Alen Halilović,The Croatian 18 years teen who was signed last year by Barcelona From Dianamo Zagreb is considered one of the most promising young talent and has already been compared to messi for their similarity in style of play .Now playing for Barca B,Halilovic already made his debute for the senior team.
Having style of play quite similar to the style of play of Messi, left footed Halilovic is out and out attacking midfielder,who always likes to go forward.having scored 4 goals and assisted 1 in 29 segunda division matches for barca b last season,this 5'7'' teen has nice pace with the ball with amazing dribbling skills.His lower center of gravity gives him a better balance.His style of entering into the opponents is quite like messi and robben i.e running with the edge of the box.He doesnt Dribble using trickery ,step overs like ronaldinho,neymar, But more like messi i.e just touching the ball to keep it as far as possible from the defender with uncertain body twist and turns..
His hunger of scoring is quite visible.when ever with his signature run beating two or three ,he comes at the edge of the box,and if he has some time,he likes to shoot.Though he has a good ball control and strong passing but where he lacks is vision.With only one assist its quite visible that the highly rated teen has a weakness in providing the final ball that also can be due to lack of unselfishness,as he always likes to shoot when ever he is on the right edge of the box without noticing teams mates in better position.
Though his long range attempts are quite good that can remind you of modric,with his amazing quality to create a lot of space.He seems to be very easy with the ball,and always ready to take the ball again after passing and immediately gets into another postition.Some aspects specially vision ,game reading,ability of taking tackles have yet some way to cover to meet Leo messi.Even his dribbling isnt at messi's level yet.
His habbit of keeping the ball for much time without passing better positioned team mates seems unnecessary sometimes .He should learn to avoid tackles and also can put on some muscle weight.The teen dosent not seem to be like Bojan krkic who entered into the first team of Barcelona as the youngest player to feature for the club, breaking Messi's record, and then a month later he became their youngest scorer in La Liga,used to be considered 'new messi' but ended up turning into mediocore player though being technically strong couldnt survive those hopes due to lack of physicalstrength.But it seems Alen has more versatility in his game to overcome his weaknesses as of now.FC barcelona management should keep constant look at his growth and Luis Enrique should show faith in halilovic.Bojan started losing his form after pep came in barca as coach after Rijkaard.Pep didnt include him in as much senior team activities like Rijkaard did.It will be no wonder with proper monitoring and experience in barca ,this soccer prodigy can become the next 'big thing' if not Messi.
Having style of play quite similar to the style of play of Messi, left footed Halilovic is out and out attacking midfielder,who always likes to go forward.having scored 4 goals and assisted 1 in 29 segunda division matches for barca b last season,this 5'7'' teen has nice pace with the ball with amazing dribbling skills.His lower center of gravity gives him a better balance.His style of entering into the opponents is quite like messi and robben i.e running with the edge of the box.He doesnt Dribble using trickery ,step overs like ronaldinho,neymar, But more like messi i.e just touching the ball to keep it as far as possible from the defender with uncertain body twist and turns..
His hunger of scoring is quite visible.when ever with his signature run beating two or three ,he comes at the edge of the box,and if he has some time,he likes to shoot.Though he has a good ball control and strong passing but where he lacks is vision.With only one assist its quite visible that the highly rated teen has a weakness in providing the final ball that also can be due to lack of unselfishness,as he always likes to shoot when ever he is on the right edge of the box without noticing teams mates in better position.
Though his long range attempts are quite good that can remind you of modric,with his amazing quality to create a lot of space.He seems to be very easy with the ball,and always ready to take the ball again after passing and immediately gets into another postition.Some aspects specially vision ,game reading,ability of taking tackles have yet some way to cover to meet Leo messi.Even his dribbling isnt at messi's level yet.
His habbit of keeping the ball for much time without passing better positioned team mates seems unnecessary sometimes .He should learn to avoid tackles and also can put on some muscle weight.The teen dosent not seem to be like Bojan krkic who entered into the first team of Barcelona as the youngest player to feature for the club, breaking Messi's record, and then a month later he became their youngest scorer in La Liga,used to be considered 'new messi' but ended up turning into mediocore player though being technically strong couldnt survive those hopes due to lack of physicalstrength.But it seems Alen has more versatility in his game to overcome his weaknesses as of now.FC barcelona management should keep constant look at his growth and Luis Enrique should show faith in halilovic.Bojan started losing his form after pep came in barca as coach after Rijkaard.Pep didnt include him in as much senior team activities like Rijkaard did.It will be no wonder with proper monitoring and experience in barca ,this soccer prodigy can become the next 'big thing' if not Messi.
