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Marco Reus: A great career in numbers

It will be his 210th and at the same time his final home game at SIGNAL IDUNA PARK: there are 4,285 days between Marco Reus' first against Werder Bremen on 24 August 2012 and the showdown with Darmstadt 98 this Saturday. A career in numbers.

"Footballer of the Year" Marco Reus scored his first home goal for Borussia Dortmund in that game on 24 August 2012, following his move from Borussia Mönchengladbach. The man in the No. 11 shirt netted in the 11th minute to make it 1-0 against Werder Bremen. More than one third of his Bundesliga goals in a BVB shirt (47 out of 119) have been the all-important opener. In the 12 years between 2012 and 2024, only one Bundesliga player has scored the first goal of the game more frequently: Robert Lewandowski (67 times).

The goal against Bremen was not his first for BVB. He had scored that six days earlier in Bremen against FC Oberneuland in the DFB-Pokal. With 169 goals in 427 competitive games so far – prior to the Darmstadt game – Marco Reus occupies second spot in the club's scoring charts behind Adi Preißler. Only three players have made more appearances in Black & Yellow: Roman Weidenfeller (453 games), Mats Hummels (506) and Michael Zorc (572). With 90 appearances at European level, Reus is BVB's record player alongside Hummels.

And he is an absolute guarantor of success. BVB have only won precisely every second Bundesliga match without Reus since 2012, but with him the ratio has risen by 22% to 61%. Borussia have suffered defeat in every fourth match without Reus, whereas it is only every fifth match without him. The difference in terms of BVB goals scored is also significant: 2.3 with him, 1.9 without him. In total, Reus has a fantastic 216 goal involvements to his name (119 goals, 97 assists) in 293 Bundesliga games for Borussia Dortmund. He registered five goal involvements in one game in the match against Borussia Mönchengladbach in February 2022, when he contributed two goals and three assists in a 6-0 victory. The BVB fans have celebrated three Reus goals in a game twice: in the 3-0 against Frankfurt in 2013 and in Stuttgart in 2014, when Reus scored the goals to reduce the deficit to 2-1, equalise at 2-2 and make it 3-2 to BVB. Reus, who is often wrongly labelled as left-footed (he is left-handed but right-footed), has scored 84 goals for the Black & Yellows in the Bundesliga with his right foot and 30 with his left.

Boris Rupert

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