Girona is arguably the biggest sensation in the world of football, being the leader of La Liga EA Sports´current season, employing a vertical, joyful and attractive style of play. Having a determined and interesting strategic plan during the last two years of transfer windows, they have created a compact and strong group, bringing to the club young and promising players who are giving an immense output. Between those names we find Miguel Gutierrez, Yan Couto, Dovbyk, Tsygankov and Sávio, who we will be talking about in the next analysis.
Sávio, also known as Savinho, is a 19 years old Brazilian player for Troyes, who is living his best moment as a football player on loan playing for Spanish side Girona. Having started his professional career at Atletico Mineiro, he was nearly transferred to Troyes, who sent him on loan to Psv, where he had not many chances to shine, having to compete for a place in the starting XI with players such as Gakpo, Xavi Simons etc. Now, during his second season in Europe, he has found minutes and continuity in Spain, and is being one of the players off the season, establishing himself as one to watch towards the future.
Savio possesses the classical winger profile, being also able to perform in inside positions as a free attacking role. He is left footed and mainly starts as left winger, feeling also comfortable when playing as inverted winger on the right flank. He stands out for his flashing pace, verticality and dribbling skills.
Sávio is the perfect element for any team who likes playing with winger (or by times inside forward) who provide depth and imbalances, following the classical Brazilian ‘Joga Bonito’ style. In that sense, his main attribute is his dribbling ability, full of creativity, aggressiveness and skills. Sávio is the kind of player who prefers to receive the ball next to the side line, having time and space to read the situation, isolating rivals and trying to beat his man, being a master in those situations due to different factors. First of all, his technical levels are of high quality, allowing him to keep the ball close to him, hide it from rivals, employ different tricks and manipulate with both feet, which adds unpredictability, being able to play wide or cut inside. Another factor that helps him to be determinant in one-on-one situations is his ability to read defenders´ intentions, which allows him to anticipate and perform the best moves to get past him. His physical attributes also help in that decisive aspect of his game. He possesses a low center of gravity, which allows him to have a sublime capacity to shift directions, what added to his pace, change of pass in short metters and strong low body to absorb impacts make him amazingly difficult to defend.
All these characteristics make him a vertical profile attacker, which is reflected in his game style, looking to carry the ball and progress forward every time he enters in touch with the ball. This is also reflected on stats, as he is over percentile 90 in both carries in the last third and carries to the penalty box. In that sense, he is a complete menace when playing into open space, being able to leather counter attacks too. But this fact does not catalog him as just a dribbler, as he possesses good associative skills, despite his passing being yet a raw aspect of his game. When cutting inside from the flank he has the ability to fastly combine with mates in one-two situations, looking to advance forward or obtain a good shooting position. While passing, as mentioned, is not one of his major strengths, he can be a complete threat. He possesses great vision and awareness, detecting his teammates and being able to activate them into dangerous positions. His pin-point passes to the area or crosses when playing wide are two of his main associative attributes. Sávio is also clever in off ball movements. His tactical intelligence is elevated to detect spaces where to receive or attack, being undetectable when running to the back of the defense, leading to promising attacking sequences.
Being in the past in doubt for his poor end product, he is having an incredible output in the game for his team this season, having increased his contribution in goal and assists, showing a more mature and determined player profile. This shows, as named his vision and ability of giving the last key passes, but also reflects his good numbers in terms of finishing. Despite not having the goal between his eyebrows, as he barely averages one shot per match, his efficiency is high, an aspect that has improved in comparison with his past seasons´ low output. He possesses great mid-distance shooting and cold blood and quite good accuracy when facing the keeper in one-on-one situations.
Being such a young player he has many areas for improvement. First of all, his defensive commitment could increase, in order to play an important defensive role for his team, whereas it's true that due to Girona´s style of play and formation, his defensive commitment level is a strategic approach to threatening in transitions. Related to this defensive implication comes another aspect to work on, his strength levels. An improvement on that may benefit his game, being more incisive on defensive and offensive duels and being able to compete better for lost death balls. As mentioned, the rawest aspect of his attacking profile is his passing, which would need improvement in order to compete in a possession based club at the highest level, as his contribution in the build up is not the biggest. His decision making by times may also not be the best, not playing correctly with time, space and result, a consequence of his vertical running tendency, an aspect that would surely improve by getting time of play and facing different scenarios.
Sávio has been one of the biggest discoveries during 2023, a player who improves his end product and showing great personality and flair has earned a place in the radar of almost any top clubs around Europe. Being young and having room for improvement in some aspects, he has all the potential to become a decisive top talent in the future.
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Sávio, also known as Savinho, is a 19 years old Brazilian player for Troyes, who is living his best moment as a football player on loan playing for Spanish side Girona. Having started his professional career at Atletico Mineiro, he was nearly transferred to Troyes, who sent him on loan to Psv, where he had not many chances to shine, having to compete for a place in the starting XI with players such as Gakpo, Xavi Simons etc. Now, during his second season in Europe, he has found minutes and continuity in Spain, and is being one of the players off the season, establishing himself as one to watch towards the future.
Savio possesses the classical winger profile, being also able to perform in inside positions as a free attacking role. He is left footed and mainly starts as left winger, feeling also comfortable when playing as inverted winger on the right flank. He stands out for his flashing pace, verticality and dribbling skills.
Sávio is the perfect element for any team who likes playing with winger (or by times inside forward) who provide depth and imbalances, following the classical Brazilian ‘Joga Bonito’ style. In that sense, his main attribute is his dribbling ability, full of creativity, aggressiveness and skills. Sávio is the kind of player who prefers to receive the ball next to the side line, having time and space to read the situation, isolating rivals and trying to beat his man, being a master in those situations due to different factors. First of all, his technical levels are of high quality, allowing him to keep the ball close to him, hide it from rivals, employ different tricks and manipulate with both feet, which adds unpredictability, being able to play wide or cut inside. Another factor that helps him to be determinant in one-on-one situations is his ability to read defenders´ intentions, which allows him to anticipate and perform the best moves to get past him. His physical attributes also help in that decisive aspect of his game. He possesses a low center of gravity, which allows him to have a sublime capacity to shift directions, what added to his pace, change of pass in short metters and strong low body to absorb impacts make him amazingly difficult to defend.
All these characteristics make him a vertical profile attacker, which is reflected in his game style, looking to carry the ball and progress forward every time he enters in touch with the ball. This is also reflected on stats, as he is over percentile 90 in both carries in the last third and carries to the penalty box. In that sense, he is a complete menace when playing into open space, being able to leather counter attacks too. But this fact does not catalog him as just a dribbler, as he possesses good associative skills, despite his passing being yet a raw aspect of his game. When cutting inside from the flank he has the ability to fastly combine with mates in one-two situations, looking to advance forward or obtain a good shooting position. While passing, as mentioned, is not one of his major strengths, he can be a complete threat. He possesses great vision and awareness, detecting his teammates and being able to activate them into dangerous positions. His pin-point passes to the area or crosses when playing wide are two of his main associative attributes. Sávio is also clever in off ball movements. His tactical intelligence is elevated to detect spaces where to receive or attack, being undetectable when running to the back of the defense, leading to promising attacking sequences.
Being in the past in doubt for his poor end product, he is having an incredible output in the game for his team this season, having increased his contribution in goal and assists, showing a more mature and determined player profile. This shows, as named his vision and ability of giving the last key passes, but also reflects his good numbers in terms of finishing. Despite not having the goal between his eyebrows, as he barely averages one shot per match, his efficiency is high, an aspect that has improved in comparison with his past seasons´ low output. He possesses great mid-distance shooting and cold blood and quite good accuracy when facing the keeper in one-on-one situations.
Being such a young player he has many areas for improvement. First of all, his defensive commitment could increase, in order to play an important defensive role for his team, whereas it's true that due to Girona´s style of play and formation, his defensive commitment level is a strategic approach to threatening in transitions. Related to this defensive implication comes another aspect to work on, his strength levels. An improvement on that may benefit his game, being more incisive on defensive and offensive duels and being able to compete better for lost death balls. As mentioned, the rawest aspect of his attacking profile is his passing, which would need improvement in order to compete in a possession based club at the highest level, as his contribution in the build up is not the biggest. His decision making by times may also not be the best, not playing correctly with time, space and result, a consequence of his vertical running tendency, an aspect that would surely improve by getting time of play and facing different scenarios.
Sávio has been one of the biggest discoveries during 2023, a player who improves his end product and showing great personality and flair has earned a place in the radar of almost any top clubs around Europe. Being young and having room for improvement in some aspects, he has all the potential to become a decisive top talent in the future.
Check the full scouting report : click here