🐣 This week's wonderkid: Óscar Perea 🇨🇴 | OneFootball

As every week, OneFootball shines a spotlight on a young talent on the rise. This time, the focus is on an emerging star of Colombian football.

There are young South American talents who don’t go unnoticed, and Óscar Perea is clearly one of them this season. Loaned by Strasbourg to AVS Futebol SAD in the Portuguese league, the 20-year-old Colombian has established himself as an influential part of the attack.

In Portugal, observers have highlighted his progress and the way he combines technique with attacking instinct to trouble opposing defenses.

Perea is above all an inverted winger: naturally right-footed, he tends to play on the left side, which allows him to cut inside onto his stronger foot to combine or get shots away. This ability to play on both sides of the pitch makes him difficult for opposing full-backs to contain.

What particularly stands out from the scouting is his comfortable use of both feet and his finishing quality: he does not hesitate to strike powerfully when space opens up, and his shooting technique is one of his strengths when it comes to creating dangerous chances in the box.

In the context of the Portuguese Primeira Liga, where intensity and speed of execution are essential, Perea knows how to make himself useful not only through his runs but also through his positioning and reading of the game.

He does not just run, he picks the right moments to combine, beat his man, and take defenders on, which gives him a real attacking presence every time he steps onto the pitch.

While his ability to take players on and drive forward remains undeniable, his attacking output is still low for a player of his profile (2 goals in 21 league matches), and that is precisely the area in which he must improve to take the next step.

His contribution through runs, movement into space, and chance creation is promising, but to become a truly decisive player in every match, he will need to convert more of his opportunities into goals. Plenty of room for improvement.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇫🇷 here.

📸 EDISON GAMEZ - AFP or licensors