From the 5:0 against Bochum make 1:5 in Leipzig – or from 1:0 in Leipzig make 1:5. After a strong start to the Bundesliga and a good first half in Saxony, VfB Stuttgart has been brought down to earth.
With his mistake to make it 1-1, Leipzig started catching up to make it 5-1: Alexander Nübel. IMAGO/Picture Point LE
After all: In the eleventh Bundesliga duel with RB Leipzig, it was enough for VfB Stuttgart to take the lead for the first time – and more. Because after striker Serhou Guirassy’s goal in the 35th minute and a 1-0 lead at the break, there was a definite feeling that the Swabians were working on a real coup after the clear 5-0 start win over Bochum last week.
The work was – to put it harshly – partially stopped after the change of sides. For example, defender Dan-Axel Zagadou (dangerous back pass) and goalkeeper Alexander Nübel (Leipzig’s 1-1 shooter Benjamin Henrichs was shot). In the end, the Saxons were 5-1 plus the certainty of not having won the eleventh Bundesliga duel with RBL.
Sobered Stuttgarters included.
“We made it too easy for Leipzig too often”
“In the first half we deservedly took the lead and did it very, very well – against the ball as well as with the ball,” captain Waldemar Anton recognized shortly after the end of the game in an interview with DAZN. The 27-year-old defender quickly added: “After the break we conceded the unfortunate goal – and something happened to the team. We have to analyze that.”
His first approach to this analysis: “We’ve made it too easy for Leipzig too often. And that’s how we deserve to lose in the end.”
Meanwhile, Anton’s glimmer of hope for the upcoming games looked like this: “We have to keep going even after setbacks. We didn’t go 100 percent into the duels anymore – and that punishes a team like Leipzig badly.”
“That hurts”
Goalkeeper Nübel, who was responsible for the key goal mentioned by Anton with a blow that was not well clarified (Henrichs pressing, body hit, goal), also turned up that Friday evening – and couldn’t help but openly admit his mistake: “I want the game continue and long play on Serhou. He (Henrichs; Anm. d. Red.) then pulls through and then I shoot him. Of course it’s also brutally unfortunate that he goes in like this. But in the end I have to say: If I shoot him out or just to the corner, maybe nothing will happen. It hurts.”
His conclusion: “I think that makes us a bit unsettled.” Also because it made the opponent strong at the same time. “And in the end it’s very, very bitter to lose 5-1. That hurts.”
“It was a brutal game, a brutal evening,” concluded FC Bayern Munich on loan. “We did really well in the first half and gambled it away. We didn’t play well from behind, we didn’t get into the tackles that well. Then there was this bitter goal we conceded to make it 1-1.”
Hoeneß and the “two things I already knew before”
Saw a good, a bad half – and a brutal Leipzig: VfB coach Sebastian Hoeneß. IMAGO/press photo Baumann
VfB coach Sebastian Hoeneß didn’t have much to add to the statements made by Anton and Nübel. Just so much: “It was a really good first half… and a bad second half. Also a very, very difficult one. Because that was brutal, what Leipzig is then able to develop for a bang. That was already awesome.”
His final conclusion: In the end, the class of RB Leipzig must also be recognized. “We couldn’t stop that today. You saw that even against a good opponent we’re able to set accents and hurt them. But in the second half you also have to recognize that we still have to learn – and we are in the end two things I already knew before.”
2023-08-25 21:30:00
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