While the season for Djurgarden in Sweden had already started, with plenty of league and UEFA Europa Conference League games played, Isak Hiens signing for Hellas Verona was made official. A giant step was taken in his career by the 23-year-old player who instantly adapted to the competition in a great way when he arrived at the club led firstly by Gabriele Cioffi, who would be replaced in December by Marco Zaffaroni.
Despite experiencing a rather shaky start at the Italian club, Hien has shown his great potential and quality in the league. He has matched the physical level of the competition and has added his technical abilities both on the ball and to defend in a more proactive way, which is closer to his style of play.
With all this poor form of Hellas Verona, some weaknesses have been more apparent than when he played in Allsvenskan, but his abilities and the positives within his game are bigger and more significant. That is why today we will carry out a tactical analysis in the form of a scout report to review the profile of the Swedish defender, within the tactics of Hellas Verona and different teams, including the national team where he is already a regular starter.
Profile and data
Isak Hien is a 63 ft tall defender, with a fairly strong mesomorph build in both his upper and lower body. He started his career at Vasalund of the Swedish second division where Djurgarden caught his talent immediately. 2022 was the breakthrough year for him, being a starter in the defence of the Allsvenskan team snd showing his great talent and potential.
A month after his signing for the Italian team, he made his debut in the national team, subsequently registering four more appearances in the team led by Janne Andersson.
As we can see in his statistical profile, Isak Hien has been a high point in the progression of his team, this being a team that has had a hard time maintaining solidity and balance in both phases of the attack and defence. However, he has worked his way up, despite the context, to have good percentile-based numbers around dribbling, progressive passing and threat passing.
Even defensively, we can see how impressive he has been in his aerial duels but a deficit in 1v1 duels, something that has also been partly due to what the team is looking for with the back-three, something that we will explain further in this article.
