Van Buyten’s 31st minute goal failed to earn Bayern Munich victory against visitors Schalke 04 yesterday, but the Dutch international was handsomely rewarded in the FTBL system with 13.26 rating points, which allowed him to capture a spot in the top 6 of our ranking of defenders in the Bundesliga.

Van Buyten (pictured), who now has an overall FTBL score of 84.60 points, has returned in the elite of the Bundesliga, just as we predicted.

For Joel Matip, who grabbed the leveler for Schalke, the goal was his first to be indexed in the FTBL ranking. He picked up his very first 13.35 rating points in the system.