Scene of the game: Leipzig striker Emil Forsberg narrowly missed the Schalke goal in the 90th minute, his coach Julian Nagelsmann jumped up on the bench and clasped his hands over his head. Mind you: At this point his team was already five goals behind. Nagelsmann’s ambition is so great that he can get him pretty far this season.
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Result of the game: 5: 0 (1: 0) for RB Leipzig on Schalke. Goals: Marcel Sabitzer after 55 seconds to take the break, then Timo Werner, Marcel Halstenberg, Angeliño and Emil Forsberg after the change. Schalke loses 0: 5 at home, and Carmen Thomas toasts from afar with whatever drink. Click here for the detailed game report.
The first half: It wasn’t even a minute played, and basically you could start telling the story of the bogeyman: goalkeeper Alexander Nübel misjudged a long-range shot from Sabitzer, the ball was in the goal, Schalke and Nübel basically recovered from this shock moment no more. The goalkeeper, in his 12th-to-last game for Schalke before moving to Munich, had two more uncertainties and was booed afterwards. The field players of the royal blue could also have referred to the whistles with a clear conscience.
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The second half: Schalke was more active, Leipzig was more effective. Almost every shot sat now. First met Timo Werner, who had no chance this time, and who knows a lot about what it’s like to be the bogeyman at Schalke. From then on, the Schalke defensive proved that the word dam break is not reserved for political reporting. The RB offensive undertook an extensive evening stroll through the Schalke cover series.
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Game statistics: The evaluation of the first half showed: Schalke’s shots on goal: 0. From RB: 10. Counting ten shots on goal on the Leipzig side may have been a subtle friendly form of support from the East. But the zero on the Schalke side reveals the whole dilemma of the previous weeks. After the strong start of the second round in the 2-0 win over Mönchengladbach, the Wagner team scored a miserable goal in six games. At home against the bottom of the table SC Paderborn. Sky commentator Wolff Fuss can call “Maloche” so often. The offensive is currently working underground. At least sole seven.
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Player of the game: Angeliño made six games for Manchester City in a year and a half. So you can’t necessarily say that he came to RB Leipzig with a lot of confidence on loan in winter. But what the Spaniard has done in his previous appearances also shows how much easier it is to prevail in the Bundesliga than in the Premier League.
Statistics of the game II: With the five goals, the away teams of this Bundesliga Saturday reduced the balance “home teams against away teams” to 1:15 goals. Mönchengladbach’s Matthias Ginter can be framed: he scored the only home goal of the day.
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Knowledge of the game: RB Leipzig scores five goals in gentle gear at Schalke 04, after all the sixth in the table. These are games that Schalke usually only knows from FC Bayern’s guest appearances year after year. This can now be seen as a title forecast.
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