Best Alternatives to Emiliano Martínez

Playing Style Analysis

Martínez is the kind of midfielder Serie A's mid-table sides quietly depend on—not the player who wins you games, but the one who stops you losing them. His 88.3% pass accuracy and 47.5 passes per 90 place him comfortably above average in distribution volume and efficiency, suggesting a player who keeps the machine ticking rather than accelerating it. The counterintuitive read here is his aerial presence: 1.43 aerials won per 90 puts him in the top 20% of Serie A midfielders, a figure that quietly reshapes how his team defends set-pieces and transitions. The three closest DNA matches to Emiliano Martínez:

• Billy Gilmour (80% match) — A Metronome. Statistically, he stands out as meticulous in distribution (90% pass accuracy), wins the physical battle (59% duel success), heavily involved in possession (89 passes/90), penetrates with forward passing (12.6 final-third passes/90), central to possession (101 touches/90), uses long balls frequently (5.5/90) and a high-intensity presser (press score 3.1/90), constantly disrupting opposition build-up.
• Bryan Cristante(84% match) — Cristante has quietly become one of Serie A's most underrated distribution engines — a midfielder who doesn't dazzle but consistently moves teams forward with purpose. His passes into the final third rank in the top 5% of the league, which tells the real story: this isn't a recycler, it's a progressor.
• Alberto Grassi(84% match) — A Ball-Winner. Statistically, he stands out as reads the game exceptionally (1.7 interceptions/90), meticulous in distribution (85% pass accuracy), wins the physical battle (61% duel success), heavily involved in play (57 touches/90) and active off the ball (2.4 press score/90), contributing to defensive transitions.

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