Man City vs RB Leipzig live score, updates, highlights and lineups from Champions League Round of 16 2nd leg
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ETIHAD STADIUM, MANCHESTER — Manchester City and RB Leipzig contest a place in the quarterfinals of the Champions League with their last-16 tie all square at 1-1.
Riyad Mahrez gave City a deserved first-half lead at the Red Bull Arena last month but Marco Rose’s side rallied impressively after the break and levelled through Josko Gvardiol’s header.
The Champions League remains the one glaring absence from Pep Guardiola’s trophy haul in Manchester. The reigning Premier League champions were beaten 1-0 by Chelsea in the 2021 final and dramatically fell to Real Madrid in last season’s semifinals.
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Man City vs RB Leipzig live updates, highlights from Champions League Round of 16 second leg
20 mins from kickoff: Erling Haaland was City’s matchwinner from the penalty spot at Crystal Palace last weekend. By his own standards, the Norway star has slowed down a little since the World Cup but still has 34 in 35 games this season. Leipzig won’t be particularly happy to see him either. During his time with Dortmund in the Bundesliga, he racked up six goals at their expense. He hasn’t scored more often against a single opponent.
40 mins from kickoff: Christopher Nkunku will be a huge miss for Leipzig as he nurses a hamstring injury. The France star scored a hattrick at the Etihad Stadium last season, albeit in a 6-3 group-stage defeat. With the higher stakes, you’d expect a slightly cagier affair this evening. Timo Werner will be the main attacking threat in his absence. The Germany international’s time with Chelsea was largely unhappy, but he did start that Champions League final victory over City a couple of years ago.
1 hour from kickoff: It’s hard not to feel a little aggrieved for Riyad Mahrez, who gave City the lead in the first leg in Germany. His reward has been precisely zero Premier League starts since. Phil Foden’s return to form has been part of the reason for that but tonight Guardiola has opted for the extra control of having Bernardo Silva on the wing. Don’t bet against Mahrez making an impact from the bench, though. As the statistics below show, he absolutely thrives in this competition.
1hr 15 mins from kickoff: And here’s the Leipzig team. Timo Werner leads the line, meaning Andre Silva will have to wait on the bench to make an impact.
1hr 20 mins from kickoff: The City XI is in. De Bruyne starts. Riyad Mahrez and Phil Foden have to be content with a place on the bench as Bernardo Silva and Jack Grealish complete the front three either side of Erling Haaland.
1hr 25 mins from kickoff: The team sheets will be along shortly, always an event on a Pep Guardiola European night. However, it wouldn’t could as an example of “overthink” if Kevin De Bruyne misses out on the City starting XI. The Premier League champions’ midfield talisman has been short of his best recently, was replaced before the Blues closed out a hard-fought 2-0 win over Newcastle and came on as a late substitute at Crystal Palace on Saturday.
“It’s been a difficult season for all of us, me included, due to the World Cup and many things. I’m not going to discover [how good] Kevin [is]. What I’d like – I spoke many times to him – is to go to the easy principles and do it well,” Guardiola said at his pre-match news conference. “He has an incredible ability to make an assist, to score goals and see passes like no one else.
“But I always have the belief that they will increase and get better when the simple things [are done]: like don’t lose the ball, the mobility, the incredible capacity to be active in the movement. The simple things: do it again better and better. When this is going to happen the rest will come along.”
1 hour 40 mins from kickoff: There’s been a lot going on in this round of the Champions League, from the titanic tussle between Bayern Munich and PSG to Real Madrid running in five goals at Anfield. As such, it feels like this one has slipped a little bit under the radar. Manchester City are generally imperious at this stage of the competition, last falling in the Round of 16 to Monaco in 2017. But a 1-1 draw in the first leg leaves this one in the balance against an RB Leizpig side who have collected more points than any other Bundesliga side since Marco Rose was appointed last September.
2 hours from kickoff: Hello and welcome to the Sporting News’ live coverage of Manchester City vs RB Leipzig from the Etihad Stadium. The Champions League last-16 tie is level at 1-1 after the first leg.
Man City vs RB Leipzig lineups
City’s first-team squad trained with a clean bill of health on Monday.
Kevin De Bruyne returns to the starting lineup after being on the bench for Saturday’s 1-0 win at Crystal Palace. Riyad Mahrez has only made one Premier League appearance as a substitute since opening the scoring in Leipzig and is again among the substitutes as Bernardo Silva and Jack Grealish complete the front three either side of Erling Haaland.
Man City starting XI (4-3-3): Ederson (GK) — Stones, Akanji, Dias, Ake — De Bruyne, Rodri, Gundogan — Silva, Haaland, Grealish
Man City subs: Ortega (GK) Carson (GK), Walker, Laporte, Lewis, Gomez, Phillips, Perrone Palmer, Foden, Alvarez, Mahrez
Christopher Nkunku scored a hat-trick when Leipzig lost 6-3 at the Etihad Stadium in last season’s group stage but the France international is set to miss out with a hamstring injury. Midfielder Xaver Schlager, goalkeeper Peter Gulacsi and centre-back Abdou Diallo are also sidelined.
Illness swept through the Leipzig camp before their weekend game with Borussia Monchengladbach, although Timo Werner, Konrad Laimer, Dominik Szoboszlai and Lukas Klostermann were all involved in the matchday squad for a 3-0 win, with Werner opening the scoring.
RB Leipzig starting XI (4-3-3): Blaswich (GK) — Henrichs, Orban, Gvardiol, Raum — Laimer, Kampl, Haidara — Szoboszlai, Werner Forsberg
RB Leipzig subs: Nyland (GK), Nickisch (GK), Simakan, Halstenberg, Klostermann, Olmo, Clark, Poulsen, Silva, Ba
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