Aston Villa set to sign Ludwig Augustinsson

Aston Villa look set to finish the signing of Sevilla left-back Ludwig Augustinsson within the coming days, which might be their fifth of the summer season switch window, and the Sweden worldwide may show to be a world-class addition to Steven Gerrard’s squad.

Fabrizio Romano tweeted: “Executed deal, right here we go confirmed. Ludwig Augustinsson accomplished his medical as new Aston Villa participant, deal agreed with Sevilla on mortgage with purchase possibility.”

Gerrard was all the time prone to recruit one other left-back to compete with Lucas Digne following Matt Targett’s everlasting transfer to Newcastle United, and Augustinsson might be the perfect man.

The 28-year-old can supply a risk at each ends of the pitch, with WhoScored suggesting that his important strengths embrace aerial duels, crossing, holding onto the ball, key passes and his defensive contribution.

Though he struggled for game-time with Sevilla final season, partly because of the impressive form of Marcus Acuna, he nonetheless impressed when he featured for Julen Lopetegui’s aspect.

As per FBRef, the Swedish defender scored within the ninety fifth percentile for aerial duels gained and the 93rd percentile for clearances, which means that he may supply Gerrard a extra defensively sound possibility than Digne at left-back.

Who might be first-choice?

FBRef additionally means that Arsenal’s Takehiro Tomiyasu is essentially the most comparable participant to Augustinsson when it comes to taking part in type, and given the Japan worldwide’s impressive debut season within the Premier League, this can be a potential signing which bodes nicely 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 aspect conserving the fifth-most clean sheets within the prime flight final time period.

Crew-mate Ben White was filled with reward for the versatile defender final season, saying: ‘Tomi is superb. He’s the perfect right-back I’ve ever performed with. He’s all the time centered. It’s an honour to play subsequent to him.

‘Tomi does the easy issues at a world-class stage. He’s very alert and he isn’t careless in video games.”

Subsequently, if Augustinsson can do an analogous job to Tomiyasu in Villa’s aspect subsequent season, he may show to be a really shrewd addition by Johan Lange.

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