Sardorbek Bakhromov is a 20-year-old midfielder who plays for Nasaf in the Uzbekistan Super League. Bakhromov has recently broken in as a regular player for Nasaf. He has played for Uzbekistan 7 times at various age group levels.
Bakhromov mostly plays as a relatively attacking #8. He is not particularly big; I would estimate he is around 5’7/1.7M in height with a fairly slender build. Bakhromov’s biggest on-ball skill is his ball-carrying ability and dribbling. Bakhromov is comfortable carrying the ball into space, though I think he sometimes misses opportunities to drive forward into smaller gaps. He also has quite strong footwork, which allows him to beat players 1v1. His success rate on these dribbles is not necessarily the highest, but he can pull off some impressive moves. Bakhromov mostly keeps his passes short, but he does a reasonably good job at finding players in pockets of space with short forward passes. That said, he often hesitates just a little bit too long and misses chances to play more line-breaking passes. I also noted, in the matches I watched, that he passed the ball to players who were offside quite a lot. I think this is indicative of his processing speed being just a little bit too slow to be a truly great player at his current level (i.e, he plays the pass in behind ever so slightly too late, leading to an offside). But he is only 20 and has less than 1000 senior minutes under his belt, so there is reason to hope his decision-making will get faster with more experience. Bahkromov is good at getting himself free to receive forward passes, though so far this has not translated to getting a lot of shots inside the box. I think this is partly down to his movement inside the box needing to improve, and partly down to his teammates not finding the runs he does make. Bakhromov is not adverse to a long-range shot, but the percentages on these are naturally going to be low, and I don’t think he has the ball-striking to be a consistently above-average threat from that range.
Bakhromov has a very high work rate, and that leads to a lot of defensive actions. He is very quick to jump forward and press players, which often leads to his team regaining possession even if he is not the one who personally wins the ball back. He is not necessarily the most technically proficient defender, but the effort he puts in creates a lot of turnovers high up the field. He does, however, commit quite a lot of fouls and pick up quite a lot of yellow cards. At the time of writing, Bakhromov is averaging a yellow card every 2 90s. As I alluded to earlier, he hasn’t played that many senior minutes, so this might just be noise, but based on the number of fouls he commits, I don’t think so. Bakhromov is also pretty mediocre in the pace department, and I think that holds him back a little bit when it comes to covering ground defensively.
Bakromov is a little bit of an enigma at the moment. He does not quite have the end-product to be a purely attacking midfielder, nor enough ball progression to be an elite link-up player, nor is he quite proficient enough defensively to be a pure ball-winner. But he is at least a little bit good at all of those things, so I think there is reason to believe he can reach a higher level. I could see him taking a step up in Asia or landing somewhere in Eastern Europe (where most Uzbek players go when they go abroad).
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