Man City vs FC Copenhagen LIVE: Champions League result, final score & reaction as Haaland nets twice in rout

Manchester City 5-0 FC Copenhagen: City cruise to a third straight win in the Champions League

Guardiola on Haaland - 'No one can compete with him at his age'

Erling Haaland took his goal tally to an incredible 19 in all competitions this season with another double in Manchester City’s 5-0 demolition of FC Copenhagen in the Champions League.

Haaland wasted no time in getting City going with yet another strike in his remarkable campaign, sweeping home an early opener, before putting the game beyond the Danish side inside 32 minutes.

City kept coming and added a third six minutes before the break as David Khocholava put through his own net, with Haaland lurking just behind in the hunt for his second treble in four days.

There was to be no hat-trick for Haaland as he was withdrawn at half- time, but the goals kept coming as Riyad Mahrez slotted home a penalty before Julian Alvarez finished things off with a late fifth. The most comfortable of victories ensured City have taken a maximum nine points in the group and need two more to be sure of a spot in knockout stages. Copenhagen are bottom on one point from three games.

Relive the action from the Champions League group stages as Manchester City thump FC Copenhagen:

Manchester City vs FC Copenhagen

• FULL-TIME! Man City 5-0 FC Copenhagen
• 76’ - GOAL! Alvarez finishes off a lovely City move (MCI 5-0 COP)
• 54’ - GOAL! Mahrez scores from the penalty spot after Laporte dragged down (MCI 4-0 COP)
• 39’ - GOAL! Khocholava scores an unfortunate own goal with Haaland lurking (MCI 3-0 COP)
• 32’ - GOAL! Haaland taps in from close range (MCI 2-0 COP)
• 7’ - GOAL! Haaland neatly finishes early on (MCI 1-0 COP)
• Erling Haaland and Phil Foden exhibit opposite evolutions at Man City

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RB Leipzig vs Celtic

Celtic have never won an away European match in Germany in 13 previous attempts with three draws and 10 defeats. They have failed to score in nine of those games and scored just six goals in total.

[5 October 2022 16:57 · Michael Jones]

RB Leipzig vs Celtic

RB Leipzig have faced Celtic twice previously, doing so in the 2018/19 Europa League group stage. Leipzig won 2-0 at home but lost 2-1 away.

Who will come out on top tonight?

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European Super League can revive ‘sick’ football says Real Madrid president

Real Madrid president Florentino Perez believes football is “sick” and claimed resurrecting the European Super League project would be one way to restore its health.

The Spanish giants were one of a dozen clubs in April last year who signed up to a proposed breakaway league, which collapsed following backlash from supporters once the idea came into the public domain.

While the six English sides withdrew, Real, along with Barcelona and Juventus, refused to renounce the ESL, which Perez reiterated his support for at his club’s annual general meeting on Sunday.

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‘We’ll give it 100%'

RB Leipzig midfielder Dominik Szoboszlai spoke in the build-up to tonight’s match and promised that his team with give it their all this evening.

"We’ll give 100% tomorrow.” he said, “Even though we don’t have any points on the board yet, we still have a chance of progressing.

"What happened against Shakhtar [a 4-1 loss] is behind us now. That taught us that we have to be fully committed in every game, regardless of who the opposition is. We want to show that tomorrow."

[5 October 2022 16:41 · Michael Jones]

Celtic in Germany

Celtic have failed to win any of their 13 games on German soil. Can they end that torrid run tonight?

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Celtic team changes

Ange Postecoglou sticks with the same side that started against Motherwell at the weekend, with Stephen Welsh continuing at centre-back for the injured Cameron Carter-Vickers.

There are two changes from their last Champions League game against Shakhter Donetsk with Welsh and Daizen Maeda starting instead of Carter-Vickers and Saed Haksabanovic.

[5 October 2022 16:30 · Michael Jones]

RB Leizig vs Celtic confirmed line-ups

RB Leipzig XI: Gulacsi; Simakan, Orban, Gvadriol, Raum; Kampl, Schlager; Szoboszlai, Nkunku, Werner; Andre Silva

Celtic XI: Hart; Juranovic, Welsh, Jenz, Taylor; O’Riley, McGregor, Hatate; Maeda, Furuhashi, Jota

[5 October 2022 16:28 · Michael Jones]

RB Leipzig vs Celtic

Tonight’s venue is the Red Bull Arena in Leipzig, Germany. Celtic really need to pick up three points if they have any hopes of reaching the knockout stages of the Champions League.

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Carter-Vickers absence doesn’t change anything

Ange Postecoglou says that Cameron Carter-Vickers’ absence tonight due to injury isn’t going to change the way the team plays despite the American defender being one of the best players in the squad this year.

"It doesn’t change the way we play," said the Celtic boss. "But they all have their own strengths and different ways of contributing to the team.

"But from our perspective, the structure stays the same. [Carter-Vickers] He’s been out for a few games now. Our concentration has been on the guys ready and fit to go.”

[5 October 2022 16:18 · Michael Jones]

RB Leipzig vs Celtic

These sides have contrasting histories in Europe’s elite club competition. Celtic’s Lisbon Lions famously lifted the trophy in 1967 and the Scottish side have 216 games under their belts.

Leipzig on the other hand did not make their Champions League bow until 2017 and this is the German side’s fourth campaign in all. They reached the semis in 2019/20.