Playing Style
Boateng is dominant in a hundred of ways on how to take and receive a ball, and he has dozens of options to overtake an opponent with his skills. Due to his technical strength – Boateng provides his team-mates with confidence, many options, and promising performances on a pitch and they put him so much in the limelight. In particular, Boateng has an exceptionally good shooting technique and shooting power.
“ ” – Borussia Dortmund coach and Boateng's former coach at Borussia Dortmund Jürgen Klopp on BoatengBoateng is a versatile footballer; he primarily plays as box-to-box midfielder. He has a skill set built around athleticism, great energy, drive and power in the midfield and on the football pitch. Boateng is described as a player that can individually decide the outcome of a football match and oppress a opposition team's style of play, whenever he wills, using the whole of a football pitch as his free-roaming zone, and has consequently been referred to as "Big Bang Boateng". In the 2011–2012 season, in Serie A play, A.C. Milan had collected 36 points from 19 matches, or 1.89 points per match, when Boateng wasn't on the football pitch. With Boateng on the football pitch, A.C. Milan had collected 38 points from 17 matches, or 2.24 points per match.
In the 2012–2013 season, in Serie A play, A.C. Milan changed his squad number 27 to 10, and he has at times been occasionally deployed as an attacking midfielder, striker or playmaker under Massimiliano Allegri at A.C. Milan.
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