RB Leipzig beat Augsburg 4-0 on Saturday, with a double from their Slovenian international Benjamin Sesko, and temporarily put themselves in second place in the Bundesliga ahead of the fifth matchday tomorrow.
The energetic team remains unbeaten in the first five rounds of the Bundesliga and has only one point less than leader Bayern. In the Champions League, after opening with a heavy defeat against Atlético in the Metropolitano (2-1), they will host Juventus on Wednesday.
Early bird double for Sesko
certainly Czech, who opened the scoring in Madrid as soon as the match against Atlético started, also got up early today by scoring RB Leipzig’s first two goals in the first quarter of an hour. The Slovenian did not make his goal scoring debut in the Bundesliga and now he did it like Xavi Simons.
sex He opened the scoring with a good shot from outside the area (11′) and returned soon after with a header after a cross from David Raum (15′). Besides, Sesko gave the help of the final 4-0 to Xavi Simons.
Gulacsi for a punishment
At 2-0, Augsburg could have entered the game but the goalkeeper Peter Gulacsy He was stopped by a penalty in the 27th minute Jeffrey Gouweleuw already Lutcharel Geertruida committed to Dimitrios Giannoulis.
The second part came the Xavi Simons festival. As soon as the match resumed, the Dutch playmaker gave an exquisite pass in the counterattack to Lois Openda, which started with just space and beat Nediljko Labrović on his way out (46′).
Openda and Simons sentence
It was the Belgian’s third league goal after a double against Bayer Leverkusen that ended 35 consecutive days without defeat for the reigning champions (2-3).
In the 57th minute, Xavi Simonswho until now had not seen the net, shot the score 4-0 after a cross from David Raum diverted by Seskoin his attempt to control him, towards the Dutchman.
match lineup
1
3
22
13
4
23
7
8
30
11
10
22
11
13
31
6
23
19
17
21
8
16
Red Bull Arena
Nediljko Labrovic22
Marius Wolf11
67′
74′
Dimitris Giannoulis13
41′
Kevin Schlotterbeck31
57′
Jeffrey Gouweleuw6
83′
Maximilian Bauer23
64′
Frank Onyeka19
77′
74′
Kristijan Jakic17
10′
14′
83′
Philip Tietz21
78′
45′
Elvis Rexhbeçaj8
67′
56′
Ruben Vargas16
57′
Replacements
Finn Dahmen1
83′
Chrislain Matsima5
57′
82′
Henri Koudossou44
67′
74′
Arne Maier10
64′
Tim Breithaupt18
74′
Alexis Claude-Maurice20
Fredrik Jensen24
67′
83′
Yusuf Kabadayi7
78′
Steve Mounie15
57′
coach
Marco Rose
Jess Thorup
Source: La Verdad
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