Mario Götze plays at BVB, now back to the football, he is an integral part of the team. Coach Favre put him in, sometimes even as a striker – the Ex-world champion has finally been freed. the By Ulrich Hartmann, Dortmund
For the cameras, it would have been nice of course, if Lucien Favre would have conjured up in the press conference, suddenly, a Magnum bottle of champagne from under the table when the Cork popped through the air, and the foam would be injected only. After all, Borussia Dortmund had just made with a 5:1 against Hannover 96, a club record perfectly.
48 points after 19 Bundesliga, the BVB had to play in 52 years of Bundesliga never, ever been better to this point of a season only three Times, FC Bayern in 2014 (53 points), 2016 (52) and 2006 (50). What was for him this new club record, Favre asked, but instead of injecting it with champagne, he said, “phew”, and smiled, embarrassed and said: “It doesn’t mean much – this is just statistics.” Needless to say, there are also statistics, the Dortmund to the title candidate number one pick.
An example: To the 5:1 of the Twelve-goal striker Paco Alcácer was no match, the Six-goal striker Jadon Sancho, the 64-million-Euro striker Christian Pulisic and not the attackers of Jacob Bruun Larsen, Marius Wolf, or Maximilian Philipp. The Latter two were sitting not even on the bench. The 50 Bundesliga goals, the shot of the BVB so far have been scored by 17 different players. Against Hannover the defender Achraf Hakimi met, the midfield men, Raphael Guerreiro and Axel Witsel, as well as Marco Reus and Mario Götze.
Götze was allowed to play 66 minutes, centre-forward and was replaced by Alcacer. The 26-Year-old, to the beginning of the season was not in the squad in the recent four Bundesliga part of the starting XI play three Times and has established itself within the offensive blocks as Favre’s first solution prior to Alcácer. Already supporters are calling for the extension of his 2020 contract. Especially physically Götze seems to be on a different level than in the past two years.
The second half of last season he had to because of a diagnosed exhaustion, stress, and last season he came under Peter Bosz and Peter Stöger in spite of the many operations not to be proven level. He achieves this is only now under Favre, at least. “I feel generally very, very good and I look forward to the return round,” he said in the winter training camp in Marbella.
With the Position as a striker, he is now friendly. Götze himself is called his role a “playful Nine”. He is a centre-forward, the interpreted its Position is variable: “If you can operate between the lines, if you have a interplay with the outside strikers and the tens, then you can come well out of the depth,” he says, “so, if not just a classical shock is a striker needed, I feel in this role is actually quite comfortable.”
he can against Hannover and again to show him his second goal of the season. It was three years ago that Götze for FC Bayern scored a multi-season hits (three) and four years that he shot a lot more goal of the season (nine). With his next Federal Ligator he would be committing also a small anniversary: It would be goal number 50.