Leverkusen’s 18-year-old ‘Sacred’ Wirtz scores 4 consecutive league matches… Youngest player to score 10 goals
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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Choi Song-ah = German professional soccer Bundesliga Mainz Lee Jae-seong (29) stepped on the ground as a substitute after two games, but could not prevent the team’s defeat.
Jae-Sung Lee started the 6th round of the 2021-2022 Bundesliga away match against Leverkusen at Bay Arena in Leverkusen, Germany on the 25th (local time) from the bench, and was replaced by Dominic Core in the 30th minute of the second half and played the match until the end.
Lee Jae-seong, who moved to Mainz and started in the 1st and 2nd rounds of the league this season, appeared as a substitute in the 3rd and 4th rounds, and kept the bench in the 5th round against Freiburg on the 18th. He was included in the substitute list that day, but he got a chance in the second half.
He was selected as a substitute card when the team was being pushed 0-1, but Lee Jae-seong could not write an attack point for the season beast.
Mainz could not make up for the winning goal conceded to Florian Wirz in the 17th minute of the second half and lost 1-0, following a 0-0 draw against Freiburg and losing two matches. The ranking was maintained at 5th place (10 points).
Mainz’s wall defense, which conceded only two goals in the previous five league games, tied Leverkusen tightly in the first half.
Leverkusen, who scored 15 goals until the fifth round, recorded 4 shots including one on target in the first half, which was a number behind the away team Mainz (10 shots, 1 shot on target).
However, Leverkusen took the lead in the second half and took the lead in the 17th minute.
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After breaking through the Mainz defense with a pass play, Wirtz finished with his right foot a cutback from Jeremy Frimpong from the right side of the penalty area.
Born in 2003, Wirtz, who made his debut for the German national team in an A match earlier this month, recently started scoring in four Bundesliga games in a row.
Wirtz, who had previously scored 1 goal in the 2019-2020 season and 5 goals in the 2020-2021 season, added 4 goals this season, breaking the league record 10 goals at the age of 18 years and 145 days. He became the youngest player to score 10 goals in Bundesliga history.
After that, Mainz played substitute cards such as Lee Jae-seong and Kevin Schteeger in the 30th minute of the second half, but in the end, they could not create an equalizing goal.
In the 41st minute of the second half, Lee Jae-seong was warned for a rough tackle while trying to cut off the counterattack of his opponent Nadim Amiri.
Leverkusen, who had won two consecutive league victories with Wirtz’s performance, accumulated 13 points, trailing leader Bayern Munich (16 points).
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