Muhammed-Cham Saracevic 2019/20 – scout report

Admira had a 2019/20 campaign to forget as they performed throughout the whole season weaker than they expected to do. On the final matchday, they played against WSG Tirol and since these two sides were the two teams at the bottom end of the table, the loser of this match would be relegated and in the case of a draw, Tirol would have to go to Austrias second division. The match ended 0-0 meaning that Admira will be in the Austrian Bundesliga for at least one more season.

Sinan Bakış was by far the most dangerous player in their offence with 12 goals and his performances were the main reason that they stayed in the league as they had the worst overall offensive record of the league with just 29 goals in 32 matches. As the Turkish forward joined Heracles Almelo in the Eredivisie this summer, it will be interesting to see how their offence will perform.

The 19-year-old Muhammed-Cham Seracevic could become a central player in their offence. The young Austrian joined them last summer from the second quad of the Bundesliga club Wolfsburg and showed promising but not that incredible performances in the 2019/20 season.

In this scout report and tactical analysis, we will have a closer look at Saracevic’s strengths, weaknesses, and individual tactics to discuss how he can help Admira in the future.

Positioning and movements

In the first section of this tactical analysis, we will have a closer look at his movements and where he can be mainly found on the pitch to have already a basic understanding of his style of play and from where he executes the majority of his actions. Saracevic mainly plays as a right-winger even though he can also play on the opposing side as well as in the centre. However, he can exploit his strengths the most on the right wing as we will see later in this tactical analysis and therefore, he mainly plays out wide on the right side.

This can be perfectly seen in the heatmap for Saracevic’s 16 appearances in the 2019/20 Austrian Bundesliga season which is visualised below. We can also see that he is positioned quite a lot in their own half and additionally it seems as he would like to drive to the inside as soon as he reaches the final third.

The young Austrian winger prefers to have the ball at his feet instead of receiving through pass after through pass. Since he is incredibly fast, he especially likes to exploit his speed with the aid of dribbles. Due to that, Saracevic only rarely starts deep runs and mainly stays near the touchline in the area where the middle third ends, and the final third starts. This is also the zone where he is most frequently positioned according to the heatmap above.

He sometimes comes even a few yards deeper to get away from the opposing full-back and actively demands the ball as we can see perfectly in the following shot. This is the starting position for most of his offensive actions and we’ll come back to it later in the scout report when we talk in the next section about his qualities on the ball.