Strongest European league fans' holidays from football are over - this weekend the remaining three strongest leagues will join the previously started Premier League and Ligue 1 championships. Eurofootball.com invites you to get acquainted with the schedule of the upcoming weekend matches of the Top 5 European leagues and suggests paying attention to the most interesting matches of this weekend.
Most interesting weekend matches:
"Schalke" - "RB Leipzig"
August 19 (Saturday) 19:30
Last season, "RB Leipzig" became the biggest surprise of the Bundesliga championship. The team, which had been neck and neck with Bayern for a long time, in the end failed to keep up with the champions' pace and gave up their dreams of crowning their rivals from Munich. However, even a not so successful end of the season allowed this team to secure the second position and win silver medals in the German championship.
Meanwhile, the Schalke club became one of the biggest disappointments of the championship: the team, which had set high goals, finished only in tenth place, and last season this team undoubtedly wants to quickly forget. It is not surprising that after such an unsuccessful previous season, the team did not waste time in summer and tried to build a much better team capable of achieving better results.
Although in the summer "Schalke" acquired five new players (Nabil Bentaleb, Yevhenn Konoplyanka, Amine Harit, Bastian Oczipka, and Pablo Insua), the greatest attention was directed towards the new team coach. The new Schalke strategist was appointed a young, 31-year-old coach - Domenico Tedesco. Even more incredible is the fact that in order to convince the leaders of the new team to offer him a contract, this Italian-born strategist needed only a few months and 11 matches in professional football.
For D. Tedesco, who until last year worked only with youth teams in the second Bundesliga, the opportunity in men's football was provided by the team, "Aue", that was in the last place at that time. It is unlikely that the team itself could have expected the success brought by the newly appointed coach. In just 11 matches, "Aue" scored more points (20) than in the first 23 rounds (19) and surprisingly managed to maintain their place in the second division. Such a debut of the coach in men's football did not go unnoticed, and "Schalke" offered this young strategist the opportunity to prove that his results last season were not achieved due to successful coincidence.
The "RB Leipzig" team also did not waste their summer and after an excellent debut in the Bundesliga championship, they were not inclined to part with their leaders and continued their clearly expressed tactic of selecting young and talented players into the team. In their team, "RB Leipzig" has only two players over the age of 30, but they are certainly not the key figures in this team's lineup.
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