Marco Rose suffered his first Bundesliga defeat with RB Leipzig on his explosive return to Borussia Park. In the top game, which was overshadowed by the “Causa Max Eberl”, the DFB Cup winner lost 0:3 (0:2) at Borussia Mönchengladbach.
Jonas Hofmann (10th/35th) and Ramy Bensebaini (53rd) scored the ice-cold hosts on Saturday evening in front of 50,186 spectators to their first win after three games without three points. For Rose, who was greeted with whistles and insults at his ex-club on the Lower Rhine, it was the second defeat in the third game as RB coach.
The opponent and the personal details of Eberl and Rose provided plenty of explosives. The home spectators whistled at the guests in possession of the ball in the early stages with whistles.
Eberl (with posters) and Rose (with songs) were badly insulted. When a banner against club RB was presented in the north curve, referee Patrick Ittrich warned over the stadium microphones that the game would be interrupted.
Hofmann towers over the reunion with ex-coach Rose
Coach Daniel Farke’s Gladbach players, on the other hand, concentrated on football, and they did so successfully. Nico Elvedi tested RB goalkeeper Péter Gulácsi with a header (9th), shortly afterwards the Hungarian also fended off Marcus Thuram’s header – but right in front of Hofmann’s feet, who dusted off from a short distance.
Leipzig recovered quickly and initially took control of the game. However, Josko Gvardiol (15th) and André Silva (25th) missed good opportunities. The Gladbach defensive wobbled a bit.
The offensive, on the other hand, worked brilliantly. After David Raum lost the ball, Thuram sprinted towards the guest goal and hung up for the cool Hofmann at the right moment. The international had already scored a brace in the most recent clash with RB in May.
With Timo Werner, who was initially rotated from the starting XI as one of four RB players compared to the 2-0 defeat at Real Madrid, RB started after the change of sides. However, Gladbach remained dangerous.
The extremely strong Hofmann failed at Gulácsi (53rd). Shortly thereafter, Bensebaini lobbed coolly over the RB goalkeeper from a short distance. Rose took the next low blow almost motionless.