The U21 European Championship has been a great scenario for young footballers to make his name known. Croatia's senior national team has established itself as an important club in international competition, and despite not having performed well as a team, the U21 squad has provided new interesting players who are mainly the motors of important Croatian HNL teams and the future of the senior national squad. One of those names is Martin Baturina.
Born the 16/02/2003 in Croatia, Baturina is a Dinamo de Zagreb academy product. Being in the academy since the 2017/18 season, he has fastly burned stages, staying only for a season in all the academy squads (junior, U17, U19, second team) before making his debut and establishing as a key element and vital player for arguably one of the biggest Croatian clubs in history.
Baturina adopts a quality playmaker role, versatile and able to perform everywhere in the midfield. He mainly starts as offensive midfielder but has characteristics and ability to play a more defensive role as central midfielder. He stands out for his creativity on and off the ball, high technique, vision and high football IQ.
The Croatian youngster is the classical attacker who likes to roam the pitch freely, cleverly adopting between the line position and who loves to have the ball on his feet. In that sense is a key element to orchestrate the attacking actions of his team. He controls the tempo of Dinamo de Zagreb's play, offering clear progressive passing lines in the build up phase and having the capacity to speed up and give dynamism to the play when entering in dangerous advanced positions.
Baturina is a combinative and associative midfielder whose main virtue and threat is the passing. He possesses huge vision, creativity and accuracy to filter the last pass and provide his teammates with goal scoring opportunities. It is also remarkable his outstanding and mature decision making, having great ability to associate fastly in one-two sequences in reduced spaces and high speed. When adopting a more defensive role, he is an important player to progress into attack. He possesses great quality to find free man between lines with line breaking accurate passing, and possesses huge ball control, allowing him to progress in the game by powerful progressive runs.
Despite being a more combinative profile, he is also confident on his skills to dribble rivals. His good and close ball control allows him to hide the ball amazingly well, being difficult to get the ball off him. In reduced spaces, his high ball dominance makes him reliable in short-dribbling situations, having a great resource of creative skills to maintain possession under pressure and calm the play. But if he has space, his body faints and explosiveness in the first metters can make the difference, giving him an advantage to easily surpass rivals.
His contribution towards goal is huge, having participated in 18 goals in league this season (6 goals and 12 assists). That talks about his goal scoring nose and attacking incisiveness. He selects well shooting opportunities, having great positioning in advanced areas, losing his mark and occupying dangerous spots. He also possesses good ball striking ability, being responsible for Dinamo Zagreb´s set pieces taking, having all the issues and virtues of a classical number 10.
Not only does he possess great offensive incisiveness, but he also is committed and a hard worker in the defensive phase. He does not hesitate to track back and support the midfield, having great position recovery and covering a lot of space during his matches. Being the classical technically gifted player, he may lack a bit of strength and corpulence. That issue would make him more reliable and successful in ground duels, contributing in death balls and defensive tasks. Moreover, having medium size, his aerial game is far from good, being another aspect to improve in his profile.
Martin Baturina has had an incredible breakthrough campaign for Diamo the Zagreb this season. Despite being young and having room for improvement, he has already catched up attention of elite and important European clubs who look for future quality and creative playmaker profile players.
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Born the 16/02/2003 in Croatia, Baturina is a Dinamo de Zagreb academy product. Being in the academy since the 2017/18 season, he has fastly burned stages, staying only for a season in all the academy squads (junior, U17, U19, second team) before making his debut and establishing as a key element and vital player for arguably one of the biggest Croatian clubs in history.
Baturina adopts a quality playmaker role, versatile and able to perform everywhere in the midfield. He mainly starts as offensive midfielder but has characteristics and ability to play a more defensive role as central midfielder. He stands out for his creativity on and off the ball, high technique, vision and high football IQ.
The Croatian youngster is the classical attacker who likes to roam the pitch freely, cleverly adopting between the line position and who loves to have the ball on his feet. In that sense is a key element to orchestrate the attacking actions of his team. He controls the tempo of Dinamo de Zagreb's play, offering clear progressive passing lines in the build up phase and having the capacity to speed up and give dynamism to the play when entering in dangerous advanced positions.
Baturina is a combinative and associative midfielder whose main virtue and threat is the passing. He possesses huge vision, creativity and accuracy to filter the last pass and provide his teammates with goal scoring opportunities. It is also remarkable his outstanding and mature decision making, having great ability to associate fastly in one-two sequences in reduced spaces and high speed. When adopting a more defensive role, he is an important player to progress into attack. He possesses great quality to find free man between lines with line breaking accurate passing, and possesses huge ball control, allowing him to progress in the game by powerful progressive runs.
Despite being a more combinative profile, he is also confident on his skills to dribble rivals. His good and close ball control allows him to hide the ball amazingly well, being difficult to get the ball off him. In reduced spaces, his high ball dominance makes him reliable in short-dribbling situations, having a great resource of creative skills to maintain possession under pressure and calm the play. But if he has space, his body faints and explosiveness in the first metters can make the difference, giving him an advantage to easily surpass rivals.
His contribution towards goal is huge, having participated in 18 goals in league this season (6 goals and 12 assists). That talks about his goal scoring nose and attacking incisiveness. He selects well shooting opportunities, having great positioning in advanced areas, losing his mark and occupying dangerous spots. He also possesses good ball striking ability, being responsible for Dinamo Zagreb´s set pieces taking, having all the issues and virtues of a classical number 10.
Not only does he possess great offensive incisiveness, but he also is committed and a hard worker in the defensive phase. He does not hesitate to track back and support the midfield, having great position recovery and covering a lot of space during his matches. Being the classical technically gifted player, he may lack a bit of strength and corpulence. That issue would make him more reliable and successful in ground duels, contributing in death balls and defensive tasks. Moreover, having medium size, his aerial game is far from good, being another aspect to improve in his profile.
Martin Baturina has had an incredible breakthrough campaign for Diamo the Zagreb this season. Despite being young and having room for improvement, he has already catched up attention of elite and important European clubs who look for future quality and creative playmaker profile players.
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