Celtic are looking for three successive home wins in the Champions League for the first time since 2007, but RB Leipzig are fighting for their lives in the competition, writes Tom English.

Amy Canavan, Martin O’Neill and Seb Stafford-Bloor preview Celtic v RB Leipzig.

Jürgen Klopp’s defection to the Red Bull empire served as fuel for fans as Nuri Sahin enjoyed a significant win When was the last time we spent so much mental energy attempting to decipher the result of a TopSpiel? The weekly Saturday early evening showcase in the Bundesliga is often the biggest and best of the weekend and a game that intrigues and satisfies, but this latest episode of Borussia Dortmund versus RB Leipzig caught us all on the hop. The wind, after all, seemed to be blowing one way. BVB had suffered three consecutive defeats with varying degrees of misery – the eventual 5-2 loss at Real Madrid in which they had played pretty well for most of the game, the 2-1 at Augsburg in which they certainly didn’t, and the extra-time 1-0 loss at Wolfsburg in midweek which ended their interest in the DfB Pokal. There was little to suggest that Dortmund were the team to bring Leipzig’s 19-game unbeaten run in the Bundesliga to a juddering halt. Yet Nuri Sahin’s side did just that and convincingly so, with style and substance. It was a result that required a thorough explanation. Continue reading...

Real Madrid have been linked with RB Leipzig centre-back Castello Lukeba as they continue to weigh up options to strengthen their threadbare defence.

Liverpool manager Arne Slot praises his side's performance after Liverpool secured a 1-0 win at RB Leipzig on match week three of the UEFA Champions League.

Watch highlights as a Darwin Núñez tap-in sealed a 1-0 victory for Liverpool away at RB Leipzig to make it 11 wins out of 12 in all competitions for the Reds under new manager Arne Slot.

After a favourable start, Klopp’s successor faces first proper test with seven tough games coming over the next 21 days It cannot be media hype to herald Chelsea’s visit to Anfield on Sunday as the start of a defining period for Arne Slot’s Liverpool when Slot himself has been saying pretty much the same for more than a month. Are the early Premier League leaders the real deal? Their head coach remains unsure, although he’s certain he is about to find out. The international break gave Slot opportunity for a mental break, as he put it, taking several days off to reflect on an almost perfect beginning to life at Liverpool and to recharge ahead of a schedule that will be both demanding and revealing. Seven games in 21 days – Chelsea, Arsenal, Brighton and Aston Villa in the Premier League, RB Leipzig and Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League, plus a trip to the Amex Stadium in the Carabao Cup – promise to give a measure of a team that has embraced its transition thus far. Continue reading...

Sidelined in Bremen’s under-23s, the midfielder talks about Anfield regrets and discipline controversy at his club Naby Keïta’s memories are inevitably tinged with regret when he looks back on his Liverpool career. Signed from RB Leipzig for a then club-record £54m after Liverpool paid a £6m premium to ward off competition from others chasing one of Europe’s most in-demand players, the Guinea midfielder was handed Steven Gerrard’s famous No 8 shirt when he arrived at Anfield in 2018. But despite picking up the full set of winners’ medals – from Champions League and the Club World Cup to Liverpool’s first Premier League title – Keïta will always wonder what might have been after injuries restricted him to 49 league starts in five seasons. Continue reading...

These clubs are authors of improbable rises up the levels of German football, albeit with key differences in their details “Many people here,” asserted Frank Schmidt, “don’t even know what my team achieved here today, playing for a result until the end against a Champions League participant. I would like to encourage everyone to look at their performance a little. It was sensational.” RB Leipzig emerged victorious from this Sunday meeting of European competition recoverers in southern Germany which, in context, had no business being as satisfying and as enduringly interesting as it turned out to be. Yet here was coach Schmidt feeling he had the unusual task of defending his team after a historic week in Heidenheim’s history, which almost had an even better ending. Continue reading...

Jonathan David scores first-half penalty to shock holdersJuve stun RB Leipzig | Benfica hammer Atlético Madrid A first-half penalty earned Lille a shock 1-0 home victory over holders Real Madrid in the Champions League group phase on Wednesday, ending the 15-time winners’ 14-game unbeaten run in the competition. Jonathan David converted from the spot three minutes into first-half stoppage time to hand Real, who had not lost in their previous 36 matches in all competitions, their first defeat since January. The result put Ligue 1 side Lille on three points from two games in the new format of Europe’s premier club competition. Real, who won their opening match against Stuttgart, are also on three points. Continue reading...