The forward – so often a target of hostility from opposing fans – wasn’t the lightning rod, even if he applied the full stop
When you picture breaking a drought and scoring a first Bundesliga goal for more than five months, you almost certainly don’t picture this. Barren runs are rarely broken by moments of supreme confidence and swagger and if Timo Werner required the proverbial one that trickled in after hitting him on the backside, he didn’t get it.
Found by a typically surgical Xavi Simons pass, he skated around Moritz Nicolas, but the goalkeeper’s half-hand on the ball would have been enough to put many an attacker off. Not Werner. He composed himself in the blink of an eye and smashed into the net from an unforgiving angle.
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