By The Telegraph (World News) | Created at 2024-10-23 17:50:37 | Updated at 2024-10-23 19:26:33
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Match preview
Good evening and welcome to coverage from the Champions League as Liverpool travel to Germany to take on RB Leipzig on matchday three as Arne Slot’s side aim to make it three wins from three in the competition. Liverpool beat AC Milan at the San Siro 3-1 on matchday one and made it two wins from two against Bologna at Anfield, winning 2-0. Meanwhile it has been a difficult start to Leipzig’s Champions League campaign. They lost their opening game 2-1 away at Atletico Madrid before somehow losing 3-2 at home to Juventus, despite being 2-1 up and playing against 10 men for the final half an hour.
Liverpool beat Chelsea 2-1 at Anfield on Sunday to remain top of the Premier League in their first game after the October international break thanks to goals from Mohamed Salah and Curtis Jones. Slot has won 10 of his first 11 games in charge of Liverpool but he still feels there is room for improvement.
“You can’t ask for much more when it comes to the results, but when it comes to what we want there is always room for improvement. I don’t think we outplayed Chelsea, we certainly didn’t, I think they were more dominant with the ball. In an ideal world you would have seen us dominate the game like we did so many other games. We are not there yet.
“The good thing about the team and our result is when we face a team like Chelsea or [Manchester] United you see a team fighting for every centimetre, every metre, fighting for every moment and that can be decisive in the game and that’s what we showed. I am hoping that in the near future we will play a difficult game like the Milan game or the United game and be more dominant than we were against Chelsea.”
Diogo Jota, Conor Bradley, Federico Chiesa, Alisson Becker and Harvey Elliott have not travelled with the Liverpool squad to Germany.
Despite a challenging start to their Champions League campaign, RB Leipzig have made a strong start to the Bundesliga season, winning five and drawing two of their first seven games in the league to sit joint-top with Bayern Munich. They come into tonight’s game off the back of a 2-0 win over Mainz on Saturday thanks to goals from Xavi Simons and Willi Orban. In their seven league matches so far, they have kept six clean sheets.
Team news to follow shortly.
