Winner against PSV: Gruda quotes Klopp – "Postponed is not cancelled"
Brajan Gruda fires RB Leipzig to their first Champions League win of the season. He missed the internationals through injury – and now recalls a line from the Germany coach.
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Brajan Gruda scored the only goal as RB Leipzig beat PSV Eindhoven 1-0 on Tuesday night and was named player of the match. It was Leipzig's first win of this Champions League campaign. Coach Martín Demichelis took the attacking player off shortly after the goal to manage his workload.
Gruda had been unable to join the national team because of an abdominal muscle injury. Asked about it, he said according to t-online: "Annoying. But I remembered one sentence from Jürgen Klopp." He added: "Postponed is not cancelled. If I perform, the chance will come again."
Team-mate Ridle Baku praised him: "He has a lot, a lot of potential, the lad." Germany's next internationals are on 13 November in Serbia and on 16 November in Berlin against the Netherlands.