Michael Bradley isn't regarded as a goal-scoring machine, at least not since his dream season at Heerenveen, but the U.S. national team midfielder has shown during his time in the Germany Bundesliga that he can certainly finish when given the opportunity.
Bradley scored his latest goal today, and the score wound up being the game-winner, in Borussia Moenchengladbach's 5-3 win vs. Steve Cherundolo and Hannover 96. Bradley blasted home a free kick from 20 yards out to provide the difference in a strange game that saw THREE Hannover 96 own goals.
Here is Bradley's goal:
If you're still wondering how Hannover 96 managed to score three own goals, you can see the match highlights (and the first-class own-goal precision) after the jump:
What did you think of Bradley's goals? Excited to see the offensive side of his game improving (he did manage this sweet assist just last week)? Starting to wonder if Jeff Agoos has left the Red Bulls and taken a job as finishing coach at Hannover?
Share your thoughts below.
just for you interest, in this critique of the match Bradley came up the best Borussia player (next to Marco Reus):
http://torfabrik.de/profis/borussia/datum/2009/12/15/sieger-beim-offenen-schlagabtausch.html
Also: the author compares the manner in which he scored that goal to the “young Matthäus”
I am surprised that there is a team that can play worse than RB.