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Manager: Marco Rose
Formation: 4 – 4 – 2
Coach: Unai Emery
Formation: – 2 – 3 – 1
Manager: Marco Rose
Formation: 4 – 4 – 2
Coach: Unai Emery
Formation: 4 – 2 – 3 – 1
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RB Leipzig and Aston Villa have never previously faced each other in Europe. However, the German side have lost each of their last four matches against English sides in the UEFA Champions League, while conceding 14 goals in those four games.
This will be Aston Villa’s first away game against a German opponent in Europe since December 2008, in a 1-3 defeat to Hamburg in the UEFA Cup. Meanwhile, their last one in the European Cup/UEFA Champions League was in October 1981, in a 2-1 victory over Berliner FC Dynamo.
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 3 matches of the 2024-25 UEFA Champions League, Aston Villa have failed to win the last two (D1 L1). The last time Unai Emery failed to win 3 consecutive group stage/league games with a single club at the festival was in September-November 2015 with Sevilla (4).
German teams have lost all three of their matches against English sides in the UEFA Champions League this season, all without 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 pressures per game in the UEFA Champions League this season; the second-most of any team in the tournament, only behind Sturm Graz (392.4). Meanwhile, Aston Villa rank 33rd out of 36 teams for high-intensity pressures per game in the competition this term (265.8).
Aston Villa is the team with the highest percentage of aid in the UEFA Champions League this season (15. 9%). In fact, only two teams have made more assists on their part than Villa (211) this season: 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 attempted more shots for them (9). This is despite the Colombian only being on the pitch for 35% of Villa’s match time in the competition this season (159/450).
Benjamin Sesko has scored 3 of RB Leipzig’s 4 goals in the UEFA Champions League this season. Among teams that scored more than once, Sesko 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 only five players to have completed 10+ dribbles (18) and created 10+ chances from open play (10) in the UEFA Champions League this season, along with Vinícius Júnior, Florian Wirtz, Savinho, and Johan Bakayoko.
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