The Bayer Necessity: Malik Tillman at Bayer Leverkusen

Sage makes 3rd sub. Not Weah.

 

Greenwood is pretty good.

 

wrong thread, freis.

 

Wrong for who? I am beyond rules! I bow to no organizational schema!

(yeah, my bad. And things were moving so smoothly till then... Although, also a true post!)

 

I enjoyed the bonus content. And to think, there wasn’t a surcharge. Wonderful!

Tillman hasn’t made much of impact at Leverkusen yet, unfortunately. Hope he gain some momentum going forward. He has been doing ‘ok’ but as others have mentioned, as a relatively big Euro signing and wearing the 10, being impactful is expected.

 

Lol. I just now realized I did like half the PBP here - I thought it was just the two posts at the top of the page.

Bet a few of y'all wondered when Tillman went to Lens, or Weah to Weder!

 

Tillman with an early goal.

 

A first-half brace for Malik Tillman! 🇺🇸

(via @CBSSportsGolazo) pic.twitter.com/FQd8PcLi1u

— UnfilteredSoccer (@UnfilteredSoccr) January 28, 2026

got a second as well.

 

second goal was class, but honestly I love that first goal.

 

He's still pretty young. He works hard at his flaws. If he stays healthy he's going to play a lot of good ball for the next 7-8 years.

 

Tillman starts! Leverkusen visiting Eintracht Frankfurt.

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And he scores!

 

The guy just oozes class, he makes everything look sooo easy.

 

He's got excellent placement on his shots. Comes from making such clean contact. What a player!

 

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That was an aesthetically pleasing goal.

 

BTW, Weah starting and OM up 1-0 at the half, in case you missed me...

 

I am not sure how much we missed you but for sure, you are in the wrong thread.

 

Actually did watch the BL game - still feel like there are moments when MT is a little to cute/confident for his, or his team's, own good, but that's probably true of all talented players. But he has really become one of BL's midfield generals, covers a lot of ground both vertically and horizontally and his late runs into the box are very effective. It was a weird game, with EF sitting back very deep the first half, giving BL like 70% possession and BL making them pay - then they came out in the 2nd half pressing much higher and challenging more quickly in the midfield and BL did not really respond to the pressure well, giving up a goal and also getting very disjointed in their attack and transition. If not for the stupid double YC in the space of about 10 mins resulting in a Red, EF. might have made this a game.

 

As a great Murican poet once wrote:
If ye starte a bit
Ye muste commit

 

Agree with the review overall.... I do think it is worth mentioning that he also had two world-class passes in this one that could... err should have been put home. The first was a pinpoint cross from the right side which was headed over the bar by Tapsoba. The second one came in the 2nd half and was a no-look, volley pass to Schick who took it down off his chest but was shoved from behind which resulted in no-shot (I thought it was a PK). This must be the 3rd or 4th time I have complained about Tillman's bad luck WRT assists.

 

Yeah, I called out that cross in the PbP - it was inch perfect and hard to see how Tapsoba didn't get up over it enough to put it on goal. Tillman just has a really good all-around game. He made the shot look like a gimme - when it's one plenty of guys miss. Had a couple of challenging giveaways, but he's really been on the last 2 games - as has the team overall. Shook off the Xmas doledrums for good I hope.

 

The goal:

https://www.frontrowsoccer.com/2026/01/31/video-watch-tillman-score-again/