Montpelier FC has finished this Ligue 1 season in the 12th position. Despite that, he has been the sixth most goal scoring team of Ligue 1 with an incredible amount of 65 goals. If we take a look into individual output, one of his forwards stands out above others. His name is Elye Wahi, a young attacker that has scored almost 30% of Montpelier goals and is the 8th goal scorer of the league, above names such as Neymar, Alexis Sánchez, Messi, Gameiro etc.
Elye Wahi, born in France on 02/01/2003 (20) has been one of the sensations of this year. The French youngster started playing football in his home country catching attention of scouts at a really early age, helped by his great capacity and ease to score goals, before joining Montpellier FC academy in 2018. He was then promoted into the reserve team after just a season, and made his professional debut in 2019. Since then, his impact in the squad has been outrageous, earning an indisputable place in the starting XI and the future promise poster.
Wahi starts as Center forward, but his versatility and polyvalence allow him to also perform as winger in either left or right side. He is the kind of forward that provides verticality, electricity and unbalance, apart from a great goal contribution.
Elye Wahi is the classical mobile player difficult to defend. He usually exits his reference position to support widely on the side, attack from blind spots and surprise the defenders on his back. In that sense, he is not the classical striker who loves to be involved in the game, as he enjoys and gets determinant playing off the ball to provide goal scoring chances. This mobility and game lecture has been key to explain his huge amount of goals scored this season, as he is a master of losing markers and getting optimal spots inside and outside the penalty area to connect his shots, having great criteria to select them, adopting the fox in the box role. Not only does he possess that goal scoring nose, but he also possesses a wide range of quality finishes on his pocket, being able to excellently strike the ball from every position and angle, having converted goals with really low expected goals due to that difficult location on the pitch.
Leaving that off the ball contribution behind, his on ball contribution is much lower. He is an interesting player in terms of dribbling and one-on-one situations. He is pacy and electrifying, which allows his team to create imbalances when having space and fastly advance to dangerous positions near the penalty area, while his explosiveness can also be determinant in order to surpass rivals in reduced spaces. His passing and associative skills could be improved in order to complete and improve his forward profile. Far from penalty box areas, he barely offer solutions in order to link up for his teammates, what can be a problem when struggling to create in advanced areas, and when he does offer alternatives, his technical attributes in terms of ball control, protection and passing are not as developed as his goal scoring efficiency in order to create and provide chances for his teammates. He possesses good vision but should improve his timing in the decision making, as some of the problems with his associative skills is the fact that he scans his surroundings well but takes action when his options have passed up. Related to these technical attributes, his corpulence and strength levels could be improved as well as his aerial game. That would allow his team to play directly, relying on him having more opportunities to be successful in death balls or controlling and protecting the ball giving options to project his team into attack.
Wahi possesses an incredible defensive work rate and huge commitment. In that sense, Elye is a good option for a high and aggressive pressing team, as he ranks in the high percentile 90% of strikers in the top five 5 leagues from pressing on his own third. He is also a great option for a team that needs his attackers to track back and give big efforts in defensive aspects. It is really common to see Wahi near the midfielded when his team is off the ball, fighting for death balls and second plays in order to regain the possession for his team.
Elye Wahi has shown to be a different and promising footballer during these last two seasons playing for Montpellier. Despite having room for improvement in order to become a top player, his high accuracy towards goal has made him stand out and become an interesting target this summer transfer window.
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Elye Wahi, born in France on 02/01/2003 (20) has been one of the sensations of this year. The French youngster started playing football in his home country catching attention of scouts at a really early age, helped by his great capacity and ease to score goals, before joining Montpellier FC academy in 2018. He was then promoted into the reserve team after just a season, and made his professional debut in 2019. Since then, his impact in the squad has been outrageous, earning an indisputable place in the starting XI and the future promise poster.
Wahi starts as Center forward, but his versatility and polyvalence allow him to also perform as winger in either left or right side. He is the kind of forward that provides verticality, electricity and unbalance, apart from a great goal contribution.
Elye Wahi is the classical mobile player difficult to defend. He usually exits his reference position to support widely on the side, attack from blind spots and surprise the defenders on his back. In that sense, he is not the classical striker who loves to be involved in the game, as he enjoys and gets determinant playing off the ball to provide goal scoring chances. This mobility and game lecture has been key to explain his huge amount of goals scored this season, as he is a master of losing markers and getting optimal spots inside and outside the penalty area to connect his shots, having great criteria to select them, adopting the fox in the box role. Not only does he possess that goal scoring nose, but he also possesses a wide range of quality finishes on his pocket, being able to excellently strike the ball from every position and angle, having converted goals with really low expected goals due to that difficult location on the pitch.
Leaving that off the ball contribution behind, his on ball contribution is much lower. He is an interesting player in terms of dribbling and one-on-one situations. He is pacy and electrifying, which allows his team to create imbalances when having space and fastly advance to dangerous positions near the penalty area, while his explosiveness can also be determinant in order to surpass rivals in reduced spaces. His passing and associative skills could be improved in order to complete and improve his forward profile. Far from penalty box areas, he barely offer solutions in order to link up for his teammates, what can be a problem when struggling to create in advanced areas, and when he does offer alternatives, his technical attributes in terms of ball control, protection and passing are not as developed as his goal scoring efficiency in order to create and provide chances for his teammates. He possesses good vision but should improve his timing in the decision making, as some of the problems with his associative skills is the fact that he scans his surroundings well but takes action when his options have passed up. Related to these technical attributes, his corpulence and strength levels could be improved as well as his aerial game. That would allow his team to play directly, relying on him having more opportunities to be successful in death balls or controlling and protecting the ball giving options to project his team into attack.
Wahi possesses an incredible defensive work rate and huge commitment. In that sense, Elye is a good option for a high and aggressive pressing team, as he ranks in the high percentile 90% of strikers in the top five 5 leagues from pressing on his own third. He is also a great option for a team that needs his attackers to track back and give big efforts in defensive aspects. It is really common to see Wahi near the midfielded when his team is off the ball, fighting for death balls and second plays in order to regain the possession for his team.
Elye Wahi has shown to be a different and promising footballer during these last two seasons playing for Montpellier. Despite having room for improvement in order to become a top player, his high accuracy towards goal has made him stand out and become an interesting target this summer transfer window.
Click here to see full scouting report