RBL strikeforce on a roll! The top facts from #RBLBVB

A clear 4-1 win for RB Leipzig in the home game against Borussia Dortmund! Here you can find the top facts on the game.

Personal-Facts

Mohamed Simakan was on the right flank instead of Benjamin Henrichs. This was the only change to our starting line-up.
Yussuf Poulsen returned to the squad after a three-game injury layoff.
Mo Simakan received his 8th yellow card and had to be substituted in the 51st minute. An exact diagnosis follows.

Peter Gulacsi had an extremely strong performance on his landmark day! Our No.1 played his 300th competitive game for RBL, against BVB. After Yussuf Poulsen, Emil Forsberg and Willi Orban, he is the only player to reach this mark. His 214 Bundesliga games are an RBL record.
Willi Orban played his 200th Bundesliga game in total (including two for Kaiserslautern).
Xavi played his 30th Bundesliga game (7 goals, 13 assists = 20 goal-involvements)..
Xaver Schlager played his 50th Bundesliga game in an RBL jersey.

Marco Rose celebrated his 38th win in his 60th Bundesliga game as RBL coach. This is the new club record ahead of Julian Nagelsmann (37 wins in 68 games).

Dream duo I: Our goal scorers Lois Openda (who made it 1-1) and Benjamin Sesko (2-1) continue to score at will and now have 24 and 11 goals respectively this season.
Openda has now scored at least once in 20 (!) different league games this season.
With his 28th goal for the Red Bulls, Openda moves into the top 10 best RBL goalscorers of all time, drawing level with Willi Orban.
In addition, the two strikers have each scored at least once in the last 4 games. The last time this happened in the Bundesliga was in February 2015, through BVB duo Marco Reus and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
New club record!Sesko has now been involved in at least one goal (8 goals, 2 assists) in his last 10 Bundesliga starts. No Red Bull has managed this before. He has also now scored 15 goals for RB Leipzig.
After his assist in Heidenheim, Mo Simakan shone as a goalscorer and scored his second goal of the season with the 3-1 win.
The goal to make it 3-1 again showed perfect RBL DNA: A lightning-fast counterattack and goal number 14 scored in this way. No team in the league counters better.
Christoph Baumgartner once again shone as a substitute. His goal to make it 4-1 was “Baumi’s” 4th off the bench and our 13th overall – a league record in each case.

Xavi conjured up the 1-1 for Lois Openda! Assist number 13 – no one has assisted more goals in the Bundesliga.
Dream duo II: Xavi has laid on 5 of the 24 Openda goals.
Xaver Schlager (5), Lois Openda (7) and Benjamin Henrichs (3) also shone as assisters.

We remain 4th in the table, but have now extending our lead over BVB to 5 points.
It was our 4th league win in a row and we have won 22 of a possible 24 points over the last 8 games.
With the 4 strikes we have broken the 70 goal mark and now have 73 goals.

RBL extend their unbeaten streak to 9 competitive games and 8 in the Bundesliga.
After 5 games and a total of 470 minutes without conceding a goal in the Red Bull Arena, we suffered another goal this time, but it was of little consequence.
Péter Gulácsi stopped 5 (!) big chances and remains our points guarantee: 11 games with Pete in the box, 9 wins and 2 draws with only 7 goals conceded.
It was our 6th win against Dortmund from the last 7 duels and our 4th home win in a row against BVB (11-2 on aggregate).