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Budapest (AP) - Exactly one year after the last game in a sold-out stadium, RB Leipzig wants to move into the quarter-finals of the Champions League again.
On March 10, 2020, the team of coach Julian Nagelsmann defeated Tottenham Hotspur 3-0, on March 10, 2021, the team had to make up a 0-2 against Liverpool in the second leg moved to Budapest.
And without any fans.
FORSBERG FACTOR: Emil Forsberg has big games in the Champions League.
The Swede scored the first premier class goal in the club's history, shooting the club into the knockout round against Benfica Lisbon last season and defeating Paris this season.
"Emil has exceptional qualities and a wealth of experience," said Nagelsmann.
With “his technique and his ability to recognize spaces” he makes the team stronger.
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KLOPP CRISIS: It was only at the weekend that Liverpool coach Jürgen Klopp admitted that he was going through what is probably the most difficult phase of his career.
He rejected comparisons with his Dortmund crisis in 2014/15 a day before the Leipzig game.
You can't compare these situations.
The Champions League should now serve to clear his team's heads.
“We have momentum in the Champions League this season,” said Klopp.
NO BLACKOUTS: Two catastrophic mistakes led to defeat in the first leg.
Because so much slapstick is unlikely to happen a second time, Nagelsmann did not focus much on the blackouts when preparing for the game.
«We have to play with our visors open, but not naively neglecting the protection of our own goal.
Although a goal would not change the fact that we have to score three goals, ”said the 33-year-old.
GEISTER YEAR: Exactly one year ago that Leipzig threw Tottenham out of the Champions League in front of 42,146 fans.
Now both round of 16 encounters with Liverpool will be played in Budapest - without spectators, without a home advantage.
“It's a situation that I don't quite understand either.
If you look at the incidences of Liverpool, Leipzig and Budapest there is one place where there is no way to gamble.
And Liverpool and Leipzig are not, ”said Klopp.
According to media reports, the seven-day incidence in the Hungarian capital is many times higher than in the other two cities.
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