Leipzig. Julian Nagelsmann is a friend of direct words, he does not keep behind the mountain with honest analyzes. Now the football teacher has self-critically commented on mistakes made by the coaching team during the Corona pandemic. “I feel that we held the protective hand over the players a bit too early and did not do enough video analysis,” said the RB coach before the season finale against FC Augsburg on Saturday (3:30 p.m.).
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He wanted to give the players the freedom to rid themselves of the frustration caused by the season break. In retrospect, they had “taken out too much gas” and had not treated the theory as it had before, Nagelsmann explained.
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The reason: There was uncertainty about “to what extent the head coach can intervene in certain situations, to what extent we don’t get on the players’ nerves too much and still convey content. I would now describe that as a small mistake, which I am self-critically writing for. ”The ex-Hoffenheimer has restricted so many pandemic interruptions that he has never experienced in his active coaching career.
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Despite the reduced number of theory sessions, there is no guarantee in his eyes that, if it had been done differently, his charges would have been “swept over everything” in the last season phase. After the end of the Bundesliga break, the autumn champions had only won three games in eight games.
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Before the Champions League tournament, which starts in Lisbon in mid-August, and also in preparation for the new Bundesliga season, Nagelsmann wants to train many basic elements. The goal is to get back to the first half of the season when he was very happy with the development of his team. “Then we will play good games again,” said the RB coach.
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