Many Team of the Season selections are, frankly, boring.
Sometimes, you couldnt really call it a team; its just a selection of eleven players, and their actual positions dont even matter.
Sometimes, its just an absurd selection because the idea is to pick only the players they think are the best.
So, here I am.
You can call me an idealist, but I wanted to propose an alternative team for the 2024/2025 Bundesliga season—its indeed a real team.
Ive selected 11 players who I believe possess special attributes that make them deserving of consideration among the best in the league and who can complement each other.
I created this team using the 3-4-2-1 formation, which many teams have favoured.
For your information, this Bundesliga team of the season is not dominated by players from top teams, unlike other teams of the season.
So, here is your alternative Bundesliga Team of the Season by Total Football Analysis.
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GK: Nikola Vasilj St. Pauli
Peter Gulacsi may have had the most clean sheets throughout the season, Finn Dahmen may have had the highest save percentage, and Manuel Neuer may still be the best sweeper.
However, no one prevented more goals than Nikola Vasilj.
Vasilj let in 39 goals this season, but the underlying numbers suggested he should have let in 47.4.
He stopped 9.4 chances that were expected to be goals—the highest number in the Bundesliga—and thats what brought him here.
That number helped St. Pauli, who were in the bottom three for squad value in the league, finish 14th and avoid relegation.
Not only that, but theyre also the second-best team, after Bayern Munich, when it comes to conceded goals.
And thats not all: No goalkeeper in the Bundesliga made more passes last season than Vasilj.
He performed exceptionally well for the team, which was fourth to last in terms of possession.
So, its another valuable skill from Vasilj.
He can be a flexible ball-playing goalkeeper.
Hes excellent at playing short when the team wants to build up more patiently and good at playing long if his team wants to play more directly.
RCB: Jonathan Tah Bayer Leverkusen
Ideally, I would like to include Dayot Upamecano here, but it would be a bit unfair to include a player who didnt play in more than 20 games throughout the entire season.
Jonathan Tah is, therefore, a more deserving candidate.
Why? His aerial ability.
He is fourth in the league for aerial duel success percentage among players who have played at least 1500 minutes.
Specifying aerial duels in their own box makes the statistic more relevant to defenders, and Tah is third in the league with a success rate of over 70%.
He is also among the elite in terms of ranking defenders who helped their team progress into the final third.
His pass success rate into the final third was 86.43%.
In general, only
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