Karin Lundin 2023/24 scout report: Can the Swedish signing help Fiorentina fight for a UWCL spot?

Karin Lundin has recently moved to Fiorentina Women for the second time in her career after having passed the 2021-2022 season with The Violets. Lundin started her footballing career in Sweden — specifically, Mossens in 2013 — before moving to Kungsbacka DFF for three seasons, Kopparbergs/Göteborg, which is known as BK Häcken for one season, KIF Örebro for one season as well, before heading to Italy for her first experience in Serie A Women with Fiorentina and then returned to Sweden one year after to join Rosengård for a single season.

She will now use all of this experience to give her best at Fiorentina once again and perform more convincingly in order to remain at the club for a more extended period and move to an even bigger club after succeeding at Fiorentina. This success, however, will require hard work and determination since most of the team has been reinforced compared to 2021, and the level of the league itself has been constantly improving.

Beating teams like Inter, Juventus, Milan, Roma, or Sassuolo is never easy, especially considering that Fiorentinas performances deteriorated significantly during the past few seasons. Lundin will undoubtedly strive to help Fiorentina be more clinical upfront and aim for a UWCL qualifying spot this season. To succeed in this mission, she must show convincing performances to guarantee a starting place and be a valuable player throughout the season.

In this tactical analysis and scout report, we will explore Lundins attacking traits, goalscoring abilities and playmaking skills while comparing her numbers to those of her rivals for the starting striker position. The analysis will, therefore, be based on footage and statistics while not neglecting Fiorentinas tactics and their possible impact on Lundin.

Goalscoring abilities

Lundin is considered a convincing striker with some fairly good goalscoring skills. Excellent headers, quick and effective movements with and without the ball, good dribbling skills and varied shooting abilities mainly characterise her. In addition to these traits, Lundin is an unselfish striker. She plays primarily as a team player and provides passes instead of shooting whenever she finds better-positioned teammates in the final third.

Lundin scores many goals with headers and can be considered a reliable option for scoring during set-pieces and even in open play when crossing from the wings; therefore, using her as the teams main striker is never a bad choice.

This example showcases Lundins ability to jump high and resist the disturbance of two markers while succeeding in putting the impact she wanted on the ball to score a beautiful header by orienting it towards the bottom left corner.

In addition to powerful headers, Lundin can shoot from distance with power and precision and often chooses her shooting timing with intelligence. Exploiting this ability a bit further at Fiorentina and instructing Lundin to aim for shots from distance more often would probably help the team create more danger and score more goals per game, as the Swedish player can be extremely dangerous in shooting.

The following example highlights this shooting ability and shows one of her best goals regarding technique and difficulty so far. She was able to score this goal while being outside the box and by shooting from a difficult angle to still succeed in lobbing the ball past the goalkeeper with an accurate yet powerful shot towards the far post.