hand and dated — nothing here moves them, because a target that shifts with the data is not a target. A figure is only judged against its target once there is enough behind it to mean something; until then the panel says how much more is needed.
Deep Centre-back
How well supported: 65%. Clustering the same 23 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 0.17); 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 23 Aberdeen centre-back seasons on record. Context, not a league benchmark. Style, not rating: goals, assists and conversion feed none of these scores. Evidence behind it: low confidence (75) on 360 minutes, 4 of 4 matches with event data.
What suits him
Which shape he plays in
| Shape | Apps | Min | G/90 | Sh/90 | Aerial % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4-2-3-1 | 3 | 270 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 84% |
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. 1 further shape fall below 270 minutes (4-1-3-2) and are left out rather than ranked on noise.
Plays most like
- Gavin Molloy2024/2584closest on Clearances, Pass completion, Defensive actions
- Mats Knoester2024/2581closest on Into the final third, Clearances, Tackles + interceptions
- Mats Knoester2025/2680closest on Defensive actions, Progressive passes, Tackles + interceptions
Nearest style profile among 23 Aberdeen centre-back seasons, across the model’s on-ball dimensions. Not a ranking: this asks who he plays like, not who was better.
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.
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 4 Aberdeen matches and 277 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.
Who else plays like this
Players from 10 other Scottish clubs who reach Happe's level on all four of the things that most characterise him.
Nobody in the pool clears all four at this level. That is a finding in itself — loosen the match, or read it as a profile the other clubs in here do not have.
0 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
| Match | Min | G | A | xG | KP | Tkl | Int | Rec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
DKilmarnock(H) | 90 | 2 | 6 | |||||
LRangers(H) | 90 | 0.07 | 1 | 1 | ||||
LDundee FC(A) | 90 | 0.44 | 4 | 2 | 6 | |||
WHearts(H) | 90 | 0.13 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |