RB Leipzig vs. Man City lineups confirmed: Captain Haaland as Cherki, Foden, Guehi decisions made for Champions League game

By Oliver Thomas | 04 Nov 2026 18:52, Last updated: 04 Nov 2026 19:11

Erling Haaland volition skipper Manchester City successful tonight’s Champions League clash against RB Leipzig astatine the Red Bull Arena.

The prolific Norwegian drew a blank successful beforehand of extremity successful City’s 1-0 Premier League location decision to Brighton past weekend, but helium has scored much goals against Leipzig (12 successful conscionable 8 games) than helium has against immoderate different hostile successful his vocation and volition beryllium looking to adhd to his tally successful Germany.

Manager Enzo Maresca has made a full of 4 changes to his starting lineup, with Marc Guehi, Nico O'Reilly, Rayan Cherki and Phil Foden each recalled astatine the disbursal of Ruben Dias, Josko Gvardiol, Ayyoub Bouaddi and Jeremy Doku.

Haaland volition deterioration the captain’s armband successful the lack of Dias, who volition statesman connected the substitutes’ seat for the archetypal clip this play successful either the Champions League oregon Premier League.

Guehi and Abdukodir Khusanov volition truthful commencement unneurotic astatine centre-back, with Matheus Nunes and O’Reilly playing either broadside of them arsenic full-backs.

Elliot Anderson and Enzo Fernandez clasp their midfield partnership, with Cherki returning to run successful the fig 10 relation arsenic Foden and Iliman Ndiaye statesman retired wide successful enactment of Haaland starring the line.

Baumgartner, Baku recalled to Leipzig XI, Nkunku connected seat  

As for Leipzig, caput manager Martin Demichelis – a erstwhile Man City defender – has made conscionable 2 changes to the broadside that began the 2-0 triumph implicit Schalke 04 in the Bundesliga past weekend.

Christoph Baumgartner is acceptable to commencement successful centre-midfield alongside Neil El Aynaoui and Ezechiel Banzuzi, with the Austrian coming into the archetypal XI astatine the disbursal of Rocco Reitz.

The different alteration sees Ridle Baku regenerate Benjamin Henrichs astatine right-back, joining Willi Orban, Castello Lukeba and David Raum successful a four-man defence.

Antonio Nusa and Romulo Cardoso, who were some connected people against Schalke, proceed successful a three-man frontline adjacent to Brighton loanee Brajan Gruda.

Christopher Nkunku, who scored a memorable UCL hat-trick against Man City successful a 6-3 decision astatine the Etihad successful 2021-22, volition statesman arsenic a substitute on with defender Maxime Esteve, who has recovered from a sound to marque the matchday squad.

RB Leipzig starting lineup: Vandevoordt; Baku, Orban, Lukeba, Raum; Baumgartner, Banzuzi, El Aynaoui; Gruda, Romulo, Nusa

Subs: Nyland, Kone, Esteve, Klostermann, Henrichs, Seiwald, Reitz, Maksimovic, Bakayoko, Gomis, Nkunku

Manchester City starting lineup: Donnarumma; Nunes, Khusanov, Guehi, O’Reilly; Anderson, Fernandez; Ndiaye, Cherki, Foden; Haaland

Subs: Bettinelli, Rulli, Dias, Kovacic, Doku, Ait-Nouri, Reis, Gvardiol, Bouaddi, Allan, Samba, Lewis