Simon Adingra Scouting Report At Royale Union-Saint Gilloise 2022/2023: From Ghana’s Right To Dream Academy All The Way To The UEFA Champions League – Player Analysis

The Right to Dream Academy is a well-known Ghanaian football academy, with FC Nordsjælland one of the key partner clubs.

The Danish club pick up many of the players that come out of Right to Dream.

Former Nordsjælland players who were signed through the academy include Stade Rennais’s Kamaldeen Sulemana and Ajaxs Mohammed Kudus.

Simon Adingra followed the same path, with the 20-year-old Ivorian forward leaving Nordsjælland this summer to join Premier League side Brighton & Hove Albion for a modest fee of 8 million euros.

However, the Ivorian is being loaned out to Belgian side Royale Union-Saint Gilloise for the 2022/23 season.

Adingra will be tasked with playing a part in replacing the goals that Deniz Undav leaves behind after joining Brighton this summer.

Additionally, RUSG will be competing in the Champions League qualifiers this season, aiming to advance to the group stages, where Adingra can showcase his talent on the continental stage.

This tactical analysis and scout report will examine some of Simon Adingra’s strengths, as well as how he may fit into the USG squad for this season.

Simon Adingra Player profile 

Simon Adingra is a winger by trade, with the Ivorian commonly deployed as the left winger in FC Nordsjælland’s 4-3-3 system.

While he will attempt to cut inside and move into more central positions at times, out wide is where he spends most of his time, which can be illustrated in more detail by the heat map shown below:

The above shows Simon Adingra’s heat map from the 2021/22 season with FC Nordsjælland, which illustrates Adingra’s tendency to stay out wide on the left flank, looking to take players on and engage defenders in one-on-one situations.

Adingra is a capable dribbler, a skill that will be examined in more detail later in this article.

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