Mukiele took a while to settle at Leipzig
The French defender’s first season at the Red Bull Arena did not go entirely to plan. Manager Ralf Rangnick started him in five of the first eight league games of the 2018/19 campaign but he was substituted at half time in the 3-0 win over Hertha Berlin in November 2018.
Mukiele did not start another Bundesliga match until February with Lukas Klostermann being preferred ahead of him at fullback.