Best Alternatives to Manu Silva

Playing Style Analysis

A Ball-Winner. Statistically, he stands out as a capable chance creator (1.3 key passes/90), an aggressive ball-winner (2.8 tackles/90), wins the physical battle (56% duel success), creates high-quality scoring opportunities (1.33 big chances/90), central to possession (77 touches/90), strong in aerial duels (3.5 aerials won/90) and switches play with precision (8.6 long balls/90, 66% accuracy). Note: this profile is based on 678 minutes of playing time this season. The three closest DNA matches to Manu Silva:

• Afonso Assis Cunha Almeida(88% match) — A Metronome. Statistically, he stands out as reads the game exceptionally (1.7 interceptions/90), meticulous in distribution (86% pass accuracy), heavily involved in play (67 touches/90) and a high-intensity presser (press score 3.0/90), constantly disrupting opposition build-up.
• Vítor Carvalho(86% match) — A Metronome. Statistically, he stands out as meticulous in distribution (92% pass accuracy), wins the physical battle (61% duel success), heavily involved in possession (73 passes/90), central to possession (86 touches/90) and switches play with precision (5.1 long balls/90, 60% accuracy).
• Pablo Rosario(85% match) — Rosario is the kind of midfielder who quietly wins games with a clipboard rather than a highlight reel—a metronomic distributor whose 92.5% pass accuracy places him in Liga Portugal's top 10%, yet who rarely demands your attention doing it. His 7.58 passes into the final third per 90 puts him in the top 20% for progression, meaning the ball consistently moves forward through him, not around him.

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