On Saturday, December 2, at the Allianz arena, Hanover will have to fight against Munich's Bavaria. Wards Heinkes will go very angry on this tour, because after the lost match Menchengladbach Borussia they need to be rehabilitated in front of their own fans.
Despite the absence from the injury of a number of players in the composition (Neuer, Thiago, Alaba, Robben, Ribery), the Bavarians still release the starting 11-tku, which Breitenreiter can only dream of. But we note that this season in the composition of Hanover there is one upstart player who could easily strengthen the defensive line of the Munichers.
27-year-old Salif Sane achieved incredible progress in his game and for him the match with Bayern has a good chance to declare himself to the whole world before the winter transfer window. Senegalese became six times the "match player", having played 12 games in the current season of the Bundesliga.
Sane won twice as many individual awards as any other player in the Bundesliga. The Hannover Defense Holdings now rank second in the ranking of all Bundesliga players on Whoscored, having an average score of 12 played - 7. 76.
We decided to tell you about this defender, because most fans of the Bundes do not really know this Senegalese, but his level of play became the main catalyst for the unexpected success of the '96s ".
Why did not they learn about Sana before? Much depended on the circumstances. He arrived in Hannover in 2013 after Die Roten had one of the most successful seasons in the European Cups, in the 2011/2012 season the "96th" reached the quarter-finals of the Europa League, where they were beaten by Madrid Atletko. In the following season, Hanover also participated in the Europa League (it was the first season in the lineup for defender Salif Sane), but the international campaign ended in 1/16, when Makhachkala's Anji Guus Hiddink and Samuel Eto'o knocked them out.
The then coach Mirko Slomka was already fired in December that season, he could not find a place for the Senegalese at the heart of the '96s, and Sana at that time had already played 13 matches for the reserve team. It can hardly be imagined that his career in the northern town will last for five years. Taliban Salif after the team was headed by Braytenreiter, who returned to the Bundesliga from the second division. Then it seemed that the Senegalese centerback had ruined his career by hitting a club that had not won the Bundesliga for 60 years, and the German Cup - 25.
Sane was born in France before coming to Hannover in the summer of 2013 (the issue price is two million euros), played in Bordeaux and Nancy. In his first season he played 18 games in the Bundesliga, as well as several games for the reserve team in the northern regional league. Only in the 2015/2016 season, Sane became the main defender of Hanover, playing 31 matches in the Bundesliga. But, it is worth noting that this season, ended for the "96's" departure, and the next season Salif held in relative obscurity in the second Bundesliga. In 2013 he was entrenched as the main central defender of the Senegal national team, having played in seven international matches for the national team.
It turns out that he was outside the radar of most fans, but times are changing and his name will now be heard much more often, because he shows himself now as an upscale defender. Senegal qualified for the World Cup next year, and both he and his older brother, Lamin Sane (the main defender of Werder with the 25th international matches in the asset), will go to Russia.
Salif now just dominates the defense of Hanover and is one of the most reliable centerbacks of the championship of Germany. In addition to his six individual awards, he leads the league in the index of won martial arts (an average of 6.3 per game). Also, Sanya makes an average 8.3 selection per game.
In addition, Salif Sane is fourth in the league for interceptions, an average of 1.1 per match, topped the rating of the "Greek Bulldog" Hamburg Kyriakos Papadopoulos.
Senegalese defender has a very high co-efficacy of successful actions in matches - 80%.
The match with Bayern Munich in the 14th round will be an excellent opportunity to declare yourself and cause an unprecedented stir in the transfer market in the winter. I think with such a game, the probability of remaining in the "96" until the end of the season is extremely small.
Write to us in the comments, which team do you think could strengthen Sana in the winter transfer window?.