While the women’s team was overwhelmed by Barça in the semifinals (first leg) of the Champions League, the Wolfsburg boys beat Mainz 5-0 in the Bundesliga match. Max Kruse scored a hat trick and became the fifth player to achieve it this season in the German championship.
Kruse entered a select club in a big way at the age of 34, with three goals in just 22 minutes that nearly sealed the safety of Wolfsburg, eleventh place, nine points behind Stuttgart, third from late and to permanent position in the playoffs.
The sixth ‘hat trick’ of the Bundesliga 2021-2022
The veteran striker (34 years old) has matched four other footballers who this season have scored three goals in a game: Pole Robert Lewandowski, who scored for Bayern Munich against Cologne and Hertha Berlin; the Togolese Ihlas Bebou, with Hoffenheim in Greuther Fürth; Frenchman Moussa Diaby, for Bayer Leverkusen against Augsburg; and Serge Gnabry, with Bayern in Stuttgart.
Undoubtedly, the king of treble this season on a Bundesliga team is Lewandowski, who added another two of the two mentioned after scoring three goals against Benfica and Salzburg in the Champions League.
In the same competition, Christopher Nkunku scored three goals for Leipzig in the group match against Manchester City, while in the Cup, Erling Haaland (Borussia Dortmund) also celebrated three goals in what was his first official party. course. His victim was Wehen Wiesbaden.
The only one to score more than three goals in a Bundesliga match this season is Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting. He scored four, in the German Cup also in a scandalous beating at Bayern Munich against Bremen SV, who lost 0-12.
Five goals in the first half
This Friday, in the first match of thirty -one days, it was Kruse, who followed in the footsteps of Lewandowski, Bebou, Diaby and Gnabry.
It premiered 24 minutes from the penalty spot with Wolfsburg’s second; at 35 ‘, with a tunnel to goalkeeper Robin Zentner, he made third; and closed his private account before the break after the perfect cross identification from Yannick Gerhardt.
Jonas Wind, with a brace, joined Kruse’s party and between the two, with a dream in the first half where they crushed Mainz with five goals in 45 minutes, pushed Wolfsburg to almost certain safety.
Source: La Verdad
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