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The european week of cinderellas

2021-09-16T18:00:44.075Z


The start of the Champions League leaves unexpected flashes such as the four goals from the debutant Haller, the PSG draw in Bruges or the three penalties for Adeyemi


The first day of the Champions League has revealed that the economic muscle can also suffer from stiffness.

Cristiano Ronaldo's Manchester United fell 2-1 in Bern to Swiss champions Young Boys, and Messi's PSG was unable to get past the draw in Bruges against the historic Belgian club.

At the same time, on an individual level, three players who were not on the average fan's radar have jumped onto the international scene and who from now on will deserve special attention because they stand out in the most expensive thing on the market, the art of scoring.

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Young Boys.

The Wankdorf Stadion went wild when in the 95th minute, American Jordan Siebatcheu scored the team's winning goal.

In the first game of the Champions League, his club had already amortized practically the 2.5 million it cost at the beginning of the season from Rennes.

He had been the great signing of the course and entering from the bench he became the hero of a match in which Manchester United played almost an hour with one less due to an expulsion of Wan-Bissaka and in which Cristiano, who scored his goal. team, was substituted in minute 72, already with 1-1 on the scoreboard.

The Young Boys, in order to experience one of the best nights in their 123-year history, began competing in mid-July and had to go through three knockout rounds where they successively eliminated Slovan from Bratislava, Romanian Cluj and Hungarian Ferencvaros. Champion of the last four Swiss leagues, he is trained by David Wagner (49 years old), a German-born American who was forged in Borussia Dortmund's second team and completed an experience at Huddersfield in the English second division. He is fourth in his championship after five games, his squad is made up of a vast majority of Swiss players, but in which three footballers of African origin —Camara, Ngamaleu and Elia— are quite the protagonists.

Witches

Finalist of the European Cup in 1978 and the UEFA Cup in 1976 - he lost both finals to Liverpool - the Belgian champions recalled their great European nights against PSG in their charming Jan Breydel stadium. Champion in Belgium of five of the last seven championships, he already leads the current ranking after seven games. At the head of the team is Philippe Clement (47 years old), who is in his third season and who was trained in the lower divisions of the club.

Its most representative player is the Dutch of Surinamese origin Noa Lang, 22, who can play in any position of the attack. Signed at the beginning of the season from Ajax, in the League he has already scored three goals and given four passes on goal. Bruges paid six million for him and after his good start to the season his market value has shot up to 22 million.

Sebastien Haller (Ajax).

Almost 20 years after Marco Van Basten did it, the 27-year-old Ivorian forward scored four goals in his debut in the quintessential continental competition. The Dutchman had achieved it in 1992 at the San Siro with Milan against Goteborg. With the responsibility that already meant being the most expensive signing in the history of the Amsterdam club (22.5 million euros), Haller was the victim last season of a bureaucratic error in his UEFA registration in the winter market that prevented from playing the Europa League.

His so many poker at José Alvalade at Sporting de Lisboa should not be considered a mere coincidence. This season he has scored another four goals in four league games and a review of his long career confirms that he has always seen the goal regularly, with a balance of 127 goals and 49 passes in 315 games. You already know four leagues. Trained in the French Auxerre, he was loaned to Utrecht (2015-17) and definitively sold to Eintrach in Frankfurt (2017-19) for 12 million euros, where he formed an attack with Jovic. His good performance opened the doors to the Premier. West Ham paid 50 million for him and after two seasons transferred him to Ajax in January this year for less than half.

Left-handed, with a good stride, a wide sense of depth and a lot of mobility, he stood out in the lower teams in France.

He played until the under-21s, with whom he reached 13 goals in 16 games.

Then he decided to play for Côte d'Ivoire and has already scored three goals in six games.

Nkunku (Leipzig).

Scoring three goals away from home against a rival like Manchester City and that only serve to feed the personal resume because your team receives six, should be considered a bittersweet experience.

That was what happened to the 23-year-old Parisian midfielder trained in the PSG quarry, and who at least has seen his figure vindicated once again after his early and unexpected departure from the club of his heart.

His promising youth beginnings helped him move up to the first team in the 2015-16 season and he remained in the shadow of the big stars until 2018-19.

He made his debut in the Champions League at the age of 18 and played 78 games and scored 11 goals before being transferred to German Leipzig, where so far he has scored 16 goals and given 28 passes in 90 games.

French Under-21 international, Nkunku stands out for his physical power and for covering a wide area of ​​influence.

He likes to start from the left wing to easily reach a finishing position.

He has a good head game.

Adeyemi (Salzburg).

Before Sánchez Pizjuán contemplated how he was the victim of three penalties in half an hour, the 19-year-old German striker was already in the orbit of the big European clubs. Liverpool and Bayern, where he spent two seasons as a youth, are the ones who have shown the most interest, but their natural destiny, due to the policy that their club follows, is that next season, if not before, they will play for Leipzig, the older brother. in the Red Bull team.

Left-handed, a center forward who can also play outside, Adeyemi has already made his debut with the German senior team.

He was against Armenia in the last window of international matches and scored one of his team's six goals.

He was exactly 19 years, seven months, and 18 days old.

In the Austrian Bundesliga, he has six goals and a goal pass in seven games and his market value has skyrocketed to € 20 million, when Salzburg paid 3.5 million for him in July 2018. Fast, brave, perpendicular ... in Seville he left his mark.

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Source: elparis

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