Sunday, December 5th, 2021
US coach fired from RB
Leipzig gives the trainer the marching orders
Julian Nagelsmann’s successor is history again at RB Leipzig. Although Jesse Marsch is absent from the last games due to a corona infection, RB boss Oliver Mintzlaff is enough. He gives the American the marching orders. The vice-master hopes for new impulses.
Jesse Marsch is no longer the trainer of RB Leipzig. The Saxon Bundesliga team drew the conclusions from the vice-champion’s sporting crisis on Sunday and put the American on leave after only five months in office. Assistant coach Achim Beierlorzer will sit on the bench in the Champions League against Manchester City on Tuesday. The club wants to present a successor to the march as soon as possible.
“It is a shame that it did not work out as hoped in this constellation and that this step has now become necessary because unfortunately the desired development and thus also the necessary results for our season goals did not materialize,” said managing director Oliver Mintzlaff. At the moment they are chasing after their own demands and now want to “set a new impulse with this decision”.
Too little sunshine, too much rain
After his time in Salzburg, the 48-year-old march did not take up the post of head coach in Leipzig until the summer. As an assistant to Ralf Rangnick, he had already been in Leipzig in 2018/19. Most recently, he was unable to stand on the sidelines for three games due to a corona infection, but virtually looked after the team from quarantine.
The successor of Julian Nagelsmann, who had migrated to Bayern Munich, had no credit after the club’s novelty of three Bundesliga defeats in a row at Mintzlaff. Immediately after the 1: 2 at Union Berlin, the club boss announced a radical analysis of the situation.
In 14 league games, RB only got 18 points under Marsch. There was not a single victory away. After the zigzag course of the first few months with quite good performances like the 6: 0 against Hertha BSC, the performance curve had shown radically downwards in the league after the bright spot at 5: 0 in Bruges. The animated Mintzlaff to act.