Best Alternatives to Charles

Playing Style Analysis

Charles is a statistical paradox, a low-volume midfielder operating in a Tier C Serie A side who somehow maintains the goalscoring instincts of an elite second striker. While his 37.3 passes per 90 and bottom-tier pass accuracy suggest a player struggling to influence the rhythm of a match, his output tells a different story; he sits in the top 20% for goals per 90 despite taking fewer than half a shot per game. This efficiency is the counterintuitive hook: he isn't a playmaker, but a ghost in the box who uses his top-tier aerial presence to capitalize on scraps. The three closest DNA matches to Charles:

• Ardon Jashari(80% match) — A Metronome. Statistically, he stands out as a capable chance creator (1.2 key passes/90), active in the tackle (1.8 tackles/90), meticulous in distribution (91% pass accuracy), central to possession (71 touches/90) and active off the ball (2.6 press score/90), contributing to defensive transitions.
• Teun Koopmeiners(80% match) — Koopmeiners is the rare midfielder who makes a team's build-up feel inevitable rather than effortful—a conductor who turns possession into progression with surgical consistency. His 91.1% pass accuracy places him in the top 10% of Serie A midfielders, but the more telling number is his 8.79 passes into the final third per 90, also top 10%—this isn't a recycler, it's a penetrator.
• Youssouf Fofana(80% match) — A Ball-Winner. Statistically, he stands out as a capable chance creator (1.5 key passes/90).

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