So far there have been no big surprises, there are not many goals scored and it is not dramatic. And yet the 30th matchday of the Bundesliga is twice as historic: A big record is set, one even drops.
Even if FC Bayern’s sovereign victory over Bayer Leverkusen also wiped away the last little doubts about the eighth successive Munich championship, even if SC Paderborn can no longer be saved by the draw in Leipzig. Matchday of the 2019/2020 Bundesliga season, no game will remain anchored in the league’s memory. And yet: This game day is a strikingly historic one, which makes the season, which has been so complicated so far, several times historic.
With a goal against the big FC Bayern Munich teenager Florian Wirtz from Bayer Leverkusen has become the youngest scorer in the history of the Bundesliga. Wirtz was exactly 17 years and 34 days old when he scored the 2: 4 final score on Saturday, 48 days younger than the previous record holder Nuri Sahin when he scored his first goal in November 2005 for Borussia Dortmund. Wirtz came to Leverkusen from Rhenish rival 1. FC Köln in the winter. The game against Bayern was his fourth Bundesliga appearance.
His coach Peter Bosz praised Wirtz as a “giant talent”, but otherwise did not want to lift him to the sky. On the contrary. “This boy has had his best lesson since he started playing football,” the Dutchman warned instead: “He always lost the ball in the first three or four contacts with the ball. But he is a good and intelligent player. He accepts that and will learn from this that you have little time in the Bundesliga. “
Frankfurter inherits Frankfurter as a record Asian
With his 309th assignment, Makoto Hasebe from Eintracht Frankfurt is now the Asian football professional with the most games in the Bundesliga. The 36-year-old Japanese was in the home game of Eintracht against FSV Mainz 05 as defense chief of the starting line-up.
Hasebe had shared the record since their 3-0 win in Bremen with South Korean Bum-Kun Cha, who once stormed 98 for Eintracht, Bayer Leverkusen and Darmstadt. Hasebe won the German championship with VfL Wolfsburg, relegated with Nuremberg and won the DFB Cup with Frankfurt. He played 114 caps for Japan and was involved in four World Cup finals.
“Makoto has had an extraordinary career. He owes the fact that he is still an important pillar of our team at 36 years of age due to his great discipline and his highly professional attitude,” Frankfurt’s sporting director Fredi Bobic praised the defensive man recently when his contract was extended until 2021.
Hasebe, who enjoys hero status in his home country, conducts loudly on the lawn and has a lot to say. In 2013 he even went among the book authors. “The Order of the Soul – 56 Habits to Achieve Victory” was a bestseller in Japan, earning him nearly two million euros in revenue that Hasebe donated to the victims of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
After celebrations, however, the record man was not on Saturday: Eintracht Frankfurt lost the neighborhood duel after a fairly clear performance 0: 2 (0: 1).
Inglorious record
Klaus Gjasula, on the other hand, can call himself a record holder in an inglorious discipline four matchdays before the end of the season: the professional from SC Paderborn has seen the 16th yellow card this season and thus set a new record. The 30-year-old midfielder was warned early in the game at RB Leipzig (1: 1) (22nd minute) and thus equaled the previous record holder Tomasz Hajto. The Pole had also seen 16 yellow cards in the 1998/99 season in the shirt of MSV Duisburg.
Many warnings but “no kick”: card king Jürgen Gjasula.
(Photo: Kevin Voigt / Jan Huebner / Pool)
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Gjasula had last missed the bottom of the table in the 1-6 loss to Borussia Dortmund because of his 15th yellow card and has now been warned by the referee on his return for the 16th time this season. “It’s my game. I get yellow cards more often. Of course these are 50:50 decisions today. It’s the way it is, you can’t change it,” said Gjasula after the game at Sky.
Coach Julian Nagelsmann from opponent RB Leipzig had last protected the Albanian international. “He is not a brutal kick, I do not think it is now that he kicks people out of their shoes, there are also many tactical fouls,” said Nagelsmann before the game in Leipzig.
Not a record, but still remarkable: Benjamin Hübner, captain of TSG Hoffenheim, managed to get 112 Bundesliga games out of the game. In the 113th he had to leave with yellow-red, in the 114th it was after less than ten minutes: the central defender flew with a smooth red after an assault.
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