A 33-year-old coach leads Germany's Leipzig to make a new history in the European champions
Don Leipzig, the German, was named in the record of achievement and became only the thirty-second team to reach the semi-finals of the Champions League competition, after yesterday's victory over Atletico Madrid, Spain, 2-1 at the Jose Alfaladi Stadium in Lisbon. Spaniard Daniel Olmo (50) and American Tyler Addams (88) scored Leipzig's two goals, and Joao Felix (71 from a penalty kick) scored the Atletico goal.
Young coach Julian Nagelsmann (33 years) dug his name in the historical record of the tournament, being the youngest coach in the history of the competition, to reach his team to the semi-finals, but he achieved this in the absence of his scorer Timo Werner, who was transferred to Chelsea, as well as because he brought Leipzig for the first time to this. The role of the most famous competition.
Leipzig will play in the semi-finals with qualifying Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday, after reversing a goal against Atalanta until the last minute to a 2-1 victory. It is the first time that Leipzig has reached the semi-finals of the European Championship in 2009, noting that he participated for the first time in the 2017-2018 season and ended his career in the group stage.
Leipzig became the fifth German team to reach the semi-finals, after Bayern Munich (11 times), Borussia Dortmund (3 times), Bayer Leverkusen and Schalke (one time), according to the "Opta" sports statistics platform.
The Confederate Football Association (Wifa) transferred the quarter-final, semi-final and final matches to Portugal after it modified the tournament system in its current version, due to the outbreak of the new Corona virus, which caused the tournament to be suspended for nearly five months.
Atletico coach Diego Simeone is part of the exclusionary responsibility after Alvaro Morata and his young star Felix were excluded from the starting line-up.