Germany U21 star Tom Bischof was understandably elated after finally scoring his first Bundesliga goals in a Bayern Munich tricot on Saturday afternoon. Bayern\u2019s spectacular come-from-behind 2-3 away win over SC Freiburg furnished plenty of fabulous news for German football heading into the summer World Cup.<\/p>\n
Bischof and his fellow young German attacking phenom Lennart Karl<\/a> scored the Bayern goals. Karl picked up the assist on the first of Bischof\u2019s tallies. German national team captain Joshua Kimmich played a vital role in Karl\u2019s late winner at 90+9 by playing Alphonso Davies in with a perfectly incisive pass.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Tom Bischof\u2019s Bayern Munich journey<\/p>\n After joining the German record champions on a free transfer this summer, the 20-year-old Bischof found himself behind in the FCB midfield pecking order. German national team starters Kimmich, Leon Goretzka, and Aleksandar Pavlovic stood ahead of him on the depth chart.<\/p>\n Head coach Vincent Kompany addressed this by converting Bischof into a makeshift left back.<\/a> The mega-talented youngster thrived in this role and collected three assists in the league during fullback deployments on both the left and right.<\/p>\n Today\u2019s brace certainly helps his German national team prospects.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Bischof\u2019s German national team prospects<\/p>\n Bischof actually initially circumvented the Germany U21 level, earning his first German national team cap last June. As the 2025\/26 campaign got under way, Bischof was sent to Antonio Di Salvo\u2019s U21s for the very first time in September. A sluggish start under Di Salvo was soon forgotten.<\/p>\n Bischof scored a hat trick for the U21s this past November<\/a> and donned the captain\u2019s armband for the country\u2019s highest youth level in both fixtures during the recent March international break.<\/p>\n Get German Football News selected Bischof as one of eight \u201cwinners\u201d from the break and endorsed him for Julian Nagelsmann\u2019s World Cup squad.<\/a><\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Bischof on potentially representing Germany<\/p>\n \u201cOf course, I still have hope and would be very happy to be a part of it [the World Cup],\u201d Bischof noted at a Monday DFB press conference. \u201cOf course I\u2019ve been in contact with the national team coach, but that stays between us for now. It\u2019s his decision if he wants to say anything about it. I haven\u2019t booked any vacation for the summer yet.\u201c<\/p>\n Bischof on scoring his first Bayern goals<\/p>\n \u201cFinally,\u201d Bischof told German broadcaster DAZN when commenting on opening his FCB goal-scoring account in today\u2019s post-match interview. \u201cBefore the game, Jo said to me, \u2018Can you please shoot on goal now?\u2019. I always do it in training, but in the game I can\u2019t find the opportunity [during the match].\u201c<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Bischof on the Bayern victory<\/p>\n \u201cWe had some luck, but really wanted it badly,\u201d Bischof said of the Bundesliga win over Freiburg. \u201cWe wouldn\u2019t be Bayern if we didn\u2019t believe in ourselves.\u201c<\/p>\n GGFN<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Peter Weis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany U21 star Tom Bischof was understandably elated after finally scoring his first Bundesliga goals in a Bayern…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2289,144,2615,5,207,143,331,2083,818,1595],"class_list":{"0":"post-2392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-alphonso-davies","9":"tag-bayern-munich","10":"tag-german-football","11":"tag-germany","12":"tag-joshua-kimmich","13":"tag-lennart-karl","14":"tag-leon-goretzka","15":"tag-sc-freiburg","16":"tag-tom-bischof","17":"tag-vincent-kompany"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}