The midfielder's progress was severely hampered by a serious knee injury but he is steadily getting back to his best, and there could be more to come
Twenty games, or around 2000 minutes. That’s the amount of game time Ilkay Gundogan needed to get back to his best.
Speaking at the start of December, Marti Perarnau, the author who charted Pep Guardiola’s time at Bayern Munich with incredible detail, declared that Gundogan was “not in good shape,” but that the midfielder “could arrive in March and April at a very good level” if he were to play roughly 20 matches over Christmas and beyond.