of Manchester City Pep Guardiola, the defending champions of the Champions League, were fortunate in the draw for the group stage of the tournament where the title defense will begin. The English team was paired with RB Leipzig, Red Star and Young Boys.
City will be heavy favorites to claim top spot in group G and their arch-rivals are RB Leipzig, who they have faced in the Champions League for the last two seasons. Endorsing him with a few wins at the Etihadalthough on German soil they resisted success in both visits.
So, in the 2021-2022 campaign City and RB Leipzig have already met in the group stage. At the Etihad there was an amazing 6-3 on the first day and, having secured the first place, they fell in their visit to Germany (2-1), a victory that did not allow the energetic team to go to the round of 16 at the end of the league in third place behind PSG.
Last season City and RB Leipzig crossed paths in the round of 16. After a 1-1 draw at the Red Bull Arena, Guardiola’s side overwhelmed their rivals with a devastating 7-0 on a historic night of Erling Haaland, author of five goals.
Dani Olmo, the great figure
RB Leipzig ended the season by reconfirming the DFB Pokal and this season started by winning the German Super Cup against Bayern Munich with a conclusive 0-3 win. His coach is still Marco Rose and its great star is the egarense Daniel Olmo after the departure of the players as important as Josko Gvardiol (exactly Manchester City), Dominik Szoboszlai (Liverpool) and Christopher Nkunku (Chelsea).
Despite losing weight players, RB Leipzig strengthened itself very well with level additions such as LoÏs Openda (Lens), Benjamin Sesko (Salzburg), Xavi Simons (PSG) and Fabio Carvalho (Liverpool).
Two sweet experts
As for its two other rivals, City have yet to face one another in Europe Red Star and Young Boys, champions of Serbia and Switzerland. Red Star gained direct access to the group stage of the Champions League, where it has not participated since the 2019-20 season.
For their part, the Young Boys achieved its qualification after eliminating Maccabi Haifa in the last qualifying round (0-0 and 3-0) and will return to a group stage of the Champions League from the 2021-2022 season.
Source: La Verdad
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