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Borussia Dortmund Mid Season Review

By Brian Szlenk Straub

Dortmund's players greet supporters as they celebrate after winning their the German first division Bundesliga football match Borussia Dortmund v RB Leipzig in Dortmund, western Germany, on August 26, 2018. (Photo by SASCHA SCHUERMANN / AFP) / RESTRICTIONS: DFL REGULATIONS PROHIBIT ANY USE OF PHOTOGRAPHS AS IMAGE SEQUENCES AND/OR QUASI-VIDEO (Photo credit should read SASCHA SCHUERMANN/AFP/Getty Images)
Dortmund's players greet supporters as they celebrate after winning their the German first division Bundesliga football match Borussia Dortmund v RB Leipzig in Dortmund, western Germany, on August 26, 2018. (Photo by SASCHA SCHUERMANN / AFP) / RESTRICTIONS: DFL REGULATIONS PROHIBIT ANY USE OF PHOTOGRAPHS AS IMAGE SEQUENCES AND/OR QUASI-VIDEO (Photo credit should read SASCHA SCHUERMANN/AFP/Getty Images) /
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DORTMUND, GERMANY – DECEMBER 01: Marco Reus of Borussia Dortmund celebrates scoring the opening goal via penalty kick during the Bundesliga match between Borussia Dortmund and SC Freiburg at the Signal Iduna Park on December 01, 2018 in Dortmund, Germany. (Photo by Alexandre Simoes/Borussia Dortmund/Getty Images)
DORTMUND, GERMANY – DECEMBER 01: Marco Reus of Borussia Dortmund celebrates scoring the opening goal via penalty kick during the Bundesliga match between Borussia Dortmund and SC Freiburg at the Signal Iduna Park on December 01, 2018 in Dortmund, Germany. (Photo by Alexandre Simoes/Borussia Dortmund/Getty Images) /

Dortmund have successfully kept Marco Reus fit

One of the highlights up until the winter break is also one of the greatest miracles the club could have asked for up until this point: Marco Reus has been kept injury free. This has surely made many of the Dortmund faithful very happy, considering the club captain’s history on the sidelines. Most have heard the tragic story of how he missed out on Germany’s World Cup winning campaign in Brazil, having sustained an injury in the team’s final friendly before they departed for the tournament. It was the same story two years later as injury concerns prevented Reus from traveling with the German national team to France for Euro 2016.

An year later, an injury in Borussia Dortmund’s DFB cup win in 2017 kept Reus out of Dortmund’s lineup until the winter of 2018. Sufficiently depressed? Good, now we can fully appreciate what Reus has meant to the team this season. As of this Bundesliga campaign, our fully fit captain has contributed 16 goals an 7 assists in all competitions, 11 of those said goals have him sitting very high in the race for the Torjägerkanone this season, only behind the likes of Luka Jovic and Paco Alcacer, the latter of which we’ll get to in a minute.

Marco has flourished in his new role as captain, leading his team by example in both performance and fitness. Whatever magic the medical team has worked to keep our talisman in one piece, I would beg them to continue to do so in the most attentive of fashions.

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