VfB with the best start ever
Guirassy is chasing Lewandowski with a record
October 7, 2023, 7:29 p.m
Serhou Guirassy, always Serhou Guirassy. The super striker shot VfB Stuttgart back to the top of the table with a hat trick in a 3-1 win against VfL Wolfsburg – and set a record. At this point he even surpasses Robert Lewandowski.
In the third minute of injury time, coach Sebastian Hoeneß granted the Bundesliga’s new record player a more than deserved exit. Serhou Guirassy was allowed to leave the field early after his hat trick in the 3-1 (0-1) win against VfL Wolfsburg, so the frenetic cheers from the audience in the VfB Stuttgart arena belonged to him alone – and rightly so.
By the 67th minute, the hard-nosed guests were in the lead thanks to a goal from Yannick Gerhardt (34th). Then Cedric Zesiger caused a penalty kick and the turning point in the game: The fouled Guirassy first scored to equalize, shortly afterwards (78th, 82nd) he gave VfB their fifth win in a row with his goals 12 and 13 of the season – and thus the best start to the season the club history.
At least for one night, Guirassy, who was at first almost invisible and then unleashed, shot his team to the top of the table – and he wrote himself into the history books of the Bundesliga: no player had ever managed 13 goals after seven games.
“It’s obviously unbelievable, I’m grateful,” Guirassy said humbly after the game on Sky. His almost unreal form and accuracy, he emphasized, were the result of a team effort. He hoped, he added, “we can continue like this, we have to keep working hard. Of course we can still improve.” Of course, it doesn’t get much better than that.
Two goals better than Lewandowski
After the largely even first half, it didn’t look as if VfB could turn the game around. The Wolfsburg team appeared too calm, they had the better chances and, last but not least, they had Guirassy under control. “But,” reported Chris Führich, who was nominated for the DFB team’s trip to the USA, “it was important for us that we stick with ourselves.”
That meant: Stuttgart now put enormous pressure on, waited for their chances – and used the penalty to turn the game around. A turnaround, emphasized Führich, that would not have been possible without two players: “Of course Serhou was outstanding,” but at the same time goalkeeper Alexander Nübel also saved crucial balls. In short: “Everything just fits.”
In fact, Nübel prevented a bigger deficit against Tiago Tomas (55th). After this scene, Stuttgart really got rolling; after the penalty, VfL almost fell apart. “It can’t be that we give the game away in 20 minutes and Guirassy scores three goals,” complained Wolfsburg’s goalscorer Gerhardt.
With his 13 goals after seven games (47 minutes per goal!), the Stuttgart player may not only have his eyes on the top scorer. Because Guirassy could also hunt for Robert Lewandowski’s Bundesliga record. The former Bayern Munich attacker scored an incredible 41 goals in the 2020/21 season. Still a long way to go for the VfB striker. However, he is well on his way: after seven games he “only” scored eleven goals.