Maxence Caqueret is a French player who recently joined the newly promoted Serie A club FC Como 1907 on a four-and-a-half-year contract that started in January 2025.
Therefore, Caqueret is expected to spend the near future in Serie A, especially given that Como have been doing very well following their promotion, finishing the season in 10th place.
This is unlike most newly promoted teams, who usually struggle to keep up with the Serie A level and play to avoid relegation.
Head coach Cesc Fàbregas and the whole team had a different philosophy and played impressive football this season.
Although Caqueret came in mid-season from Olympique Lyonnais, he also contributed to the team’s performances.
If he keeps progressing, he is expected to become even more important and central to the team in the coming seasons.
In this tactical analysis and scout report, we will discover why Caqueret has the potential to become more important for FC Como, what makes him special as a midfielder, and why he can be more central to Como’s tactics.
Therefore, the analysis will illustrate his goalscoring, playmaking, dribbling, and ball protection traits to explore his possible roles and positions.
Maxence Caqueret Roles & Positions
The 25-year-old is accustomed to playing in most midfield positions without issues.
Maxence Caqueret Heat Map & Positions
Caqueret has the attributes needed to fill the defensive midfielder, central midfielder, and advanced playmaker positions without issues and with concrete efficiency.
The following heat map and positional graphic highlight the French player’s adaptability to all midfield positions, even though he was not used frequently as an advanced playmaker.
Caqueret has mostly been used as a central or defensive midfielder throughout his club career.
Caqueret is a very intelligent player who masters playing under pressure and knows how to deal with complicated situations when playing in front of the defensive line.
He can escape high-pressing attempts thanks to his efficient body feints, dribbling mastery, passing accuracy, and excellent vision.
These make him a very reliable player for initiating the build-up from the back and moving the ball forward, whether to the wings or to the middle.
Maxence Caqueret Radar Map
In addition to these roles, Caqueret can be very important in terms of forward key passing.
He is characterised by a very explosive forward run combined with remarkable pace, especially considering that he is a midfielder and not a winger or a striker.
This explosiveness, combined with exceptional body feints and dribbling skills, increases Caqueret’s success rate in dribbling and ball retention.
That’s why it is easier for him to advance quickly to the final third and be in a position to provide key passes.
Caqueret can provide a considerable number of dangerous passes per game, with an average passing accuracy of 86.7% and an accuracy of 82.4% in the final third.
Fàbregas is well aware of this dangerous passing talent and has started using Caqueret more as an advanced playmaker.
He knew that the player’s impact in that position could be much more tangible, whether in terms of dribbling past players and penetrating to the box before passing or shooting or simply winning and protecting the ball in that key area.
Moreover, discovering that Caqueret has a remarkable shooting talent and that he can actually score goals, whether with shots from distance or thanks to penetrations towards the box, makes it even more logical to use the player in an advanced position.
In fact, Caqueret can be very useful for I Lariani as an advanced playmaker or as a defensive midfielder linking defence and attack, since he also has the abilities needed to be one of the best in that position.
Despite looking like a player with no strong physicality, Caqueret is tough to beat in duels.
He relies mainly on his agility, body feints, and quick decision-making whenever he is under pressure.
That makes him one of the best emerging defensive midfielders in Serie A at the moment, even though he is largely underrated.
Due to his irregular participation in the team, he did not get the opportunity to show his skills consistently.
Obviously, Caqueret is not the best player in aerial duels, and his height does not help him much in this regard.
At the same time, he should work further on shooting more often whenever possible because he has the abilities needed to shoot with impressive power and accuracy; he showed and confirmed this shooting mastery on numerous occasions, especially when he was at Olympique Lyonnais.
Maxence Caqueret Goalscoring Potential
Como have not yet exploited Caqueret’s goalscoring potential.
Even though he’s scored two goals so far, the player has not yet had the necessary opportunities to showcase his shooting abilities extensively with the team.
Nevertheless, he did so with Olympique Lyonnais and the French U20 national team.
On numerous occasions, he succeeded in scoring unexpected goals thanks to shots from distance, penetrations to the box, solo dribbling efforts, or one-two combinations that led to goalscoring opportunities.
With a proven mastery of curved shots, powerful shots, and other shooting techniques, like the lobbed shot he scored against Cagliari recently, Caqueret has proven that he can efficiently deal with various types of shooting situations.
More importantly, the French midfielder has repeatedly proven that he can score beautiful goals by shooting from distance with his left foot without lacking accuracy or power, which can be considered a remarkable added value.
Maxence Caqueret Attacking Movements Without The Ball
The following goal, scored against Cagliari, proves Caqueret’s mastery of shooting techniques, tactical awareness, and intelligent movements without the ball.
Such penetrations towards the box can often create danger for opposing defences since they are unpredictable.
These midfielders often provide unexpected yet very welcome passing options for the ball holder in that area.
Caqueret spotted the empty space within Cagliari’s defence and immediately attacked it before his teammate received the ball.
This anticipation and intelligent attacking positioning, which allows Caqueret to make himself available in key spots during attacks, make him a valuable midfielder who can become even more impactful if he repeats such intelligent attacking movements regularly.
Moreover, receiving the ball and dealing with it intelligently with a single touch to lob it past the goalkeeper without hesitation shows that Caqueret has remarkable finishing skills, which are not very common for defensive midfielders.
Caqueret’s involvement in Como’s attacking actions has already been fruitful on many occasions, and this involvement can become even more tangible in the upcoming season if he becomes more relied upon in Fàbregas’ system.
Maxence Caqueret Impact Inside The Box
Caqueret proved that he can be very dangerous inside the box, especially because he often surprises the opposition with quick decision-making using first-time shots or key passes.
This quickness of his decision-making can only mean that Caqueret is one of the players who anticipates what will happen next and always thinks about his next move before even receiving the ball.
That’s what explains him being very dangerous almost every time he receives the ball inside the final third.
Maxence Caqueret Actions Inside The Box
In this goal action against Hellas Verona, he provided a key pass to his teammate, reaching the second ball before everyone else, while surrounded by four opponents.
But given that he already had the whole situation in mind, Caqueret knew precisely what he was doing without even raising his head.
He got away from those four defenders and quickly shot on the opposite angle to outfox the goalkeeper with a very accurate finish.
Furthermore, as explained above, Caqueret is also capable of shooting using his left foot, and he does it with extreme accuracy and power.
Being able to finish using his left foot can surprise defenders and goalkeepers and represents a huge asset for Caqueret, especially when he is put in situations that oblige him to shoot with that foot.
Maxence Caqueret: The Second Ball Finishing Specialist
That’s exactly what happened in this goal example when he played with Olympique Lyonnais.
Caqueret proved on numerous occasions that he can be extremely important in collecting second balls and turning them into goals using his right or left foot, depending on the surrounding circumstances.
Maxence Caqueret First-Time Shots
In addition to these finishing abilities, Caqueret showed at Olympique Lyonnais that he can be instrumental when advancing to the box or near it, positioning himself away from marking, receiving passes or crosses and finishing them accurately using first-time shots.
This was a recurrent action for Caqueret, and this ability should also be exploited at Como.
Caqueret’s first-time shots should be further used mainly because he rarely fails to execute them successfully, creating significant danger to the opponent’s goal.
Maxence Caqueret Key Passing
Caqueret has the potential to become one of Serie A’s best passers, mainly because he has the vision and passing abilities needed to excel as a defensive, central, or attacking midfielder.
We cannot deny that playing as an advanced playmaker would give him more chances to provide more key passes and assists per game, and the latest games’ signs suggest that the use of Caqueret more as an advanced playmaker next season is likely.
With outstanding balance, body control, and ability to escape defenders relying on his excellent body feints and agility, Caqueret has more chances than most other midfielders to put himself in suitable key-passing situations.
In other words, by dribbling successfully most of the time, he paves the way for himself to provide key passes so often, and that’s very important.
Caqueret has already provided assists at Como and needs to provide more assists next season.
Maxence Caqueret Crossing Assist
The following assist example shows the player’s ability to cross well and anticipate his teammate’s movement.
The ball meets the goalscorer in the right spot and at the adequate timing while everyone thought that he was going to cross the ball to another player.
Caqueret’s ball progression attempts are usually impactful as he does not the ball easily and succeeds in resisting the physical disturbance of defenders on most occasions.
Maxence Caqueret Ball Progression Role In Counter-Attacks
This makes him very useful in attacking transitions, similar to what Tijjani Reijnders does to help in that transitional phase with AC Milan.
In this assist counter-attacking action, he received the ball under pressure in midfield, resisted the disturbance of his marker and advanced with explosiveness prior to providing a key pass to his teammate while winning time over the defence, who were not yet back in their positions.
His ability to spot his teammates’ movements and quickly react to them with through passes that break defensive lines makes him a further valuable player in the playmaking phase inside the opponent’s half.
Maxence Caqueret Line-Breaking Key Passes
Breaking lines and creating dangerous opportunities for his teammates is not a simple task, and being able to repeat such key passes in future games would certainly increase his value, importance to the team’s tactics, and confidence in his assist-making abilities.
This key pass against Parma highlights his exceptional passing abilities and the quickness with which he executes such passes, confusing the whole Parma defensive line and creating a golden opportunity for his teammate.
Conclusion
Maxence Caqueret has started showing what he is capable of adding to Como but has yet to reach his full potential, whether in terms of playmaking or goalscoring.
With impressive ball protection, dribbling, agility, key passing, defensive resistance, quick decision-making, and shooting accuracy, Caqueret is expected to become one of the best midfielders in Serie A in the upcoming seasons.
