What Meteo Klimowicz has ahead of VFB competition - game

Mateo Klimowicz was one of the winners in the past season at VfB Stuttgart. Despite well-known competitors on its preferred position in the offensive midfield, the 21-year-old came to 25 Bundesliga missions (13 as a Joker) and just under 1200 minutes of play - 2019/20 were still seven missions in the 2nd league. Now the 21-year-old VfB car will become. What makes him strong, where does he have air up? A data overview.

Strengthen

One of Klimowicz's strength is the dribbling. With an average of 1,71 successful dribblings per game, he was 2020/21 significantly in front of direct competitors Philipp Förster, Daniel Didavi and Philipp Klement, who did not come about a successful dribbling per game. Thus, the lively U-21 national player also transferred the general average on its position (1.04).

Two categories where Mateo Klimowicz 2020/21 better section than its competitors in the offensive midfield. Statsbomb

Klimowicz also uses its dribblings extremely effectively by bringing himself into good final situations again and again. For each game, he generated 2020/21 2.35 shots and thus more than his VFB competitors. If a dribbling fail, he is not too bad to switch directly to the counterpressing to recall the ball. With 0.5 baller conversions after oppressing, he was also here before Didavi & Co. and above the universal section of 0.37 baller conversions.

Weaknesses

His father Diego Klimowicz once scored 70 Bundesligatore, Mateo must still work on his cold snopism in front of the gate. He coinculates his created shots too rarely in goals. After the XG model, Klimowicz Junior 2020/21 should have shot about four goals. But he only met once.

At the same time, his ball loss ratio with 3.42 ball losses per game was still quite high. All his competitors had lower values ​​here, especially Didavi (1.39). However, Klimowicz 'quota also has to do with its courageous appearance and its active search of one-counter-one situations. Some of these are lost.

Ball losses, created scoring chances - Mateo Klimowicz still has air upwards. Statsbomb

Also with the templates Klimowicz has still potential: Despite its three assists, he created in the expired Bundesliga season with 0.93 prepared shots still too rarely chances. Among its competitors Bestach Klement with 3.18 created opportunities per game as a score preparation; Didavi was also ahead of Klimowicz in this category (2,17).

Conclusion

If Klimowicz succeeds in the new season, even more efficient and to better scene his teammates, he is likely to be an even more important component in Stuttgarts offensive. Already now he has qualities that do not have his competitors in the offensive midfield - especially his dribble.