The football magazine "Kicker" confirms the impression that has emerged in many places: Yann Sommer was the best goalkeeper of the Bundesliga last season. The evaluation of Roman Bürkis is diametrically shifted.
Markus Wanderl
Yann Sommer in the final Bundesliga match of the 2017/18 season at Hamburger Sportverein. (Photo: Max Maiwald / Imago)
"World Cup crowning a strong second part" – this is how the "Kicker" in his latest issue titled one of his exposed texts, and it is obvious that the football magazine published its semestrial ranking For example, the best specialists of the Bundesliga can not mean goalkeeper Manuel Neuer.
As known to the individual concerned, FC Bayern Pro has risen after a nine-month injury break until the FIFA World Cup in Russia again in the competition. In previous years, the "Kicker" Neuer had awarded the title of "world class" as well as regularly, more precisely: in winter 2010/11, summer 2011, summer 2013, summer 2014, summer 2015, winter 2015/16 summer 2016, winter 2016/17 and summer 2017. Then came on September 18, 2017, again the metatarsal was broken.
International class, not world class
You must know that because Yann Sommer of Mönchengladbach – his excellent performance in the second round of the Bundesliga in all honors – probably found a gap in himself He l & # 39; opened by Neuers failure. As the Hungarian Péter Gulácsi (Leipzig), who had been hoisted to the top position last summer, as last summer, and so broke into the phalanx of German goalkeepers as the first since the 39th. emergence of Kicker rankings in 1988, Swiss goalkeeper Michael Lang injured in training
Bad start for Michael Lang in Mönchengladbach: The Swiss international injured Tuesday at the training camp on the lake Tegernsee on the right knee.
The hospital diagnosed a partial tear of the external ligament. The back, who had left FC Basel for the Bundesliga, will not be able to continue his preparations for the 2010 season.
With "Weltklasse", there was not a single match Bundesliga after the first half of the 2017/18 season. The players were rewarded, no goalkeeper, no defender, no midfielder, no attacker. It's the same again this time. The Bundesliga season, already considered weak, and the preliminary round of the World Cup on behalf of the Germans are welcomed. NK Domzale or Sorja Luhansk were the names of the clubs that beat the German clubs in the Europa League, and the World Cup team after two defeats – that's what a national team called Champion of the world must do to imitate the Germans. Support that has always been reliable – and that has ensured points to his team. "
" The summer has shown excellent reflexes in the second half of the year, he was confident in the positional game, has acquired considerable sovereignty and charisma. at. Overall, support that was always reliable – and kept on points for his team, "said the" kicker "during the summer. However, the specialist magazine also remembers that the first round of the summer was an upward and downward movement.
The Guardian Yann Sommer at the Football World Cup in the match against Sweden on July 3rd. 0: 1 Emil Forsberg, at the same time the end result, it can not prevent the best will. (Photo: Zurab Kurtsikdze / EPA)
In comparison to Sommer's performance in the "Kicker" standings, Roman Bürki of Dortmund, number two of the Swiss national team, was also well-controlled. Bürki has not even reached the "Kicker" ranking in the other "International Class" and "Field of View" classification categories. "He never seemed really stable in the second half of the season, and Dortmund lacked consistency and – with the exception of the best performance against Gladbach – also the strong points." 39; summer Mönchengladbach, and now grows Marwin Hitz, who gave up the World Cup in favor of preparation with his new club Duel for the number one new.
If the Yann Sommer with a contract until 2021 remains in Mönchengladbach, will be as wise as the answer to the question, if Manuel Neuer in the winter again following the position as the best goalkeeper of Bundesliga can be challenged. This time, he will play – stand now –
