Born on 01/04/2004 in Israel, Oscar Gloukh is a midfielder who actually plays for Salzburg in Austria Bundesliga. The young Maccabi Tel Aviv product, having given flashes of his quality, was fastly recruited for Salzburg earlier this season, following his tendency of recruiting young emerging teenagers who could revalue in the future. Gloukh has given good output in a few months for Salzburg despite not being a fixed starter for the club, and after the Euros, many teams would be for sure monitoring his performances during the very near future.
The young Salzburg player starts as offensive midfielder, being able to perform as central midfielder controlling the game. He is the classical technically gifted number 10, full of creativity, huge ball dominance and flamboyant effective skills.
Gloukh is the midfielder who loves to operate freely in the midfield, roaming the pitch to place himself in optimal positions to control the game. He possesses high awareness of rival players, detecting dangerous spots, commonly in deep areas between rivals midfield and defense. Receiving in those areas, he has already made an image of the surroundings, allowing him to possess a high and fast decision making. When facing a well organized and tidy team that does not allow him to receive between lines, he exits his common operating zone, becoming a false number six and dictating the play provided by great and accurate passing and ability to fasten the play. Gloukh also loves to come wide to receive, where he can become really dangerous, having the quality to beat his man and be the unbalancing element or connect dangerous pin-point passes into rival penalty areas.
His technical attributes are above average for such a young talent. He possesses great close ball control and high speed footwork, which allow him to maintain possession even feeling underpressure, allowing him to play greatly between lines in the last third. His passing and vision may also be one of his very best attributes and threats. He possesses high accuracy on his passing, tendency to look forward filtering vertical progressive passes and creativity to imagine invisible passing lines to provide goal scoring chances to his teammates. Gloukh also has capacity to dictate the tempo, having high quality to associate in fast short passing or shift the game by long throws.
An aspect which he is a master of is on defense-attack transitions. He does not usually track back, positioning himself in free spots to receive the ball and play into open space. His ball conduction is exquisite, being able to fastly gain meters forward provided by his bursting pace allowing his team to reach dangerous areas in the opposite half. In that speed conductions, he has the ability to surpass rivals, having a low center of gravity, great ability to shift directions and a wide range of technical skills. Not only is he key in carrying the ball forward and providing chances, but he can also finish them. He possesses good ball striking ability and does not hesitate to try the goalkeeper, having scored this whole season a total of 6 goals this season.
Full of technique and quality, there are other areas where Gloukh lacks a bit off. His levels of strength need an increase, becoming much more resistant in duels. His defensive contribution is low, not tracking back to support the midfield, and his pressing could be better in aggressiveness and technique. Another aspect that should improve is his off the ball movement in terms of attacking spaces, as he has characteristics to do so, helping his team by enlarging the rival team when facing a low block, as well as learning to drop and pass the ball earlier, as he tends to do too much on his own.
Oscar Gloukh seems to have what it takes to become a potential future star, and there is a great hype about how he would adapt to competing in the highest level after his last performances. Being young and with room for improvement, many teams would be watching his matches and following his development closely.
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The young Salzburg player starts as offensive midfielder, being able to perform as central midfielder controlling the game. He is the classical technically gifted number 10, full of creativity, huge ball dominance and flamboyant effective skills.
Gloukh is the midfielder who loves to operate freely in the midfield, roaming the pitch to place himself in optimal positions to control the game. He possesses high awareness of rival players, detecting dangerous spots, commonly in deep areas between rivals midfield and defense. Receiving in those areas, he has already made an image of the surroundings, allowing him to possess a high and fast decision making. When facing a well organized and tidy team that does not allow him to receive between lines, he exits his common operating zone, becoming a false number six and dictating the play provided by great and accurate passing and ability to fasten the play. Gloukh also loves to come wide to receive, where he can become really dangerous, having the quality to beat his man and be the unbalancing element or connect dangerous pin-point passes into rival penalty areas.
His technical attributes are above average for such a young talent. He possesses great close ball control and high speed footwork, which allow him to maintain possession even feeling underpressure, allowing him to play greatly between lines in the last third. His passing and vision may also be one of his very best attributes and threats. He possesses high accuracy on his passing, tendency to look forward filtering vertical progressive passes and creativity to imagine invisible passing lines to provide goal scoring chances to his teammates. Gloukh also has capacity to dictate the tempo, having high quality to associate in fast short passing or shift the game by long throws.
An aspect which he is a master of is on defense-attack transitions. He does not usually track back, positioning himself in free spots to receive the ball and play into open space. His ball conduction is exquisite, being able to fastly gain meters forward provided by his bursting pace allowing his team to reach dangerous areas in the opposite half. In that speed conductions, he has the ability to surpass rivals, having a low center of gravity, great ability to shift directions and a wide range of technical skills. Not only is he key in carrying the ball forward and providing chances, but he can also finish them. He possesses good ball striking ability and does not hesitate to try the goalkeeper, having scored this whole season a total of 6 goals this season.
Full of technique and quality, there are other areas where Gloukh lacks a bit off. His levels of strength need an increase, becoming much more resistant in duels. His defensive contribution is low, not tracking back to support the midfield, and his pressing could be better in aggressiveness and technique. Another aspect that should improve is his off the ball movement in terms of attacking spaces, as he has characteristics to do so, helping his team by enlarging the rival team when facing a low block, as well as learning to drop and pass the ball earlier, as he tends to do too much on his own.
Oscar Gloukh seems to have what it takes to become a potential future star, and there is a great hype about how he would adapt to competing in the highest level after his last performances. Being young and with room for improvement, many teams would be watching his matches and following his development closely.
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