Second matchday in the “English Weekly Marathon”: RB Leipzig will face Celtic Glasgow in the Champions League on Wednesday evening. It looks good in terms of personnel and atmosphere.
It will be loud: When RB Leipzig and Celtic Glasgow cross swords on Wednesday (6:45 p.m. in the live ticker and live radio report in the SpiO app), there will also be 3,000 Scottish fans in the sold-out stadium and they will be used to their team cheer frantically. It remains to be seen whether there will be big gaps at home, like last Saturday against Bochum.
Speaking of Bochum, the expressiveness of the 4-0 against the bottom of the Bundesliga is of course limited. However, it is not zero either. It is remarkable, for example, how consistently focused, active and hungry for goals the Leipzig team was. Even after the all-important third goal by Timo Werner, who impressively ended his goal drought.
Bankruptcy against Donetsk “is a thing of the past”
Nonetheless, Celtic are of course a different caliber. If you want to tear something here and finally give up the Red Lantern in Group F, you have to appear differently than in the last premier class home game against Donetsk (1:4) here. For midfielder Dominik Szoboszlai, bankruptcy is a thing of the past: “We don’t want to talk about what happened at home against Donetsk. We learned from it. Something has changed in the team.”
Incidentally, striker Yussuf Poulsen, who has overcome his infection, joins the said team again. Defenders Marcel Halstenberg and Mohamed Simakan also got the all-clear after minor injuries. They meet Scots on Wednesday, who, according to RB coach Marco Rose, come from good team behavior and have players in detail who can make the difference: “But none of these are things that we can’t solve.”
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