Domenico Tedesco’s RB Leipzig Revival

On the 5th of December Jesse Marsch was relieved of his duties at RB Leipzig, becoming the first Bundesliga manager to learn of his dismissal whilst in a COVID enforced quarantine.

The peculiarities of Marsch’s departure stole headlines, but the fact that it had come to this dreary conclusion left few surprised.

Back in December, Leipzig had taken just 1 victory in their last 6 matches, and the squad's discontent with the American's radical tactical shift seemed to foreshadow the downfall long before it eventually happened. Thus, a new, but simultaneously well-known, face returned to the Bundesliga dugout.

Domenico Tedesco, an understudy to Julian Nagelsmann at TSG Hoffenheim, and probably the last semi-successful manager in Schalke’s multi-year fall from grace, came as a safe pair of hands to steady the Leipzig ship and rescue some face in a season of transition.