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"He likes to drift to the left and then come in with his right [foot]. He can drag the ball [out wide] and cross it or come across the goal as well." - The words of former RB Leipzig manager Jesse Marsch when speaking about the qualities of Timo Werner.

Marsch, who is now the manager of Leeds United, worked with Werner at Leipzig, with the American coach Ralf Rangnick's assistant boss at the time. In Marsch's time as assistant manager at the Red Bull Arena, where he was appointed in 2018, he saw the very best of Werner, whose reputation as a clinical finisher swiftly grew around Europe.

"He is also good at finishing crosses from the right side when he's attacking in the box, but he's also good in the middle, and he's good on the right, too," Marsch added to Bleacher Report's Football Ranks podcast (via GOAL) in the summer of 2020 after he had just signed for Chelsea for around £50million. "I think if you're playing with two strikers, which is what we did often with Leipzig, we gave them freedom to move to the left.

"We built that in tactically so he could find ways to be on the move but dangerous, but he could play as a second striker, he could play on the right, he can play in a front three, he can play any of those positions. Again,