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From left-back to goalscorer: Leipzig's Angeliño
Photo: Kevin Voigt / imago images / Jan Huebner
RB Leipzig has made a successful start to the Champions League season.
The Bundesliga leaders won against Turkish champions Basaksehir 2-0 (2-0).
Against the club from Istanbul, which is competing in the premier class for the first time this year, Angeliño decided the game with a brace early on (16th minute, 20th).
A fast-paced game developed in the initial phase.
For Leipzig, Dayot Upamecano initially had the first good chance with a header from a corner (6th), shortly afterwards the Frenchman deflected a flat cross Edin Visca with his toe on the defensive - only because of this, Enzo Crivelli, lurking behind Upamecano, could Do not use the template (9.).
Angeliños becoming a striker
Angeliño then proved that he had recently developed from a left-back to a dangerous left winger: Yussuf Poulsen pulled a central defender from Basaksehir's back four and let a flat pass bounce to Kevin Kampl, who played Angeliño, who had run in the center forward position, with a chip pass.
With a turn around defensive veteran Martin Skrtel, the Spaniard put himself in the final position and turned with a left-footed shot (16th).
Angeliño's second goal was preceded by Poulsen's high ball win.
Via Nkunku, the ball got back to the left winger, who scored his fourth goal in the last three competitive games - Angeliño had already met in the Bundesliga against Schalke 04 and FC Augsburg.
After the second hit, Leipzig managed the result, Basaksehir only had a few opportunities.
Visca missed the best chance of a subsequent goal for the Istanbul team from 16 meters, Péter Gulácsi defused his well-placed violent shot with a strong positional play (31st).
For Leipzig, the substitute Hwang Hee-chan had the chance to decide the game prematurely after the break, but did not bring a quickly played counterattack after a hook too much to the end (60th).
Nkunku also tested Mert Günok in the goal of Basaksehir with a long-range shot (69th).
In Group H, the opening win gives coach Julian Nagelsmann's team a good starting position.
The group is well-known with Paris Saint-Germain, one of the finalists of the pre-season, and the major English club Manchester United.
Basaksehir started the new season weak with only four points from the first five games of the Süper Lig season and is considered the easiest opponent for Leipzig.
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