Lorenzo Lucca is a 21-year-old centre-forward currently playing for Pisa in Serie B, having moved over the summer from Palermo.
He is also an Italy U21 youth international.
Lucca is 2.01m, or 6’7” in height, and is yet to fill out this impressive frame with an almost gangly appearance.
Despite this height, he is surprisingly quick over longer distances and moves well in straight lines.
Lucca has performed well thus far this season for Pisa.
In the 16 league games in which he has featured in, he has scored six goals and made two assists.
Pisa also sit at the top of the table with a four-point margin at the time of writing.
This tactical analysis and scout report looks to shine a light on some of the elements of Lucca’s game that have allowed him to play such an important role in Pisa’s promotion surge despite his young age, providing an analysis of some of his key tactics as a player.
Role in build-up and movement
Given Lucca’s frame, it is perhaps unsurprising to hear that he is so often used as a target for Pisa during the possession phase.
Lucca will vary his positioning between leading the line and playing on the last man to dropping into much deeper positions where he can provide a forward pass option for teammates in deeper positions.
He is good with his feet, and his height shouldn’t have him pigeonholed as a player who just has the ball hit forward to him aerially.
Nevertheless, as we can see from the image shown below, Lucca performs admirably aerially, winning 39.71% of his 6.7 aerial duels.
However, he uses his frame particularly well to allow him to cause problems for defenders.
This can be whether the ball is played forward on the ground or in the air.
