Serhou Guirassy named Bundesliga Player of the Month for February 2025!
Your votes have helped Serhou Guirassy claim the Bundesliga Player of the Month award for February, the Borussia Dortmund striker claiming the prize ahead of Jamal Musiala, Pascal Groß, Tom Bischof, Alexis Claude-Maurice and Kiliann Sildillia.
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.
For February, the selections were made based on performances across Matchdays 20, 21, 22 and 23...
Find out more about the Player of the Month vote here!
February winner
Serhou Guirassy (Borussia Dortmund)
Guirassy has been a shining light for anyone following Dortmund in February. His five goals make him the top scorer in the Bundesliga for the month, while he hit more shots than anyone else (18) and was also directly involved in the most efforts on goal (22). His expected goals value of 6.3 was also the highest in the Bundesliga and while he flew just under that, Guirassy has been lethal in recent weeks.
Union Berlin bore the brunt of his devastation most recently, with the Guinea international smashing four of his five February goals in that encounter alone. It was his first four-goal haul in the Bundesliga and three of those goals came in the space of just eight minutes as the 28-year-old showed he can find the back of the net in multiple manners. He scored twice with his head, one with his right foot, and another with his left. The Dortmund destroyer is also the current top scorer in the UEFA Champions League with 10 goals in 10 games, one of those coming in February's 3-0 win over Sporting Lisbon which helped earn Dortmund a spot in the last-16.
February's other nominees
Musiala was at his magnificent best once again in February. A standout was his slaloming solo effort against Eintracht Frankfurt, which will live long in the memory. It was his second goal in February, putting him behind just Harry Kane and Serge Gnabry as the club's highest scorers this month. Musiala remains a constant menace to opposing defenders and was involved in more shots than any other Bayern player (20).
He took aim at goal 10 times, with only Kane having more shots, while only Joshua Kimmich among his teammates could better the 10 shot assists Musiala provided in February. The 22-year-old’s work off-the-ball is continually improving, too – Musiala won the third-most challenges in the league in February (60) at a success rate of 53 percent. Only Manuel Neuer and Minjae Kim clocked more minutes of action in February for the league leaders, and Bayern fans will be excited to know they get to watch Musiala for many more years to come after the Germany international extended his contract in February until summer 2030.
Pascal Groß (Borussia Dortmund)
New Dortmund coach Niko Kovač has big plans for Groß, who started every Bundesliga match in February. While his predecessor Nuri Şahin used the German international in several different positions, Kovač has deployed him solely in the defensive midfield position but that has not limited Groß's creative output. The 33-year-old provided five assists, making him February’s top provider across the league.
Incredibly, four of those assists came in one match – the 6-0 win over Union Berlin on Matchday 23. He thereby became the first Bundesliga player to provide four assists in one match since Christopher Nkunku five years ago. Groß also set up more shots than any other player in February (14) and he is becoming increasingly comfortable at Dortmund. If he continues to flourish under Kovač then Groß could well become a key figure in BVB's revival under their new tactician.
Hoffenheim have a knack for developing top young talent, with the likes of Niklas Süle and Maximilian Beier growing up at the club before maturing into Germany internationals. The next one off the production line looks to be Bischof. The 19-year-old playmaker saw by far the most of the ball at his club (318 times) and also covered more ground than anyone in the Bundesliga in February (51.1 kilometres).
The composed youngster is already a key player for Christian Ilzer and was one of just three Hoffenheim players to play every minute in February. Bischof continually caused havoc for opponents, shooting more than any teammate (10 shots) and setting up the most shots (nine) for Hoffenheim in February. He also bagged his third goal of the season in Bremen and Bischof looks set to be a major asset in Hoffenheim’s battle for survival in the weeks ahead.
Alexis Claude-Maurice (Augsburg)
Similarly to Bischof, Claude-Maurice has also quickly established himself as a significant player for his club in next to no time. The Frenchman played every minute of football for Augsburg in February, which is no surprise given that he is their top-scorer on nine goals this season. If anyone was in any doubt about his clinical touch, he proved that with three strikes within the space of 15 minutes in the 3-0 win over Borussia Mönchengladbach.
Claude-Maurice therefore became the first Augsburg player to ever achieve a lupenreiner hat-trick in the Bundesliga – the German term for a player scoring three times in the same half without anyone scoring between. The 26-year-old was responsible for 75 percent of Augsburg’s goals in February, needing just eight shots for his three strikes, which made his shooting efficiency of +2.4 the highest in the Bundesliga. The midfielder is clinical in front of goal, while his ability to operate between the lines has helped take Augsburg’s game to another level.
Sildillia underwent an incredible renaissance in February. Having not started previously this season, he began in all four matches last month. The right-back did not miss a single minute of action after stepping in to replace the injured Lukas Kübler. He's done so to great effect, covering more ground than any other Freiburg player (44.7 kilometres) over the course of the month.
The French full-back, who won a silver medal with Les Bleus at the Paris Olympic Games last summer, also scored his first Bundesliga goal in February before promptly repeating the feat. Both of Sildillia’s goals came from corners, with an acrobatic bicycle kick against Bremen the highlight. His goals came from each of his first two shots this season, making him the second-highest scorer for Freiburg in February. Freiburg have also not conceded whenever the 22-year-old has started, meaning the steely Sildillia has been a key ingredient to Freiburg's recent success at both ends of the pitch.
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