Ajax factory keeps on working and keeps creating young football players who seem to have played football his entire life. Today we enter to analyze Kenneth Taylor, one of his last rough diamonds.
Kenneth Taylor is a 20 years old (16/05/2002) footballer that has been giving great flashes of future top footballer in the dutch Eredivisie this year. Having been born in Alkmaar, he never played for his home city team, as he was early recruited for Ajax youth
academy, where he made it to the first team in November of 2020. In that sense, he is a cruyff model prototype player.
Taylor can adopt any position playing in the midfield. He contributes in both areas, feeling comfortable with the ball in his feet and in defensive tasks. In that way he can easily adapt to play as defensive midfielder, left or right in the midfield trio or as
attacking midfielder. Taylor is a player that possesses really strong ball dominance, orchestrating the build up and attack of his team from the center of the field. He is the kind of player that tries to control the tempo of the match while playing, having an
over the average decision making. He possesses good passing accuracy (86,7%), liking to play short and quick, despite having great vision to play line breaking vertical passes. It is remarkable his strong use of both feet, being accurate even playing long
range passes to break through defensive lines with his weak foot. Another really remarkable ability is how he stays calm and hides the ball while playing under pressure, maintaining possession and trying to effectively connect defensive and attacking lines.
He is always aware and ready to help his team in attacking opportunities, preferring to attack in positional and static plays. Taylor likes to arrive at the penalty area from the second line, making late runs obtaining dangerous spots to exploit his outstanding
striking ability. His 1.83 shots per 90 minutes show his great contribution in the attacking phase, having already scored 5 goals in the 12 matches played this season in the Eredivisie. Following with his ball striking ability, he is a delighted and effective set piece
taker, being his left foot a strong weapon to provide goal scoring chances when struggling to create dangerous plays.
Taylor is an active player in the defensive phase despite the position and role he adopts in each match. When pressing in high block, as Ajax does, he has great capacity to follow the rival ́s build up and shows great instinct to know when to jump for
pressure and when to hold position helping his team to fold lines. That ability to read the game also helps him to have perfect timing for tackles or clearances, what added to his speed makes him a complete defensive player, being able to make a lot of
interceptions or cover out of position players.
To complete his midfielder profile, there are two important aspects where he should improve. As he may act as defensive midfielder, he should improve his aerial game, being able to help his defensive line in lateral crosses when needed, as he barely gains
the 40% of the duels. In that sense, an improvement in his levels of strength may help a lot to impose himself on the pitch and gain more duels and tackles. The dutch youngster is having an incredible impact in his home league this season, having arrived to
be selected for the current World Cup held in Qatar. He is in the radar of many elite top clubs in Europe, seeming to be ready to compete among the best leagues in the world.
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Kenneth Taylor is a 20 years old (16/05/2002) footballer that has been giving great flashes of future top footballer in the dutch Eredivisie this year. Having been born in Alkmaar, he never played for his home city team, as he was early recruited for Ajax youth
academy, where he made it to the first team in November of 2020. In that sense, he is a cruyff model prototype player.
Taylor can adopt any position playing in the midfield. He contributes in both areas, feeling comfortable with the ball in his feet and in defensive tasks. In that way he can easily adapt to play as defensive midfielder, left or right in the midfield trio or as
attacking midfielder. Taylor is a player that possesses really strong ball dominance, orchestrating the build up and attack of his team from the center of the field. He is the kind of player that tries to control the tempo of the match while playing, having an
over the average decision making. He possesses good passing accuracy (86,7%), liking to play short and quick, despite having great vision to play line breaking vertical passes. It is remarkable his strong use of both feet, being accurate even playing long
range passes to break through defensive lines with his weak foot. Another really remarkable ability is how he stays calm and hides the ball while playing under pressure, maintaining possession and trying to effectively connect defensive and attacking lines.
He is always aware and ready to help his team in attacking opportunities, preferring to attack in positional and static plays. Taylor likes to arrive at the penalty area from the second line, making late runs obtaining dangerous spots to exploit his outstanding
striking ability. His 1.83 shots per 90 minutes show his great contribution in the attacking phase, having already scored 5 goals in the 12 matches played this season in the Eredivisie. Following with his ball striking ability, he is a delighted and effective set piece
taker, being his left foot a strong weapon to provide goal scoring chances when struggling to create dangerous plays.
Taylor is an active player in the defensive phase despite the position and role he adopts in each match. When pressing in high block, as Ajax does, he has great capacity to follow the rival ́s build up and shows great instinct to know when to jump for
pressure and when to hold position helping his team to fold lines. That ability to read the game also helps him to have perfect timing for tackles or clearances, what added to his speed makes him a complete defensive player, being able to make a lot of
interceptions or cover out of position players.
To complete his midfielder profile, there are two important aspects where he should improve. As he may act as defensive midfielder, he should improve his aerial game, being able to help his defensive line in lateral crosses when needed, as he barely gains
the 40% of the duels. In that sense, an improvement in his levels of strength may help a lot to impose himself on the pitch and gain more duels and tackles. The dutch youngster is having an incredible impact in his home league this season, having arrived to
be selected for the current World Cup held in Qatar. He is in the radar of many elite top clubs in Europe, seeming to be ready to compete among the best leagues in the world.
Click here to download the full scouting report
Do you like our scouting report and wanna create the same with your players? Let's keep in touch info@thescoutingapp.com