Simon Rolfes ennobles Florian Wirtz

Sports director Simon Rolfes from Bayer Leverkusen predicted a great future for the extremely formidable young national player Florian Wirtz. “He has great prerequisites for an outstanding career,” said the 39-year-old dem SID before the Europa League game at Celtic Glasgow on Thursday evening (9 p.m. in LIVETICKER).

The only 18-year-old Wirtz is doing “very well”, but of course he can “still improve”, emphasized Rolfes: “He is a young guy who we have to encourage, develop and prepare for the tasks that we are certain to have ahead of us lie to him. “

The numbers speak especially in the previous season for the U21 European champions. Wirtz has scored a goal in four Bundesliga games in a row. There are also four templates. He scored every 73 minutes in 292 Bundesliga minutes and was involved in a Leverkusen goal every 36.5 minutes.

At 18 years and 145 days, Wirtz also replaced Cologne veteran Lukas Podolski as the youngest player with ten goals in the Bundesliga last Saturday with his decisive goal to make it 1-0 against FSV Mainz 05.