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After the German record champions, RB Leipzig defied the English record champions and stormed into the last sixteen of the Champions League.

The pre-season semi-finalists beat Manchester United 3-2 (2-0) and overtook the British in Group H, which was top-class with Paris Saint-Germain.

Angeliño (2nd), Amadou Haidara (13th) and Justin Kluivert (69th) brought coach Julian Nagelsmann's team, which sometimes played high-speed football, on track early - in the first leg at the end of October, Leipzig had received a bitter 0: 5.

Bruno Fernandes (80th / foul penalty) and Paul Pogba (82nd) ​​caused tension again.

"That was tough, but it feels so good," Angeliño said on Sky.

"We made it difficult for ourselves, but at the end of the day we persevered, stayed strong."

Amadou Haidara scores to 2-0

Source: AP / Matthias Schrader

Three days after the top-class game at FC Bayern (3: 3), Leipzig got off to a rapid start.

Angeliño took a long ball from the right with his left and hit the lead with force after 109 seconds.

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With high speed and tactically well adjusted, the Leipzig team put the English record champions under pressure.

In defense, in which defender Dayot Upamecano was missing a yellow card, Nagelsmann formed a three-man chain, so that the outside players Nordi Mukiele and especially Angeliño could play extremely offensively.

Haidara scored 2-0 after a strong cross from the Spaniard.

Willi Orban's alleged 3-0 did not count, the 28-year-old met from offside (29th).

Leipzig's forces dwindle in the final phase

The guests were surprised by the speed of the Bundesliga club.

United coach Ole Gunnar Solskjaer had warned that the victory in the first leg “didn't mean anything”.

The Nagelsmann team was "unpredictable", said the Norwegian.

Mason Greenwood checked RB goalkeeper Peter Gulacsi (9th) - not much more came from the table sixth of the Premier League in the first half hour.

And United was very lucky that Emil Forsberg did not use his huge chance in the penalty area (17th).

United's playmaker Fernandes, who was so strong in the domestic league, did not develop for an hour.

In the 66th minute, Gulacsi, who was then increasingly challenged, had to intervene in a shot by the Portuguese, shortly afterwards Fernandes hit the crossbar with a free kick (68th).

Marcus Rashford, triple goalscorer in the first leg, was initially taken out of the game by the RB defense.

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A first phase of weakness in Leipzig with too many ball losses at the end of the first half was not yet punished.

Solskjaer reacted during the break and brought offensive player Donny van de Beek - and the guests got a little stronger.

Leipzig let themselves be pushed to their own penalty area at the beginning of the second half.

Nagelsmann looked anything but satisfied and changed twice after just under an hour.

Yussuf Poulsen occupied the storm center.

In addition, Kluivert came, who, after he had scored his first goal for RB at Bayern, promoted the ball to the supposedly calming 3-0 into the goal.

Ibrahima Konaté caused the dubious penalty with a foul on Greenwod.

Pogba's goal made RB tremble.