Making the Red Bull Arena a fortress: RBL’s best-ever home record!

RB Leipzig won 4-2 at home against FC Schalke 04 on the final day of the season. Here are the most important facts from matchday 34. 
 

Goal facts:

• Yussuf Poulsenscored his second Bundesliga goal of the season, both of which have strangely come against Schalke 04. He scored in the 6-1 victory on matchday 17 at the end of January and made it 3-2 this weekend.
   
• Christopher Nkunku has scored 16 Bundesliga goals this season which means he has won the golden boot, finishing joint first with Werder’s Niclas Füllkrug. However, Christo only played 25 matches. What a return!
   
• Poulsen’s goal to make it 3-2 was RB Leipzig’s 250th in the Bundesliga. The fourth added by Nkunku later took us therefore to 251.

Squad facts:

• Örjan Nyland made his second Bundesliga appearance for RBL, ending up on the winning side once again. He also featured in the 2-0 win over Bayer Leverkusen on matchday 12.
   

Records:

• We won our fifth game in a row against Schalke 04, scoring 22 goals and conceding just three in this fixture.
   
• We’ve ended the season with five consecutive league wins, and we’ve never picked up as many wins as we have this season in a single campaign.
   
• Dani Olmo’s assist for Christo to make it 2-0 was his 50th goal contribution for RB Leipzig.
   

Home facts:

• We’ve won 41 points from 17 home fixtures this season, our best-ever return, setting a new home record in the process.
   
• We won 13 of these home matches, which is another record in itself.
   

Match facts:

PLAYERS:

• Most distance covered: Dani Olmo – 10.96
   
• Attempts on goal: Christopher Nkunku – 5
   
• Highest percentage of duels won: Dominik Szoboszlai – 100%
   
• Most touches: Örjan Nyland – 72
   
• Fastest player: David Raum– 35.57 km/h

   

TEAM:

• RBL had 51.76% possession.
   
• RBL ran 118.95km in total, with Schalke covering 116.09km of ground.
   
• We had 19 attempts on goal, three more than Schalke’s 16 efforts.
   
• We won four corners, Schalke five.