Best Alternatives to Yannick Carrasco

Playing Style Analysis

Carrasco remains one of European football's most stubborn paradoxes—a wide attacker who has reinvented himself in the Belgian Pro League without ever losing the edge that made him a Atlético Madrid regular. His key pass rate of 2.97 per 90 lands in the top 5% of attackers in this division, yet the counterintuitive truth is that his 0.72 goals per 90 tells a more honest story than his assists tally—this is a creator who finishes, not a finisher who creates. His dribble volume, also top 5%, confirms he's still picking fights in tight spaces and winning them; a 53.4% duel win rate in the top 20% proves he's not just attempting, he's succeeding. The three closest DNA matches to Yannick Carrasco:

• Álex Berenguer(83% match) — A Forward. Statistically, he stands out as an elite creator (2.1 key passes/90).
• Armand Laurienté(82% match) — A Complete Forward. Statistically, he stands out as an elite creator (1.9 key passes/90), a regular goalscorer (0.24 goals/90), a prolific assist provider (0.31 assists/90) and creates high-quality scoring opportunities (0.55 big chances/90).
• Rubén Vargas(82% match) — A Complete Forward. Statistically, he stands out as an elite creator (1.5 key passes/90) and a prolific assist provider (0.29 assists/90).

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