Best Alternatives to Jerdy Schouten

Playing Style Analysis

Schouten is the kind of midfielder who makes a team's possession game feel inevitable rather than effortful—a metronome who rarely wastes a touch and almost never wastes a pass. His 92.3% pass accuracy and 75.3 passes per 90 both sit in the Eredivisie's top five percent, meaning he isn't just accurate, he's relentlessly active with the ball. The 10.32 passes into the final third per 90 is the counterintuitive number here: for a player who reads as a deep-lying anchor, he's consistently threading the needle forward, ranking top ten in the league. The three closest DNA matches to Jerdy Schouten:

• Peer Koopmeiners(87% match) — A Ball-Winner. Statistically, he stands out as a capable chance creator (1.0 key passes/90), an aggressive ball-winner (3.3 tackles/90), wins the ball cleanly (2.0 successful tackles/90), heavily involved in play (61 touches/90), active off the ball (2.6 press score/90), contributing to defensive transitions and top 10% tackler in the league.
• Ramiz Zerrouki(85% match) — A Metronome. Statistically, he stands out as an elite creator (1.5 key passes/90), active in the tackle (2.2 tackles/90), penetrates with forward passing (11.6 final-third passes/90), central to possession (73 touches/90), switches play with precision (7.6 long balls/90, 63% accuracy) and active off the ball (2.8 press score/90), contributing to defensive transitions.
• Youri Regeer(84% match) — A Ball-Winner. Statistically, he stands out as an aggressive ball-winner (2.8 tackles/90), meticulous in distribution (91% pass accuracy), wins the physical battle (62% duel success), heavily involved in play (70 touches/90) and a high-intensity presser (press score 3.0/90), constantly disrupting opposition build-up.

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