How do Victor Boniface and Deniz Undav compare ahead of Bayer Leverkusen vs. VfB Stuttgart?
Bundesliga champions Bayer Leverkusen and last term’s runners-up VfB Stuttgart square off on Friday. Amongst the many captivating match-ups across the pitch will be Victor Boniface’s battle with Deniz Undav for attacking bragging rights…
In hindsight, the summer of 2023 proved to be a pivotal one for Bundesliga attackers. While both Niclas Füllkrug and Christopher Nkunku are talented forwards, their 16 goals apiece across the 2022/23 term represent the lowest tally recorded by a Torjägerkönig in the history of the German top flight and, with the Frenchman making a switch to English Premier League side Chelsea following the campaign’s end, there was an apparent lack of prolific strikers in the post-Robert Lewandowski and Erling Haaland era.
As such, the Bundesliga’s best went about boosting their forward lines with lethal marksmen. Bayern Munich turned to the irresistible Harry Kane, winner of the 2023/24 Golden Shoe, while RB Leipzig replaced Nkunku with Loïs Openda, scorer of 24 goals in his debut Bundesliga campaign.
Eintracht Frankfurt acquired the services of Omar Marmoush, meanwhile - this season’s joint-top goalscorer - and Serhou Guirassy made a loan move to VfB Stuttgart permanent and subsequently found the back of the net on 28 occasions in the league.
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