Rangnick returns to Salzburg: "It's a bit strange to run here as a coach."

The RB Leipzig will miss key players of the match outside the Europa League at Red Bull Salzburg. The player of the ÖFB Marcel Sabitzer (calf problems) will be missing Thursday (18:55) as well as former Salzburg professional Kevin Kampl (ankle). Diego Demme (muscle problems in calves) joins this team. Emil Forsberg misses the wounded Leipzigians for some time.

Injured professionals did not even start the trip to Salzburg, RB coach Ralf Rangnick said on Wednesday night. Kampl and Sabitzer had already missed the weekend in the Bundesliga, Demme gave up at the last minute. "The midfielder is not very good," Rangnick said. "It will be a surprising formation, I would not have thought it possible a week ago." Nevertheless, according to Rangnick, "they will make a good match – I dare to dare."

"If I had not started here as a sports director at the time, there would be no sports director Christoph Freund nor coach Marco Rose in Salzburg today. hui. "

Also for Rangnick, it's a trip to the past. From 2012 to 2015, the German sports director was in Salzburg. "It's a bit strange to run here as a coach, which is why it's a special match for me," he said Wednesday. Stefan Ilsanker could only agree with that. The native of Salzburg was waiting for a packed house. "It's going to be sensational, I'm sure, I'm really hot for the match," said the Austrian international.

Rangnick about Rose

Leipzig's managing director, Oliver Mintzlaff, however, opposed the possibility of a stable order against Salzburg. "Team orders? Who should come from whom? ", Is interviewed the 43-year-old during an interview on the Sport Buzzer Internet portal.

"Nonsense," said Mintzlaff. "Dietrich Mateschitz is engaged in operational activity and I have no influence over Salzburg, Salzburg and Leipzig have a common past, but no common present or future." According to him, "nothing at all" is bad when it comes to the duel between the two clubs sponsored by Red Bull. "But I do not want to talk either, it's a special game."

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