Talking after RB Leipzig’s 0-0 draw with St Pauli (by way of kicker), head coach Marco Rose gaves his ideas on the crew’s assault which has been faultering as of late.
Towards each St Pauli and Union Berlin, groups that Leipzig are anticipated to be, they’ve solely got here away with some extent after 0-0 attracts. Whereas in midweek in opposition to Atletico Madrid, regardless of scoring early on they by no means threatened Jan Oblak.
On the problems in assault, head coach Rose mentioned:
“Our offensive recreation is missing. In the intervening time we’re merely having a tough time being an actual risk to the objective and asserting ourselves.”
Rose then added:
“Now we’ve got a coaching week through which we are able to deal with the difficulty. I feel I do know that I can assess these phases fairly effectively, together with how they arrive about.”
This can be a sentiment echoed all through the crew with centre-defender Willi Orban saying:
“There was clearly not sufficient going ahead. We didn’t create sufficient probabilities, had been too inaccurate within the final line, didn’t cross sufficient, didn’t have sufficient field presence. We’re missing a little bit of energy going ahead for the time being.”
Leipzig’s principal entrance three of Loïs Openda, Xavi Simons and Benjamin Seško have struggled within the opening video games. Seško ended final season on an 11-game scoring run however has not continued that kind on this Bundesliga season. Openda confirmed indicators of his high quality in Leipzig’s win in opposition to Bayer Leverkusen however has been quiet since, together with lacking a penalty in opposition to Union Berlin.
Whereas Simons has additionally not been his standard self and has struggled to look as dynamic and energetic as he did final season. The Dutch worldwide has but to attain within the Bundesliga and solely has one help, in opposition to Leverkusen.
GGFN | Jack Meenan
