Marcel Schmelzer

Germany - Dortmund

Left-back

2010/2011 MID-SEASON RANKING:

Not ranked

End of 2010/11 - Start of 2011/12:

286

Easily one of the best fullbacks in the league during Dortmund's fantastic title-winning season. Impressive coming forward and like so many others on the team, teamwork at a very high levl

2011/2012 MID-SEASON RANKING:

299

Schmelzer drops a little bit for no reason in particular, other than perhaps make room for his, currently I believe, slighlty stronger team mate, on the other side, Piszczek (but I would be interested in what the popular view is among Dortmund fans).

Schmelzer is just a very polished attacking full-back to such a degree that I actually think he might be a safer bet to the better one long term.

He does attacking-full back things very well with great consistency, with no let downs ever in technique and certainly not stamina where his lungs carry him forward seemingly forever.