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Omar Marmoush, Maximilian Mittelstädt, Michael Olise, Vincenzo Grifo, Harry Kane and Florian Wirtz are the nominees for September's Bundesliga Player of the Month award, but who will get your vote?
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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This month, the selections were made based on performances from Matchdays 3, 4 and 5.
September nominees
Omar Marmoush (Eintracht Frankfurt)
A glimpse at the Bundesliga top scorer charts may come as a surprise to many, as for once Harry Kane isn’t top. Instead, it’s Eintracht Frankfurt’s 25-year-old Egyptian talent Marmoush, who is the club’s first player to score six goals in the opening five matchdays.
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After a fine start the forward took things up another level in September, including a two-goal haul against former side Wolfsburg. A goal against Borussia Mönchengladbach followed, and then against Holstein Kiel he had a hand in all four strikes in a 4-2 win, with his two assists taking him to nine goal contributions, the joint-most in the league.
Maximilian Mittelstädt (VfB Stuttgart)
As a left-back, Mittelstädt's main job at Stuttgart is to prevent goals. However, if he feels he’s not being challenged enough at the back, he’s more than happy to zip up the wing and offer support up front. He displayed his all-round game in a stunning 5-1 win over top-four rivals Borussia Dortmund by recording two assists and having a hand in another.
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Picking up where he left off, he added a third assist against Wolfsburg the following week to make September a month to remember. With 14 duels won (64 percent win rate) and a pass completion rate of 86 percent, he was one of Stuttgart’s and the Bundesliga’s best players.
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Quickly becoming recognised as one of the signings of the summer in European football, Olise’s move from Crystal Palace has quickly paid dividends. He looked bright in his opening two matches but in September he burst into life and started making an impact on the scoresheet. After opening his account against Holstein Kiel, Olise put in a performance for the ages against Werder Bremen with two goals and two assists in just 70 minutes of action.
Aside from the headline stats, Olise won 65 percent of his duels and no player has completed more passes into the penalty box than his 18. Leroy Sané can’t get into the line-up thanks to Olise, and that shows just how good the 22-year-old has been.
Freiburg beat Heidenheim 3-0 on Matchday 4 and afterwards defeated head coach Frank Schmidt wanted to know if Grifo had “jumped into a fountain of youth or fallen for it”. The 31-year-old Italian scored a brace for the first time in 18 months and was the best player on the pitch. A huge 92 percent of his passes found a teammate, and he also recorded a match-best four shots on goal.
With an extra two assists to his name against Bochum and Stuttgart, the playmaker seems to be back in top form. Even in defeat to St. Pauli, he was statistically Freiburg’s best player, having covered a whopping 12.2 kilometres.
Harry Kane (Bayern Munich)
It’s hard to have a Player of the Month contest without Kane, who once again showed his class in September. In a 6-1 win over Holstein Kiel he was directly involved in four of the six goals, and scored his fifth hat-trick for the Bavarians. The following week he was at it again versus Werder Bremen, bagging two assists and another goal.
Kane drew a blank in the top-of-the-table clash against Bayer Leverkusen, but that performance was mitigated by an injury that took him out of the action late on. He’ll soon be back firing once more.
Florian Wirtz (Bayer Leverkusen)
The Bundesliga Player of the Season for 2023/24, Wirtz was right back at his best again in September. One of Europe’s top assisters last season, the 21-year-old Germany star has been more about the goals this term. On Matchday 3 against Hoffenheim he scored his third goal of the season and then against Wolfsburg he netted a key effort in a 4-3 victory.
It wasn’t just the goals that were impressive in September, though. Wirtz played virtually every minute - with just one 90th minute substitution - and covered 35.6 kilometres, more than any of his Leverkusen teammates. He also made 98 tackles, the most of any Bundesliga player during the month, and no player contested more duels than the unstoppable Werkself talent.
Florian Wirtz won the 2023/24 Player of the Season award!
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