Best Alternatives to Ben Brereton Díaz

Playing Style Analysis

Brereton Díaz occupies a fascinating middle ground between the Championship's battering rams and its clever second strikers—a Chilean international who never quite fits the mould of either. His aerial win rate sits in the top 20% of Championship forwards, yet his raw aerials-won-per-90 falls below average, suggesting he picks his battles intelligently rather than throwing himself at everything. That selectivity is the counterintuitive thread running through his game: modest goals-per-90 masks a forward who creates more than he finishes, with above-average key passes and penetrating passes into the final third hinting at an underused playmaking layer. The three closest DNA matches to Ben Brereton Díaz:

• Enes Ünal(83% match) — Ünal is the kind of striker Premier League defenders quietly dread—a physical menace in the air who backs it up with real end product. His aerial win rate sits in the top 5% of forwards in this division, and crucially, those duels are translating: 5.68 aerials won per 90 is not a volume stat, it's dominance.
• Iván Romero(81% match) — A Complete Forward. Statistically, he stands out as naturally left-footed, a regular goalscorer (0.28 goals/90) and draws fouls effectively (3.0/90).
• Armando Broja(81% match) — A Target Man. Statistically, he stands out as strong in aerial duels (3.7 aerials won/90).

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