Best Alternatives to Rodrigo Bentancur  

Top 3 Alternatives to Rodrigo Bentancur  

1. 1.Manuel Locatelli86% DNA match·Juventus€25.0M
2. 2.Pierre-Emile Højbjerg86% DNA match·Olympique Marseille€18.0M
3. 3.Khéphren Thuram85% DNA match·Juventus€40.0M

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

Playing Style Analysis

A Ball-Winner. Statistically, he stands out as an aggressive ball-winner (2.5 tackles/90), reads the game exceptionally (1.6 interceptions/90), meticulous in distribution (86% pass accuracy), wins the physical battle (55% duel success), heavily involved in play (63 touches/90) and a high-intensity presser (press score 3.4/90), constantly disrupting opposition build-up. The three most similar players to Rodrigo Bentancur   by playing style are:

• Manuel Locatelli(86% match) — Locatelli has spent years being the midfielder that makes everything work without ever making the highlight reel—and the numbers finally prove why that matters. Operating in Serie A's congested midfield battles, he ranks in the top 5% for passes per 90, tackles won, press intensity, and passes into the final third simultaneously; finding a player who dominates all four categories at once is genuinely rare. The counterintuitive read here is his goal contribution figures, which look pedestrian until you understand he's essentially the engine redistributing possession upward—those 15-plus progressive passes per 90 are what create the chances others finish.
• Pierre-Emile Højbjerg(86% match) — A Metronome. Statistically, he stands out as meticulous in distribution (92% pass accuracy), heavily involved in possession (80 passes/90), penetrates with forward passing (11.3 final-third passes/90), central to possession (91 touches/90) and active off the ball (2.5 press score/90), contributing to defensive transitions. Note: this profile is based on 839 minutes of playing time this season.
• Khéphren Thuram(85% match) — Thuram carries the genetic burden of a famous name with surprising ease — not by mimicking his father's grace, but by imposing himself through sheer physical and technical authority in the middle of Serie A's most demanding environments. His passing volume places him in the top 20% of midfielders in the league, and that volume comes with 86.6% accuracy — this isn't a recycler, it's a driver. The counterintuitive read on his 0.86 key passes per 90 is that it undersells his progression: his passes into the final third rank top 30%, meaning he's threading the needle further up the pitch than the creativity numbers suggest.

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