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MKHITARYAN RUNS AWAY WITH MATCHDAY 10 VOTE
Bundesliga - official website, Germany
Oct 28 2013
Munich - A superlative attacking midfield display from Borussia
Dortmund playmaker Henrikh Mkhitaryan in the Revierderby was enough for
the Armenian to run away with the Matchday 10 Player of the Week vote.
Dortmund won 3-1 against local rivals FC Schalke 04 and Mkhitaryan
demonstrated the full array of his playmaking abilities. As many
as 58 per cent of bundesliga.com readers voted for the 24-year-old,
giving him his second Player of the Week gong this season, after his
brace against Eintracht Frankfurt on Matchday 4.
Playmaker supreme
For those traditionalists who believe a playmaker's passes are more
important than his goals, Mkhitaryan's was a performance for the ages.
His beautifully weighted ball in the 17th minute allowed Marco Reus to
cross for Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, who duly opened the scoring. As
if the secondary assist was just a warning, Mkhitaryan then picked
up two genuine assists. The first was a pass that invited Nuri Sahin
to strike from 20 yards for his first goal of the season, while the
second was the mark of a modern creative master.
He drove 70 yards after picking the ball up on the edge of his
box, and then displayed superb vision to slide a pass in for Jakub
Blaszczykowski, who made no mistake in making it 3-1. Mkhitaryan's
performance blew away his challengers for the award, Mario Mandzukic's
brace from the bench to lead Bayern to a 3-2 victory over Hertha
Berlin only gaining him 19 per cent of the vote.
Okazaki and Perisic leave their mark
In third place with twelve per cent of the vote came 1. FSV Mainz
05 striker Shinji Okazaki, who hit a brace to help his side beat
Eintracht Braunschweig 2-0. His first goal was a thing of beauty,
an over-the-shoulder volley after eight minutes, before he then
completed his first-ever Bundesliga brace with 68 minutes on the clock.
Ivan Perisic's breakthrough performance for VfL Wolfsburg in their
3-0 win over SV Werder Bremen brought him eight per-cent of readers'
votes. His assist for Ivica Olic's second goal was impressive enough,
but he then crowned a dynamic display with his first goal of the
season in the 89th minute.
Firmino goes top
Hoffenheim's Brazilian talent Roberto Firmino may have only garnered
four per-cent of votes, but that should in no way distract from a
mercurial display. His two goals as Hoffenheim became the first team
to win in Hannover 96's HDI-Arena took the 22-year-old joint top of
the goalscorers' chart with seven strikes to his name.
Check out Henrikh Mkhitaryan's extraordinary third assist right here,
courtesy of the official Bundesliga YouTube channel:
http://www.bundesliga.com/en/liga/news/2013/0000275594.php
Bundesliga - official website, Germany
Oct 28 2013
Munich - A superlative attacking midfield display from Borussia
Dortmund playmaker Henrikh Mkhitaryan in the Revierderby was enough for
the Armenian to run away with the Matchday 10 Player of the Week vote.
Dortmund won 3-1 against local rivals FC Schalke 04 and Mkhitaryan
demonstrated the full array of his playmaking abilities. As many
as 58 per cent of bundesliga.com readers voted for the 24-year-old,
giving him his second Player of the Week gong this season, after his
brace against Eintracht Frankfurt on Matchday 4.
Playmaker supreme
For those traditionalists who believe a playmaker's passes are more
important than his goals, Mkhitaryan's was a performance for the ages.
His beautifully weighted ball in the 17th minute allowed Marco Reus to
cross for Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, who duly opened the scoring. As
if the secondary assist was just a warning, Mkhitaryan then picked
up two genuine assists. The first was a pass that invited Nuri Sahin
to strike from 20 yards for his first goal of the season, while the
second was the mark of a modern creative master.
He drove 70 yards after picking the ball up on the edge of his
box, and then displayed superb vision to slide a pass in for Jakub
Blaszczykowski, who made no mistake in making it 3-1. Mkhitaryan's
performance blew away his challengers for the award, Mario Mandzukic's
brace from the bench to lead Bayern to a 3-2 victory over Hertha
Berlin only gaining him 19 per cent of the vote.
Okazaki and Perisic leave their mark
In third place with twelve per cent of the vote came 1. FSV Mainz
05 striker Shinji Okazaki, who hit a brace to help his side beat
Eintracht Braunschweig 2-0. His first goal was a thing of beauty,
an over-the-shoulder volley after eight minutes, before he then
completed his first-ever Bundesliga brace with 68 minutes on the clock.
Ivan Perisic's breakthrough performance for VfL Wolfsburg in their
3-0 win over SV Werder Bremen brought him eight per-cent of readers'
votes. His assist for Ivica Olic's second goal was impressive enough,
but he then crowned a dynamic display with his first goal of the
season in the 89th minute.
Firmino goes top
Hoffenheim's Brazilian talent Roberto Firmino may have only garnered
four per-cent of votes, but that should in no way distract from a
mercurial display. His two goals as Hoffenheim became the first team
to win in Hannover 96's HDI-Arena took the 22-year-old joint top of
the goalscorers' chart with seven strikes to his name.
Check out Henrikh Mkhitaryan's extraordinary third assist right here,
courtesy of the official Bundesliga YouTube channel:
http://www.bundesliga.com/en/liga/news/2013/0000275594.php