Ghoutia Karchouni is a French player who is actually having a great season at Serie A Women’s Inter Milan and she has been helping her team in terms of goalscoring, playmaking and defending as well. She is becoming a fundamental player at Inter Milan and she is confirming the performances she put on last season and during her period at Bordeaux.
In fact, Karchouni started her professional senior career at Paris Saint-Germain from 2013 to 2016 before moving to the Boston Breakers and then to Bordeaux from 2017 to 2021.
Karchouni is actually one of the best-performing midfielders in Serie A Women and what she is doing at the moment in terms of tactics and in terms of contribution to her team’s excellent run of form warrants a call-up to the French national team during the upcoming period since she can be very useful in France’s midfield especially ahead of the 2023 World Cup.
In this tactical analysis scout report, we will be analysing Karchouni’s footballing characteristics and her role at Inter Milan while exploring her goalscoring and playmaking skills. And we will begin by discovering the positions she can occupy and her general strengths and weaknesses.
Positions and roles
As you can understand from the heat map below, Karchouni is naturally a central midfielder with excellent offensive skills. She can also interpret the advanced playmaker role very well too since she has a mixture of playmaking skills, creativity, shooting abilities and defensive characteristics as well.
At Inter, she is often used as a right or left midfielder in their 4-3-3 formation. And at the same time, she plays frequently as an advanced playmaker, especially when the team is lined up according to the 4-2-3-1 formation. This explains why Rita Guarino relies on Karchouni mainly as a central or an advanced midfielder and not really as a defensive midfielder in a double pivot.
Karchouni’s roles on the pitch are various and they include mainly playmaking, providing passes to the final third and the box, taking set pieces and creating dangerous opportunities through crossing from set pieces, shooting from distance when creating suitable opportunities, and closing passing lines inside her team’s own half.
Goalscoring
Not all midfielders are capable of being regular goalscorers since scoring goals is not the principal task of midfielders. Nevertheless, some midfielders have got the goalscoring instinct in them as well as the abilities needed to be useful in this regard. Karchouni can be considered as one of these players since she is an excellent goalscorer and she excels mainly when shooting from distance.
This ability allows her to be dangerous from different positions and receiving the ball in any spot inside the final third represents a possible shooting opportunity for her. That’s why it is difficult for goalkeepers and defenders to predict when she will go for shooting and when she will pass the ball to a teammate.
