Analysing Serge Gnabry's impact at Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich
. It’s difficult to look past his battering of Tottenham when his four goals and an assist formed part of one of the displays of the season by any team in any competition, but his performance against Chelsea, again in London, again scoring with unerring accuracy, was equally effective. The traits he showed in both of those matches represents the tone for the season; moving on and off the ball at blistering pace, finding space on the edge of the area, and finding the corner of the net.

From a league perspective his non-penalty goals P90 of 0.61 is on a par with the likes of Neymar, Sadio Mane and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, and is fifth-best in Germany, only beaten by outright centre-forwards (and Jadon Sancho). But his non-penalty goal contributions P90 - a combination of non-pen goals and assists, averaged over 90 minutes for ease of comparison - is 1.11, which is the eighth-best in Europe’s top five leagues.

. And like Sancho, Gnabry has established an excellent relationship with team-mates, not least the passing genius that is Thiago Alcantara, who regularly flips his trademark ball over the top into wide areas for Gnabry to run onto.

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Bayern are a ruthlessly brilliant attacking team, and Gnabry has been an essential part of that. He has also solidified his position in the German national side, managing five goals and an assist in Euro qualifying. It’s important to remember that Wenger never questioned his talent when at Arsenal, just what he was capable of doing with it. It could well have been that message that prepared Gnabry for the hard work required to produce these world-class performances.

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