It was a objective for the historical past books: when set off on a mazy run 30 metres from the guests’ objective within the fifth minute of the Champions League match in opposition to , leaving a number of defenders wanting like slalom poles in his wake earlier than tucking the ball into the highest right-hand nook from the sting of the field, he didn’t simply rating the opener for his facet. {The teenager} additionally turned the youngest German goalscorer within the historical past of Europe’s premier membership competitors: at simply 17 years and 242 days previous, he was 121 days youthful than when he bought his first Champions League objective at Lazio in February 2021.
45 per cent of the votes solid go to Karl
Regardless of committing overwhelming numbers, the Brugge defence could not stop Lennart Karl from scoring his first Champions League objective.
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The followers of the German report champions have been additionally suitably impressed and voted for Karl to be their FC Bayern goalscorer of the month for October 2025. The attacking midfielder obtained 45 per cent of the vote, edging Harry Kane (37.9 per cent), who scored Bayern’s second objective within the DFB Cup match at , and Anton Heinz (9.4 per cent), who scored Bayern’s third objective within the FCB reserves’ .
Nevertheless it’s not simply due to this award that Karl will in all probability always remember the loopy days surrounding the match in opposition to Brugge. The 17-year-old additionally celebrated his beginning XI debut within the Champions League. After scoring his first objective in Europe’s most necessary membership competitors, he was additionally named Man of the Match on the finish of the 90 minutes. However there was extra to come back: simply three days later, he got here off the bench within the Bundesliga match in opposition to Mönchengladbach and celebrated his first objective in Germany’s high flight with one other improbable long-range strike. Similar to that…
Karl was rewarded for his robust performances at FC Bayern by being handed his first call-up to the Germany U21 squad: