{"id":74977,"date":"2024-03-24T19:59:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T19:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/austria-germany-score-two-of-fastest-international-goals-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2024-03-24T19:59:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T19:59:06","slug":"austria-germany-score-two-of-fastest-international-goals-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/austria-germany-score-two-of-fastest-international-goals-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Austria, Germany score two of fastest international goals | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Austria’s Christoph Baumgartner scored one of the fastest ever international goals inside seven seconds on Saturday and was then quickly followed by a similarly lightning strike by Germany’s Florian Wirtz.<\/p>\n

Baumgartner, 24, went into the record books during a friendly match against Slovakia in Bratislava.<\/p>\n

The Leipzig attacker drove through the home defence from kick-off, drifting past three players, before unleashing a 25-metre shot past Martin Dubravka in goal.<\/p>\n

“We’ve done this variation before, sprinting from kick-off at full risk. The sequence of steps somehow worked out so that I made the run,” Baumgartner told Austrian public broadcaster ORF after the game which his team won 2-0.<\/p>\n

“Of course it’s really cool, I’m very happy. The fact that I hit it like that… it’s of course sensational.”<\/p>\n

He added: “I’m especially pleased that I was able to help the team. That’s the most important thing about the goal.”<\/p>\n

Baumgartner’s strike matched the previous record of seven seconds it took Lukas Podolski to score for Germany against Ecuador in May, 2013.<\/p>\n

The Austrian FA described Baumgartner’s effort as the fastest goal in the history of international football.<\/p>\n

“Of course we got off to a really good start, that goal by itself was probably worth the price of admission,” said Austria coach Ralf Rangnick.<\/p>\n

“After that, we didn’t play a good first half. The second half was much better.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, later Saturday, Wirtz was just as fast off the mark against France in a friendly in Lyon which Germany won 2-0.<\/p>\n

The Leverkusen player beat ‘keeper Brice Samba with a superb shot under the crossbar.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think anyone understood or realised what was happening. We were all quite surprised, but there was obviously a lot of joy,” Wirtz told German broadcaster ZDF after his first international goal.<\/p>\n

“You can’t start a match any better.”<\/p>\n

Wirtz added that his team’s lightning-fast start had been practised.<\/p>\n

“But for it to work so well and lead to this chance to score, it’s great.”<\/p>\n

The fastest goal scored in a World Cup was by Turkey’s Hakan Sukur against South Korea in 2002 after 11 seconds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PARIS: Austria’s Christoph Baumgartner scored one of the fastest ever international goals inside seven seconds on Saturday and was then quickly followed by a similarly lightning strike by Germany’s Florian Wirtz. Baumgartner, 24, went into the record books during a friendly match against Slovakia in Bratislava. The Leipzig attacker drove through the home defence from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.tribune.com.pk\/media\/images\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-03-24-at-4-46-07-PM1711280839-0\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-03-24-at-4-46-07-PM1711280839-0.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t