Leipzig vs Manchester City, Champions League Group G 2nd leg match is scheduled for Wednesday 4th October from 22:00 and will be shown live on Digi Sport 3, Orange Sport 3 and Prima Sports 3.

Leipzig and Manchester City meet in the derby of a group that also includes Young Boys Bern and Crvena Zvezda Belgrade, who are heavy favorites to reach the last 16 of the Champions League.

Leipzig, who are 3rd in the latest Bundesliga draw, kicked off this Champions League season with a 3-1 win at Young Boys Bern.

In the Bundesliga, the team coached by Marco Rose from autumn 2022 is in 5th place with 13 points after six matches, three behind leaders Leverkusen, and drew at home with Bayern Munich in the last round of the championship. , score 2 -2 (after score 2-0).

Leipzig, who are the holders of the German Cup (2-0 in the final against Frankfurt in Berlin), won the German Super Cup earlier in the season, 3-0 against Bayern right at the Allianz Arena, and have only one defeat so far in all competitions, 2-3 in the first at the same stage of the championship on the field of Leverkusen.

This summer, Leipzig sold their most important players Josko Guardiola (Manchester City, €90 million), Dominik Soboslay (Liverpool, €70 million) and Christopher Nkunka (Chelsea, €60 million), joined by Oleksandr Sorlot, Tom Krauss and Josep. Martinez has been added, bringing the total raised to €240 million!

Instead, he brought in players worth €152m, including many promising youngsters, the most important names being Dutchman Lois Openda (Lance – €38.5m) and Slovenian Benjamin Sesko (Salzburg – €20m).

In the last Champions League draw, Leipzig were eliminated from a group with Real Madrid, Celtic Glasgow and Shakhtar Donetsk, but were knocked out in the round of 16 by Manchester City 1-1 at home and 0-7 away leaving

Manchester City, the reigning English and European champions (they also won the FA Cup last season), opened the current campaign with a 3-1 home win over Red Star after leading 1-0 at half-time. .

In the Premier League, Josep Guardiola’s team, founded in the summer of 2016, lead after seven stages with 18 points, and lost 1-2 away to Wolverhampton in the last stage of the championship, the second in a row. defeat following a 0-1 defeat at Newcastle in the third round of the FA Cup.

This summer, Wolverhampton’s Mateus Núñez (€62m), Rennes’ Jeremy Doku (€60m), Chelsea’s Mateo Kovacic (€29m) and RB Leipzig’s Josko Guardiol (€90m) , as well as the most important departures were Aymeric Laporte to Al-Nassr-Riyadh (€27.5 million) and Cole Palmer to Chelsea (€47 million).

Manchester City won their last Champions League tie after 1-0 in the final against Inter in Istanbul.

The last time these two teams met was in the previous season’s Champions League, in the Round of 16, when they drew 1-1 in Leipzig on the road, with Manchester City winning 7-0 at home in the second leg.

Probable teams

Leipzig: Blaswicz – Heinrichs, Simakan, Lukeba, Raum – Simons, Kampl, Schlager, Forsberg – Openda, Poulsen.

Manchester City: Ederson – Walker, Akanji, Ruben Diaz, Guardiol – Rodri, Kovacic – Foden, H. Alvarez, Grealish – Haaland.

Superbet offers odds of 1.25 on the prediction X2: a draw or a win for the visitors in the match between Leipzig and Manchester City.

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