RB Leipzig are in a result crisis, as we wrote recently. The club who is a regular Champions League participant since 2018 has only 1 win after five games and is already 6 points short from the fourth spot, which leads to the Europe’s biggest competition. Alarm bells have been ringing in Leipzig, whose CEO and acting sporting director Oliver Mintzlaff doesn’t want a stress from last season, when coach Jesse Marsch was given plenty of time to turn things around, before he was eventually sacked in December, when Leipzig had won just five games out of 14 and were 11th. Domenico Tedesco managed to turn things around just in time to get Leipzig to the fourth spot and the Champions League place in the last round of Bundesliga.🎙 Domenico Tedesco:”Shakhtar are the dominant team in Ukraine and are a regular in the Champions League. Despite some big name departures, they have a super team. They can be very dangerous on the counter.”🔴⚪ #WeAreLeipzig #RBLDON pic.twitter.com/rAIQO1DiX6— RB Leipzig English (@RBLeipzig_EN) September 5, 2022 But now, Tedesco is on the hot seat, and the word is, Mintzlaff won’t wait that long as he did with Marsch. The team is not playing well, and the powerful attacking duo Timo Werner and Christopher Nkunku are not clicking. One of the reasons is Tedesco’s tactics, more orientated on possession, and he has one big critic – Lothar Matthaus. The famous Bayern and Germany international thinks that possession football, compared to offensive approach is the main reason for bad results.Tedesco on the hot seat, Werner might get a new coach soon”Offensive. We don’t give a fuck about ball possession, to put it in German. We want to play adventurously, attractively, aggressively and quickly. But there is a lot of unrest in the team. The coach is then responsible for getting the whole team behind him” said Matthaus, who obviously didn’t mince words.##NAJAVA_MECA_6624799##There is one also interesting fact. Statistically, Domenico Tedesco is in line with former Leipzig coach Julian Nagelsmann. The current Bayern Munich manager has so far led his team in 37 games and has an average of 2 points per game, while Tedesco has 1.92 in same number of games. Both coaches scored 87 goals and won 21 games during that period. And yet, if Leipzig loses in the Champions League game against Shakhtar, he will be sacked. Oliver Mintzlaff already has a replacement in line – former RB Salzburg and Borussia Dortmund coach Marco Rose.UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE – MATCHDAY 1Tuesday 19.45: (7.00) Dinamo Zagreb (4.30) Chelsea (1.53)19.45: (1.35) Dortmund (5.60) Copenhagen (9.00)22.00: (3.50) Salzburg (3.50) Milan (2.20)22.00: (5.90) Celtic (4.10) Real Madrid (1.63)22.00: (1.22) RB Leipzig (6.50) Shakhtar (13.0)22.00: (9.00) Sevilla (4.90) Man.City (1.40)22.00: (1.25) Benfica (6.75) Maccabi Haifa (13.0)22.00: (1.40) PSG (5.30) Juventus (8.00)Wednesday 19.45: (1.50) Ajax (4.60) Rangers (7.00)19.45: (2.25) Eintr.Frankfurt (3.50) Sporting (3.35)22.00: (3.80) Napoli (3.60) Liverpool (2.05)22.00: (1.85) Atl.Madrid (3.50) Porto (5.00)22.00: (3.40) Club Brugge (3.60) Leverkusen (2.20)22.00: (1.07) Barcelona (15.0) Plzen (35.0)22.00: (4.10) Inter (3.80) Bayern (1.92)22.00: (1.53) Tottenham (4.30) Olympique Marseille (7.00)***odds are subject to change
