RB Leipzig also loses its fourth game in the current Champions League season. Marco Rose’s team also disappoints at Celtic Glasgow and faces elimination early in the premier class. A former Leipzig player seals defeat with a brace.
RB Leipzig’s chances of progressing in the Champions League are getting worse and worse. At Celtic Glasgow, the Saxons suffered their fourth defeat in their fourth game, 1:3 (1:2), and the second-place team in the Bundesliga remains without a point in the premier class. After Christoph Baumgartner took the lead (23rd minute), former Leipzig young player Nicolas Kühn (35th/45th+1) turned the game around. Reo Hatate (72nd) increased for the Scots.
In “Paradise”, as Celtic Park is called, RB started with El Chadaille Bitshiabu in central defense. “The left side is a bit limping, we really wanted a left-footed player with Chad,” said coach Marco Rose. In defensive midfield, Kevin Kampl was preferred to Arthur Vermeeren. Celtic coach Brendan Rogers made just one change to his familiar 4-3-3 system, bringing in Greg Taylor for Alex Valle at left-back.
RB had big problems with the high pressing of the Glasgow attackers in the opening quarter of an hour. Only afterwards did the Saxons gain more confidence in their game. Loïs Openda forced Celtic goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel to do a brilliant deed for the first time (22′). After a corner from Kevin Kampl, the lead followed: Cameron Carter-Vickers involuntarily extended the ball to the second post, where Baumgartner headed in the opposite direction of Schmeichel. Antonio Nusa could have increased the score from close range, but he heaved the ball past the goal on the left (31′).
Leipzig acts without ideas
Leipzig suddenly had the game under control, but then Kühn went solo. Bitshiabu ran along, but couldn’t prevent the shot into the goal. Rock legend and Glasgow fan Rod Stewart cheered in the stands. Even before the change, Kühn, who was trained in the RB youth team from 2015 to 2018, finally turned the game around. After a cross from Hatate, which Taylor passed on, the 24-year-old pushed the ball into the goal from five meters.
After the restart, “The Bhoys” dominated the game. Leipzig seemed frustrated and lacked ideas. Rose had expressly warned about this. “It’s a pressure situation that we have to face. We have to implement the things we discussed with the ball,” the coach said. RB at least gave a sign of life with a 20-meter shot from Benjamin Sesko, but Schmeichel reacted well on his 38th birthday (64th).
Celtic’s best defense in the Bundesliga was sometimes dizzy until the final phase. When Peter Gulacsi let the ball bounce off Alistair Johnston, Hatate made it 3-1. The game was decided.
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