“That he doesn’t carpenter directly on it”
Midfield talent Stefan Bajcetic has snapped up the LFC and Premier League youngest goalscorer stats with his goal for Liverpool FC in Monday’s 3-1 away win at Aston Villa. “Extraordinary” Jürgen Klopp called the goal afterwards on “Sky”. The trainer praised “that he doesn’t work directly on it, which probably 99.9 percent of all people would have done in this situation”. Instead, Bajcetic sprinted the ball past goalkeeper Robin Olsen into a gap in the defense and netted in the 81st minute shortly after he was substituted on. Aged 18 years, two months and four days, there have been few younger in club and league history before him.
Bajcetic new in top 25: youngest goalscorer in Premier League history
In the Reds, Bajcetic is in seventh place overall, but there are also several young professionals who scored in cup games, mostly at a lower level. Bajcetic scored as the third youngest Liverpool player in the upper house and the previous top divisions of the Premier League in England. Raheem Sterling was even a month and a half away from turning 18 when he was 17 in 2012, and Michael Owen was six months younger than Sterling in 1997. Liverpool’s youngest overall competitive goal was Ben Woodburn in 2016 against second tier Leeds in the EFL Cup (complete stats: Youngest goalscorers in Liverpool history).
“It’s special to make such a smart decision before your first goal,” Klopp had to say about his young protégé after Bajcetic’s historic goal. It was not he himself who discovered the talent in Spain before moving from Celta Vigo to England. But now it is “pure fun” for the German coach with the son of ex-professional Srdjan Bajcetic (51).
Actually, the junior international was a central defender. “But we saw quite early on that things would look better in midfield,” said Klopp, who also emphasized his happiness with the other youngsters such as Ben Doak (17), who became the seventh youngest Liverpool professional ever in November. or ex-professional son Bobby Clark (17, ranked 15th among the youngest in club history). Klopp emphasizes: “We have to create situations in which it’s easier for the boys. If we are well organized, they can really help us. Then they are also snotty and do crazy things.”
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