
Based on 1,526 min · 2025/2026 · Pro League · FULL
Ranked by AI DNA similarity — playing style, pressing, and tactical fit. Below: the closest replacements with per-90 stats and form.
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See Full Verdict + Share Card →Brownhill is the rare box-to-box midfielder who earns his wage not through elegance but through a quietly ruthless efficiency in the spaces most players ignore. His goals-per-90 sits in the top 10% of the league — remarkable for someone who touches the ball below average in volume, suggesting he's doing far more with far less possession time than his peers. His interception numbers (top 20%) reveal a midfielder who reads the game structurally, anticipating rather than reacting, which partly explains why his ground duel win rate looks poor on the surface — he's often intercepting before the duel even happens. The three closest DNA matches to Josh Brownhill:
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