RB Leipzig vs PSG UEFA Champions League Match Preview or Key Statistics 📊
RB Leipzig and Paris SG will meet for the second time in European competition, with this game coming just 78 days after they met in the semi-final of last season’s UEFA Champions League (0-3 win for Paris SG).
RB Leipzig have only won one of their previous five games against French opponents in the UEFA Champions League (D2 L2), going winless in three games since they beat Monaco 4-1 in the 2017/18 group stage.
None of the previous 14 games between Paris SG and German opponents in the European Cup/UEFA Champions League have ever ended in a draw, with Paris SG winning nine of those games (five defeats).
RB Leipzig suffered a 5-0 defeat of MD2 of the UEFA Champions League versus Manchester United, their heaviest ever European defeat and heaviest suffered in the Champions League group stage by a German team since FC Schalke 04 lost 5-0 to Chelsea in 2014.
Paris SG have won nine of their last 14 away UEFA Champions League group stage matches (D3 L2) and are unbeaten in their last six (W4 D2).
Although they have lost six of their 18 UEFA Champions League matches, RB Leipzig are yet to lose in consecutive games in the competition. They last lost in consecutive matches in major UEFA European competition in November 2018 in the Europa League.
The only previous instance of two German managers facing in a UEFA Champions League match and the away side winning was back in March 1999, when Ottmar Hitzfeld led Bayern Munich to a 4-0 win at Kaiserslautern, then managed by Otto Rehhagel. The home manager has won seven of the eight meetings since (D1, excludes neutral venues).
In last season’s UEFA Champions League semi-final between RB Leipzig and Paris SG, Ángel Di María was directly involved in all three of his side’s goals in the 3-0 win – scoring one and providing an assist for both Marquinhos and Juan Bernat.
RB Leipzig midfielder Kevin Kampl has completed 66 of his 67 passes in this season’s UEFA Champions League (98.5%), the best ratio of any of the 299 players to attempt at least 50 passes this season; Kampl hasn’t misplaced any of his 28 passes in the opposition half.
Since his first away UEFA Champions League start in February 2017, Paris SG’s Kylian Mbappé has been directly involved in 22 away goals in the competition (14 goals, 8 assists), more than any other player.
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