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Donny van de Beek made his first begin of the 2023/2024 season as his new facet, Eintracht Frankfurt, got here again from the winter break in excellent type, profitable 0-1 in opposition to Purple Bull Leipzig.
The Dutchman solely performed 21 minutes in whole for Manchester United this season and made his unofficial bow for the German facet final weekend in a pleasant loss to Freiburg.
The entire Frankfurt facet defended admirably in a smash and seize win in the present day that helped them climb as much as fifth, above Jadon Sancho’s Borussia Dortmund on the time of writing.
The 2022 Europa League winners made the right begin, scoring after seven minutes of play and held on for expensive life for the remainder of the match.
Leipzig dominated the statistics with 31 pictures compared to Frankfurt’s 5. Furthermore, the house facet loved the lion’s share of possession with 64% of the ball.
Nevertheless, as many groups have discovered through the years, all that actually issues is what number of occasions the ball hits the again of the online and Van de Beek’s new facet led that class.
The previous Ajax man performed 63 minutes, beginning on the left wing in a 3-4-3 formation. He was partnered in assault by Sasa Kalajdzic and the goalscorer, Ansgar Knauff.
Sofascore gave the Manchester United participant a 6.5 ranking and he was truly the bottom rated beginning participant in your complete staff.
The Dutch worldwide had a quiet afternoon the place he had an anticipated help statistic of 0.05 and one dribble try that was unsuccessful.
Regardless of beginning in a complicated function, the participant tried no pictures within the match. That is one thing he might want to enhance on as an all too usually critique of his time in Manchester was his outstanding capacity to fully disappear in matches and seem invisible to his teammates.
Van de Beek solely touched the ball 22 occasions however handed it fairly effectively with a passing accuracy of 77%. Nevertheless, it should be mentioned he solely tried 13. Moreover, he misplaced the ball eight occasions throughout the encounter.
He solely gained two out of eight floor duels and made one sort out within the match.
All in all, it was a really quiet afternoon’s work, however not less than it was a begin for a participant who has been in a minute drought for years now. The 26 yr outdated will fortunately take a couple of extra quiet matches if his staff can win and if he will get severe minutes below his belt.
He’ll subsequent be in motion subsequent Saturday in opposition to Darmstadt, the place he can be hoping to get extra recreation time into his legs and enhance on in the present day’s show.
