Serhou Guirassy hasn’t even accomplished one season at Borussia Dortmund and he is already re-written the historical past books.
Dortmund wanted a large recreation from their summer season recruit to have any hope of erasing a four-goal deficit within the second leg of their Champions League quarter-final tie in opposition to Barcelona.
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And the Guinean worldwide greater than understood the task.
Guirassy initially offered a faint glimmer of hope within the eleventh minute when he scored from the penalty spot.
These hopes grew when he scored simply 4 minutes into the second half to scale back the deficit to simply two objectives.
Nevertheless, an personal objective from Dortmund’s Ramy Bensebaini proved to be the sucker punch and left them needing to attain no less than 5 objectives on the night time to maintain the tie alive.
Though Guirassy accomplished his hat-trick within the 76th minute to make it 5-3 on mixture, Barcelona survived to progress to the semi-finals.
It was additionally an ideal hat-trick from Guirassy as he scored one objective along with his left foot, one along with his proper and the opposite along with his head.
He was unsurprisingly named the participant of the match.
Regardless of Dortmund’s heartbreaking exit, Guirassy might take some solace within the truth he achieved a feat not even famous person strikers Erling Haaland and Robert Lewandowski might match throughout their time on the membership.
By netting a hat-trick in opposition to Barcelona, it took Guirassy’s tally on this yr’s Champions League to 13 from 14 video games.
It left Lewandowski and Haaland within the mud, as their highest objective determine for Dortmund in a Champions League marketing campaign was ten.
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Lewandowski achieved the feat in the course of the 2012/13 season whereas Haaland did so within the 2020/21 marketing campaign.
That is not the one slice of Champions League historical past Guirassy earned because of his scintillating hat-trick.
By netting 13 objectives, it means the Guinean is now the document holder for probably the most objectives scored by an African participant in a single Champions League marketing campaign.
He has now registered 15 Champions League objectives in complete having scored twice from 4 appearances in the course of the 2020/21 season with Rennes.
It’s the newest feat in what has been a blinding debut season for Guirassy at Dortmund.
The 29-year-old moved to the membership final summer season from Stuttgart for an estimated £15.4million after he completed second within the Bundesliga golden boot charts to Harry Kane with a powerful haul of 28.
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Guirassy hasn’t fairly matched his goalscoring feats from final season, netting 15 objectives from 25 league fixtures.
Nevertheless, it’s emblematic of Dortmund’s malaise this marketing campaign as they languish down in eighth place within the Bundesliga, six factors off the Champions League locations.
Dortmund will look to make use of the win over Barcelona within the second leg as a springboard for his or her remaining 5 Bundesliga matches, with the following conflict coming in opposition to Borussia Monchengladbach on Sunday.