Rose on the CL draw "Finally Manchester again".

Marco Rose could only smile about the renewed clash in the Champions League with Manchester City. "My first reaction was straight into the staff group: finally Manchester," the RB Leipzig head coach said the day after the Group G draw with defending champions Man City, Red Star Belgrade and Young Boys Bern. "Not only for Leipzig, but also for me, because with Gladbach I had also already had Manchester as an opponent," Rose explained.

Now another attempt against his former protégé Erling Haaland and against ex-Leipzig Josko Gvardiol, who switched to Pep Guardiola's team just before the start of the season for a 90 million euro transfer fee plus bonus. "Against Manchester we will try it again, also sometimes to decide a game for us," stressed Rose, after it was 0:7 at the Etihad Stadium in March. "We got a real shower," Rose opined. In Bern on artificial turf, he said he expects "different conditions that we have to adapt to," and in Belgrade "an incredibly hot crowd."