Manchester City will look to put their disappointing Premier League form behind them when they take on RB Leipzig tonight.
Enzo Maresca’s side have lost their last two games in the English top flight, against Aston Villa and Brighton, but have still had a good campaign in Europe.
City have beaten Porto and AEK Athens with their only setback coming against two-time defending champions Paris Saint-Germain at the Etihad.
Leipzig are back in the Champions League after a season without European football, but it has been a struggle. The only win was against PSV Eindhoven, and they have also lost to Bayer Leverkusen and Real Madrid, who finished 29th with three points. They haven’t scored more than once in any of their last four Champions League games.
City dominated this game. They have won four of their previous six Champions League meetings with Leipzig, drawing one and losing one.
RB LEIPZIG TEAM NEWS
Marc Guiu and Assan Ouédraogo are injured.
RB Leipzig: Vandevoordt; Baku, Orban, Lukeba, Raum; El Aynaoui, Baumgartner, Banzuzi; Gruda, Cardoso, Nusa.
RB Leipzig Subs: Nyland, Kone, Esteve, Bakayoko, Seiwald, Klostermann, Reitz, Gomis, Nkunku, Maksimovic, Henrichs.
MANCHESTER CITY TEAM NEWS
Antoine Semenyo is still out due to injury.
Manchester City: Donnarumma; Nunes, Guehi, Khusanov, O’Reilly; Anderson, Fernandez; Foden, Cherki, Ndiaye; Haaland.
Manchester City substitutes: Bettinelli, Rulli, Dias, Kovačić, Doku, Aït-Nouri, Reis, Gvardiol, Bouaddi, Allan, Samba, Lewis
Where to watch Leipzig vs Man City: TV channel, live streaming online
RB Leipzig vs Manchester City kicks off at 20:00 GMT (16:00 ET / 13:00 PT) on Wednesday, November 4 at the Red Bull Arena in Leipzig.
The Champions League The match is live on TNT Sports 2 in the UK, with streaming on HBO Max. In the US, it’s on Paramount Plus.
If you live outside the UK or US, please visit List of UEFA Champions League broadcasters to find out where to watch it in your region.
RB Leipzig vs Man City Champions League stats, form
- These teams have met six times in Europe, all in the Champions League city winning four and Leipzig one
- Leipzig’s only win was 2-1 at home during the 2021/22 group stage, drawing and losing their other two games against visiting City sides.
- The German club have lost their last five matches against English clubs, with their overall record in those matches W4 D1 D9
- from Leipzig Christopher Nkunku is one of five players to have scored a Champions League hat-trick and finished on the losing side, hitting three in a 6-3 defeat at City in the 2021/22 group stage.
- RB manager Martin Demichelis made 15 Champions League appearances for City between 2013/14 and 2015/16, scoring in a 2-1 win at Borussia Monchengladbach in September 2015.
- City have won their last three games against Leipzig, the last 3-1 away (Phil Foden and Jeremy Doku on target) and 3-2 at home during the 2023/24 group stage with Erling Haaland and Foden both scoring.
- Haaland has 12 goals in his eight appearances against Leipzig for Dortmund and Manchester City, including a record-tying five against them in City’s 7-0 win in the last 16 of the 2022/23 season.
- Josko Gvardiol scored five goals in 88 games for Leipzig between 2020 and 2023 before joining City, including one against City in the first leg of the last 16 in 2022/23.
- A 2-0 home defeat to Leverkusen in their last game against a German club, on Matchday 5 last season, ended City’s nine-game unbeaten run in those games (W6 D3).
- The Cityzens have never lost a Champions League game away from home in which they led at half-time (20 wins, 4 draws) and have won three of their last four away league stage games (1 loss), including 2-0 at Porto on Matchday 1.