Best Alternatives to Mile Svilar

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 closest DNA matches to Mile Svilar:

• 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.
• 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.
• Zion Suzuki(85% match) — A Commanding Keeper. Statistically, he stands out as dominant in aerial duels (100% success), penetrates with forward passing (11.3 final-third passes/90), reliable in goal (3.3 saves/90) and commands the box with authority (0.5 punches/90).

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