Who Is Carlos Martín?
Carlos Martín is off to a scintillating start for Mirandés.
A loanee from Atlético Madrid, the 21-year-old leads La Liga 2 in goals scored and has a goal contribution rate of 67% for Mirandés.
After scoring 18 goals for Atlético Madrid B in the RFEF Segunda B, he is continuing to produce in the Spanish second division.
This Carlos Martín scout report will take a look at his season at Mirandés and evaluate the essential qualities hes showing.
But we want to go further than that.
Since he is only on loan for the season, we also want to evaluate opportunities at his parent club.
Through tactical analysis, we will see if Martín has the potential to step into Antoine Griezmanns role once the Frenchman is out of the equation.
Carlos Martín Style Of Play Operating as a second striker
CD Mirandés typically play a 4-2-3-1 with Martín in the #10 role.
He plays the position more like a classic #10, so hes very tightly connected to his centre-forward, giving Martín a secondary striker function.
He operates well moving off of his strike partner and shows good awareness of opportunities as they arise.
Martín is a player who finds pockets of space centrally and moves into those spaces well.
Watching Mirandés, there were similarities to Atlético Madrids approach.
In possession, Martín was able to find pockets of space in the same way Griezmann would.
He took up positions that connected him with his teammates and made it easier to link up.
For an Atlético Madrid youth, quality movement and transition is also vital.
Thats something we see from Martín on film.
He responds very quickly in attacking transitions and shows a good awareness of which spaces to attack.
His early recognition of transitional moments allows him to gain additional meters on his opponents.
That was a valuable asset in his opening goal against Alcorcon.
As soon as Martín saw his teammate poke the ball free, he quickly got forward and created a 3v2.
Martín saw the right centreback drifting too close to the ball as the attacking sequence veered into the right half-space.
Once that gap emerged centrally, he timed his run to perfection to receive and score.
