🇩🇪 Bundesliga Player of the Week - A monstrous midfield display | OneFootball

Last week, we crowned Leon Goretzka our first ever Bundesliga Player of the Week.

After the weekend, this week’s award goes to …

Maximilian Eggestein – Werder Bremen

Werder Bremen’s big 5-1 defeat of SC Paderborn on Saturday saw Eggestein finally end his 17 month wait for a Bundesliga goal. But it was his all-round performance that really impressed.

Team-mate Davy Klaassen took the headlines, providing a huge threat from midfield, but his role could have left Eggestein exposed.

While Klaassen’s off the ball movement was excellent and crucial, it wouldn’t have been possible without his midfield partner doing such a fine job alongside him.

Eggestein was Bremen’s out-ball from defence, he made the third most passes of anyone (after defender Niklas Moisander and Kevin Vogt) and the most passes in the final third.

No player completed more dribbles and Eggestein’s link-up with left-back Ludwig Augustinsson helped Bremen move into dangerous areas again and again.

Then there was the small matter of his first goal of the season. The German scored five last term but has played a deeper role this season as Bremen have moved to a three-man defence in an attempt to add some solidity at the back.

And Eggestein contributed enormously to that solidity on Saturday.

No player won more tackles. No player made more interceptions. The roles of Klaassen, alongside him, and Vogt, behind him were crucial, but Eggestein provided the platform for the rest of the team to succeed.

The win was Bremen’s biggest under head coach Florian Kohfeldt and kept them in with a shot of Bundesliga survival.

With three games to go, starting with Bayern Munich on Tuesday, Werder are now level on points with Fortuna Düsseldorf, who sit in the relegation play-off spot, and just three points behind Mainz, who are currently set to avoid relegation.