Second round champion Leipzig?
In the second half of the table, Leipzig is three points ahead of FC Bayern. RB has the best offense as well as the best defense in the Bundesliga and is quite far ahead even in the comparison of the top leagues in recent weeks. Still, it won’t be enough for the championship. But you have two other titles in your sights. And coach Domenico Tedesco can look forward to a top 25 place in the history of the German football upper house.
Although Tedesco doesn’t think much of statistics, even the table supposedly doesn’t interest the RB Leipzig coach, he’s right in the middle of the TM statistics of the most successful coaching starts in the Bundesliga. With strong competition at his own club, where Ralph Hasenhüttl scored even more points in his first 15 RB league games, Tedesco still ranks 22nd in league history, level with Julian Nagelsmann, who, like Tedesco, has 33 points in his first 15 RB league games. games. With a win in the upcoming game at Bayer Leverkusen (Sunday, 7:30 p.m.), Tedesco would jump to a historic top 15 value and draw level with Hasenhüttl at RB. Since Tedesco’s takeover, Leipzig has climbed from eleventh place to fourth place in the Champions League.
Where Tedesco is meanwhile modest, the players, like on the pitch, go on the offensive as far as their own form is concerned. Kevin Kampl said after the easy 3-0 win over Hoffenheim (quoted via dpa): “We are the best team in the second half of the season, not everyone would have thought that after the first half of the season. That shows what’s in the team. We’re showing our true colors,” said the midfielder.
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And there’s more: RB Leipzig not only fought its way up in the Bundesliga rankings with last week’s results, there are also only a few clubs that are currently doing better than the “Red Bulls” in a comparison of the top international leagues. In the form table of all clubs in the top 5 leagues, the Saxons – like FC Bayern and Real Madrid – collected 23 points, but scored more goals and conceded fewer goals: third place for RB. Only Liverpool and Barcelona, each with 28 points from their last ten league games, have done better.
The last opponent Hoffenheim may not have been an endurance test of Leipzig’s new self-confidence due to numerous failures and suspensions. But in view of the April calendar with games every three or four days, TSG also had to be defeated first. This was achieved in the first half with goals from Christopher Nkunku (5th minute), Marcel Halstenberg (20th) and Dominik Szoboszlai (44th). Of course, thoughts are now circling around the Cottaweg, what would have happened if the catastrophic first half of the season had not happened.
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Because the turning point in the season of the Saxons came with coach Tedesco, who replaced the hapless Jesse Marsch in December. “He calmed down from day one,” emphasized Kampl. “Things got hectic for us, we had a lot of hanging heads in the team. Many did not know such a situation.”
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Tedesco changed the system and tactics and took the team with him in many individual discussions. The biggest change compared to Marsch is that the focus is back on possession football. While the American liked to go up and far forward following the RB DNA, Leipzig is now combining from defense to attack. “This gives us short pressing distances,” explained Kampl.
Leipzig is well on the way to becoming the champion of the second half of the season. A title that doesn’t exist, of course. It so happens that the Saxons still have two real chances of winning the title this season. On Thursday, the team at Atalanta Bergamo wants to move into the semi-finals of the Europa League for the first time, on April 20 RB welcomes 1. FC Union Berlin to the semi-finals in the DFB Cup. Leipzig would then travel to Berlin for the third time.
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