A 500th Bundesliga goal for RB Leipzig | RB Leipzig vs TSG Hoffenheim Match Facts

admin 19 December 2023, 03:15 yayınlandı

RBL bid farewell to Emil Forsberg with a 3-1 win over TSG 1899 Hoffenheim.

Squad facts

After having made eight changes against Young Boys, Marco Rose rotated eight times once again. Only Benjamin Henrichs, Mohamed Simakan and Yussuf Poulsen remained in the starting eleven for both games.
Amadou Haidara was shown his second yellow card of the Bundesliga season, Lukas Klostermann his third and Xavi his fourth.

Mohamed Simakan will be credited with the assist for the first goal, making it only his second in the Bundesliga.
Lois Openda set up Emil Forsberg’s goal for 2-1 with a brilliant pass. This was his fourth assist and 14th goal involvement in 15 league games.
RBL’s record assist-maker Emil Forsberg got himself another in his final home game, setting up the third goal with his 69th for the club!

Lukas Klostermann scored in the Bundesliga for the first time in two and a half years. Our defender’s last goal had come at Dortmund back in May 2021.
Like Klostermann, Mohamed Simakan also netted his first Bundesliga goal of the season. The two defenders were our 13th and 14th goalscorers in the league this campaign. No other club has had more different players get on the scoresheet.
Emil Forsberg struck in his last two home games for RBL, having also done so against Young Boys in the Champions League.
It was Emil’s 40th Bundesliga goal.
Mo Simakan’s strike for 3-1 was RB Leipzig’s 500th Bundesliga goal in their history.
RBL’s opening goal came from a free kick, and their third from a corner. Our total of 11 goals from set pieces this Bundesliga season is the joint-highest in the division, equalled only by 1. FC Heidenheim.
Xavi‘s effort that hit the post was the fourth time we’ve struck the woodwork this season.
No other coach has brought as many goalscorers off the bench this season as Marco Rose. Emil’s goal was our eighth from a substitute this Bundesliga campaign.

RBL picked up their fifth victory in a row against TSG Hoffenheim.
We have won seven of our last ten home games against Hoffenheim (along with two draws and one defeat).
This was RBL’s tenth win of this Bundesliga season.
We’re unbeaten at home in the league since 1st April 2023.
We’re currently the strongest team at home in the Bundesliga with 20 points picked up on our own turf.
We’re now unbeaten in 12 (!) Bundesliga home games in a row (10 wins and two draws since 1st April).

After our tenth win of the season, we are guaranteed to spend the winter break in a Champions League spot.
Currently (as of Saturday), we sit third in the league, six points ahead of fifth-placed Dortmund.