RB Leipzig vs Juventus

RB Leipzig have lost a home UEFA Champions League game despite leading for just the second time, previously doing so against Club Brugge in September 2021 (1-2).

Juventus have won their opening two games of a UEFA Champions League campaign for the first time since 2021-22, while it’s the first time they’ve won in the competition despite having a player sent off since September 2018 against Valencia (2-0).

Francisco Conceição is just the second player to both score (1) and assist (1) coming on as a substitute for Juventus in the UEFA Champions League after Marco Di Vaio against Olympiakos in December 2003.

Juventus will be RB Leipzig’s third Italian opponent in major European competition (after Napoli and Atalanta), and very first in the UEFA Champions League.

Juventus have won each of their last four meetings with German sides in major UEFA competitions while keeping a clean sheet each time (two v Bayer Leverkusen in the 2019-20 UEFA Champions League, two v SC Freiburg in the 2022-23 UEFA Europa League).

RB Leipzig lost 2-1 to Atlético Madrid on MD1 this season in the UEFA Champions League. They’ve lost their opening two matches in two of the previous three campaigns (2021-22 and 2022-23).

Juventus have lost four of their last five UEFA Champions League away games (D1), including each of their last three in a row – their longest losing run on their travels in the competition since October 2014 (4).

Juventus won 3-1 against PSV in Thiago Motta’s first UEFA Champions League match in charge of the club. Motta is looking to become the third Juventus manager to win his first two games in the competition, after Marcello Lippi in 1995 and Fabio Capello in 2004.