Actual Madrid – Leipzig info and stats | UEFA Champions League

Actual Madrid and Leipzig had combined outcomes on Matchday 1, which ended for them three targets aside, however not at all times to their benefit in Group F.

Whereas UEFA Champions League holders Madrid netted 3 times within the second half, by way of Vinícius Júnior, Luka Modrić and Eden Hazard, to safe a 3-0 win at Celtic, Leipzig have been crushed by Shakhtar Donetsk , shedding 4-1 to the Ukrainian membership for his or her second house defeat in 13 European matches.

That is the primary assembly between the 2 groups, however it’s the 74^e Madrid’s UEFA match towards a German membership; Leipzig, in the meantime, have solely performed towards Spanish sides 3 times earlier than.

Concerning the groups
actual Madrid
It is the 27^e Madrid’s UEFA Champions League group stage marketing campaign, a file he shares with Barcelona.

The 26 earlier appearances have all prolonged to the spherical of 16 for Actual.

Madrid gained their 14^e C1 in 2021/22, beating Liverpool 1-0 on the Stade de France within the closing because of a second-half purpose from Vinícius Júnior.

Carlo Ancelotti’s aspect had completed prime of Group D with 15 factors, successful 5 of their six matches, earlier than claiming spectacular victories towards Paris Saint-Germain (0-1, 3-1), holding them of the title Chelsea (3-1, 2-3 ap) and Manchester Metropolis (3-4, 3-1 ap).

Carlo Ancelotti thus turned the primary coach to win 4 Champions Cups. He was degree with Bob Paisley and Zinedine Zidane with three. The Italian can be the one supervisor to have certified a staff for 5 finals.

Karim Benzema, Dani Carvajal and Luka Modrić have all equaled Cristiano Ronaldo’s file of 5 UEFA Champions League closing wins.

Benzema was the 2021/22 UEFA Champions League prime scorer with 15 targets, ten of them within the knockout levels, equaling Ronaldo’s file in 2016/17, additionally for Madrid.

Madrid have been additionally Spanish champions in 2021/22, their thirty fifth La Liga title general and a second in three years. It was solely the fourth time they’d gained the league and Champions Cup in the identical season, after 1956/57, 1957/58 and 2016/17.

Ancelotti’s aspect have already lifted a European trophy this season, with targets from David Alaba and Benzema securing a 2-0 win over UEFA Europa League winners Eintracht Frankfurt within the UEFA Tremendous Cup in Helsinki on August 10.

The Spanish aspect have gained simply 9 of their final 18 European house matches, though they’ve been victorious in 8 of the final 11 matches.

Madrid’s win over Eintracht Frankfurt in August took their general tally towards German golf equipment to 36 wins, 14 attracts and 23 losses and prolonged their unbeaten streak in matches with Bundesliga sides to 12.

A 2-0 loss to Borussia Mönchengladbach within the 6^e 2020/21 UEFA Champions League matchday took Madrid’s house file towards Bundesliga golf equipment to 26 wins, 6 attracts and three losses. A 4-3 loss to Schalke within the 2014/15 Spherical of 16 second leg (5-4 on mixture) is Madrid’s solely defeat of their final 19 house video games towards German sides.

leipzig
The primary staff to make their European group stage debut, in 2017/18, Leipzig are participating within the UEFA Champions League correct for the fifth time in six years.

Two of these earlier campaigns prolonged to the knockout levels, with Leipzig reaching the semi-finals in 2019/20 earlier than shedding 3-0 to Paris Saint-Germain in a single recreation in Lisbon.

The German membership missed the Spherical of 16 in 2021/22, ending third in Group A behind Manchester Metropolis and Paris, regardless of scoring 15 targets in six appearances and registering their greatest European victory, 5-0 towards Membership of Bruges, throughout the fifth day.

With Domenico Tedesco having changed Jesse Marsch as head coach, Leipzig went on to beat Actual Sociedad (2-2, 3-1), Spartak Moskva (inexperienced carpet) and Atalanta (1-1, 2-0) in UEFA Europa League earlier than being eradicated by Rangers within the semi-finals (1-0, 1-3).

Leipzig have gained two of their final seven away matches within the UEFA Champions League, shedding the opposite 5.

Fourth within the 2021/22 Bundesliga, their worst league end since 2017/18, Leipzig ended the marketing campaign with their first main trophy, beating Freiburg 4-2 on penalties after a 1-1 draw within the Champions League closing. DFB-Pokal.

Leipzig’s three earlier encounters towards Spanish opponents have all are available in simply over two years, the primary being a 2-1 victory over Madrid’s native rivals Atlético within the quarter-final on a match of the UEFA Champions League in Lisbon in August 2020, substitute Tyler Adams scoring the victory on the 88^e minute.

Leipzig have been additionally victorious towards Actual Sociedad in final season’s UEFA Europa League knockout stage play-offs, coming from behind twice to grab a 2-2 first-leg draw at house, earlier than win 3-1 away in what’s their solely UEFA recreation in Spain.

We all know one another…
Capped 106 instances by Germany, Toni Kroos was a Bayern München first-team participant between 2007 and 2014, scoring 25 targets in 205 appearances in all competitions for the membership. He gained three Bundesliga titles, two DFB-Pokals and, in 2013, the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Tremendous Cup and FIFA Membership World Cup with the Munich staff.

Kroos spent the second half of the 2008/09 season and the complete following season on mortgage at Bayer Leverkusen.

David Alaba was a Bayern participant from 2009 till 2021 when he joined Madrid. He appeared within the UEFA Champions League finals gained in 2013 and 2020, whereas he additionally gained the UEFA Tremendous Cup and the FIFA Membership World Cup.

Alaba gained ten Bundesliga titles and 6 DFB-Pokal with Bayern. Alaba’s file towards Leipzig with Bayern is 6 wins, 4 attracts and 1 loss, with a type of wins coming within the 2018/19 DFB-Pokal closing (3-0).

Austria’s Alaba scored late as his Bayern struck 3 times from the 84^e minute to grab a 5-4 Bundesliga win at Leipzig on Might 13, 2017.

Have additionally performed in Germany
Dani Carvajal (Bayer Leverkusen 2012/13)
Antonio Ruediger (Stuttgart 2011-15)
Álvaro Odriozola (Bayern München mortgage 2020)
Jesus Vallejo (on mortgage from Eintracht Frankfurt 2016/17)

André Silva scored 9 Spanish La Liga targets in 27 appearances for Sevilla in 2018/19, together with two within the 3-0 house win over Madrid on September 26, 2018.

Dani Olmo got here by way of FC Barcelona’s academy earlier than becoming a member of Dinamo Zagreb – the membership the place Modrić and Joško Gvardiol each performed – in 2014.

Olmo (Terrassa) and Hugo Novoa (Bertamirans) have been each born in Spain.

Rüdiger and Timo Werner performed collectively at Chelsea between 2020 and 2022, successful the UEFA Champions League in 2020/21.

Rüdiger and Werner each scored towards Madrid in final season’s quarter-final second leg, with the Spanish aspect recovering from three targets all the way down to progress after further time.

Teammates in nationwide groups
Luka Modric and Josko Guardiol (Croatia)
Karim Benzema, Aurelien Tchouamen, Edoardo Camavinga, Ferland Mendy and Christopher Nkunku (France)
Antonio Rüdiger and David Raum, Lukas Klostermann, Benjamin Henrichs, Marcel Halstenberg, Timo Werner (Germany)
David Alaba and Konrad Laimer, Xaver Schlager (Austria)
Dani Carvajal, Marco Asensio and Dani Olmo (Spain)