Highlights
B. Dankert
0:26
WATCH: NKUNKU: "WE ABSOLUTELY DESERVED THE WIN"
Full-time
90'
Speed check: The fastest player in the game after 90 minutes
Speed check: The fastest player in the game after 90 minutes
Through high-end camera technology and machine learning, the speed of each player is evaluated in real time. Top speed then means, the fastest measured single frame of a player/game.
85'
LOOKING AHEAD
This win will take Leipzig to within a point of third-placed Leverkusen. Who do RB face next in the league? Yup, they're in Leverkusen on Sunday. It could be a big week for Tedesco's men with that Europa League quarter-final second leg at Atalanta on Thursday as well.
83'
OLMO!
Hoffenheim fail with several attempts to deal with Poulsen and a bouncing ball. It eventually sits for Olmo, but his snapshot is dragged wide.
81'
Pass Efficiency
Pass Efficiency
Pass Efficiency compares the number of successful passes with the number of passes expected to find another teammate. For this, every pass receives an AI-calculated probability to be a successful one. If a player has a positive Pass Efficiency value, he has brought more passes to his teammates than predicted.
Pass Efficiency
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80'
Substitution
80'
Substitution
74'
SZOBOSZLAI OVER
The Hungarian tries to make it four for Leipzig and two for him, but his effort from left of goal is well wide.
73'
KLOSTERMANN OVERTAKES NKUNKU
Fastest runner (km/h)
35.97
34.05
Lukas Klostermann Ihlas Bebou
71'
WELL BELOW PAR
Goal attempts
5off target
4on target
2off target
0on target
70'
Substitution
70'
Substitution
65'
LIMITED OPTIONS
Injuries and suspensions mean Hoffenheim don't have many options on their bench to try and make a change. Justin Che could be given his second taste of Bundesliga action. Robert Skov could also be given some minutes as he returns from a lengthy injury.
63'
Substitution
63'
Substitution
63'
JOB DONE FOR NKUNKU
Tedesco withdraws his main man knowing he'll be needed on Thursday as Leipzig look to their Europa League quarter-final second leg with Atalanta. Halstenberg is also taken off after getting an hour under his belt on his first start in over a year.
62'
Substitution
60'
HOUR GONE
We've reached the point in the game where substitutions usually come. Leipzig at least are preparing a couple of players.
57'
GULACSI UNTROUBLED
Goal attempts
4off target
4on target
2off target
0on target
54'
FINALLY
And there is the first corner as Nkunku has a cross cut out. Szoboszlai delivers, eventually falling to Nkunku but he fires over.
51'
TAKE IT TO THE CORNER
46'
ADAMS ON
Domenico Tedesco opts for a half-time change as he gives the impressive Laimer a break and Adams a runabout for 45 minutes. He'll need all his squad to have rhythm as the only Bundesliga team still competing in three competitions.
Kick-off!
45'
+ 4
HEAVY FOR HOFFENHEIM
This is Hoffenheim's biggest half-time deficit since trailing 3-0 at home to Freiburg on 2 January 2021. They went on to lose that 3-1. The only times they've trailed by more after 45 minutes in the Bundesliga both came against Bayern (4-0 and 5-0).
HALF-TIME!
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45'
+ 3
Substitution
Half-time
45'
+ 1
ADDED TIME
Three minutes at the end of the first half.
44'
THREE FOR LEIPZIG!
Scintillating stuff from the hosts. Simakan intercepts a Stiller pass in his own half and races away up the right. He crosses to the far post, where Nkunku nods it down and Szoboszlai simply has to tuck it in from a few yards out.
43'
ASSURED PASSING FROM RICHARDS
ASSURED PASSING FROM RICHARDS
Pass Efficiency
40'
FIRST ATTACK
The first half chance of any note for the visitors as Kramaric clips a free-kick over the top. It's headed back across but missed by two blue shirts lurking in the centre.
31'
QUICK BREAK
The sun has gone down in Leipzig, meaning those players fasting for Ramadan can now have something to eat and drink.
30'
Speed check: The fastest player in the game after 30 minutes
Speed check: The fastest player in the game after 30 minutes
Through high-end camera technology and machine learning, the speed of each player is evaluated in real time. Top speed then means, the fastest measured single frame of a player/game.
29'
SLICK PLAY
The hosts are pinging the ball around with confidence. This attack ends with Forsberg playing a low cross from the left, which takes a touch off a defender and allows Baumann to smother the ball.
27'
CLINICAL
xGoals
The xGoals value of a club is calculated from the sum of all goal probabilities (goals and shots on goal) of that team. During a match, it’s easy to see whether the club is performing better than expected (goals > xGoals) - or maybe even higher (xGoals > goals).
xGoals
2
0.86
0.0
0
Goals
A HAPPY COMEBACK
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20'
HALSTENBERG DOUBLES UP!
Die Roten Bullen are running rampant. Laimer drives right through the centre from the halfway line. Nordtveit tries to clear his loose touch but the ball breaks out to the left, where Halstenberg is coming in, gets his foot over the ball and drills it in off the far post for his first goal of the season.
20'
NOT OVER YET
No team has more points from losing positions in the Bundesliga this season than Hoffenheim, winning six times and drawing three after going behind.
18'
KEEP BALL
Possession (%)
7129
SUPER NKUNKU
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9'
LEIPZIG ON THE FRONT FOOT
Mukiele digs out a cross from the right. Forsberg gets his head to it but it's a stretch and goes wide.
7'
NKUNKU STRIKES!
A long, long VAR check for offside but Leipzig have an early lead. It's that man Nkunku as ever getting on the end of a clipped free-kick from deep. He takes a touch, spins and fires beyond Baumann from 12 yards. He's made to wait before the referee confirms he's allowed to celebrate.
4'
SituationNo goal
ReviewOffside?
DecisionGoal
Kick-off!
MUST WIN FOR BOTH
Leipzig are now only in the top four thanks to their superior goal difference over Freiburg, who are winning in Frankfurt. Hoffenheim kick off four points adrift of Leipzig and can't afford to slip to seven behind with five games to go after today.
2:03
PREVIOUS MEETING: HOFFENHEIM 2-0 LEIPZIG
3:32
WATCH: HOW TEDESCO TURNED LEIPZIG'S SEASON AROUND
HOFFENHEIM TEAM NEWS
Hoffenheim have a lengthy list of absentees so only make the four enforced changed from their 2-1 loss at home to Bochum. Kevin Akpoguma, Kevin Vogt and David Raum are all suspended, while Florian Grillitsch is injured, so Stefan Posch, Havard Nordtveit and Chris Richards come in for a completely new back three. Georginio Rutter joins the attack, with Ihlas Bebou set to cover Raum’s left wing-back role.
LEIPZIG TEAM NEWS
In the middle of a UEFA Europa League quarter-final tie against Atalanta, Domenico Tedesco makes five changes from Thursday’s first leg. In come Mohamed Simakan, Nordi Mukiele, Marcel Halstenberg, Emil Forsberg and Dominik Szoboszlai. Lukas Klostermann, Benjamin Henrichs, Angelino, Dani Olmo and Andre Silva drop to the bench.
HOFFENHEIM SUBS
Philipp, Bruun Larsen, Dabbur, Adams Che, Skov, Bischof
HOFFENHEIM XI
Baumann (c) - Posch, Nordtveit, Richards - Kaderabek, Samassekou, Stiller, Bebou - Baumgartner - Rutter, Kramaric
LEIPZIG SUBS
Martinez, Angelino, Poulsen, Adams, Klostermann, Olmo, Silva, Novoa, Henrichs
LEIPZIG XI
Gulacsi (c) - Simakan, Orban, Gvardiol - Mukiele, Laimer, Kampl, Halstenberg – Forsberg, Szoboszlai - Nkunku
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