An elegant, versatile, composed and gifted left-footed centre-back, with good technique and confident ball-playing ability, Romagnoli is also capable of functioning as a left-sided full-back his precocious displays, technique, positional sense, and tackling abilities have led pundits to compare him with legendary Italian defenderAlessandro Nesta In 2015, he was named one of the top 100 young footballers in the world born after 1994 by Don Balón.