Best Alternatives to Marcelo Brozović

Playing Style Analysis

Brozović remains one of football's great metronomes—a midfielder who doesn't win the ball so much as simply own the space it travels through. Now operating in the Pro League, his numbers tell a story of sustained quality in a new environment. His 63.1 passes per 90 and 10.07 passes into the final third both rank top 10% in the league—not volume for its own sake, but precision with direction. The three closest DNA matches to Marcelo Brozović:

• Stanislav Lobotka(83% match) — Lobotka is the rare midfielder who makes a possession-based system feel inevitable rather than mechanical—a metronome with a brain. His 93.4% pass accuracy and 67.3 passes per 90 both sit in Serie A's top five percent, meaning he doesn't just move the ball quickly, he moves it correctly, almost every time.
• Hakan Çalhanoğlu(83% match) — A Metronome. Statistically, he stands out as an elite creator (2.2 key passes/90), a constant goal threat (2.7 shots/90), a proven goalscorer (0.49 goals/90), a reliable supplier (0.22 assists/90), active in the tackle (1.9 tackles/90), meticulous in distribution (91% pass accuracy), heavily involved in possession (76 passes/90), penetrates with forward passing (10.5 final-third passes/90), central to possession (93 touches/90), switches play with precision (6.0 long balls/90, 61% accuracy), active off the ball (2.9 press score/90), contributing to defensive transitions and top 10% creator in the league.
• Pierre-Emile Højbjerg(82% match) — A Metronome. Statistically, he stands out as a capable chance creator (1.5 key passes/90), a reliable supplier (0.17 assists/90), meticulous in distribution (90% pass accuracy), heavily involved in possession (74 passes/90), penetrates with forward passing (12.4 final-third passes/90), central to possession (87 touches/90) and active off the ball (2.7 press score/90), contributing to defensive transitions.

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