Schäfer defends Rose after another listless Leipzig performance

RB Leipzig’s winless Bundesliga run stretched to four games after a drab goalless draw in Freiburg. The Bulls only won once from their last nine league matches as they slipped outside Champions League places.

However, Leipzig's managing director for sport, Marcel Schäfer, is still counting on Marco Rose. "It's always surprising. No matter how you do it, it's always somehow wrong," said Schäfer after the game. "The fast pace of our business is criticized all over the place. And, maybe, rightly so.

“Now we're going completely the other way. But, we want to get through this difficult phase with the coach who was born in Leipzig. He won a title for the club. Yet he has been criticized every week."