“I didn’t know about this stat – it’s been the same a few times this season,” Serhou Guirassy says with a chuckle. The Stuttgart striker has just been informed he scored with his first eight shots on target in the Bundesliga during what can only be described as a miraculous start to the campaign that made records tumble.
After five goals in his first three matches, a perfect hat-trick – right foot, left foot and header – against Mainz on 16 September made it eight goals from four before Guirassy scored two against Darmstadt the following week. The 27-year-old then made up for not finding the net in a 2-0 win over his former club Köln by registering a 15-minute hat-trick against Wolfsburg – the fastest in the Bundesliga for more than 50 years – at the start of October. That surpassed Robert Lewandowski’s 2019-20 mark of 11 goals in his first seven matches before another goal a week later in the 3-0 win at Union Berlin made him – at that point – the top scorer in Europe’s five leading leagues.
