Hat trick in DFB Cup game
Updated on October 31, 2024, 10:55 a.m
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Jamal Musiala celebrates his hat trick in the DFB Cup game against Mainz. © IMAGO/Sven Simon/Frank Hoermann
Jamal Musiala has long been known as a dribbling artist. Now the FC Bayern offensive player is also proving to be an ice-cold goalscorer who is right in the penalty area. Even coach Vincent Kompany draws comparisons to the great players in football history.
Jamal Musiala had waited a long time to score the first hat-trick of his career. “I’m happy that I was finally able to do Steph Curry’s celebration – the three-way celebration. That’s what I was looking forward to the most,” said the FC Bayern offensive player, who was a is a big basketball fan.
When the 21-year-old scored the goal to make it 4-0 (final score) in the second round cup game against 1. FSV Mainz 05, he imitated NBA star Stephen Curry with his celebration. He is known for his three-point throws. Musiala, on the other hand, is well on his way to making a name for himself not only as a technician and dribbler, but also as an ice-cold goalscorer.
Updated on October 31, 2024, 8:10 a.m
Jamal Musiala was outstanding in the cup game against Mainz 05 and was in a great mood afterwards. The national player already knows where the hat-trick ball is kept. Thomas Müller also explains where Musiala’s goal threat comes from.
“I’m just trying to build fitness, rhythm and flow game by game. I really like the way we’re playing at the moment,” said Musiala. “I’m trying to get into positions more often now to simply score goals – that was different last season.”
Coach gave impetus for better final quality
Thomas Müller confirmed that Musiala’s accuracy is no coincidence. “He played noticeably well. The coach gave the main impetus in the summer,” said the veteran. “Jamal has also decided that he will score a lot more of these goals in the box (in the penalty area, editor’s note), where maybe you don’t need dribbling, but where you just have to be there when you’re in this position is on the pitch. That’s what we trained in the summer. It’s nice when it pays off.”
Musiala’s goals against Mainz were actually rather atypical for the 21-year-old’s style of play. If he is otherwise the type of player who plays dizzyingly against opposing defensive lines, he scored two goals in Mainz where he was simply right. He even scored a goal with his head. It was his second header goal of the current season.
Musiala learns goal-scoring instincts from Kane and Müller
Coach Vincent Kompany believes that he has learned something from his teammates in this regard: “He can learn very well in training. That’s the luxury when you’re at a club like Bayern. When you have players who do that every day “It’s sometimes easier to do it in training. He just needs to look at the players we have – look at how Thomas Müller and Harry Kane do it in the penalty area.”
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Joshua Kimmich is pleased with his teammate’s development: “It’s always clever in which spaces he moves, and he’s very difficult for the opponent to grab. He can always bridge the midfield with a dribble. If he can now If you still start taking pictures, it’s all the better.” However, Musiala is also “regardless of his goals, a top player who will certainly continue to develop. We are happy that he is in our team.”
Kompany doesn’t want to measure Musiala “just by goals”
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Kompany doesn’t want to limit Musiala’s performance to just his goals. “Of course he can do it. But now there is a focus on goals, goals, goals, because Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo do that too. But what happened before with Zidane or Ronaldinho? There were so many great players who did that even without great goals “I think we don’t just have to judge Jamal on the goals.”
The coach emphasized again: “Ronaldinho and Zidane, these players were also crucial for their generation. He has to go his own way.” Kompany believes: “He can be one of those players even if he doesn’t score 1,000 goals.”
Advice from Müller to Musiala
It would be all the more important for FC Bayern that Musiala extends his contract, which is valid until the summer of 2026. He himself didn’t want to say much about his future. “My focus in the last few weeks has been on getting fit again after the injury and getting the smaller problems under control. I have more time to think about it during the winter break.”
In any case, Müller advises his teammate to stay. “I think that Jamal already knows how important he is to the fans, how people love him. Not just at Bayern, but also throughout Germany,” he said. “I think he would do well to think about it three, four, or five times, if he even thinks about not staying here.”
Stephen Curry from the Golden State Warriors may also serve as a role model for him here. So far, he has spent his entire professional career with just one team.
Sources used
- Press conference and mixed zone after the game 1. FSV Mainz 05 – FC Bayern Munich
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