![]() Sommer has been one of the main beneficiaries of last summer's arrival from Juventus finally finding his feet after an unsteady first few months at Bayern. Perhaps the key to De Ligt's superb form in recent weeks has been his teammates feeding his sweet tooth? "I'll put a truck of Swiss chocolate in front of his door," said a grateful Yann Sommer after De Ligt's stunning goalline clearance at 0-0 in the Champions League Round of 16 second leg against Paris Saint-Germain that saved the Bayern goalkeeper's blushes following an uncharacteristic blunder. Make your predictions for the upcoming matchday! "It's always a weapon to have someone who can run at 36.5km/h (22.7mp/h) on the pitch," said Terzic, whose forward actually clocked a Bundesliga record 36.7km/h (22.8mp/h) in the Matchday 19 win over Freiburg. It was a rare faux pas in what has been an otherwise almost flawless post-World Cup period: league-wide, only teammate Raphael Guerreiro has more goal involvements in 2023 than Adeyemi's 11, including six goals he's scored himself, while his blistering top speed makes him quite literally difficult for opponents to catch. Watch: Karim Adeyemi, all Bundesliga goals & assists so far So we can forgive him for missing the penalty." "I don't know if Karim had 50 or 100 moves, but 49 or 99 of them were positive. "From start to finish, it was an absolutely top performance," said BVB boss Edin Terzic after seeing Adeyemi score twice and set up another in the Matchday 31 6-0 demolition of Wolfsburg in which his young striker missed a penalty that would have seen him end the contest with a first-ever Bundesliga hat-trick instead of just his maiden brace. The summer arrival from RB Salzburg had no goal involvements in a frustrating first 11 league games for his new club since going to Qatar - and not playing a single minute - with Germany, the 21-year-old forward has started to exploit the talent he expressed so fluently in Austria. But it's been especially true for Adeyemi. It's been a season of two halves for most players with a first-ever World Cup break in the middle of the campaign. "Well done for the goal, and well done for the performance." "You also have to praise him when he does something well," said Salihamidzic. Gnabry's xG of 10.5 and the fact he's hit the woodwork three times this season - only three Bundesliga players have done so more - suggests there is more to come from the 27-year-old, who now boasts 15 Bundesliga goal involvements, a tally bettered only by Musiala in the Bayern squad. That's important for him, for his confidence, and also for the squad." "It's important for him because he's a player who can score goals. And really well," said Bayern's sporting director Hasan Salihamidzic of Gnabry after the Bremen win. The Germany international forward has featured in all of Bayern's 69 Bundesliga games since 24 April 2021, the longest current run of any player in the German top flight. Watch: Serge Gnabry - seven seasons, seven goalsĭespite his dip in form, he did not lose the faith of his coach, Thomas Tuchel, who has consistently picked Gnabry as did Julian Nagelsmann before him. "We did our jobs and we've given ourselves a bit of a cushion." It was a very happy dressing room, we celebrated," said Gnabry, who is closing in on his Bundesliga career-best of 14 goals in a single top-flight season. "We knew that if we won it would be a good weekend. Things certainly hadn't been easy for the former Arsenal and Werder Bremen man in recent weeks as he went on a nine-game goalless run.īut he ended his goal drought in the Matchday 30 win over Hertha Berlin before scoring against former club Bremen to take his tally to 11 league goals for the season, the most in the Bayern squad along with Jamal Musiala, to extend Bayern's unbeaten record against Werder to a record 27 games and keep his club ahead of Dortmund in the title race. With two goals in his last two Bundesliga matches, Gnaby is coming into form just at the right time to help get Bayern over the line first in the title race. Click here for the latest on the 2022/23 title race!
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