Key events
1 min: Callum McGregor plays a ball from deep towards Daizen Maede but it carries through to RB Leipzig goalkeeper and captain Peter Gulacsi.
RB Leipzig v Celtic is go …
1 min: After a minute’s silence for the many victims of the stadium tragedy in Indonesia at the weekend, RB Leipzig get the ball rolling.
Not long now: Referee Espen Eskas leads both teams out and they line up either side of the match officials for the Champions League anthem. Kick-off is just a few handshakes, a coin-toss and a shrill blast of Eskas’s whistle away. Celtic’s players wear black shirts with thin green stripes, black shorts and black socks. Their hosts are in predominantly white shirts, shorts and socks.
Liel Abada: The Celtic winger is not in tonight’s squad as he is sitting this game out for religious reasons. The group F match coincides with Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar and Ange Postecoglou left it up to the player to decide whether or not he wanted to participate in the game.
Those teams: With the absence of Cameron Carter-Vickers confirmed, Ange Postecoglu names the same side that lined up against and beat Motherwell at the weekend, which means a Champions League debut for 22-year-old central defender Stephen Welsh.
RB Leipzig manager Marco Rose makes one change to the team that beat Bochum 4-0 on Saturday. David Raum comes in at left-back for Marcel Halstenberg, who drops to the bench. Former Chelsea striker Timo Werner lines up for the hosts, alongside Christopher Nkunku, who is being heavily linked with a move to Stamford Bridge.
RB Leipzig v Celtic line-ups
RB Leipzig: Gulacsi, Simakan, Orban, Gvardiol, Raum, Schlager, Kampl, Szoboszlai, Nkunku, Werner, Andre Silva.
Subs: Haidara, Poulsen, Forsberg, Blaswich, Halstenberg, Diallo, Novoa, Henrichs.
Celtic: Hart, Juranovic, Welsh, Jenz, Taylor, O’Riley, McGregor, Hatate, Maeda, Furuhashi, Jota.
Subs: Giakoumakis, Haksabanovic, McCarthy, Bernabei, Abildgaard, Bain, Siegrist, Robertson, Forrest, Ralston.
Tonight’s match officials
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Referee: Espen Eskas
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Referee’s assistants: Jan Erik Engan and Isaak Elias Bashevkin
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Fourth official: Svein Oddvar Moen
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Video Assistant Referee: Tomasz Kwiatkowski
Early team news
Leipzig mifielder Konrad Laimer is out with an ankle injury, along with centre-back Lukas Klostermann. Midfielder Dani Olmo is also sidelined with an injury that has kept him out for over a month.
Visibly frustrated by his side’s profligacy in front of goal in their previous two Champions League encounters, Ange Postecoglou has been forced to plan for this game without striker Georgios Giokoumakis, who suffered a leg injury while on international duty with Greece. Swedish defender Carl Starfelt is also out as he recovers from the knee injury that forced him off the pitch in the first Old Firm derby of the season. James McCarthy and Cameron Carter-Vickers are also major doubts for tonight’s game.
Group F: RB Leipzig v Celtic
The Red Bull Arena is the venue for tonight’s meeting between third and fourth in Group F. With a point on the board already following their draw against Shakhtar Donetsk in Poland, Celtic are in slightly better shape than their hosts, who have lost both their group games, against the Ukrainian saide and Real Madrid, so far. Kick-off in Saxony is at 5.45pm (BST) but stay tuned in the meantime for team news and build-up.
