Lucien Agoumé Scouting Report At Brest 2022/2023 – How The 20-Year-Old In Thriving Under Michel Der Zakarian Tactics

Who Is Lucien Agoumé?

Lucien Agoumé (185cm/6’0”, 75kg/165lbs) of Serie A giants Inter Milan spent the 2021/22 season on loan in his native France with top-flight Brest, where he played 54.6% of the Ligue 1 side’s league minutes, making 27 appearances and helping his team to an 11th place league finish — their highest league finish since they achieved the same feat in the top-flight all the way back in 1990/91.

Of course, Agoumé can’t be primarily credited for that.

However, he was an important part of Michel Der Zakarian’s Stade Brestois 29 and deserves some of the plaudits.

He has received considerable attention for his 2021/22 performances, earning a nomination for the prestigious 2022 Golden Boy Award.

While we don’t expect Agoumé to claim the trophy, this nomination represents well-earned recognition of his impressive season on loan at Brest.

But what exactly made the 20-year-old midfielder’s 2021/22 campaign stand out?

This tactical analysis and scout report aims to provide insight into Agoumé’s 2021/22 season, highlighting the key strengths and areas of improvement within the Sochaux Academy product’s game through analysis of the player’s role within Der Zakarian’s tactics this past season.

We previously touched on Agoumé in a late-June piece for Total Football Analysis, theorising how Monaco could potentially replace Real Madrid-bound Aurélien Tchouaméni.

We didn’t suggest Agoumé as a sole replacement for Tchouaméni or as a player of a similar profile; instead, we discussed the possibility of pairing Agoumé with another, more attack-minded signing as a duo to rejuvenate Les Monégasques’ midfield.

This scouting report aims to provide a more comprehensive look at Agoumé, examining exactly what kind of player he is currently and what kind of player he has the potential to become as his promising career continues to develop.

Lucien Agoumé Style Of Play

We’ll start this Lucien Agoumé player profile with some data analysis.

This section will provide a clear and digestible look into Agoumé’s game through data, observing some areas in which the midfielder stands out — in both good and bad ways — and determining exactly how he profiles as a midfielder.

We can take a deeper dive into specific areas of the 20-year-old’s game later in the piece while also touching on some details regarding Agoumé’s game in this section, discussing the data.

Figure 1 is a visual we’ve created to measure Agoumé against every holding midfielder/central midfielder to have played at least 800 minutes in Europe’s top-five leagues over the past calendar year in some key areas of a general midfielder’s profile.

We’ve split the data into three distinct sections, distinguished by colour and separated by the ‘passing’, ‘attacking’ and ‘defending’ labels.