Emre Can and penalties: Not just perfect for BVB, but elsewhere too | OneFootball

BVB captain Emre Can once again took responsibility in the match against 1. FC Union Berlin (3:0). The often criticized German national player confidently converted the early penalty kick, adding another entry to his perfect record from the penalty spot.

Serhou Guirassy was on his way to the goal alone after a mistake by Union player Leopold Querfeld, when Frederik Rönnow rushed towards him. In his attempt to clear the ball, the Danish player primarily hit Guirassy's legs according to the referee, resulting in a penalty for BVB in the early minutes.

Usually, though not always, this is a task for Emre Can, who once again made his way to the spot. He decided to shoot low into the left corner from his perspective, executing it so confidently that the culprit Frederik Rönnow had no chance to save. 1:0 for BVB, who went on to score two more goals and, as in the first half of the season, defeated 1. FC Union Berlin 3:0.

When Emre Can steps up to the penalty spot, there's no need to worry about his statistics in this discipline. In professional football, he has now taken sixteen penalties and scored all sixteen into the opponent's goal.

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Emre Can is Mr. 100 Percent – even twice against FC Bayern

He took his first penalty as a professional while playing for Juventus Turin. In the 2018/19 season, he scored in a 4:1 victory over Udinese Calcio. All subsequent penalties he executed in the jersey of Borussia Dortmund. Thus, he has now scored fifteen penalty goals for BVB. Emre Can has been successful twelve times in the Bundesliga, twice in the Champions League, and once in the DFB-Pokal. Two-thirds of his 18 goals for BVB in the Bundesliga have come from penalties.

However, the Dortmund captain also knows what it feels like to miss a penalty. The last time this happened was in the 2012/13 season – but back then in the Regionalliga for FC Bayern Munich's second team, and thus not in professional football. There, his record remains perfect and initiated BVB's twelfth victory on the 19th matchday on Saturday.

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