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Manager: Marco Rosa
Formation: – – 2
Coach: Unai Emery
Formation: 4 – 2 – 3 – 1
Manager: Marco Rosa
Formation: 4 – 4 – 2
Coach: Unai Emery
Formation: – 2 – 3 – 1
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RB Leipzig and Aston Villa have never met before in Europe. However, the German team has lost its last four games against English teams in the UEFA Champions League, and has conceded 14 goals in those four games.
This will be Aston Villa’s first away game against German opposition in Europe since December 2008, in a 3-1 defeat to Hamburg in the UEFA Cup. The last time in the European Cup/UEFA Champions League was in October 1981, in a 2–1 win against Dynamo Berlin.
RB Leipzig have lost their last five UEFA Champions League games, all this season. If they lose here, it will be their longest losing streak in the competition, and the longest for a German team since Bayer Leverkusen in March 2003 (7).
After winning their first three UEFA Champions League games of 2024-25, Aston Villa have failed to win their last two (D1 L1). The last time Unai Emery failed to win three consecutive group/league phase games with a single club in the competition was in September-November 2015 with Sevilla (4).
German teams have lost all three of their games against English groups in the UEFA Champions League this season, all scoring a goal: Aston Villa 1-0 Bayern Munich, RB Leipzig 0-1 Liverpool and Liverpool 4-0 Bayer Leverkusen.
RB Leipzig have averaged 386 high-intensity pressing per game in the UEFA Champions League this season; the second team in the tournament, Sturm Graz (392. 4). Meanwhile, Aston Villa rank 33rd out of 36 teams in high-intensity pressing consistent with festival play this season (265. 8).
Aston Villa are the team with the highest percentage of their total passes being line-breaking passes in the UEFA Champions League this season (15.9%). Indeed, only two sides have made more line-breaking passes from their own half than Villa (211) this term: Bayer Leverkusen (241) and Juventus (216).
Jhon Durán is Aston Villa’s top scorer in the UEFA Champions League this season (two goals), while no player has had more shots for them (9). And this, even though the Colombian is only on the field 35% of Villa’s form time at the festival this season (159/450).
Benjamin Sesko has scored three of RB Leipzig’s four goals in the UEFA Champions League this season. Among teams to have netted more than once, Sesko has accounted for a higher percentage of his team’s goals than any other player in 2024-25 (75%).
Aston Villa’s Morgan Rogers is one of five players to have completed more than 10 dribbles (18) and created more than 10 open play chances (10) in the UEFA Champions League this season, along with Vinícius Júnior, Florian Wirtz , Savinho and Johan. Bacon. .
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