Bavaria’s top talent Lennart Karl decides the quarter-finals for the U19 championship against Borussia Dortmund with a gala appearance. And lets the bosses dream.
Lennart Karl couldn’t actually do it anymore and was at the end of his strength. But it was still enough for a final energy performance in the 82nd minute of the game. At the center line he took the ball with his chest, turned around his opponent and then followed a solo over half the field. Shortly before the sixteenth meter space, he shot into the right lower corner with force. During the cheers, he fell exhausted to the ground and his teammates of the U19 of FC Bayern stacked over him until he could hardly be seen.
With his dream goal for the 4-2 final score, Karl, who had already made a similar way to 2: 0 (18th), had undoubtedly decided the quarter-finals for the championship against Borussia Dortmund.
This was also seen by board boss Jan-Christian Dreesen, who was one of the numerous prominent spectators on campus on Sunday alongside sports director Christoph Freund, Campus boss Jochen Sauer, national player Aleksandar Pavlović, ex-Bayern boss and current BVB consultant Matthias Sammer and young guru Hermann.
“It was quite good that he did the 4-2. He did great,” said Dreesen in an interview with T-Online. “We begged in the second half.” What Dreesen said: After a dominant first half and a 3-0 lead, the youngsters threatened to slide the game out of their hands.
After the double pack of Felipe Chávez (10th, 29) and Karl’s first goal (18th), BVB came back to 2: 3 through Samuele Inacio (30th) and Nick Cherny (49th) shortly after the break. After a swallow in the penalty area, Jonah Kusi-Asare, who most recently made his debut at Bayern professionals, saw the yellow-red card in the 67th minute. The game threatened to overturn from the point of view of the Munich perspective, the BVB pushed for the equalization. Until Karl decided the quarter -finals with his dream goal.
Karl, who only turned 17 in February, actually plays in the U17. There he scored 27 goals and ten templates in 17 games. But even in the higher vintage, like against Dortmund, he is already doing the difference.
Chief coach Vincent Kompany has long since looked at Karl and regularly with the professionals in training. The 17-year-old has already left an impression there, as Freund revealed. “He is confident and knows what he can do – but also that he still has a lot to work on,” said Freund. “It is important that he dares to do something, so he is well received in the first team. He does it really well in training.”
In Leipzig, the super talent-just like Kusi-Asare-was in the matchday squad. Not only Markus Weinzierl, the new sporting director at the Bavaria Campus, is already certain: “Lennart will be the next one who will then celebrate his debut for Bayern Munich.”