Yerson Mosquera

Mosquera goes to meet a cross rather than standing his ground and hoping to win a header through sheer height, attacking the ball at its highest point before a striker even gets set. That aggression extends to his tackling, where he commits fully rather than jockeying and waiting for support. On the ball he has enough range in his passing to skip past the first line of pressure, which lets Wolves build attacks from deeper positions than a purely defensive centre back would allow.

A serious knee injury interrupted his progress at exactly the point his career was accelerating, the kind of setback that forces a defender to rebuild confidence in challenges he once made without thinking. The tension now is whether the aggression that defines his game returns fully or whether caution creeps into his positioning. Watch how readily he throws himself into the first physical contest of a match, because that usually answers the question quickly.