Player rating: 8.23 Team score: Dortmund 4–0 Leverkusen Individual highlights: 1 assist, 2 key passes
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Sometimes you have to take a detour to get to where you want to be.
I've kicked on at Dortmund. The confidence gained from playing week in week out is empowering me to express myself and play with freedom. I'm now a different Achraf."
—Achraf Hakimi on leaving Real Madrid to pursue regular football
Achraf Hakimi shows his top-class athleticism by intercepting a Leverkusen clearance and fires a cross to Paco who finishes easily to give us the lead! 🔥
10 – SC Freiburg have scored 10 goals on the first 4 matchdays – never before they have scored so many goals at this time in their #Bundesliga history. Form. #TSGSCFpic.twitter.com/9nY9mgIc21
Player rating: 8.44 Team score: Augsburg 0–3 Leverkusen Individual highlights: 1 goal, 1 assist
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Kai Havertz is a player who combines excellent physical qualities with great technical skills. At the moment Leverkusen use him mainly as an attacking midfielder behind the central forward or as a winger, but I see him as a complete player who could also excel deeper in midfield.
He's born in 1999, with those qualities and his personality it makes you believe he'll become one of the most important players in Europe.”
—Maurizio Sarri on setting sight and high hopes for Kai Havertz
Player rating: 9.77 Team score: Bayern 4–0 Cologne Individual highlights: 1 goal, 1 assist
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You move to a different country, you leave a place that’s familiar to you, sometimes you don’t perform to expectations.
People will be talking about you a lot. You have to stay mentally strong and that’s not easy—I count myself lucky to have a supportive family to get through those trying times—it would’ve been impossible if I'd been alone.”
—Philippe Coutinho on surviving the difficult periods in his career
Player rating: 9.89 Team score: Paderborn 1–5 Schalke Individual highlights: 2 goals, 7 dribbles
5 – For the first time since May 1999 @s04_en have scored five away goals in a #Bundesliga match. The last time they scored five away goals in the Bundesliga was a 5-4 win against TSV 1860 München. Historical. #SCPS04pic.twitter.com/SYuFcNBXr2
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