Sergio Gomez 2019/20 – scout report

Sergio Gómez career has been very busy so far. He decided to sign for Borussia Dortmund aged only 17 and being one of the most talented players in La Masía. The Germans paid 3 million euros for the teenager in 2018. In the 2018/19 season, Gómez played mostly for Dortmund’s U19 and second teams, with his first-team experience limited to seven minutes across three matches.

At the start of the current season, Gómez joined Segunda División’s Huesca on loan. His first real experience of first-team football would come at a team built to pursue the promotion to La Liga. Under the coaching of Michel Sánchez, Gómez aimed to prove he could translate his great performances at the European U19 Championship  Spain were crowned champions with Gómez starting most games  to the professional game.

This tactical analysis will look at this impact at Huesca and how he’s adapting to first-team football with a view to his possible return to Borussia Dortmund.

Player overview

Sergio Gómez is an attacking midfielder who has mostly played as a right inside forward. As a typical Barcelona academy graduate, his best traits are his technique, positioning and awareness.

This season he has played 28 league matches  all but three  starting 14 of them. He usually plays as the right midfielder in a 4-1-4-1 formation, but has been also used as a left or central/attacking midfielder in other tactics. We can see this positional flexibility in his heat map below:

Gómez attacking stats give a good overview of his playing style. He keeps possession well with his passing and dribbling (4.24 dribbles/902) while still having some quality when taking risks (0.52 key passes/902). He also puts a good amount of crosses (3.1/902), but with only 1.38 touches in the box/902 and 2.98 passes into the final third/902, his end product needs to improve a lot and he only achieves 0.17 goals+assists/902.

Attacking positioning and playing in tight s

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