Pep Guardiola has been credited together with his function in Angelino’s prolific begin to his second mortgage spell at RB Leipzig.
The Spaniard is on a season-long mortgage at Leipzig following a profitable spell final season, and the German membership have an possibility to purchase him on the finish of the season.
Angelino was spectacular in final season’s mortgage, and has kicked on this 12 months with 4 targets in six video games – together with each targets in Leipzig’s opening Champions League win over Istanbul Basaksehir this week.
His first in that sport noticed him make a run into the centre, management a chipped ball excessive first time to show his defender, and fireplace a shot previous the goalkeeper like a seasoned striker.
However his Leipzig boss Julian Nagelsmann refused to take full credit score for his positive kind because the new season started, as an alternative pointing to Pep Guardiola’s affect.
“I’ve to confess, he arrived after working underneath an incredible supervisor,” Nagelsmann stated. “I am unable to simply reward myself. He got here as a well-developed participant.
“We have not introduced many gamers in from Pep Guardiola, but, so we won’t draw a comparability. However his adaption time was minimal, as he arrived from an incredible staff and an incredible supervisor, who absolutely taught him one thing.
“He’s inquisitive, listens and implements issues, as he is a superb footballer with an intuition to play.
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“He desires to work on a regular basis and Yussi is like that too. So that you adapt and present nice outcomes. To attain his first aim in the present day is world class.”
Increasing on why Angelino is enjoying so effectively at Leipzig, Nagelsmann prompt that common video games – one thing he was not getting at Metropolis – is the important thing to getting the very best from the wing-back.
“I believe Yussi [Yussuf Poulsen] agrees, that he solely desires to win. He is sort of a youngster that simply desires to play on a regular basis. He’s nearly as dangerous as me. I am all the time enjoying round with a ball.
“Angelino is simply disagreeable when he would not play, which solely occurred twice this 12 months. That just about describes his character,” Nagelsmann continued.
“However he simply all the time desires to have the ball and also you see him continuously capturing it. After coaching he desires to proceed. He has an enormous enjoying intuition and he simply desires to win on a regular basis and mess around with a ball.”