Leroy Sané Scouting Report & Style Of Play

The German national team from 2014 was the best team in the whole tournament and there was no doubt they deserved to win the World Cup.

Especially, after they won against Brazil with 7:1 in the semi-final in a way we have rarely seen before.

During that title run, they had a great team.

However, compared to their squad from 2014 Joachim Löw has now more different options to choose from in Russia.

One of those additions is Leroy Sané.

The young winger who played a crucial role in Manchester City´s title run this year offers Löw an option he didn´t have in 2014.

Sané brings the quality to isolate in 1v1 situations and therefore break down deep defensive blocks by going past a defender with a spectacular dribbling.

The quality of real winger who can dribble and score goals on the highest level wasn´t available 2014 for Löw.

Leroy Sané is probably one of the most interesting talents in the World Cup if he is able to receive a starting spot in Germany´s filled midfield.

Young, fast and skilled

As I mentioned at the beginning, Sané is a young, fast and highly skilled dribbler.

Not only are his dribbling’s effective they also look elegant.

Sané uses a lot of touches during his dribbling which allows him to change direction in order to unbalance the defenders.

Due to his agility, he is capable of getting between the lines by splitting the defenders and let them look like training dummies.

Sané typically uses a variety of body feints to unbalance defenders.

His recognition of the foot which the defender burdens is on a high level which the following example shows.

First of all, he uses the first feint when he touches the ball the first time.

As a consequence, he distances the defenders which give him more time to control and observe the given structure.

Here, we see the distance between West Hams right back and Sané.

However, Sané faces a 1v2 situation because the midfielder tries to double him.