Monaco and Leipzig face must-win showdown
AS Monaco FC and RB Leipzig put their UEFA Champions League aspirations on a line as they accommodate in a penultimate turn of matches.
• The sides non-stop Group G with a 1-1 pull in Germany on matchday one, Leipzig’s European debut, with Emil Forsberg scoring their lass goal. Monaco have combined usually one indicate to their sum in a 3 successive fixtures and are fourth in a standings, while Leipzig are one place and dual points improved off carrying won one and mislaid dual given that Monaco draw.
• Leipzig will be out of row for a top-two finish if they do not win and FC Porto (six points) do divided to Beşiktaş JK (ten points).
• Monaco contingency win and wish Porto do not to stay in row for a top-two finish. They will be reliable in fourth if they lose.
Match background
Monaco
• Monaco faced German antithesis twice during home in a 2016/17 UEFA Champions League, a 1-1 pull with Germany’s Bayer 04 Leverkusen in a organisation theatre and a 3-1 better of Borussia Dortmund in a quarter-final second leg (6-3 on aggregate).
• Overall, Monaco’s record during home to Bundesliga clubs is W5 D3 L1; a solitary cut was a 1-0 retreat to VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach in a 1996/97 UEFA Cup second turn (a outcome that finished a 4-3 total success). They have won 5 of a final 6 such encounters.
• Having been dominant in 7 European home matches (W6 D1), Monaco have mislaid a final three, going down 3-0 opposite Porto and 2-1 to BeÅŸiktaÅŸ in this season’s organisation stage. They picked adult 7 points during home in a 2016/17 organisation stage.
• Monaco have but mislaid usually 4 of their final 16 European home games (W9 D3).
• Monaco are in their eighth organisation theatre campaign. Finalists in 2004, they got to a semis in 1994, 1998 and 2017.
• The realm outfit had another noted European deteriorate in 2016/17, knocking out Manchester City FC and Borussia Dortmund en track to a final four. There they succumbed 4-1 on total to Juventus (0-2 home, 1-2 away).
Leipzig
• This is Leipzig’s initial revisit to France.
• Away from home in their entrance European campaign, a German bar have mislaid both games: 2-0 at Beşiktaş and 3-1 during Porto.
• Leipzig competent for a initial incursion into European foe by finishing second in a 2016/17 Bundesliga – in what, remarkably, was their initial deteriorate in a German tip flight.
• Leipzig are a 12th bar to paint Germany in a UEFA Champions League organisation stage.
• On matchday one, a German side became a initial organisation from any nation to make their European entrance in a UEFA Champions League organisation stage.
Coach and actor links
• Guido Carrillo scored in Monaco’s 3-1 first-leg success over Yvon Mvogo’s BSC Young Boys in a 2015/16 UEFA Champions League third subordinate round.
• Fabinho scored in Monaco’s 2-0 Ligue 1 win opposite a Paris side including Jean-Kévin Augustin in Mar 2016.
• Portugal’s João Moutinho was actor of a compare in a 0-0 draw with Stefan Ilsanker’s Austria in a UEFA EURO 2016 organisation stage.
• On 8 Oct 2016, Yussuf Poulsen and Poland’s Kamil Glik (own goal) both scored for Denmark in a 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier – but Poland still prevailed 3-2.
• International team-mates:
Rony Lopes Bruma (Portugal Under-21)
• Have played in France:
Jean-Kévin Augustin (Paris Saint-Germain, 2009–15)
Naby Keïta (FC Istres, 2013/14)
Dayot Upamecano (Valenciennes FC, 2014/15)
• Has played in Germany:
Diego Benaglio (VfB Stuttgart, 2002–05; VfL Wolfsburg, 2007–17)