belgian football player
Leandro Trossard ( yield 4 December 1994 ) is a belgian football player who plays for Premier League golf club Brighton & Hove Albion and the Belgium national team. Trossard is a Genk youth academy intersection .

Club career [edit ]

Genk [edit ]

Trossard joined the K.R.C. Genk youth academy from the Bocholt academy in 2010. He was promoted to the senior police squad in 2012, making his foremost, albeit abbreviated, debut on 13 May 2012 in a league match against K.A.A. Gent. The game ended 3–1 in prefer of Gent. Trossard was introduced in the 87th minute, replacing Stef Peeters. [ 1 ] Those three minutes were the merely ones he played in the league that season. For several seasons, he was systematically sent out on loanword. As a resultant role, he did n’t score his first league finish for Genk until over four years belated, coming in a 4–1 away loss to K.V. Kortrijk on 25 September 2016. He was brought on as a substitute for Leon Bailey and scored in the 63rd minute, assisted by Bryan Heynen. [ 2 ] In January 2013, Trossard was sent out on lend to Lommel United. In twelve league appearances, he scored seven goals. His debut for Lommel came on 3 February 2013 in a 1–0 away loss to Sint-Truiden. He was introduced as a utility in the 63rd minute, coming on for Thomas Jutten. [ 3 ] arguably, the greatest plot during his loan spell was his hat-trick in a 3–2 home victory over K.F.C. Dessel Sport, in front of 2000 fans at the Soevereinstadion. He scored one in the 11th minute, another in the sixtieth ( from the penalty spot ), and the death in the 74th. He was subbed off in the 88th minute. [ 4 ]

In July 2013, Trossard was loaned out to K.V.C. Westerlo. In 17 league appearances, he scored three goals. The first of these goals came on 9 August 2013 in a 2–0 away win over his early club Lommel United. He scored in the 74th minute. [ 5 ] He made his debut on 3 August 2013 in a 2–2 home absorb with A.F.C. Tubize. This was besides his first begin for the club. [ 6 ] Trossard helped Westerlo to forwarding to In July 2014, Trossard was loaned out to Lommel United again. He continued his goal scoring shape, finding the net 16 times in 33 league matches. He scored his second career hat-trick for Lommel on 22 March 2015 in a 6-0 demolition of Racing Mechelen. His goals came in the 33rd, 61st, and 69th minutes. [ 7 ] That season, Lommel were alone nine points off promotion back to the top flight. In July 2015, Trossard was loaned out again, this fourth dimension to OH Leuven. In 30 league matches, he scored eight goals. He made his Leuven debut on 25 July 2015 in a 3–1 away loss to the club he had been loaned out from in Genk. Genk did n’t enforce the rule of not allowing loanees to play against them, as he was brought off the judiciary in the 61st infinitesimal, replacing Yohan Croizet. [ 8 ] His first league finish for Leuven came on 16 August 2015 in a 2–0 victory over Charleroi. He made an immediate shock off the bench. He was brought on for Yohan Croizet in the 82nd infinitesimal, and scored in the 85th. [ 9 ]

Brighton & Hove Albion [edit ]

On 26 June 2019, Brighton agreed to sign Trossard, who joined on a four-year deal, becoming the club ‘s irregular sign of the summer, following Matt Clarke ’ s arrival from Portsmouth. [ 10 ] Trossard made his debut for The Seagulls on 17 August where he scored the equalizer in the 1–1 home absorb against West Ham United. Earlier in the game he was denied a goal for offside by VAR. [ 11 ] Trossard scored twice against Norwich in the 2019–20 season, one in the 2–0 home victory on 2 November 2019, and again in a crucial 1–0 away win on 4 July 2020 to help Brighton push foster away from the bottom three. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] On 31 January 2021, Trossard scored the lone finish in a 1–0 family winnings over Tottenham Hotspur to secure the Seagulls ‘ first base league succeed of the 2020–21 temper. [ 14 ] Trossard played in Brighton ‘s 1–0 aside victory over defending champions Liverpool on 3 February claiming their first league win at Anfield since 1982, where he deflected Steven Alzate ‘s shot back onto Alzate being awarded the aid in the entirely goal of the game. [ 15 ] On 14 March 2021, Trossard scored the winner in a 2–1 away win over Southampton, sealing Brighton ‘s first win over the Saints in Premier League history. [ 16 ] Trossard scored the first goal of Brighton ‘s come back from 2–0 down to beat champions Manchester City 3–2 on 18 May, with fans returning to football. [ 17 ]

Trossard scored his first goal of the 2021–22 season on 11 September, firing in a 90th-minute winner scoring the only goal of the game in the 1–0 away win over Premier League newcomers Brentford. [ 18 ] He conceded a penalty by barging into Conor Gallagher away at Crystal Place in the first M23 bowler hat of the season on 27 September, where Wilfried Zaha converted the spot recoil to take Palace 1–0 up at the break. however, Neal Maupay scored a 90+5th-minute counterweight to take a point spinal column to the south coast. [ 19 ] Trossard scored Brighton ‘s equalizer away at Liverpool on 30 October, completing a stimulate fightback, coming from 2–0 down to earn a 2–2 guide. [ 20 ]

International career [edit ]

Trossard has been called up to the Belgium national football team on multiple occasions. Roberto Martinez first named him in the Belgium squad in September 2018, [ 21 ] again one calendar month subsequently when Trossard had to withdraw through injury, [ 22 ] Trossard remained on the bench again in March 2019. He made his debut on 5 September 2020 in a Nations League crippled against Denmark, he substituted Dries Mertens in the eightieth moment of the 2–0 away victory. [ 23 ] On his beginning external start, Trossard scored his first gear goal for his nation besides adding a second in a 8–0 crush of Belarus in a 2022 World Cup qualifier on 30 March 2021. [ 24 ] Trossard was named in Belgium ‘s 26-man police squad for Euro 2020 on 17 May 2021, with the tournament taken place in the summer of 2021 ascribable to the previous year ‘s delay as a result of Coronavirus. [ 25 ] [ 26 ] He made his first appearance of the tournament in Belgium ‘s concluding group couple against Finland on 21 June with Belgium already through to the knockouts. Trossard started the match subsequently being replaced by Thomas Meunier in the 75th hour of the 2–0 victory at the Krestovsky Stadium in Saint Petersburg that secured the Belgian ‘s top spot of Group B. [ 27 ] This turned out to be his only game as Belgium were knocked out by Italy in the stern final after a 2–1 get the better of at the Allianz Arena in Munich on 2 July. [ 28 ] In October 2021, Trossard was a separate of Belgium ‘s squad for the UEFA Nations League Finals in Italy. [ 29 ] He made two stand-in appearances where Belgium lost to France in the semi-final and losing again to Italy in the third-place match to come one-fourth. [ 30 ] [ 31 ]

career statistics [edit ]

club [edit ]

As of 26 December 2021[32]

International [edit ]

As of match played 16 November 2021
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team Year Apps Goals
Belgium
2020 3 0
2021 11 2
Total 14 2
As of match played 16 November 2021. Belgium score listed first, score column indicates score after each Trossard goal.
List of international goals scored by Leandro Trossard
No. Date Venue Cap Opponent Score Result Competition Ref.
1 30 March 2021 Den Dreef, Leuven, Belgium 6  Belarus 3–0 8–0 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification [33]
2 7–0

Honours [edit ]

Genk
Westerlo

References [edit ]