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VfB Stuttgart's Serhou Guirassy voted March's Bundesliga Player of the Month!

18.04.2024

Serhou Guirassy has been rewarded for yet more goalscoring form his second Player of the Month award of the 2023/24 Bundesliga season, the VfB Stuttgart striker beating Harry Kane, Jamal Musiala, Xavi Simons, Alejandro Grimaldo and David Raum to the March prize.

The Player of the Month award was created by the DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga in 2018/19, in cooperation with the Bundesliga's official licensing partner, EA Sports.

The award is decided through a two-stage selection process that considers both the players' individual performance data and a vote by fans and experts.

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The key factor for taking a matchday into account is the month in which the Saturday of the round falls. In this case, the data refers to the performances of the players on Matchdays 24, 25, 25 and 27.

March winner

Serhou Guirassy (VfB Stuttgart)

Serhou Guirassy missed the first part of the year due to the Africa Cup of Nations, but the Guinea international forward resumed his normal prolific business in March. For the first time since December 2023, he started all Bundesliga games in the month, playing the full 90 minutes twice. He scored in all four Bundesliga matches in March, starting with a brace on Matchday 24. His five strikes in the month made him the league’s top scorer for the period.

The 28-year-old had 12 attempts at goal, almost half of which ended up in the net, which is remarkable efficiency. With an xG of only 3.0, he exceeded that by 2.0, the second-best in the Bundesliga that month. With 23 goals, he’s now just one shy of the club record for a single top-flight season set by Mario Gomez in 2008/09.

March's other nominees

Alejandro Grimaldo (Bayer Leverkusen)

Set-piece svengali, top assister, goalscorer… what more could Alejandro Grimaldo do to earn your vote? He’s not only the league’s joint-top creator of goals, he’s also Leverkusen’s second-highest scorer after Victor Boniface. And he’s also simply unstoppable: he did not miss a minute of league action in March, and is second only to Heidenheim’s Patrick Mainka in terms of minutes played this season across the Bundesliga.

The Spain international was involved in three league goals in the month, the most of any of Xabi Alonso’s league-leading squad. He almost won the Matchday 24 derby with Cologne single-handedly. His cross was finished off by Jeremie Frimpong for the opening goal before adding the second himself. He then had assists in the next two matches. In addition to his 18 attempts at goal - the second-most in the league - he also had 14 passes before a shot, meaning he was involved in 32 goal attempts in March, the most of any Bundesliga player.

Harry Kane (Bayern Munich)

The Bundesliga’s chief goal threat personified, Hary Kane struck four times in as many games in March. Along with teammate Jamal Musiala, he was Bayern’s top scorer across the month, and the second-best in the league, while also tallying two assists.

He shot 25 times at goal – more than any other player by some margin – and got into some great scoring positions, as his 6.7xG across the four matches shows. He started every game, and he’s one of just seven Bundesliga outfield players to have been on the pitch at kick-off in each league match this season. He was brought off eight minutes from time against Darmstadt due to injury, but otherwise has played every minute.

Xavi Simons (RB Leipzig)

Leipzig’s Matchday 26 win in Cologne was crucial, and they had Xavi largely to thank for the three points. He scored the opening goal on 15 minutes, and then teed up Loïs Openda to make it 2-1 just after the hour mark, paving the way for a 5-1 win that was not as comfortable as the scoreline suggests.

He was involved in another March goal to finish as Leipzig’s leader in the category, and his 19 passes before a shot – more than Grimaldo and Musiala – are the second-highest in the division. Combined with his 10 goal attempts, he had the third-highest total of goal attempt involvements. He started all four games, and has only missed one match this season due to suspension.

Jamal Musiala (Bayern Munich)

Musiala was only just behind Grimaldo with 31 involvements in attempts on goal; he outstripped the Leverkusen man with four goals in the month, the joint-second-most in the German top flight. He topped that off with a league-high three assists in a stellar March for the 21-year-old. It means the Germany international now has 16 goal involvements, almost half of which came last month.

And he did it all playing out of position. Due to injuries, he found himself on the left wing, where he had earned two goal involvements in February. If he continues like this, he’ll find himself there more often.

David Raum (RB Leipzig)

Along with Kane, David Raum is one of just seven outfield players who – come the end of March – has started every one of the 27 Bundesliga matches so far this season. The left-sided defender played every single minute in March, and though he picked up just a single assist, his 16 passes before a shot were the third-most league-wide.

His seemingly limitless energy on the Leipzig left saw him clock up 44.2 km (27.5 miles), the most of any player in the Leipzig squad, while he accounted for 27 of Leipzig’s 46 crosses from open play during the month, a healthy third of them finding a teammate. The next-best total for a Leipzig player was just six, while Bayern’s Joshua Kimmich clocked 22 as the second-highest crosser in the month.

Previous winners

February

Florian Wirtz (Bayer Leverkusen)