Best Alternatives to Pep Biel

Playing Style Analysis

Biel is the kind of midfielder who will lose you the ball and then immediately make you forget about it by scoring or setting up a goal. Operating in MLS, his output is genuinely elite—top 5% for both goals and assists per 90, with key passes sitting in the top 10%—numbers that would turn heads in stronger leagues, not just this one. The counterintuitive read here is his pass accuracy: 80.5% sounds careless, but it likely reflects ambition rather than sloppiness, since low-volume passers who create at his rate are choosing difficult balls over safe ones. The three closest DNA matches to Pep Biel:

• Brais Méndez(82% match) — A Creator. Statistically, he stands out as naturally left-footed, a capable chance creator (1.3 key passes/90), a regular goalscorer (0.32 goals/90), active in the tackle (1.9 tackles/90), heavily involved in play (66 touches/90) and active off the ball (2.2 press score/90), contributing to defensive transitions.
• Arijon Ibrahimovic(82% match) — A Creator. Statistically, he stands out as an elite creator (2.3 key passes/90), a reliable supplier (0.21 assists/90), heavily involved in play (56 touches/90), active off the ball (2.6 press score/90), contributing to defensive transitions and top 10% creator in the league.
• Brenden Aaronson(82% match) — A Creator. Statistically, he stands out as a capable chance creator (1.2 key passes/90), a reliable supplier (0.18 assists/90), active in the tackle (1.8 tackles/90) and active off the ball (2.4 press score/90), contributing to defensive transitions.

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