The goalkeepers also win games. We already know that. And change dynamics. And that happened to Augsburg. The German team has recovered its titular goalkeeper and everything has changed. Now it is intractable. Confirmation was his triumph at the Signal Iduna Park against Dortmund on the last day of the Bundesliga.
There are several reasons for this change, but, the main one is in the goal. Finn Dahmen has returned to put the bolt. He signed last season for Augsburg from Mainz to be his starting goalkeeper. He played 31 league games plus one of the German Cup. Until his knee broke. It did not recover until the beginning of September. They wanted to be patient with him. They gave him first minutes with the second team. When he seemed ready to return, another misfortune. He was injured his shoulder on December 4. A month down.
With the new year the technical staff decided that it was time to give him the opportunity. And what a successful decision. Since his return he has become the goalkeeper more in the form of Europe, helping his team to be an impossible rival to bend, going from being the 13th of the Bundesliga to be fourth since the 2025 began and beating the unbeatability record of the club.
He reappeared on January 12 against Stuttgart. 0-1 defeat. It has been the last of Augsburg. Since then, nine days without knowing the defeat. And his role has been key. In the 10 games he has, counting that of Stuttgart, he has conceded just three goals. He has five without receiving any and are in total seven goals to zero. Six victories, three draws and a single defeat for his team, which before his return had registered 32 goals in 15 games and that, according to the expected goals, that measure the quality of the auctions received, he must have conceded around 23.
Well above Oblak
But there is more. Among the goalkeepers of the five major leagues with at least 1,000 minutes in domestic competition, Dahmen is the best in percentage of total stops (94.1%) and shots outside the area (100%) and the second by shots from inside the box (92.3%).
Finn Dahmendriblab’s performance
But it would be more fair to know if those stops have been merit or not. And the truth is that yes. If we measure the difficulty of the auctions received (expected goals against), Dahmen has demonstrated reflections. It has the second best percentage between XG and XG received (91%). That has led him to have a better goals avoided for every 90 minutes (0.78). In total terms, there are 7.8 goals avoided, only improved by the 10.2 of Yahia Fofana (Angers) and the 8.2 of Yehvann Diouf (Reims).
It is also the one that has to receive the most auctions to pierce the network, specifically 17, but the striking of this data is the overwhelming distance with the second, Jan Oblak, which mark every 5.31 shots.
Finn Dahmendriblab’s performance
If something should improve Dahmen is in trapped shots. Clear everything that comes. That is why it is among the five goalkeepers with the lowest percentage of trapped stops (12.5%). Also in the centers. It is not a safe goalkeeper when the rival puts balls to the area. There he has a failure. But surely this is something, that seeing its current performance, it can be allowed.