As became known after Leipzig’s 3-0 win over Bochum, Dominik Szoboszlai was angry about his fate of first being relegated to the bench by coach Jesse Marsch. A clear announcement followed
“Domi was a little bit mad at me.” With this sentence, RB coach Jesse Marsch confirmed after the clear 3-0 victory over VfL Bochum that his protégé Dominik Szoboszlai had not been very happy with having to sit on the bench on Saturday evening, just like his colleague André Silva.
A short time later, Szoboszlai came forward in an interview with Sky and made it clear that he was really angry: “I think everyone is a bit angry when they are not in the first eleven. Personally, maybe even more than others because I want to play all the games. If there are 60 games in a year, then I want to play 60. I’m actually ready for all the games. “
“Of course you need breaks, I myself was out for eight months,” recalled the Hungarian, who arrived from RB Salzburg in the winter of 2021 for a 20 million euro fee, of his most recent time of suffering (protracted adductor complaints).” However, Szoboszlai also added again: “Nevertheless and as I said: I want to play all the games!”
Silva is the opposite of Szoboszlai
While Szoboszlai had served up a neat corner just moments after coming on as a substitute, André Silva, who came on as a substitute, not only made it 1-0 with a header from that corner, but then elegantly set up Christopher Nkunku for 2-0.
Whether the 25-year-old Portuguese, who came from Eintracht Frankfurt for 23 million euros before this season, had been angry when he had to replace Yussuf Poulsen on the bench for the third time in a row? No one talked about it – and the striker himself didn’t shed any light on it either with his following as well as rather classic answer: “Of course I’m very happy about my goal and especially about the fact that I was able to help the team with the goal. “
“Stay strong, we believe in you!”
JESSE MARCH TO ANDRÉ SILVA
Much more meaningful, however, were the images of Leipzig’s US coach Marsch sprinting after Silva’s goal and hugging his protégé dearly – as well as speaking again at length afterwards about his recent time of suffering (most recently six competitive games without a goal): “It’s a bit of a shame because André is such a good player and good person. I had a conversation with André today where I told him: ‘Stay strong, we believe in you!’ The situation is certainly not easy for him and for us, but then it’s important that he scores a goal like he did today.”
A goal that also helped the Saxons as a club: The second Bundesliga treble in a row finally catapulted RB Leipzig back to the international ranks, which are at least the goal this season.
