Jann-Fiete Arp is a German striker born on the 6th of January 2000. The young complete-forward had made 21 appearances, with 17 of those being in the German second division. The young forward is old fashioned, and could be likened to Jurgen Klinsmann, he has a strong overall game and is able to dictate play and the press from a lone position role. He has also shown his tactical versatility as he has played as a striker, winger, attacking midfielder, and even as deep as a defensive midfielder. Such positional and tactical versatility has awarded him with many talents, and with these talents, he could be the best lets find out why in this tactical analysis scout report.
A master of space
Jann is capable of receiving the ball in the air due to his height of six-foot but is equally as capable receiving the ball deep, running in behind to open up the defence or dribbling past a number of players himself. This makes the young striker so unique, the ability to have such a complete set of options when attempting to penetrate a defensive backline allows him to be unpredictable, akin to Spurs & England star Harry Kane.
Arps investigation of space allows him to prop up in various locations. In a 3-0 win over Duisburg, Arp scored a goal and received a 9.37/10 rating from WhoScored. This is arguably the key aspect of his game alongside his perfect dribbling ability.
We can see in the image above that Arp has found space for himself and his teammates. He has dropped deep from right-wing (where he played as a wide target-man) into the right half-space. By doing this, he has opened space for his sides number 10, number nine, and wingers to play into. Whilst it didnt create a positional overload, it exposed large channels, inviting them to be exploited. Such ability at 19 years old is incredible, it took Harry Kane to get to the age of 22 before having such ability.
