Lasogga: Pierre-Michel

2017-2018 (Leeds Player Details) (Player Details)

Striker

Born: Gladbeck, Germany: 15-12-1991

Debut: v Burton Albion (h): 09-09-2017

6’ 2 1/2" 13st 12lb (2017)

Pierre-Michel Lasogga was born in Gladbeck, and was brought up in Gelsenkirchen, home of FC Schalke 04, the son of Kerstin Lasogga, who was a players' consultant in Gladbeck and from an early age he was a FC Shalke 04 season-ticket holder as the stadum was closeby. His stepfather was Oliver Reck, who was the goalkeeper for FC Schalke 04 from 1998 until 2003, which strengthened the ties even more. His first football club as a player was FC Gladbeck 1920/52, where he started as a five year-old and played Junior football with them until July 1999. He then joined FC Schalke 04 and continued his junior career there until July 2006 when he joined Rot-Weiss Essen Under-Seventeens and remained there for one season before joining SG Wattenscheid 09 Under-Seventeens. He started six and was a substitute in one B-Junioren Bundesliga West games and scored three goals. On 1st January 2008 he joined VfL Wolfsburg Under-Seventeens and started thirteen B-Junioren Bundesliga West games and scored ten goals, Two A-Junioren Bundesliga Nord/NordOst, scoring once and then started in two and came off the bench in another in the A-Junioren Bundesliga Endrunde but did not score. He then progressed to the club's Under-Nineteen team, starting in twenty-four games in the A-Junioren Bundesliga Nord/Nordost, netting nine times, and made one start in DFB-Junioren-Vereinspokal without scoring, before moving to Bayer 04 Leverkusen Under-Nineteens in July 2009. There his progress continued as he scored twenty-five goals in twenty-five starts in the A-Junioren Bundesliga West and the three without scoring in the A-Junioren Bundesliga Endrunde and also made two starts and three games from the bench in the Regionalliga West and he even sat three times on the bench for the Bundesliga team but was unused. He then progressed to Hertha Berlin SC in July 2010, when he signed a three year contract. His first games were with the Second team in the Regionalliga Nord League and he started five games and scored three goals before progressing to the Bundesliga 2 side, where he started Nineteen and came on as a substitute in six more finding the net thirteen times. He also made one substitute appearance in the DFB-Pokal. His Bundesliga 2 debut came as a seventy -fourth minute substitute for Rob Friend in a 1-0 away win at FC Energie Cottbus on 24th September 2010. His first goal was in fact part of a double on 15th November 2010 in a 2-0 home win over VfL Bochum in what was his first full game for the club at that level and the first, a header came in the thirty-second minute, while the second was a left foot shot in the sixty-ninth minute. Hertha Berlin SC were promoted as Champions of Bundesliga 2.The 2011-12 season saw him start nineteen and come off the bench in thirteen more and was unused twice, scoring eight goals as Hertha sought to stave off relegation. In the final league game on 5th May 2012 he was carried off with a cruciate ligament rupture after sixty-one minutes and had to be replaced by Rob Friend in a 3-1 home win over TSG 1899 Hoffenheim. He missed the vital Relegation playoffs with Fortuna Dusseldorf which saw Hertha relegated by the narrowest of margins. He also played full games in the DFB-Poka, where Hertha were eliminated after extra-time in the quarter-finals by Borussia Monchengladbach. The injury kept him sidelined for over six months and it was not until 3rd February 2013 before he managed just three minutes as a replacement for Ronny in a 5-1 away win at SSV Jahn Regensburg. By the end of the season he had started one, come on as a substitute six times and sat unused on seven occasions in Bundesliga 2 games and netted once on 21st April 2013 with the only goal in a 1-0 home win over SV Sandhausen five minutes from time after replacing Sandro Wagner in the seventy-second minute. He also had a half in the Regionalliga Nordost for the second team as a substitute. Hertha were again promoted as Champions of Bundesliga 2. Injuries had started to be a problem for Lasogga and on 2nd September 2013 he went on a season-long loan to Bundesliga 1 side Hamburg SV. He made his debut on 14th September 2013 as an eighty-fifth minute substitute for Rafael van der Vaart in a 2-6 defeat at Borussia Dortmund. He scored his first goal in his first full game on 28th September 2013 three minutes into first half injury time in a 2-2 draw at Eintracht Frankfurt. He scored thirteen goals and started eighteen and came on as a substitute in two and was unused in another in a season when he was absent through injury in the rest of the Bundesliga fixtures. He also scored once in two starts in the relegation play-offs in which Hamburg SV survived the threat of relegation. He also scored once in two starts in the DFB-Poka. Not only was his club career affected by injuries, but also his potential international career was curtailed by injury. He had made his debut for the German Under-Twenty-One side on 25th March 2011 when he started at Centre Forward in the 3-1 Friendly win over the Netherlands in which he opened the scoring with a header in the twenty-seventh minute at the Fortuna Sittard Stadion and he played seventy-two minutes before he was replaced by Richard Sukuta-Pasu. He gained a second cap four days later in a 2-2 at Auestadion in Kassel, again in a Friendly, when he again started and played sixty-two minutes before he was again replaced by Richard Sukuta-Pasu. His third cap was also in a Friendly on 31st May 2011 in a 2-4 defeat by Portugal at the Portimao Estadio and this time he was replaced by Daniel Didavi after sixty-two minutes. He took his caps to eight when he played in five UEFA European Under-Twenty-One Championship qualification ties, the first being on 9th August 2011 in a 4-1 home win over Cyprus at Wildparkstadion, Karlsruhe when he again started at Centre Forward but gave way to Peniel Mlapa after seventy-two minutes. On 1st September 2011 he played a full game and scored twice, at the Benteler-Arena in Pederborn, as Germany won 7-0 over San Marino. He opened the scoring in the second minute with a left foot shot and added the third with a right foot shot two minutes before half-time. He then missed two ties in October as he was out with a patella injury, and then was unused on the bench as Germany won 5-4 in Greece on 11th November 2011. He then brought his goals to four, four days later as Germany won 3-0 at Dimotiko Stadio over Cyprus as he opened the scoring in the nineteenth minute, before giving way to Daniel Ginczek in the eighty-third minute. The final tie was on 29th February 2012 and Greece were defeated 1-0 at Erdgas Sportpark in Halle and he played seventy-eight minutes before Maximilian Beister took over. The cruciate ligament rupture caused him to miss at least six games in 2012-13 and he came back on 24th March 2013 in a 2-1 win in a Friendly over Israel, when he played the first half before Kevin Volland came on in his place at Bloomfield. He took his Under-Twenty-One caps to eleven with two games in the 2013 European Under-21 Football Championship Group B, the first on 6th June 2013 in a 2-3 loss to the Netherlands at the HaMoshava Stadium at Petah Tikva, Israel, when he played sixty-one minutes before Christian Clemens substituted. Three days later in a 1-0 win over Spain he replaced Patrick Herrmann after sixty-four minutes at the Netanya Stadium in Israel. The striker then signed a five-year deal with Hamburg in July 2014 and the marksman was called up to the full German side for the friendly against Chile on 28th February 2014, at the Mercedes-Benz-Arena in Stuttgart, but never made the bench as once more injury stopped him from playing. He played on a regular basis in the Bundesliga for Hamburg SV in the 2014-15 season, but still was out for about six weeks in February and March 2015 with muscular problems. He scored four goals in Twenty-two starts, and four as a substitute and had one game unused on the bench as Hamburg struggled once more to avoid relegation. This they did manage as he started both games in the play-offs including the extra time in the second leg in which Hamburg scored to survive. He also scored once and started one and was a substitute in one game in the DFB-Pokal. He scored eight goals in Twenty-One starts and nine from the bench as well as being unused twice in the Bundesliga as Hamburg finished in midtable in tenth place. He also started once in the DFB-Pokal. He was almost untroubled by injuries in 2016-17 as he missed only four mainly with Hamstring problems, but his strike rate was poor, scoring only once in limited short performances as he only started five games, but was a substitute fifteen times and unused seven, as Hamburg finished fourteenth but just one point clear of the relegation play-offs. He also scored once in one start and one game as a substitute in the DFB-Pokal. On 1st September 2017 Lasogga went on a season long loan to Leeds United. It was thought that the striker’s reported £50,000-a-week wages at Hamburg would prove a stumbling block. It was thought that Leeds were looking for the Germans to stump up a sizeable proportion of the wage as they announced the capture of the striker. On his arrival Lasogga said “Now was a time that I had to change something and I think Leeds is the right decision for me now,” said the German. “I had to wait for the situation in Hamburg and it was not so easy for me but I had to wait and see which way I can go. I am very proud to be here and I want to give my all for this club and enjoy football. I hope we can play a very good season and I want to give my best for this club.” When he went on loan from Hamburg he had scored thirteen goals in forty-eight starts and twenty-eight games as a substitute and scored twice in three starts and two substitute appearances in the DFB-Pokal and also started twice in the play-offs, since first signing permanently for Hamburg SV. His time at Elland Road depended on the form the team was showing as at first he set off like a house on fire scoring twice on debut in a 5-0 home win over Burton Albion on 9th September 2017, opening the scoring in the twentieth minute with a left foot shot and then got the fifth in the fifty-ninth minute with a header. He was the first choice striker and added the opening goal in the thirteenth minute of a 3-2 home win over Ipswich Town on 23rd September 2017, and then the third in the final minute of a 3-0 win at Bristol City on 21st October 2017 and ten days later in a 1-2 home defeat by Derby County he opened the scoring in the seventh minute with a right-foot shot to bring his tally to five. He then missed six games in November/December 2017 with a thigh strain and this was followed by five games with minimal exposure as a substitute. He then started in the home game with Millwall on 20th January 2018 and scored the first Leeds goal just after half-time to reduce the deficit to 1-2, before scoring the third goal in the sixty-second minute to put United into the lead at 3-2. He was then substituted by Central Defender Conor Shaughnessy in the eighty-third minute as they sought to protect their lead, which they failed to do and were defeated 3-4. He then had three successive games in which he found the net to take his total for the season to ten, from thirty-five starts, ten as a substitute and was four times unused in the Championship. He levelled the scores at 1-1 two minutes after half-time with a header in a 1-2 defeat at Bramall Lane against Sheffield United on 10th February 2018 and eight days later in a 2-2 home draw with Bristol City, he reduced the deficit to 1-2 with a left-foot shot in the seventy- second minute and three days later, in another 2-2 draw, this time at Pride Park, against Derby County, he opened the scoring with a thirty-fourth minute header. He also started one F.A. Cup tie and was a substitute once and unused on the bench once. He returned to Hamburg SV, who had suffered relegation to Bundesliga 2, to finish the one year remaining on his contract. He made his debut on 3rd August 2018 in a 0-3 reversal at home to Holstein Kiel in which he replaced Jairo Samperio after fifty-six minutes. His first goals came on 18th August 2018 in a 5-3 win at TuS Erndtebrück, when, after replacing Jann-Fiete Arp in the sixty-first minute, in the DFB-Pokal, he turned a 2-2 draw into a 4-2 lead with goals in the sixty-fourth and sixty-fifth minute. He was equally ruthless in the Bundesliga 2 with the second and third goals in the seventy-sixth and eighty-eighth minute of a 3-0 home win over Arminia Bielefeld on 27th August 2018 followed quickly by a second-half hat-trick after replacing an injured Rick van Drongelen at half-time in a 3-2 home win over 1.FC Heidenheim 1846 on 15th September 2018, as he changed a 0-1 deficit into a 3-1 lead with goals in the seventy-fifth, eighty-first and eighty- third minute. In October 2018 he had scored five goals in four Bundesliga 2 starts, four substitute appearances and one unused on the bench.