Robin Hack is Gladbach's Player of the Season | OneFootball

Gladbach fans had almost a week to vote for this season’s best player in the FohlenApp, and it was a tight race between Hack and Reitz right up until the very end. Hack eventually triumphed with 40% of the vote to the homegrown hero’s 37%, with Moritz Nicolas and Franck Honorat trailing behind on 19% and 4% respectively.

Hack joined the Foals last season from Arminia Bielefeld after Arminia were relegated from the second tier. After spending much of the first half of the season as an impact substitution, Hack played a more prominent role as the season went on and eventually managed 13 goals and 3 assists in 33 games in all competitions. On his role this season, Hack said: “Of course, I’d have liked to have been a regular starter even back then. But I knew that I had to work my way into the team first as a new player, and so I always gave it my all in training and when I came on as a substitute.”

In the first game after the winter break, he bagged a brace in a 3-1 triumph over high-flying VfB Stuttgart. As the second half of the season progressed, Hack’s importance to the team only continued to increase. Hack scored another double in a 3-3 thriller against Köln, before opening the scoring against Hoffenheim, achieving his first top-flight hat-trick at Hoffenheim, and adding further goals in draws against Werder Bremen and Frankfurt. With ten goals, ‘Hacki’ trails only Harry Kane, Lois Openda and Serhou Guirassy in the Bundesliga in 2024, and is the top-scoring German player in the league.

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