Manchester City Vs RB Leipzig Champions League Round Of 16 Preview: Host's Heavy Mission
Predictions for the Manchester City vs RB Leipzig match in the second leg of the Champions League last 16. (Photo: Twitter/@RBLeipzig)

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JAKARTA Manchester City will host RB Leipzig for the second leg of the last 16 of the 2022/2023 European Champions League. The host's ambition to extend the journey in this competition is still so heavy.

The match between the two teams will take place at City's headquarters at the Etihad Stadium, Manchester, England, Wednesday, March 15 in the morning WIB. Kick off or kick off the match starts at 03.00 WIB.

In the first leg, three weeks ago, Die Roten Bullen managed to hold the Premier League champion to a 1-1 draw. However, visiting The Citizens headquarters would certainly be a very different task for the visitors.

When visiting Leipzig headquarters, City successfully led the hosts through Riyad Mahrez's goal in the 20th minute. However, Josko Gvardiol's header goal when the game was 20 minutes remaining forced City to come home with a tough task.

After unsatisfactory results at the Red Bull Arena, Pep Guardiola's men have won four consecutive wins. However, in their latest match against Crystal Palace they only won 1-0 through Erling Haaland's penalty goal.

City certainly should be more convincing than that if they don't want to be eliminated in the round of 16 for the first time since losing to AS Monaco in the 2016/2017 season.

In addition, The Citizens will also risk a piece of history in the early hours of the match, namely to match Arsenal's record, which has been around for 14 years. Arsenal became the Premier League team with an unbeaten record at home to the longest-serving Champions League.

The Citizens currently have never lost 23 home games in Europe's main competition. Of that number, they even secured as many as 21 of them.

Their current record of winning streaks at Etihad in all tournaments has reached six matches since the draw on New Year's Eve against Everton.

However, the visitors also came with a slick unbeaten record in five matches in the Champion League. Obviously it was a good asset for Leipzig as they tried to bury the hosts' dream of chasing the first trophy from this event.

Player Composition Predictions:

Manchester City (4-3-3): Ederson; Walker, Akanji, Dias, Ake; De Bruyne, Rodri, Gundogan; Mahrez, Haaland, Grealish.

RB Leipzig (4-2-3-1): Blaswich; Henrichs, Orban, Gvardiol, Halstenberg; Laimer, Haidara; Szoboszlai, Forsberg, Werner; Silva.


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