Best Alternatives to Ahmed Touba 

Playing Style Analysis

Touba is the quintessential "modern-passive" center-back, a player who prioritizes intellectual positioning and ball circulation over the chaotic physicality often found in the Super League’s lower tiers. While playing for a Tier C side might suggest a defender constantly under siege, his 87.8% pass accuracy and top-decile ranking for interceptions (1.33/90) reveal a composed operator who kills attacks through anticipation rather than desperate lunges. The counterintuitive reality of his profile is that despite a high volume of passes into the final third (7.38/90), he is remarkably risk-averse; he facilitates the build-up without ever being the primary creative engine. The three closest DNA matches to Ahmed Touba :

• Antoine Mendy(85% match) — A Ball-Playing CB. Statistically, he stands out as active in the tackle (2.3 tackles/90), commanding in the air (5.2 clearances/90), meticulous in distribution (85% pass accuracy), wins the physical battle (60% duel success), central to possession (71 touches/90), uses long balls frequently (5.5/90) and active off the ball (2.6 press score/90), contributing to defensive transitions.
• Sinaly Diomandé(84% match) — A Ball-Playing CB. Statistically, he stands out as commanding in the air (4.8 clearances/90), meticulous in distribution (86% pass accuracy), wins the physical battle (60% duel success), uses long balls frequently (5.7/90) and active off the ball (2.0 press score/90), contributing to defensive transitions.
• Abdul Mumin(84% match) — A Ball-Playing CB. Statistically, he stands out as commanding in the air (5.4 clearances/90), wins the physical battle (57% duel success) and uses long balls frequently (7.1/90).

Similarity uses per-90 performance across playing-style dimensions. How Player DNA matching works →