Bayer Leverkusen – Völler: “Wirtz is the icing on the cake”

Rudi Völler from Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen has once again highlighted the special importance of young international Florian Wirtz for the works club at the moment.

“The team works very well, they won games in the starting eleven without him at the beginning of the season. But at the moment he is the icing on the cake, and it will stay that way,” said the sports director of the Rhinelander Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger.

According to Völler, the development of the U21 European champions is breathtaking: “He’s a great boy of his kind. And over the summer he has become even more robust, even stronger. You can see in every game what kind of start he has this season has is sensational. “

The good start to the season and second place in the Bundesliga table behind defending champion Bayern Munich is no coincidence: “We are doing our thing, as they say today. We want to play good games, collect as many points as possible, and then we will you see. “

The team is “doing a lot right at the moment” and is stable. Völler: “And we win games like against Mainz and in Stuttgart, which are really difficult. We’ve always had spectacular appearances like against Gladbach and sometimes against Dortmund. But we have such close games like now at the weekend or recently at VfB We often don’t make up our minds. The pendulum is currently swinging happily in our direction – but you have to force it. “

Leverkusen: Völler praises coach Seoane

Völler expresses special praise to the Swiss head coach Gerardo Seoane. “The coach does it very well with his calm, analytical manner,” emphasized the 1990 world champion.

The versatility of the players, some of whom are suitable for several positions, also pays off. “We believe that we put together a squad in the summer in which the performance gap is not so great,” mused the former star striker, “and now the English Weeks really start. We’ll need all the players.”