Defensive midfielders with the Best Potential in 2. Bundesliga 26/27
The highest-potential defensive midfielders in 2. Bundesliga in 26/27, ranked on Field Insider.
At a glance
C. Patino of VfL Bochum is the standout for raw talent across defensive midfielders in 2. Bundesliga, with a Field Insider Rating of 59.3, and T. Abe has been the form player this season, grading 25.5, and L. Flach leads the scoring with 1 goal.
The numbers a scout watches are the year-on-year jumps: C. Patino has improved his Season rating most, up +6.5 on last season. Those are the players whose trajectory is bending upward fastest.
By our market-value index, C. Patino of VfL Bochum is the most valuable name in this group at 22.2.
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| Player | Team | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | C. PatinoDefensive midfielder |  VfL Bochum | 22 | 9309.5% | 599% |
| 2 | M. PapelaDefensive midfielder |  SV Darmstadt 98 | 25 | 1910.6% | 541.6% |
| 3 | T. AbeDefensive midfielder |  Holstein Kiel | 22 | 26 | 46 |
| 4 | D. KovacevicDefensive midfielder |  Eintracht Braunschweig | 22 | 21 | 44 |
| 5 | L. FlachDefensive midfielder |  VfL Osnabrück | 25 | 1350.4% | 3415.6% |