{"id":23572,"date":"2024-12-10T18:30:27","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T18:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/?p=23572"},"modified":"2024-12-10T18:46:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T18:46:14","slug":"rb-leipzig-vs-aston-villa-preview-prediction-team-news-confirmed-lineups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/news\/rb-leipzig-vs-aston-villa-preview-prediction-team-news-confirmed-lineups\/","title":{"rendered":"RB Leipzig Vs Aston Villa Preview, Prediction, Team News And Confirmed Lineups"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s our RB Leipzig Vs Aston Villa preview, prediction, team news and confirmed lineups ahead of Tuesday’s Champions League clash.<\/strong><\/p>\n

RB Leipzig Vs Aston Villa Preview<\/h2>\n

Aston Villa<\/a> made an electric start to their first season back at Europe’s top table in decades.<\/p>\n

Three straight wins took them to the top of the pile, but they have since picked up just a point from their last two in the competition.<\/p>\n

Things have taken an equally sharp downturn on the domestic front. Prior to their scrappy 1-0 win over bottom club Southampton<\/a>, Villa had won just once in their previous seven league games, beating Brentford after a six-game winless run.<\/p>\n

They slipped out of the Champions League top eight with a loss to Club Brugge in Belgium and a drab goalless draw at home to Juventus.<\/p>\n

But a shining light in Europe has been Jhon Duran. The club’s top scorer in Europe this season, he will be hoping to inspire Unai Emery’s men to a much-needed victory against one of the Champions League’s biggest disappointments this season.<\/p>\n

RB Leipzig were never fancied to win the competition, but would certainly have hoped to make the knockout stages.<\/p>\n

The German outfit have lost all five games in Europe so far, and know anything but a victory against Villa will almost certainly see them eliminated.<\/p>\n

However, Leipzig fans can feel somewhat hard done by. Four of their five losses have been in tight games against elite opponents.<\/p>\n

They have lost by one goal to Atletico Madrid, Liverpool<\/a>, Juventus and Inter Milan. A 3-1 defeat at Celtic<\/a> is perhaps their worst result, but they can be forgiven for struggling elsewhere.<\/p>\n

A sixth consecutive defeat would be Leipzig’s worst-ever losing streak in the Champions League – as well as the longest by any German club since Bayer Leverkusen in 2003.<\/p>\n

In the Bundesliga, things are looking better. They are currently fourth in the table, only three points below Eintracht Frankfurt in second.<\/p>\n

They also knocked Frankfurt out of the DFB-Pokal recently, and will be hoping to translate their domestic form onto the continental stage on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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Back on the road in the UEFA Champions League \ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddea pic.twitter.com\/jN9OTmtHKa<\/a><\/p>\n

— Aston Villa (@AVFCOfficial) December 9, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n