Emil Forsberg on the crisis at RB Leipzig: “It’s about passion and mentality”

4 losses from 5 games

Sports director Max Eberl and new sports director Rouven Schröder followed one of RB Leipzig’s highest Bundesliga home defeats with petrified expressions. And coach Marco Rose admitted shortly after the bitter 0: 3 against Mainz 05: “They were better in almost every respect.” In the fight for the Champions League, the Saxons, who suffered four defeats in all competitions in the last five games, had to , accept a sensitive setback – even if the gap to fourth place is only two points, RB is in before the quarter-finals of the cup against Borussia Dortmund (Wednesday, from 8:45 p.m. in the TM live ticker) after the longest series of bankruptcies disillusionment has set in during the current season.

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“I don’t want to deny my team’s will,” said Rose, a former Mainz player himself. “That means that we are in a phase where the head may be added. We have a lot to work on there.” “It’s a chance for us,” said midfielder Emil Forsberg and was more than self-critical about the team: “We didn’t have enough solutions, it doesn’t feel good. We had no dynamism, no solutions, no creativity, all that was missing.” Above all, RB remained without a goal in the third game. “We’ve always scored a lot of goals. But sometimes you have periods like that, it’s about passion, mentality, attitude that we keep the level up, push each other. Then the goals come,” said the Sweden international. Looking at Dortmund, he said: “We have to come back as a team, with everything.”

Sports Director Eberl had just before the kick-off again emphasized the priority for the Champions League qualification. He spoke of “a slap in the office” if it didn’t succeed. In addition, it would “not be nice for several personal details if we didn’t qualify and not for us as a club anyway,” he said on “Sky” on Saturday. For Mainz, the first win ever in the Leipzig Arena after the 8-0 defeat in November 2019 was more than a satisfaction. “We played an absolutely top game, I’m very proud of my team, they implemented the plan really well,” emphasized coach Bo Svensson. “It’s also an exceptional place for us to win. My team implemented that extremely well.”

Marcus Ingvartsen (9th) gave the guests the lead in front of 45,597 spectators before Ludovic Ajorque (57th) and Dominik Kohr (67th) increased. “Today we had bigger chances again that we didn’t take,” Rose summed up, adding: “It was a bad home game for us.” The fans acknowledged that accordingly. “We want to see you fight,” demanded the RB supporters in the final minutes. But only Mainz could convince.

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