19 months. That’s how much time passed between Aron Johannsson’s last league goal for Werder Bremen and the goal he scored against Borussia Moenchengladbach on Friday March 2nd, 2018. A bitterly cold night in Germany, with snow dusting the field, saw Johannsson enter the game in the second half with his team down 2 goals to none. Bremen stormed back, with the lead soon being cut to one, before Johannsson saw his opportunity and took it. A low cross found Jerome Gondorf in the box, who brought the ball around his body, preparing for a shot; but it was his teammate Johannsson, who had ghosted off his man as the cross was delivered to hang back by the penalty spot, who took the ball right off Gondorf’s foot, crushing the ball into the back of the net with all of the confidence you don’t expect from someone who hasn’t scored in the Bundesliga in a year.
Aron Johannsson took the long way back
