Best Alternatives to Gustaf Nilsson

Playing Style Analysis

Nilsson is the kind of striker who doesn't need the ball to hurt you—he just needs one moment inside the box. His shots-per-90 rank in the top 5% of the league, yet his passes-per-90 sits below average, which tells you everything: this is a man who conserves his involvement to maximise his impact. The counterintuitive detail is his aerial dominance—3.22 aerials won per 90 puts him in the top 20%—not because he's a lumbering target man, but because that physicality feeds directly into his goal return of 0.44 per 90, top 20% league-wide. The three closest DNA matches to Gustaf Nilsson:

• Thijs Dallinga(84% match) — A Target Man. Statistically, he stands out as a capable chance creator (1.1 key passes/90), a constant goal threat (2.6 shots/90), a regular goalscorer (0.22 goals/90) and a reliable supplier (0.22 assists/90).
• Enes Ünal(84% 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.
• Armando Broja(84% match) — A Target Man. Statistically, he stands out as strong in aerial duels (3.7 aerials won/90).

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