Worst season since climb
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RB Leipzig separated from coach Marco Rose a day after the 0-1 defeat at Borussia Mönchengladbach. The Bundesliga club officially announced this on Sunday morning. His assistant coach Alexander Zickler, Marco Kurth and Frank Geeckeck and the head of license player Frank Aehlig also have to go.
“We believed in the constellation with Marco and his team for a very long time and tried to create the trend reversal together. In view of the development and the lack of results, we are firmly convinced that we need a new impulse for the remaining games to achieve our season goals. Sports Managing Director Marcel Schäfer cited.
Rose has been in office near Leipzig since September 2022 and was on the sidelines in 125 games, and he collected an average of 1.86 points per game. In the young club history of the Saxons, the 48-year-old is the longest-serving trainer, none of his predecessors had reached the 100 games brand (for the coaching history of RB Leipzig).
In the past two seasons, Rose Leipzig had led to the Champions League, but the shape curve showed significantly down this season. With 42 points from 27 games, RB is only seventh in the table before the Sunday games, SC Freiburg can still pass. At the same time since the Bundesliga promotion in 2016, fewer points have never been on the account (for statistics). In addition, the red bulls in the Champions League failed significantly with only three points from eight games. The last title chance is in the DFB Cup, where the semi-finals at VfB Stuttgart is due on Wednesday.