Tactics Corner: Breaking down the brilliance of Omar Marmoush
Omar Marmoush has fuelled Eintracht Frankfurt's early season form, steering them to second ahead of a crunch clash against table-topping Bayern Munich. With six goals to his name, bundesliga.com looks at the rise of German football's Egyptian Pharaoh.
"It's not easy to just say, 'We'll defend him'. Should we double-team him? Also not so simple. A good player always finds the spaces. It's obviously difficult to keep a player like that in check," said Holstein Kiel coach Marcel Rapp about Marmoush. Defending against the Egyptian has been quite the dilemma for Bundesliga defences.
Over the past decade or so, Frankfurt have consistently given a platform for elite forwards to excel in the Bundesliga - the likes of Luka Jović, Sébastien Haller, Randal Kolo Muani and Jay-Jay Okocha come to mind from the past. Marmoush is the latest in that long line.
It has been a fairly patient wait for the 25-year-old to hit top form, and after stints at Wolfsburg, St. Pauli and VfB Stuttgart he seems to have finally found his place being the central hub of Dino Toppmöller's Eintracht side.
So what's behind the magic of Marmoush's performances?
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