Over the past couple of weeks, Total Football Analysis has brought out in-depth player analysis articles on two of the best up-and-coming holding midfielders in the world today: Aleksandar Pavlović at Bayern Munich and Chema Andrés at VfB Stuttgart.
Aged 21 and 20 years old, respectively, the pair of midfielders are two of the brightest rising stars in the Bundesliga this season.
This scout report caps off our search for young holding midfielders in the German top-flight, as we take a trip north east of Stuttgart and Munich to Red Bull Arena where we’ll examine 24-year-old Nicolas Seiwald at RB Leipzig.
Seiwald is a pure Red Bull product, having come through the ranks at Red Bull Salzburg from his childhood before moving to FC Liefering in 2019.
The Austria international spent a year and a half at Liefering before joining the Red Bull Salzburg first-team.
Three years later, he made the move to the German Bundesliga with RB Leipzig in a €20m transfer.
This Nicolas Seiwald scout report examines the Austrian midfielder’s style of play and outlines what the ideal tactical setup is for the now €18m-valued midfielder, per Transfermarkt, as well as explaining why he may represent the best value of the three Bundesliga midfielders we’ve analysed in this series.
Nicolas Seiwald Stats
Nicolas Seiwald has started all but one of RB Leipzig’s games in all competitions so far this season, while he was also a highly prominent figure in the squad last term, very rarely sitting out matches and spending very little time sidelined through injury.
At 24 years of age, Seiwald already has 44 Austria caps under his belt, further highlighting the vast experience the midfielder has accumulated in his relatively young career thus far.
As was the case with Pavlović and Andrés, we’ve generated percentile ranks for Nicolas Seiwald across several custom-built metrics created from Wyscout’s raw metrics to help analyse holding midfielders who have played at least 400 minutes in one of Europe’s top five leagues so far this season.
Nicolas Seiwald Percentile Ranks 2025/2026
Taking a look at the data in Figure 1, Seiwald profiles as a fairly balanced, two-way holding midfielder, not quite as much of a pure traditional holding midfielder as Chema Andrés, but certainly closer to that than the modern single pivot profile of Aleksandar Pavlović.
Seiwald puts up above-average numbers in almost all metrics, giving him a very well-rounded profile.
