Manchester City vs RB Leipzig: last year's Champions League "Cinderella" will face a heavyweight

For the first day of group A of the 2021/22 Champions League, Manchester City will host Red Bull Leipzig at the Etihad Stadium this Wednesday, starting at 9:00 p.m, local hour. Attractive match in the preview between two clubs that performed well last season: the English side were Premier League champions and the German side finished second in the Bundesliga, behind Bayern Munich.

However, Leipzig's start to the season has not been regular at the hands of Jesse Marsch, the new coach of the German team who replaces Julian Nagelsmann, who left for Munich to coach Bayern. The semi-finalist team in the Champions League in the 2019/20 season is in 12th place in the Bundesliga after four games played, where they have only won one and lost three, the last against Bayern 4-1 at home.

For this year the English team will seek to repeat what was done the previous season, but this time taking the Orejona home. For that they disbursed 117 million euros for Jack Grealish, a specific request from Guardiola to improve the offense and scoring quota.