Crvena Zvezda vs RB Leipzig Match Stats Preview

Crvena Zvezda vs RB Leipzig Match Stats Preview

Crvena Zvezda are winless in their last five games against German sides in major European competition (D1 L4), with the most recent one being a 3-1 defeat to RB Leipzig away from home – the only previous meeting between the clubs.

RB Leipzig’s 3-1 win over Crvena Zvezda last time out was their first ever meeting with a Serbian side in European competition. They will be looking to win home and away against an opponent in a UEFA Champions League campaign for the fifth time, previously doing so against Spurs and Zenit St Petersburg in 2019-20, Istanbul Basaksehir in 2020-21 and Celtic in 2022-23.

Crvena Zvezda are looking for their first UEFA Champions League victory since October 2019 (3-1 v Olympiakos), having lost six and drawn one of their seven matches in the competition since then. Indeed, they haven’t kept a clean sheet in any of their last 11 UEFA Champions League games, conceding an average of 3.2 goals per match in this run (35 conceded).

RB Leipzig have won each of their last three away games in the group stage of the UEFA Champions League, with the most recent being a 3-1 win at Young Boys on MD1 this season. They could win four consecutive away games in the group stage of the competition for the first time here.

Crvena Zvezda are winless in their last three home games in the European Cup/UEFA Champions League (D1 L2), while they could go four in row without winning at home for the first time across the two competitions.

RB Leipzig have had more different goalscorers (excl. own goals) than any other team in the UEFA Champions League this season, with seven different players finding the net for them already (Sesko, Openda, Schlager, Raum, Simakan, Simons and Olmo).

Crvena Zvedza are the team with the lowest percentage of their pressures being applied in the opposition half in the UEFA Champions League this season (35% - 315/904).

Excluding own goals, Crvena Zvezda’s Omri Glazer has conceded eight goals in the UEFA Champions League this season, despite facing an xG on target total of 11.1. Indeed, based on the quality of shots on target faced, he has prevented the most goals of any goalkeeper in the competition this term (+3.1).

In the reverse fixture against Crvena Zvedza, Xavi Simons (20y 187d) became the youngest Dutch player to both score and assist in a UEFA Champions League game since Arjen Robben in November 2003 (19y 286d v AEK Athens). Simons has also created seven chances in the competition this season, with Jude Bellingham (8) being the only player aged under 21 to have created more.

Xavi Simons’ strike against Crvena Zvedza on MD3 was scored from a distance of 29.4 yards – the furthest for any of RB Leipzig’s 73 goals in the UEFA Champions League.