There is a new generation of coaches who are gone into the European panorama. Coaches still young for a bench but with a certain style that are called attention for their work. The list is not short, but we wanted to highlight five that, thanks to Coachinside, the data analysis platform designed for clubs and technicians, are far exceeding.
Fabian Hürzeler, Will Still, Francesco Farioli, Ole Werner and Iñigo Pérez, each with their characteristics, have many striking attributes that have allowed them to stand out on the platform. To get to that selection, it was necessary to search through Coachinside the best coaches under 40. The tool allows searches for each game philosophy and competition level over technicians throughout professional football, thanks to their exclusive associations with such important data suppliers such as IMPECT, Wyscout, Sportec Solutions, Skillcorner or Ailite.
With this, clubs can carry out continuous monitoring of the development and performance of their coaches through personalized key indicators and making decisions based on real data and not opinions, even making personalized reports for each club. Coaches are not only judged by short -term results, but are analyzed over time. But it is also a tool for coaches. Coachinside helps them optimize their development and performance.
In this way, Hürzeler, Still, Farioli, Werner and Iñigo Pérez stand out for the following.
Fabian Hürzeler (31 years – Brighton)
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He is currently the youngest coach of the Premier League. He ascended to the Bundesliga with St. Pauli last campaign, providing the best defense of the League: less challenged goals (36) and better XG against (1.18). Then he signed for the Brighton with the difficult mission of collecting a team with a seal as marked as De Zerbi’s. His beginning was very promising leaving his own seal, although in recent weeks he has been losing bellows.
Hürzeler defends a very intense and possession -oriented football, where he combines the mixed style (40%) with that pleasure to future possession (28%). Play with a variety of systems with three, four or five defenses.
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No ball, Hürzeler bets on an aggressive ‘pressing. His PPDA this season is 9.86, the fourth best of all the premiere coaches. That intensity has made, under his command, Brighton has become the most distance team in the Premier, with 113.1 km.
On the other hand, with an age index of 25.1, Hürzeler has the third youngest team in the League.
Will Still (32 years – Lens)
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He is the youngest coach of Ligue 1 French. Despite his youth, he already has many years of experience as the first coach. After two seasons at the Reims Stade, with which he ended in the middle of the table, he made the leap to the Lens.
His playing style focuses on being mixed (42%) and pressing (24%). He likes his team to be vertical when he attacks, looking for the exteriors
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His strong point is without ball. He currently has one of the best defenses in the League: the highest number of goals to zero (9), second lower number of chains (22), third best defensive packaging and fourth better XG against (1,31). In addition, he likes to print intensity to the matches when he does not have the ball, as indicated by his PPDA of 9.2, the lowest 4th of the League. After losing the ball, he asks his players for a quick pressure to recover possession in promising areas and stop the rival’s attack, in addition to stabilizing his own defense.
Still also stands out for his intelligence to turn a game around. Its change index of 6.1 over 10 in the current season indicates that their decisions when making substitutions have a positive impact on the result.
Francesco Farioli (35 years – Ajax)
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The youngest coach of eredivisie. He arrived last summer to Ajax after passing through the Nice, where he left a recognizable and daring seal. Ligue 1 finished, classifying it for the Europa League, being the least thrashed in category (29) and the one that left more goals to zero (17, half). His performance caught the attention of a club of the importance of Ajax that, after a disappointing season, was looking for a new rudder.
Farioli is in favor of an offensive style of play, of strong possession and aggressive counterattack. The pressure is not one of the things it demands. Its PPDA of 13.28 this season is the 12th of Eredivisie.
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In spite of everything, he currently leads the table with the best scores in many categories regarding the rest of the Eredivisie coaches. For example, the Ajax leads defensive metrics such as the least thrashed, and the one with the most zero goals. It is also among the top three in goals, possession, expected goals and offensive packaging.
Its change index of 10 over 10 tells us that the changes they make during the parties have a positive influence on the result of the party.
Ole Werner (36 years – Werder Bremen)
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He is the youngest coach of the Bundesliga. Despite his youth, he is already in his fourth season in Bremen (including the promotion to the Bundesliga) and was previously coach of the Holstein Kiel, of the Bundesliga 2, for two years.
Werner has increased its average of points in all seasons of the Bundesliga with Bremen: from 1.06 to 1.18 and 1.36. And, throughout his career, Werner has shown that he gets more points that can be expected based on the economic possibilities of his club (6.5 expectations index over 10).
His playing style also has a clear objective based on possession. Part of a 3-5-2 structure but with a flexible tactical concept
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Most of the substitutions they make serve to change the games, which shows their intelligence to read the meetings well.
Iñigo Pérez (37 years – Rayo Vallecano)
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He is the second youngest coach in LaLiga. Lightning is his first experience at the professional level and in just one year he has endowed the team of his own identity that is giving results. After getting the last campaign to save the team when he took him in the middle of the course, he keeps him in European positions with a daring football. In this sense, according to the Expectations Index (10 out of 10) Iñigo Pérez gets more points than expected according to the economic possibilities of the club.
Its favorite game system is 4-4-2 or 4-2-3-1 in which you prefer to use experienced players (average age of almost 29 years). With the ball prefers rapid attacks, with vertical movements. In fact, the ray with him marks most goals in transition plays. To do this, it requires its extremes to stick well to lime to give amplitude to the system.
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The two strikers often work in Tandem, one delayed to link plays and the other focused on penetrating the defensive lines. The four midfielders, including outdoor, are crucial in this system, since they provide defensive coverage and offensive support, retreating inward when they defend and deploying when they have possession.
Pérez also uses a compact defensive line to minimize spaces in the opposite field, which makes it difficult to uncheck his team.
His style requires players a great physical deployment. In fact, the ray is under its command the LaLiga team that makes the most sprints and the fourth with a lower PPDA (8.74). It also has the second best defensive value of the league’s’ packing.