For RB Leipzig coach Ole Werner, a lack of fitness is not an explanation for his team's dip in results in recent weeks. "That this is now an issue, that the team isn't fit enough, that's just nonsense," said the 37-year-old ahead of the Saxons' Bundesliga match at newly promoted Hamburger SV on Sunday (7.30pm/DAZN).
RB had recently conceded goals in the closing stages more often than not. Against Borussia Dortmund last weekend, the team let a 2-0 lead slip at the break. "In four of the last five games, we ran more than our opponents in the final quarter of an hour or from the 75th minute onwards," emphasized Werner.
"That probably says more about how organized we are in this phase and that we don't manage to be as clearly organized as we were in the minutes before." His team did not always manage to calm the game down when leading in the closing phases.
