Best Alternatives to Vanja Milinković-Savić 

Playing Style Analysis

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. The three closest DNA matches to Vanja Milinković-Savić :

• Zion Suzuki(80% 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).
• Elia Caprile(79% match) — A Traditional Keeper. Statistically, he stands out as dominant in aerial duels (90% success) and reliable in goal (3.2 saves/90).
• Arijanet Murić(88% match) — A Commanding Keeper. Statistically, he stands out as dominant in aerial duels (95% success), reliable in goal (3.7 saves/90) and commands the box with authority (0.7 punches/90).

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