Bazoumana Toure is slowly but surely taking the Allsvenskan league by storm.
The young Hammarby IF winger is rising through the ranks with his electric performances.
He has already attracted the attention of European giants like Bayern Munich, Tottenham Hotspur, and Manchester United.
This Côte d'Ivoire youngster is brimming with potential, versatility, and a curious combination of pure physicality and super athleticism, all while being a key part of his team’s tactics.
In our tactical analysis, we will provide Bazoumana Touré’s full scout report, highlighting his strengths and weaknesses and explaining why he’s a player you should follow in 2025.
Bazoumana Toure Statistical Analysis
Bazoumana Touré is an 18-year-old winger currently playing for Hammarby IF, where he arrived for a €443k fee from Mimosas in Côte d'Ivoire.
Standing at 175cm (5'9") and weighing 68kg (149 lbs), the young forward is still in development but can already manipulate his frame well, especially in offensive actions on the pitch.
Looking at our data analysis, we can see the main attributes of his player profile.
Bazoumana Touré Radar Map
His attacking figures are impressive but not as surprising, considering he’s slowly become key to Hammarby’s offensive tactics.
The 18-year-old is a dribbling machine, slotting in the top 10% for volume dribbles and in the top 12% for touches in the opposition’s penalty area.
The statistics also confirm he shoots more than the average player in his position in the Swedish top tier and is well above average, good enough for the top ~30%, in goal contributions and expected goal contributions per 90 minutes.
Quite clearly, we are dealing with a highly efficient attacking tool.
In possession, he can be used both as a progressive option and a creative passer, although he prefers to carry the ball rather than deploy a high volume of incisive balls.
Still, he is fairly involved in Hammarby’s overall tactics, assisting the build-up in several ways, albeit sometimes with minimal but still impactful contributions.
Defensively, he’s a hard worker and an effective pressing and counter-pressing tool.
He uses his athletic base to assist his coach's off-the-ball tactics.
However, primarily, when describing his player profile, we can still talk about a same-side wide creator and outlet but one that is effective when hugging the touchline and making the pitch big and wide.
Bazoumana Touré Heat Map & Pass Map
Looking at his heatmap, we can see that he tends to stay wide and receive the ball while hugging the touchline.
Hammarby’s tactics involve isolating Touré in those areas.
They aim to make the pitch big and let the young winger dart into open space, preferably in a 1v1 duel against a defender.
We can also see that he largely receives the ball in advanced areas.
Of course, he can and does drop deeper to assist the build-up, as alluded to earlier in the scout report.
Still, he does so sporadically and sometimes only for a simple layoff or to create an additional passing channel for the deeper-positioned players.
Most passes he deploys in those deep areas are shorter and either aimed horizontally or backwards, as he creates a one-two sequence, a bounce pass or simply recycles possession if there are no good progression paths to take.
In the following section of our tactical analysis, we’ll closely examine his first-phase involvement.
Bazoumana Touré Role In Build-Up Phase
When it comes to pure numbers, Touré will not top the charts in progression or recycling the volume of passes.
However, that doesn’t mean he’s still not an effective tool in the first phase of Hammarby’s attacking tactics.
The following visual shows us the 18-year-old’s progression through passing (left) and carrying (right).
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Bazoumana Touré Ball Progression Map
Quite clearly, the young forward prefers progression.
His progressive passing is decent, especially higher up the pitch, but his main tool is running with the ball at his feet for longer distances.
This, of course, is helped once again by sheer athleticism and power.
Touré runs in big strides and can create quick separations from his marker in the opening several yards.
He prefers the direct offensive route when in possession of the ball.
He does this with a controlled step count, alternating between shorter and longer strides to move as cleanly and efficiently as possible while being far more unpredictable and difficult to mark.
Naturally, this is also an effective offensive tool, as we’ll see later in this scout report.
Still, in the build-up, it’s primarily used to push the opposition lines back and enter the second phase of the attack around the middle third or just at the entrance of the final third of the pitch.
In this example, we can see Touré receiving the ball from the backline while he’s dropped into a position around the halfway of the pitch.
As soon as he receives the ball, however, his first instinct is to immediately turn the marker who’s been following him and advance forward.
Once he’s successfully progressed the play to the entrance to the final third, he combines with a nearby teammate, setting up the rest of Hammarby’s attack.
It is very important to note Touré’s involvement in the build-up.
He is primarily a ball carrier, so he instinctively tries to hold onto the ball or run with it for an extended period before transferring it to the next player.
We can see such a sequence in the following example.
This time, however, we see him drop all the way back into his team’s half of the pitch, where he receives the ball from a teammate.
Again, even before attempting to combine with someone else, he seizes up his opponent, looking for a way to run past them rather than distribute the ball further.
Using his signature turn, he manages to shake off the marker and then attempts an incisive forward pass towards an advancing teammate.
Unfortunately, the pass still gets cut off, but Hammarby retain the ball in the end.
While ultimately unsuccessful, this sequence shows Touré’s thinking process when he is involved in the first phase of the attack.
He was a carrier first and a passer second, which has its pros and cons.
Still, his running power and even his passing or crossing repertoires are best positioned much higher up the pitch, where the most fun aspects of his player profile become evident.
Bazoumana Touré Role In Final Third
As useful as Touré can be in deeper areas when Hammarby don’t have an easy way out, his kit fully shines in the final third.
At the beginning of our scout report, the data suggested he’s a prolific dribbler who gets many touches inside the opposition’s penalty area and is heavily involved in Hammarby’s goal contributions.
That’s his attacking repertoire in a nutshell.
Bazoumana Touré Winger Actions Map
Looking at his winger actions across the whole of Allsvenskan’s 2024 season, we can see the volume, intensity in certain areas, and distribution in the final third, especially just outside the box.
This visual also confirms what we discussed in the analysis of the build-up phase, as we can see Touré’s dribbles and carries from the deep areas.
Naturally, being a volume dribbler comes with risk.
Still, with 6.81 dribbles per 90 minutes and a success rate of 60%, the young winger’s dribbling is a reliable offensive tool.
So what’s the secret?
The most interesting aspects of his dribbling techniques are his frame manipulation and his ability to execute actions well, even when moving at high speeds.
In the latest image, you can see how Touré shifts his body instantaneously, using a single feint to dismark himself and create a separation in the next couple of steps.
This often either wrong-foots his markers or simply sends them the opposite way, as they can’t change directions as quickly as he does.
But the fascinating thing is that Touré has this low centre of gravity and runs like a gazelle, taking big strides in open spaces, too.
In other words, he has the agility of a small space manipulator with the engine of a large-distance runner.
Bazoumana Touré Penetrative Carries & Fouls Map
Unsurprisingly, this means his penetrative carries into the box are a weapon of mass destruction, often forcing the opposition to foul him as their only way of stopping his advancement.
Once he gets the open space to attack his marker 1v1, it’s often too late and the visual here tells us how often he attacks the danger area from there.
Generally, he can be used as a touchline winger who acts as an outlet, but seeing how he accelerates from a standstill, teams who prefer a ball-to-feet winger would also find great use in his profile.
However, being a left-footer who plays on the left does send him wide more often, and his heatmap indicates he doesn’t invert as often, meaning defenders could theoretically read his actions more easily.
One of the positives of being a strong-side winger, though, is the quickness of cross-release.
Touré often shuffles his feet quickly before creating that one or two-step separation and then immediately releases the cross into the box.
His variety is impressive, too.
He can send low and driven passes, lofted passes into the back post, long switches, or passes into the six-yard box.
The pure execution of his final product, however, still needs work.
While 25.6% crossing accuracy is not necessarily the end of the world, the best crossers in Allsvenskan average around the 49% mark.
Finally, his shooting analysis.
Bazoumana Touré Shots Map
With nine goals across 1783 minutes in the 2024 Allsvenskan season, Touré is a significant contributor to Hammarby’s attacking tactics.
Looking at his shot map, we see that he massively overperformed when his expected goals (4.77) are compared to the actual ones (nine).
The locations, too, are far more left-sided, as is to be expected from a winger crashing the box from the left flank, but most of the finishes seem to target the near-side post as well.
This is a general tendency but also a result of him attacking the back post once the opposite flank cross is deployed.
However, creating separations, using clean ball-striking, and having a good sense of positioning are all attributes of a player who can become a far more consistent and versatile goal-scorer in the future.
Bazoumana Touré Defending Abilities
The final part of our scout report will focus on Touré’s defensive profile.
Let’s start with just his general defensive territory and actions.
Bazoumana Touré Defensive Territory & High Regains Map
As expected, his zones are primarily confined to the left flank, but the activity on both extremes of the pitch is quite interesting.
Touré is a counter-pressing tool, as evidenced by the visual on the right in the latest image, but is also a player who’s comfortable dropping deeper to defend with the rest of his team.
However, it’s actually the middle third where there’s an intriguing lack of activity.
Still, being an outlet but also a pressure valve from the deep, it makes sense that he is active both high and deep in Hammarby’s defensive tactics; high when used as an outlet and a counter-pressing tool and deep when used as a quick progression tool once possession has been regained or a tracking-back runner.
His athleticism and hard-working nature are great components for Hammarby’s defensive tactics.
Conclusion
Touré is a young but fascinating prospect who could see a move to a bigger league as soon as the winter transfer window.
A host of elite teams are already watching closely and taking notes of his development.
Of course, playing in Allsvenskan and being only 18 years old means he still has a long way to go to reach the very top, but the foundation and potential are certainly there.
2025 might just be his year.
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