Overview
- RB Leipzig beat SV Elversberg 4-0 at the Red Bull Arena on Saturday, extending a perfect home record to five competitive wins with a 19-0 goal tally.
- The club has lost its last five away competitive matches, including heavy defeats of 1-6 at Bayern Munich and 1-4 at Real Madrid, which have intensified media scrutiny of Demichelis.
- Demichelis made eight changes to the side against Elversberg and said a player removed himself from the starting lineup because he was too tired, with Castello Lukeba reported as that player.
- Christopher Nkunku missed the Elversberg game with adductor problems and is reported likely to miss the DFB-Pokal trip to Rot-Weiss Essen on Tuesday, while goalkeeper rotation and other rest measures are being used to manage workloads.
- Leipzig will travel to Essen on Tuesday and to Schalke in the Bundesliga on Saturday, with those away fixtures set to show whether the club’s rotation policy and the sporting director’s public backing can halt the alarming road form and protect domestic and European ambitions.