Discussion about Leipzig coach
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RB Leipzig’s coach Marco Rose can understand the current discussion about his future. “Of course I am constantly evaluated, especially measured in results. At the moment we are not playing the stars from heaven. It is clear that criticism and questions arise, ”said the 48-year-old before the DFB Cup quarter-finals against VfL Wolfsburg on Wednesday (8:45 p.m./Sky).
In the Bundesliga, Leipzig has only won one victory from the past seven games and slipped to sixth in the table with 38 points. In the end, RB has to become at least fourth to the Champions League for another qualification for the Champions League, and a progress is also expected in the cup. “If I didn’t believe in it, I shouldn’t sit here anymore,” said Rose. “I believe that we can make a successful season out of it.”
Only in 2021/22 the Saxons had even less after 23 match days under coach Domenico Tedesco with 37 points. Ten victories are very few at the current time of the season since the Bundesliga promotion in 2016. Rose, previously at Borussia Mönchengladbach and BVB, is just behind his predecessors Ralf Rangnick (1.93) and Julian Nagelsmann (1.88 with 1.88 with 1.88. 1.94), but is better than Tedesco (1.87), Ralph Hasenhüttl (1.69) and Jesse Marsch (1.25).
In the past few months, the future of the rose bound by 2026 has been discussed again and again. With Roger Schmidt (without a club), Oliver Glasner (Crystal Palace) or Sebastian Hoeneß (VfB Stuttgart), possible successor candidates have already been traded. According to the “Kicker“Even a hot trace. The 42-year-old, who worked in the RB youngsters from 2014 to 2017, will also be courted by other clubs from home and abroad. Hoeneß should want to create clarity by the end of April. According to the report, it has an exit clause of 8 million euros.
Rose, with whom RB actually wants to end the season before a joint analysis follows, has to make little compromises against Wolfsburg. Yussuf Poulsen fails with muscular problems, Christoph Baumgartner got a fever after the 2-2 against Heidenheim on Sunday and is questionable. The last encounter with Wolfsburg so far was at the end of November, at that time Leipzig received a record defeat in the Bundesliga with the 1: 5.