RB Leipzig coach Marco Rose is looking forward to seeing his former club Borussia Mönchengladbach again.
“I’m still in contact with many from the region, many players and people on the staff,” he said before the away game in the Bundesliga on Saturday (6:30 p.m. / Sky): “It was a good time for me personally. “
With the foals, he “put a few things in motion,” said Rose. From 2019 to 2021 he led Gladbach to the Champions League, among other things, and there for the first time since 1977 to the round of 16.
His move to Borussia Dortmund in the summer of 2021 with an exit clause annoyed many fans, in the wake of the unrest surrounding the announcement, Borussia just missed out on international places at the time. “It didn’t go well for all of us,” Rose said, speaking of many “things that I can’t control and for which I’ve stopped justifying myself.”
“The tasks they set us are very complex”
With RB, the 46-year-old wants to confirm the upward trend since his debut against BVB (3-0) after the 0-2 at Real Madrid despite a good performance. “We dare to do it very well tomorrow too,” he said: “We have to be prepared for everything, for high pressure, but they may also be a little lower,” he said: “The tasks that they we face are very complex.”
In addition to Dani Olmo (partial ligament tear), Lukas Klostermann and Konrad Laimer (both syndesmosis), Marcel Halstenberg (back problems) extends the list of absentees. In addition, the use of central defender Mohamed Simakan is questionable. Josko Gvardiol, who was recently pushed onto the bench, is looking forward to the first starting eleven under Rose.