Nicknamed the miner (coal miner), Schalke 04 has its own glory days. They have also been regulars in the Champions League and have reached the semi-finals of the competition. The team was also full of talent. Among them, Austrian striker Burgstahler is an efficient striker.
Burgstahler spent three and a half seasons at Schalke 04, playing 119 games, scoring 32 goals and providing 13 assists. In his stats in the 17/18 season, he scored 13 goals and six assists in 37 appearances. In 2018, Schalke reached the knockout rounds of the Champions League and reached the last four of the German Cup.
During his Bundesliga career, Burgstahler had a decent statistical efficiency of 24 goals and 10 assists in 95 games. You know, there were 25 of them, and his playing time was under 45 minutes. In the Bundesliga, the Austrian striker is even more of a flat presence. He scored 62 goals and 21 assists in 116 Bundesliga appearances, almost averaging 0.8 goals per game.
He has played for three teams in his German league career, scoring 95 goals and has scored more than 10 league goals in four full seasons in his Bundesliga career.
During Schalke 04, he only spent the team's transfer fee of 1.5 million euros, but he worked diligently to produce good data efficiency, and Shakhtar fans praised him for his excellent value for money. From 2020 to 2022, he also played a good data efficiency at St. Pauli. In the summer of 2022, the player returned to the Austrian league and joined the Vienna Rapids.
Since the start of the new season, he has played 1,799 minutes for the team, scoring 9 goals and 5 assists in 22 appearances, including 11 more starts as captain.
Unfortunately, the team lost to Vaduz 1-2 on aggregate in the final qualifying round of the Europa League qualifying round, thus missing the group stage. However, his performances in league and cup competitions have not been far behind. Heading into October, Burgstahler has become even better.
In the 10th round on 1 October, he scored twice and led his team to a 5-1 sweep over Tyrol. In the fifth round of the play-off match against Hartsburg on October 26, he scored three times in sports battles, wearing a hat in just 45 minutes. In the third round of the Austrian Cup on 18 October, he again provided two assists in a single game.
By calculation, he played six club games in October, scoring five goals and three assists. The team has scored 15 goals in these six games, and he is the thigh of the team with 8 goals.
The current Vienna Rapid is 6th in the league and is temporarily in the championship zone. The team has reached the quarter-finals of the Austrian Cup and will try to reach the semi-finals in the next round.
The team has 19 league games and at least one cup match remaining this season. In at least 20 games remaining, Burgstahler is expected to produce better stats, aiming to score 15 to 20 goals in all competitions and improve his assists to more than 10.
As a high school forward, he was a member of the Austrian national team. However, he did not play in the European Championship finals for Austria. After 2019, he gradually faded out of the national team lineup. Bugstahler has made fewer than 30 international appearances. In fact, with his statistical efficiency, he could be the number one striker of the national team at his peak, but unfortunately, his presence in the Austrian national team is not strong.