On Friday evening in the Augsburg arena, a team played in Burgundian red, yes Augsburgroten jerseys exactly the football that FC Augsburg wants to play, and yet their coach was not satisfied: “We did not spill out with fame today. We would have liked to win, but we should have played football better, ”said Marco Rose after the goalless draw in the interview zone. Marco, right read, Rose, the trainer of RB Leipzig, who, like all 28 260 stadium visitors, has to be difficult to distinguish his team’s play area from the one who is again a recipe for success in Augsburg under Jess Thorup for the early class stay: defensively stable stand and look at the front.
With the self -confidence of five unbeaten Bundesliga games in a series, the Augsburgers playing in white even dared to go forward and in an orderly manner, mostly over the offensive left side. And so it was no coincidence that a straightforward counterattack ran over that side in the 81st minute, which was probably the best chance of the game at the same time: after a positional error by Lukas Klostermann, who replaced the red -locked captain Willi Orban The fast left winger Dimitrios Giannoulis on the baseline alone. From there, he placed Frank Onyeka in the back area, but only hit the ball from 14 meters – and not the goal.
But this game of chance hadn’t deserved a goal anyway, even if the Leipziger with the slatted headball from debutant Kosta Nedeljkovic even had their opportunity for a lucky hit in added time. One can say so much about the first 80 minutes: they have passed uneventfully. However, there were three justified yellow cards.
“This is not our claim,” said the only Leipzig bright spot David Raum. And by that he meant not only the result, but above all the way this came about. In Leipzig, at the latest since the embarrassment, you ask yourself in the Champions League where and when the typical RB football has been lost with your greedy counterpressing and the brave offensive urge.
The performance in Augsburg also raises the question of whether the individual quality of Benjamin Sesko, Lois Openda and 50 million euro record transfer Xavi Simons is not even sufficient to gain away from the table of the table against Bundesliga clubs. Just two weeks ago, the Leipziger played 0-0 at Union Berlin, before that 3: 3 in Bochum.
At the press conference after the game, RB coach Rose criticized the missing train to the opposing goal, but then again lost his face when he highlighted the dominance of his team in the first fifteen minutes or even spoke of improved performance. However, he was right with the fact that the 0: 0 “performance -based”, even fully deserved for both sides. What his counterpart Jess Thorup interpreted as a confirmation of the Augsburg upward trend: “If you are annoyed against a top five team about a draw, you are on the top.”
For Leipzig, however, it is now exactly about proving that you are one of the top five teams in this Bundesliga season. Or rather, to the top four. When asked about the question of whether the “two lost points” are missing in Augsburg today in the race for fourth place, i.e. the direct Champions League qualification. You don’t have to expect. “