Best Alternatives to Nikola Moro

Playing Style Analysis

Moro is the kind of midfielder who quietly rewires a team's tempo before anyone notices he's doing it. Playing in Serie A's congested midfield battlegrounds, his 65.6 passes per 90 places him in the top 5% of the league—not because he's safe and sideways, but because he's constantly available and constantly moving the game forward. That's the counterintuitive truth buried in his numbers: his 13.52 passes into the final third per 90, also top 5%, reveals a box-to-box engine with genuine progressive ambition, not a recycler. The three closest DNA matches to Nikola Moro:

• Reda Belahyane(85% match) — A Ball-Winner. Statistically, he stands out as a prolific assist provider (0.29 assists/90), active in the tackle (1.9 tackles/90), meticulous in distribution (86% pass accuracy), heavily involved in play (55 touches/90) and active off the ball (2.4 press score/90), contributing to defensive transitions.
• Ardon Jashari(80% match) — A Metronome. Statistically, he stands out as a capable chance creator (1.2 key passes/90), active in the tackle (1.8 tackles/90), meticulous in distribution (91% pass accuracy), central to possession (71 touches/90) and active off the ball (2.6 press score/90), contributing to defensive transitions.
• Teun Koopmeiners(80% match) — Koopmeiners is the rare midfielder who makes a team's build-up feel inevitable rather than effortful—a conductor who turns possession into progression with surgical consistency. His 91.1% pass accuracy places him in the top 10% of Serie A midfielders, but the more telling number is his 8.79 passes into the final third per 90, also top 10%—this isn't a recycler, it's a penetrator.

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