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Ranking the Top 5 Goals of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s Borussia Dortmund Career
- Updated: December 19, 2016
Almost lost in the shuffle of Borussia Dortmund’s hectic 2-2 draw with TSG 1899 Hoffenheim in the Bundesliga on Friday was a major individual milestone for one of the team’s most consistent players of the last few years.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored his 100th goal for the club, an impressive achievement considering he has done it in only 164 matches across all competitions since moving to the Ruhr valley from French side AS Saint-Etienne in the summer of 2013.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang: 💯 @BVB goals! pic.twitter.com/XzQUnBVGmv
— Bleacher Report UK (@br_uk) December 16, 2016
As a comparison, the great Robert Lewandowski scored a grand total of 103 goals for Dortmund but played in 187 matches for the Black and Yellows. The Pole scored roughly every 140 minutes of play, whereas the Gabon international needs only about 122 minutes per goal.
Bleacher Report discussed Aubameyang’s place among Dortmund’s all-time greats at the striker position in an earlier piece. That he gets mentioned in that elite group of players is largely down to his explosion under head coach Thomas Tuchel. Aubameyang has scored 59 of his 100 goals in the one-and-a-half years under the 43-year-old.
His evolution from winger to central striker already started towards the end of Jurgen Klopp’s tenure at the Westfalenstadion, but it was only under Tuchel that the 27-year-old turned into one of the deadliest strikers on the planet.
Ted Knutson highlighted the changes in the Gabonese’s play for StatsBomb.com and, if one were to break it down to one key factor, that would be shot locations. Aubameyang has scored all but a handful of his 59 goals across all competitions over the last 18 months from inside the penalty box, as he is getting on the end of attacking moves, often allowing him to finish with only one or two contacts.
He makes scoring look easy because, at times, it really is. However, he is more than a poacher and is perfectly capable of creating goals for himself, both with his devilish pace and with a strong sense of time and space on the pitch.
To celebrate his 100th goal for the club, B/R ranks his top five goals for Dortmund.
No. 5: November 26, 2013 vs. Napoli
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A goal that showcased how dangerous a player he is even when deployed on the wing, Aubameyang used his freakish athleticism for this strike in the Champions League against Napoli.
Catching up with Lewandowski in a transitional attack, the Gabon international left his marker in the dust. Centre-back Raul Albiol had the impossible decision to either leave Lewandowski with a fairly open run on goal or to cover the passing lane towards Aubameyang.
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