Leipzig honors its energetic owners: it is driven with the vigor that is supposed to be. In his country he has a legion of critics because he has not just been German for ethics (he bargains the rule of 50 + 1 that prevents an oligarch of the ball from controlling the clubs over a popular majority), but is Germanic for aesthetics, which is why it is imposed under the apostolate of Jürgen Klopp, that of strenuous pressure and verticality. Leipzig circulates outside the radar, drowns the opponent and submits him because he is powerful, especially when he does not have the ball. Al Tottenham left him to soak in London with a bathroom for which there were not enough towels, surpassed him (0-1) and it seemed like a short marker.
TOT
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RBL
Tottenham
Lloris, Aurier, Ben Davies, Davinson Sánchez, Alderweireld, Giovani Lo Celso, Harry Winks, Steven Bergwijn, Gedson Fernandes (Tanguy NDombele Alvaro, min. 63), Lucas Moura and Dele Alli (Lamela, min. 63).
RB Leipzig
Gulacsi, Lukas Klostermann, Marcel Halstenberg, Ethan Ampadu, M. Sabitzer, Tasende, Nordi Mukiele, Laimer (Forsberg, min. 82), Nkunku (Amadou Haidara, min. 73), Timo Werner and Patrik Schick (Yussuf Poulsen, min. 76).
Goals
0-1 min. 57: Timo Werner (p).
Referee
Cüneyt Çakir
Ben Davies (min. 55), Giovani Lo Celso (min. 9), M. Sabitzer (min. 11), Nkunku (min. 71), Timo Werner (min. 32) and Lamela (min. 93).
Stadium: Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
Unable to circulate the ball, Mourinho's team suffered torture. But at the break the score indicated a goalless draw. The Leipzig went to the house with a bitter aftertaste because he did not hit. He also had no options to do so because it was devastating until the last twenty meters. It would be due to the absence of talent, of clairvoyance, by chance or by mistake, but of the twelve chances of the Leipzig goal that the statisticians accounted for in the first part, only three went between clubs.
The first came in the action that opened the game, a shot to the pole of the Galician side Angeliño, a value that should not be far from Luis Enrique's plans for the Eurocup. It is a hammer, a left-handed round trip, ideal for schemes such as Nagelsmann, which demands great efforts on the flanks. The start portrayed Leipzig, who missed scores and did not prepare to measure forces. He simply jumped into the field like a hurricane.
Reality, surely injustice, also his inability to show himself in the zone of truth, forced him to wait almost an hour to find revenue in his domain. He achieved them from patience, without specifying a counter but a mature attack in which he moved the ball correctly, swung his rival and found superiority in the right part of his attack, where Davies stopped Laimer when the Austrian midfielder took the Highway towards Lloris. The penalty was monumental and transformed Werner, who was right from eleven meters, but with a little aim would have left the tie very close to the settlement.
Because the Spurs squeezed the shoe with the handicap and pushed for the last twenty minutes. Lo Celso sent a free kick to the post, also deflected by the Gulacsi goal. Without Kane and Son, injured in Tottenham; without the three central Leipzig headlines, also outside the team, there was more turmoil than certainties. Leipzig kept the lead and is close to the quarterfinals.
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