Will the trend turnaround finally come for Arminia Bielefeld?
After six bankruptcies in a row against RB Leipzig on Saturday.
An association that divides minds in Germany.
Bielefeld / Leipzig - The soccer magazine “
11 Freunde
” took an extraordinary step last August: Normally, all
Champions League games
with German participation are ticked live there.
But when
RB Leipzig
met Atletico Madrid in the quarter-finals of the premier class on August 13 (final score 2: 1 for RB), the Berlin editorial team decided to ignore the game, as reported by owl24.de *.
As a reason for this step, the magazine stated in a specially written text that it “
did not want to normalize the
RB Leipzig
construct
”.
Although the Saxons have been involved in professional football for a few years now, they still heat the minds of football purists.
In 2009
Red Bull GmbH
took over
the then fifth division SSV Markranstädt and built a new branch of football in the east of the country.
society | Arminia Bielefeld |
Trainer | Uwe Neuhaus |
Next opponent | RB Leipzig |
Arminia Bielefeld: opponent RB Leipzig causes fan protests
The club cleverly avoided a name dispute by
explaining
the initials RB as an abbreviation for "
lawn ball sport
".
In every game with Leipzig participation, the club is attacked by opposing fans.
In most cases non-violent and with banners.
The criticism: The Austrian brewing company is trying to maximize its profits with an artificially created club as a marketing project and thereby undermining the authenticity of
German football
.
In addition, financially weaker traditional clubs, including Arminia Bielefeld *, would be pushed further and further from the competition.
The criticism and aversion to
RB Leipzig
will probably not decrease in the coming years.
However, the opponents have to acknowledge that the Saxons have now
established themselves
in the top group of the
Bundesliga
and are among the narrower circle of championship candidates.
Also this season,
Arminia Bielefeld's
next opponent is
back at the top of the table - despite the draw against Eintracht Frankfurt on the previous day (1-1).
Under coach
Julian Nagelsmann
, the team has also made another leap forward.
RB Leipzig against Arminia Bielefeld without Bejamin Henrichs
Both teams only met twice in the league - in the 2015/2016 second division season.
The
DSC
could not win in either game (1: 1 and 0: 1).
After six defeats in a row, Arminia Bielefeld * will do everything possible
to stop
the series of bankruptcies in the
Red Bull Arena
.
DSC coach Uwe Neuhaus does not believe
that
Ostwestfalen will
have an advantage
on Saturday (November 28) due to the fact that
RB Leipzig
still had to play in the Champions League during the week.
+
RB Leipzig is not a welcome guest in the German stadiums.
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Not only the 0-1 defeat of
RB Leipzig
against Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League on Tuesday (November 24th) caused a
lot of trouble
, especially for coach
Julian Nagelsmann
(he described the penalty for the decisive goal as a "joke") ) - The Saxons also have to do without full-back Benjamin Henrichs in the duel against the East Westphalia *.
The newcomer from AS Monaco will be missing until the beginning of next year due to an inflammation of the patellar tendon.
(*
owl24.de
and msl24.de are part of the Ippen-Digital network.
)
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