Since Dietrich Mateschitz’s company Red Bull took over RB Salzburg in 2005, they have won the Austrian Bundesliga an incredible 13 times.
In addition, they have lifted the Austrian Cup six times and will play for the first time in the Champions League in the season 2019/20.
Because Red Bull owns RB Salzburg and RB Leipzig, 16 players moved from Salzburg to the German club in the last few years.
The German club finished this season in third place behind Bayern and Dortmund.
The Austrian Hannes Wolf is one of these 16 players and will join Leipzig this summer.
This tactical analysis profiles the Austrian all-rounder and describes why RB Leipzig wanted him in their team.
Hannes Wolf career so far
Wolf was born on 16 April 1999 in Graz.
During his childhood and youth, he played for the youth teams of four small Austrian clubs before he joined RB Salzburg’s U16 in 2014.
He played for the U16 and U18 of the Austrian top club.
Furthermore, he made seven appearances in the UEFA Youth League in the 2016/17 season and won it with the RB Salzburg U19.
In these seven matches, he scored seven times and made five assists.
In the campaigns 2015/16 and 2016/17, he played combined 35 matches for RB Salzburgs second team Liefering in the second division of Austria.
Also, at the end of the 2016/17 season, he played his first games for RB Salzburg and really got a part of the team in the summer of 2017.
He also debuted for the Austrian U21 national team in 2017 and already played 10 games.
However, he hasnt appeared for the Austrian senior team yet.
In the last two seasons, he made a combined 49 appearances in the Austrian Bundesliga and scored 16 times.
In addition, he made 11 assists.
However, he played a total of 89 games for RB Salzburg and will join RB Leipzig this summer.
Hannes Wolf Positioning and role in RB Salzburg’s team
Marco Rose’s team played astonishing football within the last two seasons.
They were known for their offensive-orientated football with short passing combinations, high pressing and counter-pressing.
Wolf mostly played behind the two strikers or on the right side in the midfield of RB Salzburgs 4-4-2 with a narrow diamond in midfield.
Since Rose’s team dominated most of the games with the aid of possession and tried to use short passes to find their way to the opponent’s goal, the offensive midfielders like Wolf had a lot of freedom.
This becomes visible when you look at his heatmap for this season.
