New RB Leipzig manager showed his ability to muster unity and his way of absorbing what a set of players need
“We need the ball and we need to control the game,” said Domenico Tedesco, summing up his plans at RB Leipzig after a first game, and a first win. If the phrase was fairly anodyne in terms of a new coach setting out his ambitions for a club that wants to continue climbing, it pricked up the ears. This was not from what many thought was the Tedesco playbook.
There was a circularity, if not an inevitability, about the 36-year-old pitching up here. Not just because of his fitting the youthful outlook of the club, and not just because he was a coursemate and friend of Julian Nagelsmann in DFB coaching class going back seven years. Tedesco had made his top-flight coaching debut against Leipzig in August 2017, freshly installed in the top job at Schalke in the days when it felt like they might just be a forward-thinking club who could lose their culture of waste without bottoming out, like they did in last season’s relegation.
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