Marco Reus agreed after the thrashing victory against Borussia Mönchengladbach (6-0) on Sunday evening rather quietly. “Basically, I don’t like to be celebrated. We played outstandingly as a whole team today,” said the BVB captain on “DAZN”. The 32-year-old offensive player had every reason to emphasize his own performance. Between the 26th and 81st minute of the game, Reus was directly involved in five Dortmund goals against his former club – two goals, three assists. A comparable yield, five scorer points in a Bundesliga game, has only happened 19 times before in this millennium.
Reus, Pizarro & Co.: Most goals involved in a Bundesliga game since 2000
Marco Reus (BVB): 5 scorers in the 6-0 vs. Gladbach (February 20, 2022)
With these scorer values in a Bundesliga game, Reus was in the best of company. Robert Lewandowski, the world footballer as the only player to do it twice, teammate Erling Haaland and Roy Makaay, among others, did that. Even more remarkable are the performances of players who don’t traditionally play as a center forward, such as Bart Goor, Mesut Özil or Philippe Coutinho.
Only two players were directly involved in a goal six times: Timo Werner for RB Leipzig on November 2, 2019 in the 8-0 win over Mainz 05 and Claudio Pizarro in FC Bayern Munich’s 9-2 win against HSV on March 30, 2013. Since the Bundesliga was founded, the five-point mark has been broken a total of 57 times in a Bundesliga game. The record with five goals and two assists has been held since 1965 by Rudolf Brunnenmeier, who died in 2003, when his TSV 1860 Munich team beat KSC 9-0 (go to the match report).
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