Tuesday night saw Raphael Guerreiro make his first appearance of the season for Borussia Dortmund after surgery on a broken foot disrupted the entirety of his pre-season.
The Portuguese left-back emerged from the bench to play the last 30 minutes of a routine 5-0 demolition of third-tier Magdeburg in the second round of the DfB Pokal.
The very next day, Guerreiro went and formally announced his return to the first-team fold by tucking away an absolute peach of a volley during a training ground crossing drill…
😲 WAS FÜR EIN TOR! @RaphGuerreiro ist zurück! // WHAT A GOAL! Raphaël Guerreiro is back 💪 pic.twitter.com/0QZtMoKXC8
— Borussia Dortmund (@BVB) October 25, 2017
Dare we even suggest it, but that was almost Zlatan Ibrahimovic-esque – the improvisation, the flexibility, the finish.
We honestly don’t even know what you’d call a technique like that. Any ideas?