Leipzig distance adult Porto obstacle
RB Leipzig have available a pull and a better in their initial dual UEFA Champions League fixtures, and are now looking to get their initial Group G feat on a house during a responsibility of FC Porto.
Match background
Leipzig
• This is usually Leipzig’s third European game. They drew 1-1 during home to 2016/17 semi-finalists AS Monaco FC on matchday one, Emil Forsberg scoring their entrance goal, and were beaten 2-0 during BeÅŸiktaÅŸ JK in their final fixture.
• 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.
Porto
• Having lost 3-1 during home to Beşiktaş in their initial outing, Porto bounced behind impressively interjection to a 3-0 feat during Monaco in what was a repeat of a 2004 UEFA Champions League final.
• Porto’s final win in Germany was a 3-1 success during Hamburger SV in a 2006/07 UEFA Champions League organisation stage. Their record divided to Bundesliga clubs given afterwards is D1 L3.
• In 2015/16, Porto went down 2-0 away and 1-0 during home to Borussia Dortmund in a UEFA Europa League turn of 32. Their prior German sell had brought a 6-1 retreat during FC Bayern München in a 2014/15 UEFA Champions League quarter-final second leg, equalling their record European defeat.
• Porto’s 31 matches opposite German teams have finished W12 D7 L12 (W3 D4 L8 in Germany). However, their many important outcome opposite German opponents came on neutral territory, in Vienna, where they kick Bayern 2-1 in a 1987 European Champion Clubs’ Cup final.Â
• The Portuguese bar also claimed a 2004 UEFA Champions League on German soil, beating Monaco 3-0 in a Gelsenkirchen final.
• This is Porto’s seventh unbroken organisation theatre debate and their record-equalling 22nd in total. In 2016/17, they reached a turn of 16, bowing out opposite contingent runners-up Juventus (0-2 home, 0-1 away).
• Porto had mislaid their prior 3 UEFA Champions League fixtures, home and away, before winning during Monaco, their second feat in their final 6 games in a competition.
• Porto took 4 points divided from home in final year’s organisation stage.
• Last deteriorate was a third time in a final 6 campaigns that Porto have progressed from their group.
Coach and actor links
• Timo Werner scored twice in Germany’s 3-1 better of Cameroon in a 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup organisation stage; Vincent Aboubakar got a Cameroon goal.
• Werner also scored, and supposing an assist, in Germany’s 4-1 semi-final win opposite a Mexico side including Miguel Layún and Héctor Herrera during this summer’s Confederations Cup.
• Bruma was in Sporting Clube de Portugal’s comparison side in 2012/13, featuring in a 0-0 joining pull opposite Porto.
• Have played together:
Bruma Alex Telles (Galatasaray AS, 2014/15)
Bruma Diego Reyes (Real Sociedad de Fútbol, 2015/16)
Bruma Ricardo, José Sá, Sérgio Oliveira (Portugal Under-21s)