🤯 Debut madness: promoted side stun Leverkusen | OneFootball

Promotion was the moon landing; now, with the club’s first-ever Bundesliga season, the small club from Saarland wants to embark on a mission to Mars – or something along those lines was how Elversberg coach Vincent Wagner looked ahead to the club’s first Bundesliga match.

So far, SpVgg’s start to this so-called Mars mission has been nothing short of dreamlike. In front of around 10,000 fans in a sold-out stadium, the promoted side were already leading Leverkusen 2-0 after just eight minutes (!!!)!

After a lively opening spell, Lukas Petkov scored the very first Bundesliga goal in the club’s history. The provider? None other than Leverkusen loanee Onyeka (8’).

And as if that wasn’t enough euphoria already, the second blow followed just a minute later. After a fatal misplaced pass by Tapsoba, who had already looked anything but convincing for the first goal, Cole Campbell seized the opportunity and fired a left-footed shot into the far corner – 2-0!

With that, Elversberg are making history. Never before has a promoted team taken such a quick 2-0 lead in their first match of the season. That’s according to reports from ‘Sky’.

And even after 20 minutes, it doesn’t look like the Werkself have any response ready anytime soon. Shots so far: 7 to 0 in favor of the home side!

After the teams came back out, the fever dream carried on seamlessly. David Mokwa also scored his very first top-flight goal to make it 3-0 (46’).

So far, the promoted side have absolutely known how to completely shock Leverkusen and are enjoying a dream start to this debut season! Surely not many of us had that on our bingo card.

At least Schick prevented the embarrassment of a shutout, scoring for 1-3 in the 77th minute, and Kofane even pulled one back to make it 2-3 in stoppage time.

What do you think? Will Leverkusen still turn it around, or is Elversberg now fully riding the wave of euphoria? Write it in the comments!

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇩🇪 here.

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