He recovered this fun on football

The timing for a Mario-Götze-is-re-DA text could be a bit better. Today, Mario Götze will not be so happy that he can be Mario Götze again. Even bitter he found himself that this was nothing on Tuesday with the Champions League.

Despite an hour's majority, his PSV against Benfica had not managed to achieve at least one goal for extension. In the end it was a bit of efficiency, ignominized at Amazon Prime after the 0: 0 in the second leg and 1: 2 in Lisbon. If you see how we played there and here. The disappointment is huge. We worked for a year.

And nothing was. Although Götze had tried everything. He was one of the few, precision that had ideas on the court, said expert Patrick Owomoyela. But Benfica has also defended that well, said PSV-Coach Roger Schmidt, who had taken an enthusiastic before the game at the praise hymns on the recovered Götze.

He never loses the ball.

Madueke over Götze

Ironically Borussia Dortmund has helped that for weeks has been spoken again about the footballer Götze and no longer about health problems, problems with Lucien Favre or otherwise.

One year after the farewell of BVB, Götze in Eindhoven came back to the track, as Hansi Flick recently said, making it a topic that was not really one anymore. Götze in the national team? That did not exist for almost four years. I am very happy for him, said Mario Gomez in front of the game on Tuesday. He has this inner rays again.

And even the exterior (the late Tuesday evening cleared). Götze acts fresher, fitter, lively. He recovered the fun of football, says Schmidt over the player he had curled after Eindhoven. With such a player, all players will be better on the square. He has self-confidence, has this appreciation to be a very important player, set. I think he has arrived.

The painting sale to Dortmund has helped Götze

Although the season is only a few weeks old, but Götze already has almost as many compulsory players on the account (four) as in the entire preseason (six). And the BVB has a not insignificant share. By changing Donyell painting from PSV to Dortmund, the game is tailored to playmakers Götze, who can now be playmakers in the center again and no longer has to go to the outside.

Fun at work: Mario Götze. Getty Images

He can be under construction, picks up the balls. And if you give him the ball, says fellow players Noni Madueke, you know that you get back in an excellent way. Everyone sees how good and important Mario is for us. He never loses the ball, and he does me too Better. When I start racing, the ball will come safely.

Only Götze, who recently met among other things to the 4-0 final score at the Supercup victory against Ajax, remains modest. We have good players and can work on details. The coach also needed time to convey his philosophy. That's succeeded.