MATIJA FRIGAN
Report Date: 11/11/2021
INFORMATIONS
Name: Matija Surname: Frigan Date of birth: 11/02/2003 Nationality: Croatia Lenguages spoken: Croatian, English Height: 185cm Weight: 74kg Foot: Left Position: Forward 2° Position: Supporting Striker Club: NK Orijent (loan from HNK Rijeka) Scout: Alessandro Giannini CAREER
Matija Frigan is a young croatian professional footballer who plays as a center forward or as a second striker. He has taken his first steps in the world of football with the youth team of HNK Rijeka, with whom he has just signed a professional contract until 2025. Last year, in the 1.HNL U19, with Rijeka U19, he won the title as the best scorer of the competition with 14 goals scored. During the same season, 2020/2021, Frigan made his debut in the first team at the age of 17 years and 9 months, playing the last minutes of the Europa League’s match against SSC Napoli. In the current season he is playing on loan in the second tier of the Croatian football league system with NK Orijent 1919, where he is finding space and opportunities to play in a much harder competition. In this season (29/12/2021), Frigan has scored 4 goals and made 2 assists in 13 appearances (748 minutes played). National team Career: On June 5, 2021, he made his debut for the U18 national team in a match against Bosnia, where he scored a hat-trick. On 1 September of the same year he was called to the U19 national team, scoring a goal on his debut against Wales, and then three goals (an hat-trick against Gibraltar U19) and one assist in the next three qualifying matches for the European U19. STATISTICS ANALYSIS
Player index: It is a summary index of the player created by our algorithm: it is given by the events that the player has carried out during the match, which are represented by variables, which have a positive or negative weight. Each technical variable (pass, shot, interception, etc.) has a score that has been assigned by the Easyscout team, both thanks to Artificial Intelligence and the advice of coaches and match analysts. The measure is between 0 and 100. Impact index: It is a percentage value that tells us how much the individual player has influenced during the match in relation to the overall team index. This value is obtained from the ratio between the player index and the overall team index. Minutes index: Player index weighted based on the minutes the player has played in that particular match. The measure is between 0 and 1. Matija Frigan Player index: 40,02 Impact index: 8,4% Minutes index: 0,41 Average Superligaen forwards index Player index: 38,3 Impact index: 7,8% Minutes index: 0,44 |
TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION
Frigan is a technically skilled striker who is able to cover different positions of the field, although is often used as a central forward in a two-pronged attack. He has a good passing range and is confident in possession, capable of holding on to the ball when under pressure. Frigan is dynamic, fast and has high stamina. His intelligence helps him a lot to get himself out from his marking and be dangerous either inside and outside the box. In fact, his main focus is often to occupy the space between the opposing defense and midfield by roaming from his position and to create chances for teammates, but he is also able to attack the depth in a dangerous way and very capable of finishing once he is in front of the goalkeeper. Left-footed, Frigan has a good shot, also from the distance. Besides his technique, he also has a good physique that helps him in tackles and aerial duels. From the data, it results, in actual fact, that Frigan engages 14.38 tackles and challenges and 4.2 aerial duels per match. Frigan is tactically intelligent and has great vision, furthermore he has a very good foot and a beautiful kick which allows him to switch play through long passes. Defensively speaking, he often becomes the protagonist of good pressing actions and is able to position itself to cover the lines of passage. Despite the young age, in this first season with professional players, Frigan has shown a good personality. He is confident and not shy to try a difficult play. In my opinion the player is a very promising prospect, he deserves to play in a higher level league. He has no significant weakness considering his age, maybe he could work a bit on his physique in order to have a higher percentage of tackles and challenges won. CHARACTERIAL DESCRIPTION
Frigan is a very extrovert charachter, he is well beloved by coach and teammates because he is the kind of player that sacrifice himself in the pitch supporting a lot during the defensive phase and because he is a key technical player for both Croatia and NK Orijent. He is very ambitious and confident, he believes that he will be one of the top players of Croatia. STATISTICS
-0.43 key pass per game
-2.2 shoot per game (53% accurate) -0.38 cross per game (33% accurate) -13 challenges - 4 aerial - 9 ground (34% won) -1.86 dribbling per game (44% succesful) -12 passes per game (73% accurate) -0.38 goals per game |
COMPARISON
MATIJA FRIGAN
-Player index: 40,02 -Impact index: 8,4% -Minutes index: 0,41 -0.43 key pass per game -2.2 shoot per game (53% accurate) -0.38 cross per game (33% accurate) -13 challenges - 4 aerial - 9 ground (34% won) -1.86 dribbling per game (44% succesful) -12 passes per game (73% accurate) -0.38 goals per game |
SIMON HEDLUND
-Player index: 35,37 -Minute index: 0,33 -Impact index: 4,9% -1.76 key pass per game -1.24 shoot per game (48% accurate) -1.96 cross per game (29% accurate) -12 challenges - 2 aerial - 10 ground (26% won) -3.1 dribbling per game (40% succesful) -27 passes per game (71% accurate) -0.04 goals per game |
SCOUTING CONCLUSION & PREVISION
Frigan is in his first year as professional player and is doing a lot good in the loan experience with NK Orijent. He is considered as one of the best talent of HNK Rijeka and for the youth national team of Croatia. He is an intersting player to take now for 2 reasons: Rijeka is in need of money because of Covid and because he didn't play yet in first division, things that make him "cheap", otherwise as usual the croatian talents are hard to buy. After a period of adjustment he can be a great asset.
Frigan is in his first year as professional player and is doing a lot good in the loan experience with NK Orijent. He is considered as one of the best talent of HNK Rijeka and for the youth national team of Croatia. He is an intersting player to take now for 2 reasons: Rijeka is in need of money because of Covid and because he didn't play yet in first division, things that make him "cheap", otherwise as usual the croatian talents are hard to buy. After a period of adjustment he can be a great asset.