After the sobering defeat against Bayer Leverkusen, RB Leipzig coach Marco Rose wants to focus on the mental side of things. "We have to develop the feeling that we've had enough. That it hurt us enough to lose twice at home," said the 47-year-old after the 3-2 defeat against the league leaders. Piero Hincapié only scored in stoppage time to give the league leaders victory, while Leipzig were unable to take advantage of two leads to secure a point.
With a corresponding level of frustration, everything should be better next Saturday at VfB Stuttgart. On paper, the fourth-placed team is playing at the third-placed team, but in reality, two teams in a minor results crisis are meeting. Like Leipzig, VfB have also lost twice this year.
At least Rose knows where he needs to start in addition to the mental area. "If you score four goals in two games against Leverkusen and have zero points - with Leverkusen conceding 14 goals - then something has gone wrong. We weren't good enough defensively," said the coach. Above all, the two goals conceded from corners must have annoyed Rose and his professionals massively.
Representative of the team, national player David Raum summed it up. "I'm brutally angry about how it went. We could have won the game and we beat ourselves again," said the full-back. Raum himself looked rather unfortunate in the 1:1, which was practically a copy of the goal conceded in the 0:1 against Frankfurt.
Leipzig took the lead twice, the goals from Xavi Simons and Lois Openda were extremely eye-catching. Which only served to increase the frustration. "We can score as many beautiful goals as we like," said Rose, referring to the result: "Zero points."
Leipzig have now failed to win three times in a row in the Bundesliga. Under coach Rose, that is just as unprecedented as a defeat against a league leader.
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