Craziest football tactic? RB Leipzig scored after 8.6 seconds with 2-0-8 formation in 2013

RB Leipzig aren’t exactly the most-loved football club in the world, but they certainly know how to play ball.

With top-class players such as Timo Werner, Dayot Upamecano and Marcel Sabitzer all donning the Red Bull-clad jersey in recent years, RB Leipzig are safely established as one of Germany’s top teams.

However, while they might be used to the cushy and glitzy surroundings of the Champions League these days, the controversial club still had to climb their way up Germany’s footballing ladder.

Nevertheless, despite having been founded as recently as 2009, Leipzig found themselves in the German third division by 2013 and managed to make international headlines during their time in the league.

While the invention of the club might be a topic of controversy amongst some football fans, you’ve got to take your hat off for the invention that the team showed during their time in 3. Liga.

Ok, corny jokes aside, Leipzig managed to produce one of the strangest goals that we’ve ever seen against Stuttgart II in September 2013 by pulling off a set-piece routine that will never be forgotten.

But oh no, we’re not talking about corners, free-kicks or even penalties because Leipzig thought outside of the box with their approach to kick-offs in what proved to be a deadly tactic.

That’s because the German side lined up for the first kick of the game in what can only be described as a 2-0-8 formation with only the goalkeeper and two defenders standing back from the halfway line.

Leipzig proceeded to knock the ball back to one of the deep-lying players upon the first whistle and then flooded the Stuttgart back-line in a move that evidently, and understandably, baffled them.

That’s because a subsequent long ball towards the onrush of