Manchester City v RB Leipzig: Champions League last 16, second leg – live

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A laser show, the coda of Hey Jude, the performative booing of Uefa’s version of Zadok the Priest, and out come the teams! Manchester City wear their sky blue shirts, Leipzig third-choice black and red. Last up the tunnel, Pep and Marco, arm in arm, the best of friends. We’ll be off in a minute!

Pre-match postbag. “I think I’d have an easier time winning the Powerball than correctly predicting one of Pep’s lineups” – Blake Mitchell

“Marco Rose’s comments don’t really lead me to believe that Leipzig are coming out with the intention of getting a stomp on, nor are setting up for thrilling heroics in this tie. It seems that they’re quite happy to let the game flow at City’s pace, and bend like a willow, as Taylor Swift once sang about, but probably not with artistic inspiration from Big Cup footy” – Bill Preston

“Should be an interesting second leg in the liquid gold derby. The ooze of crude petroleum will likely prove too much for the sugary fizz of energy drink but hey, it’s football and anything can happen. I’ll join Pep Guardiola in nervously opening a plastic bottle of drinking water, taking a distracted pull and screwing the cap back on with excessive force” – Peter Oh

Pep Guardiola speaks to BT. “We will give defenders help in the build-up … everyone is available and ready … all four [defenders] can play in different shapes so we are set up for that … they start with a lot of players inside … maybe they’ll change their shape but we’ll see after five minutes.”

Leipzig coach Marco Rose speaks to BT. “We have to defend a lot of situations but we want to attack too … the midfield is of course an important part of the game … in Leipzig we saw how it was not working and how it could work … we were more active and pressed them … we made them problems … we have to try to gain possession … it is not easy but if you just run against the ball it’s getting difficult … Erling is Erling and he will be trying to score today against me and my team … we have no special plan against him but we have to do everything on the highest possible level because he is really dangerous … we are really confident, that’s why we come here … we played a good first leg and we can be confident … the winner goes to the next stage … we want to play a good game and see what we get.”

Manchester City make two changes to the XI named to start the first leg in Leipzig. John Stones and Kevin De Bruyne come in for Kyle Walker and Riyad Mahrez, who both drop to the bench.

Leipzig make four changes to their starting XI from the first leg. Amadou Haidara, David Raum, Benjamin Henrichs and Kevin Kampl come in for Lukas Klostermann,André Silva and Marcel Halstenberg, who drop to the bench, and the injured Xaver Schlager. Christopher Nkunku, who came on as a sub in the first leg, also misses out through injury.

The teams

Manchester City: Ederson, Stones, Akanji, Dias, Ake, Rodrigo, De Bruyne, Gundogan, Bernardo, Grealish, Haaland.
Subs: Ortega, Carson, Walker, Phillips, Laporte, Álvarez, Gómez, Mahrez, Perrone, Foden, Palmer, Lewis.

RB Leipzig: Blaswich, Henrichs, Orbán, Gvardiol, Raum, Laimer, Haidara, Szoboszlai, Kampl, Forsberg, Werner.
Subs: Nyland, Nickisch, Simakan, Olmo, Poulsen, Klostermann, Silva, Halstenberg, Ba.

Referee: Slavko Vinčić (Slovenia).

Preamble

Three weeks ago this happened …

… but 18 months ago this happened …

… so Manchester City should be quietly confident of progressing to the quarter-finals tonight. They’ll have to be better than they were in the second half in Germany, though. Kick off at the Etihad is 8pm GMT. It’s on!