Historical Analogue

Gabriel Magalhães vs Walter Samuel

The player

Gabriel Magalhães

Arsenal · CD

confrontational left-sided stopper · aerial dominance · front-foot defending

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Historical Analogue

Walter Samuel

Walter Samuel — Inter 2006-2010

Inter

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Why is Gabriel Magalhães similar to Walter Samuel (Walter Samuel — Inter 2006-2010)?

Why the comparison works

Block the danger when it reaches the area

Gabriel's penalty-area interventions connect with Samuel's Inter 2006–2010 phase. Samuel's block against Ibrahimović at Barcelona in April 2010 is an in-phase example. The comparison concerns intervening around goal, not borrowing Inter's collective defensive record as an individual rating.

Shared qualities

Blocking a goal threat
Intervening around the penalty area

Where it breaks down

Unknown — a main difference has not been established yet.

A style reference for this phase, not a prediction of Gabriel Magalhães’s ceiling.