Se-Jin Park is a 20-year-old South Korean central midfielder who plays for Daegu F.C. in the K-League. Park has not played for South Korea at any level but played over 2000 minutes in the K-League this season.
Se-Jin Park generally lines up as an attacking #8. He usually sits in an advanced position in the right half-space. Park has one major plus skill and that is link-up passing. He is good at being a pivot point in his team’s attack, bouncing balls out to overlapping wing-backs, or inside to players making underlapping runs. His first touch is good and he’s generally ball secure. But he doesn’t do that much else. He doesn’t generate a lot of shots for himself or others. Despite generally occupying spaces high up the pitch he doesn’t make supporting runs into the box very often. He also does not break lines through the centre of the pitch very often with his passing.
On the defensive side of things, Park puts in a lot of effort but is not the most effective. He does a good job of putting pressure on the ball and can interrupt moves sometimes. But, a major problem for Park is that he’s not very impressive physically. He’s often not quick enough to cover ground and get to loose balls. He doesn’t necessarily get beaten 1v1 very often but there are lots of moments where he just isn’t quite quick enough to make an intervention. He’s also very small, listed as 5’6 (1.71 M) so he doesn’t win many physical battles.
I was interested in Se-Jin Park because he is a young player getting a lot of minutes in a very good league. But, based on my viewings, he doesn’t seem to actually be doing very much in those minutes. He does seem to have some decent technical qualities and he was apparently the MVP of the national high-school championship back in 2022. So, maybe the other shoe will drop at the K-League level in the next couple of seasons. But until he starts doing something that pops I probably wouldn’t recommend him to clubs at a higher level.
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