Kaan Kairinen scored in the second minute of the game in his Champions League debut.
It didn’t take long. Sparta Prague opened the men’s Champions League football with a home match against Salzburg.
In the second minute of the match, Sparta got a possession in the central area. Slovak striker Lukas Haraslin got to shoot. Salzburg’s goalkeeper blocked the ball in front of him, directly to the midfielder of the Finnish national team and Sparta Also for Kairis.
Kairinen moved the ball from the penalty spot into the net with her left foot.
The Prague stadium wildly chanted the name of the Finn who struck in his Champions League debut. From the coaching group Tim Sparvalso in his first experience of the Champions League, got to vent about his compatriot’s success.
MTV Urheilu’s commentator Tuomas Virkkunen said that there are now 14 Finnish goal scorers in the men’s Champions League.