RB Leipzig (H) | Post Match Thread

[Deleted member 77198]

Have a read of the pre-match thread from when the team was announced onwards for about ten pages, it’s hilarious.

‘Shit team on paper’
‘Disappointed with that line-up’
‘It’s becoming more obvious that Pep’s goal is to not win the Champions League’
‘You can feel the fear in that selection’
‘We was unbelievably bad in [the Arsenal away game with the midfield picked to start tonight]’
‘Gundogan and KDB together has been a disaster post-World Cup’
‘We’re there for the taking with that team’.

As I said after the first leg, Leipzig are utterly average and look like a bottom half Prem team like nearly all of these non-Bayern German teams we face do. I predicted we’d trounce them, and we did!

Apart from a two minute spell in each half where everyone at the back pretended it was a comedy club, we were completely at ease in that game and if we hadn’t declared at 6-0, we could have gone on and scored 10. Instead we just got one more, but everything was right tonight from selection to performance.

 

[domalino]

Just think your last sentence, we're not the scum across the street.

We've had popular threads on the quadruple nearly every season since 2015. So I'm not going to apologise for being optimistic!

Besides, I think you'll find they only talk about trebles in the past tense ;)

 

[Burtonblue]

Have a read of the pre-match thread from when the team was announced onwards for about ten pages, it’s hilarious.

‘Shit team on paper’
‘Disappointed with that line-up’
‘It’s becoming more obvious that Pep’s goal is to not win the Champions League’
‘You can feel the fear in that selection’
‘We was unbelievably bad in [the Arsenal away game with the midfield picked to start tonight]’
‘Gundogan and KDB together has been a disaster post-World Cup’
‘We’re there for the taking with that team’.

As I said after the first leg, Leipzig are utterly average and look like a bottom half Prem team like nearly all of these non-Bayern German teams we face do. I predicted we’d trounce them, and we did!

Apart from a two minute spell in each half where everyone at the back pretended it was a comedy club, we were completely at ease in that game and if we hadn’t declared at 6-0, we could have gone on and scored 10. Instead we just got one more, but everything was right tonight from election to performance.

Pity those poor moaners on the pre match thread.
They must be on suicide watch by now…

 

[kinky's boots]

 

[Bernard20]

A performance that will reverberate around europe , Lepzig are no mugs , beaten only twice in twenty games and 3rd in the Bundesliga and we made them look like a pub team , we are gradually getting better in every game and are looking like peaking just at the tight time.
We shouldnt fear anybody at the moment , our defence is looking strong , Rodri is playing the best football of his life , and then we have a striker who is going to notch between 50-60 goals this season'
We are going to take some stopping.

I tried to like this twice, but it just ‘unliked’!

 

[madloaf]

We won 7-0 in the champions league against a decent team and sly gave grealish, Dias, akanji and rodri a 7/10. Maybe when we batter someone properly.

Man City: Ederson (6), Stones (9), Dias (7), Akanji (7), Ake (8), Rodri (7), Gundogan (8), De Bruyne (9), Silva (9), Haaland (10), Grealish (7).

 

[domalino]

Have a read of the pre-match thread from when the team was announced onwards for about ten pages, it’s hilarious.

‘Shit team on paper’
‘Disappointed with that line-up’
‘It’s becoming more obvious that Pep’s goal is to not win the Champions League’
‘You can feel the fear in that selection’
‘We was unbelievably bad in [the Arsenal away game with the midfield picked to start tonight]’
‘Gundogan and KDB together has been a disaster post-World Cup’
‘We’re there for the taking with that team’.

As I said after the first leg, Leipzig are utterly average and look like a bottom half Prem team like nearly all of these non-Bayern German teams we face do. I predicted we’d trounce them, and we did!

Apart from a two minute spell in each half where everyone at the back pretended it was a comedy club, we were completely at ease in that game and if we hadn’t declared at 6-0, we could have gone on and scored 10. Instead we just got one more, but everything was right tonight from election to performance.

I think you're being a bit too harsh on Leipzig, they beat Real comfortably in the groups and I think they beat Bayern in the Bundesliga? They could realistically win the German League.

They just suffered from what a lot of CL teams suffer from against us, which is that they can't sit back for 180 minutes when it's the opposite of their game plan the other 40 matches a year.

They tried that first half in the first leg and it went terribly, and then they were better than us in the second half when they came out. I don't know why Rose reverted to something closer to their first half tactics tonight.

Also the penalty/2nd goal was a knockout combo that they never recovered from. As good as we were, if we didn't get that penalty it could have easily taken us 45 mins+ to score, we've seen it so many times when the team get frustrated.

 

[PhdWave]

Some really nice insights on the tactics from Pep..

 

[deegee33]

We've had popular threads on the quadruple nearly every season since 2015. So I'm not going to apologise for being optimistic!

Besides, I think you'll find they only talk about trebles in the past tense ;)

My optimism has no bounds, I just don't care to appear entitled like the deluded bunch across the street.

 

[kinky's boots]

If you know, you know...

Probably not many left who do... I miss some of the old names on the forum