Christopher Nkunku named April Player of the Month!

11.05.2022

RB Leipzig attacker Christopher Nkunku has won the Bundesliga Player of the Month Award for April, picking up the gong for a fourth time in 2021/22, fending off competition from Serge Gnabry, Filip Kostic, Christian Günter, Mark Uth and Grischa Prömel.

This season once again the Bundesliga has been officially recognising outstanding individual performances with the Player of the Month award. The award, created by the DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga in 2018/19 in cooperation with the Bundesliga's official licensing partner, EA Sports, 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 winner

Christopher Nkunku (RB Leipzig)

It's gotten to the point where you can almost copy and paste Nkunku's entry from month to month, such is the consistency of the Frenchman this season. He has already claimed the Player of the Month Award for October, February and March, and Nkunku has a good chance of collecting a fourth trophy of the campaign, which would also be his third in succession. "He's made incredible development," said Leipzig managing director Oliver Mintzlaff. "In the first half of the season he was already one of the best players ... he went to the next level again under Domenico [Tedesco] and he will do so again next season."

With two goals and four assists in April alone, it is just Uth that has been involved in more goals this month than Nkunku, who now has 17 league goals and 13 assists to his name in 2021/22. The clinical Frenchman converted 50 percent of his shots into goals this month and 80 percent of his passes to a shot resulted in his teammates finding the pack of the net.

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Previous winners

March 2022: Christopher Nkunku

Watch: Christopher Nkunku named Bundesliga Player of the Month for MarchThe RB Leipzig talisman wins his third POTM award of the season.

February 2022: Christopher Nkunku

Watch: Christopher Nkunku, February's Player of the MonthRB Leipzig's formidable Frenchman was voted the Bundesliga's best player in February.

January 2022: Thomas Müller

Watch: Thomas Müller, January Player of the MonthBayern Munich's resident Raumdeuter assisted three goals in January, as well as setting up 11 more chances.

December 2021: Patrik Schick

Watch: Patrik Schick, December's Player of the MonthBayer Leverkusen sharp-shooter Patrik Schick was voted December's Player of the Month.

November 2021: Alphonso Davies

Watch: Alphonso Davies, November's Player of the MonthBayern Munich's Alphonso Davies beat off stiff competition to be voted the Bundesliga's best player in November.

October 2021: Christopher Nkunku

Watch: Christopher Nkunku, October's Player of the MonthRB Leipzig's Christopher Nkunku beat off stiff competition to be voted the Bundesliga's best player in October.

September 2021: Florian Wirtz

Watch: Florian Wirtz, September's Player of the MonthFlorian Wirtz had a hand in a goal every single game he played for Bayer Leverkusen in September.

August 2021: Erling Haaland

Watch: Erling Haaland named August Player of the Month!Borussia Dortmund's Erling Haaland has claimed the first Player of the Month prize in 2021/22 for August. Dortmund's No.9 scored three goals and claimed two assists in just three games during the first month of the new season.