Newcomers Leipzig start with Monaco task
RB Leipzig symbol their European entrance with a home diversion opposite AS Monaco FC, who are anticipating to repeat final season’s conspicuous attainment of reaching a semi-finals.
• While this is a initial ever compare in continental foe for a German club, it is Monaco’s 175th.
Match background
Leipzig
• 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.
• The German side are also a initial organisation from any nation to make their European entrance in a organisation stage.
Monaco
• Monaco are embarking on their eighth organisation theatre campaign. Finalists in 2004, they got to a semis in 1994 and 1998.
• The French bar enjoyed another noted European deteriorate in 2016/17, knocking out Manchester City FC and Borussia Dortmund on a approach to a final four. There they succumbed 4-1 on total to Juventus (0-2 home, 1-2 away).
• Leonardo Jardim’s organisation – who also claimed a French pretension in May – lost 4 of their 8 divided games in final season’s competition, winning 3 and sketch a other.
• Monaco faced German antithesis twice in a 2016/17 competition. They went down 3-0 during Bayer 04 Leverkusen in a organisation theatre – ending a five-match dominant run in Germany (W3 D2) – but won 3-2 during Dortmund in their quarter-final initial leg.
• Overall, Monaco’s record divided to Bundesliga opponents is W4 D2 L2. Home and away, it is W9 D5 L4.
• Monaco have competent from a UEFA Champions League organisation theatre on their final 4 participations.
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:
Fabio Coltorti Diego Benaglio (Switzerland)
Bruma Rony Lopes (Portugal Under-21)
• Have played in France:
Jean-Kévin Augustin (Paris Saint-Germain, 2009–15)
Naby Keita (FC Istres, 2013/14)
Dayot Upamecano (Valenciennes FC, 2014/15)
• Has played in Germany:
Diego Benaglio (VfB Stuttgart, 2002–05; VfL Wolfsburg, 2007–17)