Tactical Analysis of Jadon Sancho’s game, style of play and positioning of season 2019/20. How he fits in at #MUFC and why he is destined for great things.
-by @CentreDevils

A Thread:

1. At 19, Sancho became the youngest Bundesliga player to ever reach 15 career league goals. He broke through the ranks in 2018/19 as he scored 12 goals and provided 14 assists - more than Messi and 1 less than Europe’s top 5 league assistor Hazard. #MUFC

2. This season Sancho (20) has 35 app for Dortmund scoring 17 Goals and providing 19 assists in all competitions. Averaging 0.47 goals per game and an impressive 0.75 assists per game. He has 24 shots on target from a total of 39 shots & averages 56 passes per game. #MUFC

3. Sancho has played in 5 different positions this season - Attacking Midfielder Right (AMR), (AML), Forward Left (FWL), (FWR) and as Attacking Midfielder Centre. His best position being on the Left as a Forward Left providing 5 and 5 in 8 apps with an overall rating of 8.09

4. Sancho’s key characteristics are his exceptional dribbling skills - with 3.1 successful dribbles per game and sublime passing skills - with an 85.1% passing success rate — his hold up play, agility and acceleration are second to none. He’s particularly good when coming inside.

5. Lucien Favre and Solskjaer’s tactics of building attacks patiently and breaking the defensive lines on a counter-attack suits Sancho’s style. His combination of great off-the-ball-movement and an expert ball control helps the team a lot in breaking down teams positionally.

6. #MUFC are solely lacking a creative wide man like Sancho, they’ve got talents in Rashford, Mason & Martial but they’re all CF playing out wide, Sancho loves keeping his width which stretches teams and opens spaces for Utd to attack into & create an overload in the penalty area

7. Favre & Olé both play a 4-2-3-1 formation, leaving their attacking players higher up the pitch in an aggressive counter attacking position, Sancho specially thrives in these positions as he isn’t shy to take on the defenders - ranking 2nd in a 1v1 situation index of BVB. #MUFC

8. Sancho would also help #MUFC forwards in decision making, Sancho for Dortmund consistently arrives late at the back post, 65% of his goals have come from back post area. This’ll let Utd players be more decisive in the final third and find Sancho who will arrive late to finish.

9. Bringing Sancho to Old Trafford would make perfect sense. This is because the winger would work wonders on the opposite flank to the side where United strikers like Rashford and Anthony Martial feel more comfortable. The pairing of Rashford x Martial x Sancho would do wonders.

10. The sky really is the limit for Sancho and while the rest of us are left wondering, he'll be out there, hugging whichever touchline he finds himself nearest to, skinning whichever full-back who finds himself unlucky enough to be marking him.

#MUFC x Sancho=

End of thread.