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'Monster Defender' Kim Min-jae (Bayern Munich) has confirmed the top successful German Bundesliga pass this season.
Kim Min-jae ranked first overall in the 2024-2025 Bundesliga, which ended on the 17th, with an open play pass success rate of 94.1%.
He beat Leverkusen defender Jonatan Ta (93.86%), Borussia Mönchengladbach defender Nico Elvedi (93.66%), Munich teammate Jozua Kimmich (92.89%), and Frankfurt defender Robin Koch (92.6%).
It is a record of how well Kim Min-jae performed an important rear build-up in Bang Sang Kongpani's soccer 'Bang Sang Ball'.
Kim Min-jae attempted a total of 102 passes in the eighth round of the Bundesliga against Mainz in October last year, connecting all the passes to his teammates without making a single mistake. Since statistics firm 'Opta' started counting, the Bundesliga has had the second highest number of successes among players with a 100% pass success rate.
In the fourth round of the European Champions League phase against Benfica in November, he also boasted a 100% success rate (103 successes), which attracted a lot of attention in the region.
Usually, it is easy to mistake Kim Min-jae for connecting only short passes, but there were not a few long pass attempts. An average of 2.7 long passes per game were delivered to teammates.
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Kim Min-jae, who played 213 kilometers (139th) in his first season as a Munich player, ran 269.8 kilometers (83rd), an increase of more than 50 kilometers this season. Although he was absent due to an Achilles injury at the end of the season, he supported Munich's league victory with a stable build-up and strong defense in the first half.
If Kim Min-jae's foot was 'Crazy Accurate', fellow national team midfielder Lee Jae-sung's foot playing in the same league had no time to rest.
Lee Jae-sung finished fifth overall in the Bundesliga Intensive Run ('Fierce Run', running between 20 and 25 km/h) with a total of 2,693 runs. It can be seen that the number of intensive runs has gradually increased to 1956 (20th) in the 2022-2023 season and 2202 (11th) in the 2023-2024 season. Given the age of 33, it's amazing.
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The number of sprints, which means sprinting, also increased from 662 (22nd) in the 2022-2023 season and 710 (22nd) in the 2023-2024 season to 844 (10th) this season. His distance of activities was 337.1 kilometers, ranking 23rd overall. It proved to be the top level in the Bundesliga in the 'running category'.
This season, he played a more aggressive role under coach Bohenlixen and had a successful season with the most offensive points (33 games, 7 goals, 6 assists) in a single season. Mainz finished sixth thanks to Lee Jae-sung's performance and qualified for the European Conference League qualifying round.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
