Norways Eliteserien is always a pretty good place to produce scout reports or tactical analyses from. Most teams usually have a number of exciting U23 talents in the senior side. A lot of them are even featured regularly every week.
But unfortunately with the sea of youngsters storming top European leagues nowadays and the rising level of expectations in football, not a lot of Norwegian youngsters really caught the eye of talent scouts. Some have already had a breakout season though and moved on to bigger things in Europe while some did slowly make their way out of Norway to a higher level of football in various teams and various leagues around Europe but were yet to fully kick in. Meanwhile, many others are still in the country, plying their trade at a domestic club perhaps hoping someday hell catch a scouts fancy and play in a top European side.
One of the many players perhaps yet to be noticed is Ola Brynhildsen which well take a closer look at exclusively in this scout report. Plying his trade at boyhood club Stabaek, Brynhildsen has become a regular starter this season having already made his senior debut two years prior. The pacey winger has shown that hes got the ability and the potential to play in the Norwegian top-flight and perhaps an even higher level of football. However, he still seems to be quite a raw talent.
Now without further ado, let us get to know more about the skilful winger in this tactical analysis.
Physical
Brynhildsen has a decent height of 1.79 m (510) and a lean body build. Hes not a very strong player overall. However, hes not too weak either as a lot of times he can be seen holding off a defender while controlling a ball and muscling off smaller, weaker players when challenging for the ball. Although, of course, most of the times, he can be outmuscled by a defender rather easily in a duel.
He doesnt win most of his challenges both in the air or on the ground either. This is only a slight disadvantage though it doesnt really affect him a lot in his games. Hes still quite active defensively though, raking up a decent average of 4.3 defensive challenges per game, although succeeding at a small percentage of 37% of them.
However, despite his apparent lack of strength, Brynhildsen compensates it with his outstanding pace. Possessing an impressive amount of explosive power, Brynhildsen could reach his top speed very quickly when starting his runs and hes even faster when hes already in his stride.
Along with his blistering pace, Brynhildsen is also very agile and has very good body balance and coordination. Linking this up with his acceleration and top speed, Brynhildsen has the perfect tools to beat defenders in the short-medium distance.
However, long-distance sprints could be quite a burden for the player himself. Although hes able to leave the defenders trailing by some distance after getting past them, his lack of stamina is a bit of a problem. Although at certain times, despite slowing down significantly, Brynhildsen still has time to make his next attacking action before the defenders catch up most of the time, the quality or the final product is somewhat disappointing. The quality of his strikes and his passes seems to decrease quite significantly after sprinting for some distance which renders him out of breath. This means despite being able to free himself of the opposing defenders, a lot of times he cant really deliver/strike a ball with power/accuracy. Take a look at the picture above for example.
But going back to his short-distance capability, due to his quick burst of acceleration, impressive agility and body balance, as well as, excellent dribbling skills Brynhildsen is a really difficult man to shrug off the ball (despite his lack of strength) and certainly a difficult player to deal with in 1v1 situations. This is why hes often the subject of the opposing teams aggression which renders him usually drawing a lot of fouls in one game.
His rather unimpressive stamina is also apparent in his apparent lack of work rate, especially defensively. However, well talk about this later in the tactics section of this analysis.
Technical
There are some technical aspects that were going to look at in this tactical analysis, b
