It didn’t turn out to be Ottensen after all. Three days before the cup game against the regional league, RB Leipzig scored their first win of the season. However, opponents Wolfsburg also prove to be extremely harmless.
When a violent storm descended on the Leipzig stadium after the long-awaited first win, captain Willi Orban began a eulogy about the match winner.
“Many doubted whether he could keep up the level. But he just kept going. He’s absolute reliability, a constant at a very, very high level. He can always make the difference. He’s just an outstanding player,” said the Hungarian international. We were talking about Christopher Nkunku, who scored twice in the 2-0 (1-0) win against VfL Wolfsburg and underpinned his standing as a Leipzig life insurance company.
Nkunku “demands a lot from the players”
With every game it becomes clearer why the cup winners celebrated the contract extension with the French almost more than the first title in the club’s history. The 24-year-old Footballer of the Year already has four goals in the statistics after four games in the Bundesliga – and is therefore better than last season. There, Nkunku only scored on Matchday 6 and ended up with 20 goals and 15 assists in 34 games.
After the false start with just two points from three games, pressure and nervousness were palpable. After just five minutes, Nkunku calmed the spirits in the Leipzig stadium with his confidently converted hand penalty – especially that of coach Domenico Tedesco. After RB, which had started without the ailing Timo Werner, had left out a series of counterattacks for the second goal, Nkunku simply followed up. In the 90th minute. After a pass from substitute Werner.
For Tedesco, his star’s development comes as no surprise. “I find him very ambitious. He wants to do everything perfectly in training and demands a lot from his team-mates,” said the 36-year-old about the Frenchman. “If he continues like this, he will also take the next step.”
Enjoy Nkunku’s farewell show
Then definitely out of Leipzig. The fact that Nkunku will leave the Saxons has been clear since the celebrated contract extension until 2026 at the latest. According to reports, the national player can leave Leipzig next summer for a good 60 million euros. Nowadays, Nkunku can almost be seen as a bargain. So the people of Leipzig have only one thing left: enjoy the farewell show.
At the next station, Nkunku should get a creative break. On August 30th, Leipzig meets fourth division team Teutonia Ottensen in the DFB Cup – away in their own stadium because the home ground of the North Germans only has artificial turf and the alternative pitch in Dessau fell victim to an act of sabotage.
Orban warned against the underclass opponent because you have to. However, the relief that already had the first win of the season in the account prevailed. “We had a good spirit from the first minute. We did a lot of things really well,” said the defender. The 29-year-old did not want the result to be a liberation. Wolfsburg were far too harmless for that with only two chances, which substitute goalkeeper Janis Blaswich greatly defused.
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Source: Stern
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