BVB v Heidenheim: Guirassy earns this award with a brace | OneFootball

Between October 31, 2025, and yesterday, February 1, 2026, Serhou Guirassy had scored exactly one goal in the Bundesliga. In the 3-2 win against 1. FC Heidenheim, he could afford to miss a penalty over the bar and still left the field with a double. This achievement is also recognized by the specialist magazine Kicker with an award.

For the first time this season, Serhou Guirassy is part of the "Team of the Week", which Kicker selects and publishes after each weekend. Until now, his performances, with the exception of the first weeks of the 2025/26 season, were rarely enough to even consider him for this. Not only did he fail to score, but there were also no assists, several unfortunate decisions in the game, and as a low point, a penalty he caused in his own penalty area against his BVB.

Yesterday, however, this was different, at least when looking at the pure goal tally. As the press noted, Serhou Guirassy had once again acted "lucklessly" until his penalty goal in the 68th minute and was also trailing with his team against the bottom of the table in their own stadium, 1-2. That he got the chance to score from the penalty spot was mainly thanks to (substitute) captain Nico Schlotterbeck. The defender was actually on his way to take the penalty but then handed the ball to the much-criticized Guirassy.

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Schlotterbeck enables Guirassy's first goal

Because he almost immediately scored the lead for Borussia Dortmund – this time from open play – he made it into the best eleven of the entire Bundesliga matchday. His third particularly notable scene, the missed second penalty for BVB in the 85th minute, certainly did not contribute to the nomination.

Even Kicker did not find Guirassy outstanding yesterday. He received an overall grade of 2.0. However, this made him both the highest-rated BVB player and – along with fellow two-goal scorer Julian Niehues – the highest-rated player of the entire match. Since BVB held onto the victory and prevented Heidenheim from earning a point at Signal Iduna Park, Serhou Guirassy was also named Player of the Match.

With his first nomination for the Team of the Week, he is making progress in reaching the frequency of the previous season. In 2024/25, Guirassy was named to the Team of the Week three times. This season, Karim Adeyemi has been the most frequent BVB player to achieve this, though only twice so far.

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