Sturm Graz vs RB Leipzig

Sturm Graz have won back-to-back home games without conceding in major European competition for the first time since a run of three in the 2000-01 UEFA Champions League group stage.

RB Leipzig won just one game in this season’s UEFA Champions League (L7) – their lowest tally of victories across a single edition of the competition. Meanwhile, they have suffered four consecutive away defeats for the very first time in the UEFA Champions League.

Aged 19y 154d, Sturm Graz’s Arjan Malic became the youngest Austrian goalscorer in the UEFA Champions League, while he also became Sturm Graz’s youngest scorer in the competition.

Sturm Graz and RB Leipzig will meet for the first time in a competitive fixture; the Austrian side have lost seven of their previous nine games in European competition against German opposition (W1 D1), including 1-0 away to Borussia Dortmund on MD4 of this season’s UEFA Champions League.

RB Leipzig’s only previous meetings with Austrian opposition came against FC Red Bull Salzburg in the 2018-19 UEFA Europa League group stage, losing 3-2 at home and 1-0 away.

None of Sturm Graz’s 15 home games in the European Cup/UEFA Champions League have ended level (W7 L8). Indeed, they are the side who’ve played the most such home matches without ever drawing.

RB Leipzig have lost all three of their away matches in the UEFA Champions League this season, while the last German side to lose more in a single campaign in major European competition was Hamburg in 2009-10 (five away defeats in the UEFA Europa League).

RB Leipzig lost their final group stage game in their first UEFA Champions League campaign (1-2 v Besiktas in 2017-18). Since then, however, the German side haven’t lost any of their five such matches, winning each of the last four in a row (D1).