Very nice to get that win!

Love it

Great win today!!

Last 16 draw in full...
Borussia Dortmund v PSG
Real Madrid v Manchester City
Atalanta v Valencia
Atletico Madrid v Liverpool
Chelsea v Bayern Munich
Lyon v Juventus
SPURS v RB Leipzig
Napoli v Barcelona

crazy club... been around for only 11 years....

big money from Red Bull bought some small clubs playing rights and have paid for talent to promote them from the 5th level of German football in 2009-10 to the top Bundesliga in 2016-17 (so up 4 levels in 8 years) and their second year there they got 2nd and into UCL. And this year they are leading the Bundesliga.

In their CL group they lost and tied Lyon but still finished ahead of them due to Lyon losing road games at the 2 non qualifiers. They also won and tied vs Benfica, So not exactly dominant in the group with 1 more point than Tottenham had in theirs.

They also took over a stadium from a previous Leipzig club that folded in 2011, it was built in 2004 and holds 48K.

Good summary. As the only Leipzig fan on this board (and perhaps this continent), I'll chime in with a few more notes:

1) Youngest team in the Bundesliga. Average starting 11 is 23.3.

2) Youngest coach in the Bundesliga, Julian Nagelsmann, 32, who took over this summer. He had been at Hoffenheim prior, he was contracted to be hired before the 2018-19 season but Hoffenheim refused to release him. So last year Leipzig was managed by the sporting director in an interim role.

3) I was concerned a bit at first this season. Nagelsmann kept trying to switch the tactics to a 3-4-3 and it wasn't working out. Thankfully he wasn't stubborn and gave up on this notion. They've been in great form since then (the loss to Lyon was using this crappy back 3).

4) Have been dealing with injury woes at CB for two months. Team captain Orban is out till Winter break. Konate is one of a pair of physically imposing young French CBs we have and he was injured early in Oct. So we've been using a veteran backup DM Ilsanker as the other CB and he's been effective but we're not nearly as stout defensively as we were last season (least league goals conceded). We've had a lucky stretch of playing mid-bottom Bundesliga clubs so we haven't conceded much there, but the Champions League matches exposed the defensive woes. We were also missing our starting keeper for a few matches the past month.

4) Our offensive form on the other hand has been top-notch since November. We're averaging 3.28 in all competitions in this stretch... and that's after I exclude the 8 goal outlier vs Mainz.

5) Speaking of the Mainz game, it highlights what has been an outstanding season for Timo Werner. He notched a hat trick in both goals and assists that game and currently is 2nd in the Bundesliga with 16 goals in 15 matches (6 goals in CL).

great video animation of Sons goal

FIXED

Link

Also funny.... below. Given RB Leipzig's owner group is RedBull Group hence the RB (although it does not stand for RedBull technically because that's illegal in German football and they even had to modify their logo to be less RedBull-ish... it stands for RasenBallsport which translates to "Lawn Ball Sports").

It's RedBull vs MonsterEnergy

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/daniel-levy-new-tottenham-stadium-club-new-dawn-a4316696.html


including one incident in which a warehouse under Tottenham's ownership was broken into and turned into a drugs factory.

"We discovered it had been bolted shut from the inside and when we finally got in we found three acres of cannabis growing in there," explains Levy. "We obviously had to call the police. The next thing we knew we were victims of a revenge attack when the water pipes on the properties we owned down the High Road were cut, which flooded them all."

Derby day!

Gazzaniga
Aurier Sanchez Alderweild Jan
Dier
Sissoko
Moura Alli Son
Kane


COYS!!!!!!!!


No Pulisic for the Blues

hi

Worst first half of the season? I know this season has been bad, but that was BAD. Dier needs to not play. Ever.

dier and sissoko midfield is a joke

This is just like champions league match against Olympiakos with Dier.....except Jose took him out and we won 4-2

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What a ******

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Love you too, cammy!

DeangeloVickers said:

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dier and sissoko midfield is a joke

This is just like champions league match against Olympiakos with Dier.....except Jose took him out and we won 4-2

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Sissoko has been fine but I have no idea how Mourinho keeps picking dier. One thing Mauricio was doing right this season was burying him on the bench.

I agree...it's just the combo has zero speed.

Eriksen in
dier out

Terrific

Hopefully in January we'll see a new RB
Aurier is ****

What was Son thinking

Dumb dumb dumb

Prayers for Rudiger and his family only hope he can recover from Sons violent act

That was stupid. I disagree that it was harsh. Maybe a 50-50 call, but not harsh. You can't give the refs the opportunity to red card you like that.

Rudiger definitely made the most of it but you can stick your foot in a guys chest and get away with it in the VAR days

Wow I got out of touch here. When the hell did Mourinho become coach?! Wut?!

Gotta think Dier isn't long for the roster

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Dumb dumb dumb

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When we were at full strength without Dier all was well

If Son deserved a red card, then Gazzaniga's foul should have put him in a prison

Nothing about that game was enjoyable.....fans were trash and hopefully they kick out anyone who was racist

How about Kane....yikes did he do anything today?

Least enjoyable match I've ever watched

Jose!!!

TSO

That was an absolutely brilliant finish