{"id":104045,"date":"2025-10-04T20:14:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T20:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/?p=104045"},"modified":"2025-10-04T20:14:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T20:14:41","slug":"ridle-baku-convinced-rb-leipzig-are-one-of-the-best-teams-in-the-bundesliga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/2025\/ridle-baku-convinced-rb-leipzig-are-one-of-the-best-teams-in-the-bundesliga\/","title":{"rendered":"Ridle Baku convinced RB Leipzig are &#8216;one of the best teams&#8217; in the Bundesliga"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>German football&#8217;s &#8220;man-of-the-moment&#8221; Ridle Baku is very pleased with his current club team&#8217;s form. The Mainz-native is finally clicking with his third Bundesliga outfit, RB Leipzig. Baku&#8217;s recent club form has led to him being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/2025\/germany-october-squad\/\">called back up to the German national team for the first time in four years.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Baku &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/2025\/bundesliga-bayern-chasers-borussia-dortmund-vs-rb-leipzig-player-ratings-and-tactical-review\/\">arguably the best RB Leipzig player on the pitch in Saturday&#8217;s 1-1 draw with Borussia Dortmund<\/a> &#8211; has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/2025\/ridle-baku-discusses-new-look-rb-leipzig-german-national-team-and-his-mainz-roots\/\">answering questions about his absence from the German national team for far too long.<\/a> This weekend, the now 27-year-old was happy to keep the focus on his domestic team.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>A lot of teams would come here [to Signal Iduna Park] and drop points,<\/em>&#8221; Baku told <strong>Sky Germany<\/strong> after the draw. &#8220;<em>I&#8217;m very, very proud of the team and its performance. We&#8217;re finally bossing play. [Defensively], We were a bit lacking last year, but this year we&#8217;re doing it and doing it consistently.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>We&#8217;re one of the best teams in the league,&#8221; <\/em>Baku continued. &#8220;<em>That&#8217;s the level that we want to play at. We want to prevail against all teams.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/\">GGFN<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PeterVicey\"><strong>Peter Weis<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German football&#8217;s &#8220;man-of-the-moment&#8221; Ridle Baku is very pleased with his current Bundesliga club team RB Leipzig&#8217;s form.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12312420,"featured_media":104046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[340,11],"tags":[476,449,570,1028,562,1573],"class_list":["post-104045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rb-leipzig","category-bundesliga","tag-borussia-dortmund","tag-bundesliga","tag-germany","tag-news","tag-rb-leipzig","tag-ridle-baku"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12312420"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104047,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104045\/revisions\/104047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}