When football professionals cry, they usually haven't lost a normal game, and what happened at Glasgow's Ibrox Park was anything but normal.

Around 50,000 spectators had driven their team forward, whipped them forward, cheered and screamed at every ball contact and thus contributed to the Rangers winning 3-1 against RB Leipzig and the Europa League final on May 18 (9 p.m. in the afternoon). FAZ live ticker for the Europa League and on RTL).

In Seville, against Eintracht Frankfurt.

Kevin Kampl had tears in his eyes while he was still on the field, and Peter Gulacsi also had tears in their eyes.

Both are over 30 years old, Gulacsi 32, Kampl 31. At that moment they must have guessed that they would not come that close to a European final.

"The disappointment is great," said coach Domenico Tedesco.

“We felt your physicality in the first leg”

In addition to sadness and disappointment, anger and anger were the dominant feelings on the Leipzig side.

On yourself and your own inadequacy.

"There wasn't a goal that was so terrific that we couldn't have prevented it," said Konrad Laimer.

That was right, but apart from their limited footballing skills, the Rangers offered a lot that the Leipzigers lack and that weighs more in such a semi-final than overplayed pressing lines and unfixed balls.

Glasgow's players wanted to get into the final with every fiber of their being, Leipzig's only with their feet.

"We already felt their physicality in the first leg, and that's an issue for us," said Tedesco, referring to similarly robust opponents like Union Berlin or Freiburg, which his team had struggled against in the Bundesliga.

There, after the recent two defeats against Union and Gladbach, RB has to see if they can somehow qualify for the Champions League with victories against Augsburg and Bielefeld.

Freiburg would have to fail at least once for that.

The option of moving into the premier class as the winner of the Europa League is gone after the end in Glasgow.

From Leipzig's point of view, the 180 minutes with the Rangers were like a painful look in the mirror.

Tedesco's players couldn't find a suitable answer to the opponent's passion and determination, leading Laimer to a darker, deeper analysis.

"We've been in a situation like this so many times, cup finals or Champions League semi-finals, and it feels like we keep making the same childish mistakes.

It's finally time to learn from it," said the Austrian international.

In fact, the path for RB all too often always ends when something is at stake and heart and emotions sometimes beat the mind.

In Glasgow, Leipzig's burden was felt from the start, after just over 20 minutes Rangers were 2-0 up thanks to goals from James Tavernier and Glen Kamara.

"The best thing I've ever experienced in a stadium"

“Rangers take the lead with the first chance.

That doesn't necessarily help in such a setting," said Tedesco.

In general the atmosphere.

The coach had already worked on her after the first leg.

The Leipzig audience, who were reserved compared to the Rangers, clearly lost the comparison in the stands, and Tedesco should not have liked that RB sold significantly fewer tickets for the second leg at Ibrox Park than the European association UEFA would have had available.

Speaking to the Rangers fans, Tedesco said: "Congratulations on the stadium, on the setting.

That was the best thing I've ever experienced in a stadium."

The cheers didn't stop when Christopher Nkunku reduced the deficit to 2-1 in the second half and Leipzig were closer to the final.

"In our best phase, when everyone has the feeling that we won't go into extra time because we made it 2-2, that's when we get the third goal," said Tedesco.

John Lundstram took advantage of the chaos in the Leipzig defense.

In addition to the outstanding games in the Bundesliga, Leipzig still has the final in the DFB Cup against Freiburg.

In view of this, Tedesco was at least able to gain something from the end of the Europa League: "Maybe a game like this will help you draw the right conclusions," he said.

Ideally, his players will then be better prepared than they were in Glasgow.