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Manager: Marco Rose
Formation: – 2 – 2 – 2
Coach: Rui Borges
Training: – – 2
Manager: Marco Rose
Formation: 4 – 2 – 2 – 2
Manager: Rui Borges
Formation: – – 2
UEFA Champions League
All competitions
This will be the first European Assembly between RB Leipzig and Sporting CP, while all 4 Leipzig matches opposing Portuguese sides to date have come at the Benfica Organization level in 2019-20.
In RB Leipzig’s last four matches against the Portuguese in a European festival, a total of 16 goals were scored, with an average of four per game. In fact, both scored at least once in those 4 games, and Leipzig scored as much as they conceded (8).
Since the start of 2022-23, Portuguese teams have won three of their four away matches against German opponents in the UEFA Champions League (L1): Sporting CP 3-0 Eintracht Frankfurt, FC Porto 3-0 Bayer Leverkusen and Braga 3-2 Union Berlin. That’s as many victories (3) as Portuguese sides managed in the first 33 such fixtures combined in the European Cup/Champions League (D4 L26).
RB Leipzig have lost all six UEFA Champions League matches this season: in European Cup history, the only German team to record a longer run is Bayer Leverkusen, the Crusade -03 2002 (7 consecutive defeats).
Sporting CP are unbeaten in their first 4 UEFA Champions League games this season (W3-1), but have lost their last two games. They haven’t lost more in a season since losing their last 4 games in 2016-17.
Throughout the first six rounds of the UEFA Champions League of this season, no team has made more rapid counterattacks (13) nor has scored more goals in rapid counterattacks (3) than the RB Leipzig. In fact, precisely a part of their goals at the festival this season have scored them (50% – 3/6).
RB Leipzig has lost the 3 UEFA Champions League games through the score for the first time this season, having lost two of its first 25 games of this type at the festival (W20 D3). No team in the history of the Champions League has lost 4 games in a season by scoring the first goal.
Rui Borges will be the third coach to lead Sporting CP in the UEFA Champions League this season, after Ruben Amorim (MD1 – MD4) and João Pereira (MD5/6). Each of the last 3 coaches to lead the club at the festival lost their first game, with Paulo Bento being the last to win his first game in 2006 against Internazionale.
Geovany Quenda, 17, has made six appearances in the UEFA Champions League this season, making five starts. These five starts are more than any Portuguese player combined in Champions League history before his 18th birthday – 4 from Simão (1997), Rúben Neves (2014), Gonçalo Esteves (2021) and João Simões (on matchday six this season with Sporting).
Loïs Opennda has been worried about seven goals in its last thirteen appearances in the UEFA Champions League (five goals, 2 lend hands), but it has been discovered in the aspect of wear and tear in 4 of the five games that you have noted or borrowed A hand. Or give it a hand in more than five games, this 80% loss rate is the worst time, Miguel Veloso who lost the five games in which he scored or lent a hand.
Match ends, RB Leipzig 2, Sporting Lisbon 1.
The moment ends, RB Leipzig 2, Sporting Lisbon 1.
Failed attempt. Gonçalo Inácio (Lisboa Sporting) leads from the penalty spot. Corner ‘ 1’, Geovany Quenda.
Blocked attempt. Daniel Bragança (Sporting Lisbon) left auction from the left side of the area. Corner granted by Viktor Gyökeres.
Corner, Lisbon athlete. Granted by Willi Orbán.
Corner, Sporting Lisbon. Granted through Willi Orbán.
Offside, RB Leipzig. Yussuf Poulsen is offside.
The fourth referee announced four more minutes.
Offside, Sporting Lisbon. Daniel Braganza is offside.
Willi Orbán (RB Leipzig) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Missing through Willi Orbán (RB Leipzig).
Daniel Bragança (Sporting Lisbon) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Maarten Vandevoordt (RB Leipzig) is the yellow card.
Failed attempt. Viktor Gyökeres (Sporting Lisbon) header from the left inside the box is blocked. Corner committed by Geovany Quenda.
Corner, Sporting Lisbon. Conceded by Lukas Klostermann.
Blocked attempt. Gonçalo Inacio (Sporting Lisbon) left the penalty area from outside the doors. The corner granted through Trincão.
Substitute, RB Leipzig. Arthur Vermeeren replaces Christoph Baumgartner.
Attempt blocked. Trincão (Sporting Lisbon) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Viktor Gyökeres.
Attempt saved. Benjamin Sesko (RB Leipzig) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by El Chadaille Bitshiabu.
Foul by Kevin Kampl (RB Leipzig).
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