Former Player: Mario Gómez

Yeah. Kicker is extremely stingy with that rank. Not even Neuer was put into world class this season.

As it should be, really.

Although Neuer deserves to be there.

Godmez

Sushi Master wrote:As it should be, really.
Although Neuer deserves to be there.

Well, they counted two mistakes of Neuer against him. ^^
But for them to put Godmez as world class says a lot about how they view him.

Gómez is constantly underrated due to people having a concept of him being a guy who stands around in the box waiting for balls in order to score tap ins.

Which basically means they don't watch Godmez at all, something very common in German players unless they go to the PL or Liga.

Whenever I want to remind myself that nobody watches or rates German players, I go to goal.com and look at their ratings. :p

But seriously, being ranked as world class by kicker magazine is like half a ballon d'or - those guys are picky.

To be honest I haven't seen him much a side from CL, he hasn't particularly impressed me but then again he does have this great record this season.

I've probably gone and jinx it now and he will score a hattrick in the final but on a serious note is he overhyped or just a couple of bad days??

Gomez is probably the best box CF today.

Nah it's just his fantastic movement gets him into goal scoring positions over and over again......

He has always been wasteful with his chances......

So he isn't a clinical finisher or what?

Abramovich wrote:So he isn't a clinical finisher or what?

Nah not really atleast not consistently, his goals come from the fact he has a great supply line and his movement in the box is just World Class.

If you have a great supply line and your movement is as good his your goals come, no matter how many you miss.

He has the movements of Inzaghi and the finishing of Muntari.

I have mixed feelings about his finishing, and Hummels seems to have him in his pocket but positionally he is the best and he always gets into at least 1-2 great goalscoring positions a game.

If he had the finishing of Henry he would be GOAT striker.

His chance conversion deceived me as well, I mainly agree with Mole, but someone once dug up a stat showing that Gomez is in the top 3 in Europe of shot-to-goal ratio, meaning he apparently is clinical, on the whole.

He had HORRIBLE finishing today though. Could've had a hattrick quite easily.

VivaStPauli wrote:His chance conversion deceived me as well, I mainly agree with Mole, but someone once dug up a stat showing that Gomez is in the top 3 in Europe of shot-to-goal ratio, meaning he apparently is clinical, on the whole.

He had HORRIBLE finishing today though. Could've had a hattrick quite easily.

I would be suprised by that if iam honest, everytime i see him he gets loads of opportunities explained by the reasons above but i see him miss atleast 3 easy chances a game.

Mind you id rather have striker like him who always gets himselfs in great positions than someone who goes into hiding after a couple of misses.

One of the most wasteful forwards in Europe. Not impressed at all.

Gomez was a great defensive midfielder today though :vagi:

His Chance-Goal conversion ratio is surprisingly good even though it doesn't seem like it. It's the main reason why Castrol rates him so much higher over Ronaldo, who gets 100 chances from Özil in a match and puts away 1-2.

Gomez to be best player in the world according to Castrol in the month of May?

Also Viva it was me who linked something similar Gomez surprsing stats, but that was back in November:

http://www.castrolfootball.com/article/2011/09/02/GOMEZ-CLOSES-GAP/01502172-D55E-11E0-BF52-FE045629287D.php

He does miss some chances, but he's a constant goal threat even though he seems "invisible". He can bang in very important goals (like in Munich, 1st leg) out of nowhere even when having bad games.

His goal record cannot be argued, even if there are better overall players. As a goalscorer, you can't get better. His workrate is also very underrated. If he can't score, he goes deep and annoys defenses and midfields with his bulk, giving space to Ribéry or whoever.

The stat that proves that he's invisible and still a threat:

Didnt like his finising, in either leg, but his workrate was a very pleasant surprise.

While Robben lost the ball and watched it go by him, I see Gomez working his ass off to get back and make a great challange on Cristiano.

Surag wrote:He has a great scoring ratio but saying he's unstoppable is an overexaggeration..

I had to take a few insults down my neck for saying this.

Serge Gnabry wrote:He wastes as many as he scores though and against great competition (sorry K'lautern fans) he may only get one chance.

This guy called it

The Messiah wrote:His totally unstopable, I don't know what to make of him, he miss a lot of chances but then again he score a lot of goals.

Should've known never to trust a striker that miss so many chances

Red Bull Spot with Mario Gomez (2009):

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Mario Gomez scores the 1:0 against Portugal in the Euro 2012, 9 June 2012:

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