Best Alternatives to Beñat Turrientes

Top 3 Alternatives to Beñat Turrientes

1. 1.Mikel Jauregizar86% DNA match·Athletic Club€30.0M
2. 2.Pablo Torre86% DNA match·Mallorca€5.0M
3. 3.Marc Aguado86% DNA match·Elche€3.0M

Ranked by AI DNA similarity — 768 dimensions across playing style, pressing intensity, and tactical fit.

Playing Style Analysis

Turrientes is the kind of midfielder who wins the ball like a top-five defender but delivers it like a top-ten creator—a genuinely rare combination in La Liga's midfield pool. His tackles won per 90 place him in the top 5% of the division, yet this isn't a destroyer content to recycle possession; his assists rate sits in the top 10%, and he's threading passes into the final third at an above-average clip. The counterintuitive read here is that his pass accuracy looks merely average, but that's partly the ambition of his distribution—he's attempting progressive, risk-carrying passes rather than sideways safety balls. The three most similar players to Beñat Turrientes by playing style are:

• Mikel Jauregizar(86% match) — A Box-to-Box. Statistically, he stands out as a capable chance creator (1.1 key passes/90), active in the tackle (2.2 tackles/90), heavily involved in play (58 touches/90) and a high-intensity presser (press score 3.0/90), constantly disrupting opposition build-up.
• Pablo Torre(86% match) — A Creator. Statistically, he stands out as an elite creator (2.1 key passes/90), a regular goalscorer (0.20 goals/90), a reliable supplier (0.20 assists/90), meticulous in distribution (85% pass accuracy), penetrates with forward passing (8.3 final-third passes/90), heavily involved in play (63 touches/90), active off the ball (2.2 press score/90), contributing to defensive transitions and top 20% creator in the league.
• Marc Aguado(86% match) — A Ball-Winner. Statistically, he stands out as active in the tackle (1.9 tackles/90), reads the game exceptionally (1.8 interceptions/90), meticulous in distribution (91% pass accuracy), wins the physical battle (63% duel success), heavily involved in play (57 touches/90) and active off the ball (2.2 press score/90), contributing to defensive transitions.

Similarity is calculated using per-90 performance data across multiple playing style dimensions. How Player DNA matching works →