Best Alternatives to Julian Weigl

Playing Style Analysis

Weigl has built a second career on being the calmest man in any midfield storm—a deep-lying conductor whose 92.5% pass accuracy and 56.9 passes per 90 place him comfortably among the league's most reliable distributors. The aerial numbers are the real surprise: a 75% win rate puts him in the top 5% of midfielders, an almost freakish figure for a player whose game is defined by ground-level control rather than physical dominance. The counterintuitive read here is that his duel win rate sits at a pedestrian average—yet his interception and tackle numbers both outperform most peers, suggesting he wins the ball through positioning and anticipation rather than brute confrontation. The three closest DNA matches to Julian Weigl:

• Robert Andrich(85% match) — A Metronome. Statistically, he stands out as meticulous in distribution (90% pass accuracy), wins the physical battle (61% duel success), heavily involved in possession (66 passes/90), central to possession (77 touches/90), uses long balls frequently (5.5/90) and active off the ball (2.1 press score/90), contributing to defensive transitions.
• Ellyes Skhiri(84% match) — A Metronome. Statistically, he stands out as reads the game exceptionally (1.6 interceptions/90), meticulous in distribution (88% pass accuracy), heavily involved in play (69 touches/90) and active off the ball (2.6 press score/90), contributing to defensive transitions.
• Aljoscha Kemlein(84% match) — A Box-to-Box. Statistically, he stands out as active in the tackle (1.8 tackles/90), heavily involved in play (57 touches/90), uses long balls frequently (5.7/90) and active off the ball (2.8 press score/90), contributing to defensive transitions.

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