Champions League: Man. City Progress To Knockouts With Stunning Comeback To Beat RB Leipzig

 

Manchester City made an exciting comeback from behind to defeat RB Leipzig by 3-2 at Etihad Stadium and progressed to the knockout stage on cleansheet. 

Erling Haaland kicked off the comeback with a superb finish of Phil Foden's through pass in the second half after Leipzig had taken the lead from Lios Openda's double in the first half. Openda put his side in the lead by rightly finishing Janis Blaswich's cross and they went two goals clearafter scoring from a fastbreak set off by Xavi Simon's pass. 

Leipzig's hold of the game eventually slid off after Foden made his way into the box from Gvardiol's pass for the equalizer and slammed the ball home. The winning goal later came in from Alvarez'z finish with three minutes remaining. 

Having won all five games, City have qualifiedunbeaten for the knockouts on 15 points and the Germans finished in second with nine points. 

Quick Overview

Coming in the game, Leipzig seemed as the side to win the game but things began to change from second half with thrilling comeback from City. Though the loss did not jeopardise the Germans' progression to the knockout stage, a victory would have consolidated that even more. 

Tactically, Leipzig had the best of the first half and Lois Openda caught City's defense rightly by the manners his two goals came in. To put that to check Pep Guardiola's decision to reinforce the attack with Jeremy Dokun and Julian Alvarez paid off. 

However, Openda's double were superb and his side could not have asked for more, and his combination with Simon Xavi could not be better enough. All that changed with Alvarez checking that possibilities for fastbreak which Openda is just good at while Dokun put their defence to work. 

Leipzip lost to the better, not just on goal margin, rather on technical grounds, Guardiola brought his edge over Marco Rose to play.