The UEFA Champions League resumes this week after a two-week gap. The penultimate matchday of the group stage kicks off on Tuesday and concludes on Wednesday.
The UEFA Champions League resumes this week after a two-week gap. The penultimate matchday of the group stage kicks off on Tuesday and concludes on Wednesday.
5:45pm RB Salzburg v Chelsea
8:00pm Dinamo Zagreb v AC Milan
8:00pm Celtic v Shakhtar Donetsk
8:00pm RB Leipzig v Real Madrid
5:45pm Sevilla v FC Copenhagen
8:00pm Borussia Dortmund v Manchester City
8:00pm PSG v Maccabi Haifa
8:00pm Benfica v Juventus
8:00pm Ajax v Liverpool
8:00pm Napoli v Rangers
5:45pm Club Brugge v FC Porto
8:00pm Atletico Madrid v Bayer Leverkusen
5:45pm Inter Milan v Viktoria Plzen
8:00pm Barcelona v Bayern Munich
8:00pm Eintracht Frankfurt v Marseille
8:00pm Tottenham Hotspur v Sporting CP
The only previous European meeting between Red Bull Salzburg and Chelsea came in this season’s reverse fixture on Matchday 2, a 1-1 draw.
Chelsea have only played two away European matches in Austria before, losing 1-0 at Wiener Sport-Club in November 1965 in the Fairs Cup and drawing 1-1 against FK Austria Wien in November 1994 in the Cup Winners’ Cup.
Red Bull Salzburg are winless in all seven of their European matches against English teams (D2 L5), failing to beat Blackburn Rovers (D1 L1), Manchester City (L2), Liverpool (L2) and Chelsea (D1). It is the most they have faced teams from a single nation without defeating in major European competition.
Chelsea have allowed the fewest opposition passes per defensive action (8.3) among all teams in the UEFA Champions League this season.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has scored in his last two Champions League appearances for Chelsea (two goals). The last player to find the back of the net in three outings in a row in the competition for the Blues was Willian in December 2015.
Real Madrid are undefeated in their last six matches in the UEFA Champions League.
RB Leipzig are unbeaten in the last six matches across all competitions.
Real Madrid are unbeaten in the last six matches across all competitions.
RB Leipzig have conceded seven goals in their last four Champions League matches.
Real Madrid have lost just one of the last eight Champions League matches in Germany.
Borussia Dortmund have won just one of their five UEFA Champions League matches against Manchester City (D1 L3), a 1-0 home victory in the 2012/13 group stage. Manchester City have won their last three UEFA Champions League games against Borussia Dortmund, winning every outing 2-1. No side has ever beaten another by the same score in four consecutive games in the Champions League (Bayern Munich beat Arsenal 5-1 three in a row between 2015 and 2017).
Manchester City have won 14 of their last 16 UEFA Champions League matches against German teams (D1 L1) but did lose their last away game there 2-1 against RB Leipzig. The Citizens have won 16 games against German opponents in the competition, six more than against any other nation.
Borussia Dortmund have only lost two of their last 14 home games in the UEFA Champions League (W8 D4), although one of those defeats came against Manchester City in April 2021 (1-2 in the quarter-final second leg).
Only one team have prevented Borussia Dortmund from scoring in their last 20 games in the UEFA Champions League (0-4 vs Ajax in October 2021). The German giants have averaged 1.9 goals per game in this run, netting 38 times overall.
Across the first four matchdays in the UEFA Champions League this season, no player has been directly involved in more goals than Erling Haaland (five goals) or Borussia Dortmund’s Jude Bellingham (four goals, one assist).
Champions League top goal scorers this season:
Erling Haaland (5)
Robert Lewandowski (5)
Mohamed Salah (5)
Mateo Kovačić has scored his fifth goal in the #UCL, with his first coming for Dinamo Zagreb in December 2011.
Five Champions League goals, four Champions League trophies.
5 - Mateo Kovacic is only the second player to score his first five Champions League goals under different managers (Jurcic, Benitez, Zidane, Lampard, Potter), along with Luka Modric (Redknapp, Mourinho, Ancelotti, Benitez, Zidane). Varied.
Chelsea had one point after their first two Champions League games.
They’ve won their last three to book their spot in the last 16
9 - Graham Potter is the second Englishman to go undefeated in his first nine games as Chelsea manager in all competitions after William Lewis in 1906/07. Spellbound.
Graham Potter’s start to life as Chelsea manager:
DWWWWWDDW
◉ Goals: 16
◉ Conceded: 4
◉ Clean sheets: 5
Impressive.
Kai Havertz’s game by numbers:
17 passes in final third
7 duels won
4 aerial duels won
3 possession won
2 shots
1 foul won
1 chance created
1 goal
0.34 xG
And what a goal it was.