The quality of youngsters that the U.S. now produces is improving day by day.
Key youngsters include Christian Pulisic at Chelsea and Weston McKennie at Juventus.
These youngsters showed their worth at good clubs and then made that step-up.
One player who has already done this step-up is Ajax full-back Sergino Dest.
The American has bolstered his place in the first-team squad by providing solid performances and looks to be the future of Ajax’s full-back positions.
In this scout report, we’ll combine statistics and data with footage to analyze the young American full-back in full detail.
In addition to the tactics discussed, well also provide tactical analysis on how Dest will fit into the USMNT regarding the advantages and disadvantages he gives to the team.
Analysing Sergiño Dest stats
Before we start analyzing Dest, we’ll conduct some data checks on the player so that we can know his strengths and weaknesses statistically, and from there, we can analyze his footage.
Some primers here I have filtered the full-backs to have played 900 minutes and have set no age filters as I wanted to place Dest among place some veterans and see how the youngster performed.
We’ll start with a simple analysis of xG and xA for Eredivisie full-backs for the last season.
Here, I have highlighted the Ajax full-backs by their badge and as such, we see both Dest and Nicolás Tagliafico in the Ajax badge.
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