Aston Villa look set to full the signing of Sevilla left-back Ludwig Augustinsson within the coming days, which might be their fifth of the summer time switch window, and the Sweden worldwide may show to be a world-class addition to Steven Gerrard’s squad.
Fabrizio Romano tweeted: “Done deal, here we go confirmed. Ludwig Augustinsson completed his medical as new Aston Villa player, deal agreed with Sevilla on loan with buy option.”
Gerrard was all the time probably to recruit one other left-back to compete with Lucas Digne following Matt Targett’s everlasting transfer to Newcastle United, and Augustinsson may very well be the perfect man.
The 28-year-old can supply a risk at each ends of the pitch, with WhoScored suggesting that his predominant strengths embody aerial duels, crossing, holding onto the ball, key passes and his defensive contribution.
Although he struggled for game-time with Sevilla final season, partly due to the impressive form of Marcus Acuna, he nonetheless impressed when he featured for Julen Lopetegui’s facet.
As per FBRef, the Swedish defender scored within the ninety fifth percentile for aerial duels received and the 93rd percentile for clearances, which means that he may supply Gerrard a extra defensively sound possibility than Digne at left-back.
Who shall be first-choice?
Digne
Augustinsson
FBRef additionally means that Arsenal’s Takehiro Tomiyasu is probably the most related participant to Augustinsson by way of enjoying fashion, and given the Japan worldwide’s impressive debut season within the Premier League, it is a potential signing which bodes effectively for Villa.
After becoming a member of the Gunners from Bologna, Tomiyasu helped to revolutionise Arsenal’s defence and was an enormous half in Mikel Arteta’s facet holding the fifth-most clean sheets within the prime flight final time period.
Team-mate Ben White was stuffed with reward for the versatile defender final season, saying: ‘Tomi is amazing. He’s one of the best right-back I’ve ever performed with. He’s all the time targeted. It’s an honour to play subsequent to him.
‘Tomi does the simple things at a world-class level. He is very alert and he isn’t careless in video games.”
Therefore, if Augustinsson can do the same job to Tomiyasu in Villa’s facet subsequent season, he may show to be a really shrewd addition by Johan Lange.
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