Tough chunk for the Champions League opener: RB Leipzig gets to do directly with Manchester City after the false start in the Bundesliga.
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After the modest start in the league, the Leipzigers have ManCity in front of their chest in the premier class.
It could be difficult for RB Leipzig * at the Etihad Stadium.
For Jesse Masch it is the first Champions League * game as a Leipzig coach.
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Manchester - For the first time there will be a duel between Manchester City and RB Leipzig, at the premiere, especially the weak guests from Saxony hope for a mild outcome of the game.
The Skyblues, who lost in the Champions League final against Chelsea at the end of May, want to chase for the title again this year.
Pep Guardiola wants to start against Leipzig.
ManCity against RB Leipzig in the live ticker: Bundesliga club with a gray start to the season - now Pep Guardiola's team is waiting
The former Bayern coach * will do everything possible again this season to secure the biggest title in European football for Manchester City *.
In the league, his team was already at operating temperature.
So it won three of the first four games, only one defeat against Tottenham.
With the Leipzigers it is exactly the other way round: Jesse Marsch's team only won one victory in the first four matches, defeats against Mainz, Wolfsburg and, most recently, FC Bayern.
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A Leipzig professional spoke to the British portal
The Athletic
about the unequal conditions before the first group game. After the false start of his Red Bulls, the Swede Emil Forsberg spoke clearly about the situation of last year's runner-up. “We have our backs to the wall. There is a lot of pressure, ”said the playmaker, who called City“ one of the best teams in the world ”.
Leipzig's left-back Angeliño is also ready for his very special reunion.
In 2013, the English brought him from the youth of Deportivo La Coruña, but loaned him six times until he moved permanently to RB for 18 million euros in July.
The Spaniard still has something to prove to his ex-coach Guardiola, the Catalan gave him no chance of a place in the regular team, which is why he moved to Germany at the beginning of 2020.
Guardiola had "killed his self-confidence" during this time, said the 24-year-old freshly dyed blond.
ManCity against RB Leipzig in the live ticker: Heavy group for RBL - including PSG
To make yourself small would not be the kind of RB Leipzig anyway, especially last spring, the Bundesliga team attracted attention when they advanced to the semi-finals of the premier class. There, however, it was over against Paris Saint-Germain *. Again this season you will compete against the French, who are also represented in top-class Group A. In addition, the people of Leipzig play twice against the outsider FC Bruges.
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