How can Geyse Ferreira become a more complete striker at Barcelona Femení and the Brazilian national team? – scout report

Geyse da Silva Ferreira is a Brazilian international player who started her career in Brazil and played for different teams in her local country including CESMAC, União Desportiva, Centro Olímpico and Corinthians. But prior to these experiences, Geyse played futsal and has surely learned a lot by practising this game, knowing that playing this sport isn’t as easy as it seems. And more importantly, most football players who started by playing futsal have always found it easier to deal with tight spaces, dribble better than other footballers and have a great technique with the ball.

Geyse benefited from this futsal impact by developing her skills and she started seeing the fruit of her efforts later after she moved to Europe in order to play for Madrid CFF and Benfica. Her performances at Madrid CFF attracted the attention of Barcelona who offered her a contract in 2022. Geyse has already started to play with her new club this season and she also made a positive impact on the attacking performances of her team as soon as she was given the opportunity to showcase her abilities.

In this tactical analysis scout report, the focus will fully be centred around Geyse’s characteristics, her positions and roles on the pitch, how she can succeed at Barcelona and fit their tactics, her goalscoring abilities and what she needs to improve in order to become a more accomplished attacking player.

Positions and roles

Geyse is mainly a striker who has been used in this position most of the time, according to different formations like Barcelona’s standard 4-4-3 formation. At the same time, Jonatan Giráldez has been experimenting with some other positions with Geyse and he used her as a left and right winger. She proved to be very useful in both positions as well since she has no issues in terms of dribbling, pace and playing in larger parts of the pitch instead of just the box, unlike other strikers.

This variety of skills and ability to adapt to different attacking roles allows Geyse to succeed at such a big club which includes some of the best attacking players already. But in order to remain impactful at Barcelona, Geyse will need to put on consistent performances in spite of the position she holds on the pitch, providing her head coach with a plethora of solutions and sort of obliging him to play her regularly thanks to her potential.

With the Brazilian national team, Geyse has already played as a right winger in a 4-4-2 formation and in a 4-2-3-1 formation, a striker in the 4-2-3-1 formation as well and a left winger in Madrid CFF’s 4-2-3-1. It is true that Geyse shined with Madrid CFF for quite a long period, but now the time has come for her to excel at an even higher standard and get the opportunity to play the UEFA Women’s Champions League and challenge some tougher teams that she didn’t get the chance to meet before joining Barcelona. Geyse has already faced PSG, and Bayern Munich this season and will surely be challenging other big teams very soon. In fact, she scored her first goal against PSG in a friendly game that witnessed her first start with Barcelona, and this gives us an idea of the level of concentration, determination and confidence of the player.

What highlights the player’s determination and excellent mentality even further is the way in which she was able to score that goal. Geyse scored this goal thanks mainly to her excellent continuous pressing on PSG’s defender which eventually allowed her to intercept the ball from her feet without committing a foul, as the following picture shows, before scoring the goal with ease and without complicating things since she was already very close to the goal.

The following pizza plot gives us an overview of Geyse’s abilities, what she is excellent at and what needs improving in the future. In order to confirm her excellent seasons at Madrid CFF, Geyse will have to work hard on addressing her weaknesses and developing what she already masters in order to remain at the top.

In this regard, Geyse is actually one of the best dribblers in the Spanish Primera División as it is shown below, and in order to keep being among the best, she will have to work continuously on varying her dribbling techniques in order to not facilitate the defenders’ missions in one on one duels. In terms of shots and dangerous passes per match, Geyse is actually very good in this regard.