Best Alternatives to Mile Svilar

Top 3 Alternatives to Mile Svilar

1. 1.Vanja Milinković-Savić 86% DNA match·Napoli€20.0M
2. 2.Marco Carnesecchi86% DNA match·Atalanta€25.0M
3. 3.Leo Román86% DNA match·Mallorca€5.0M

Ranked by AI DNA similarity — 768 dimensions across playing style, pressing intensity, and tactical fit.

Playing Style Analysis

Svilar has quietly become one of the most tactically complete goalkeepers in Serie A, a sweeper-keeper whose value extends well beyond shot-stopping into genuine ball-winning territory. His tackles won rate sits in the top 5% of league goalkeepers—a figure that sounds anomalous until you watch him read situations before they become crises, ranking in the top 20% for game-reading. That press intensity in the top 30% tells you this isn't passive goalkeeping; he's an active participant in Roma's defensive structure. The three most similar players to Mile Svilar by playing style are:

• Vanja Milinković-Savić (86% match) — Milinković-Savić has quietly become one of Serie A's most progressive distributors from behind—a goalkeeper who functions less like a last line of defence and more like an extra midfielder in possession. His passing volume sits in the top 5% of Serie A goalkeepers, and crucially, nearly a fifth of those passes penetrate the final third, a figure that elite pressing teams would covet. The counterintuitive detail: his 69.8% pass accuracy sounds modest, but it reflects ambition—he's attempting the difficult ball, not the safe one.
• Marco Carnesecchi(86% match) — Carnesecchi has quietly built one of Serie A's most complete goalkeeping profiles without ever dominating a single headline statistic—which is, paradoxically, exactly what makes him interesting. His 30.9 passes per 90 sits above the league average, and a 68.6% accuracy rate suggests he's attempting ambitious distribution rather than recycling safe laterals—his passes into the final third rank above average, meaning he's actively functioning as a build-up participant rather than a reset button. The duel win rate of 91.7% lands at league average, which sounds unremarkable until you consider Atalanta's high defensive line routinely exposes keepers to one-versus-one situations most Serie A goalkeepers simply never face.
• Leo Román(86% match) — A Sweeper-Keeper. Statistically, he stands out as dominant in aerial duels (100% success) and reliable in goal (3.0 saves/90). However, he concedes frequently (1.68/90).

Similarity is calculated using per-90 performance data across multiple playing style dimensions. How Player DNA matching works →