• Soccer Football - Champions League - Manchester City Training - Etihad Campus, Manchester, Britain - February 21, 2023 Manchester City's Erling Braut Haaland and Bernardo Silva during training Action Images via Reuters / Ed Sykes
    Soccer Football - Champions League - Manchester City Training - Etihad Campus, Manchester, Britain - February 21, 2023 Manchester City's Erling Braut Haaland and Bernardo Silva during training Action Images via Reuters / Ed Sykes
  • Manchester City's Ilkay Gundogan, Nathan Ake, Kalvin Phillips, Manuel Akanji and Kyle Walker during training. Reuters
    Manchester City's Ilkay Gundogan, Nathan Ake, Kalvin Phillips, Manuel Akanji and Kyle Walker during training. Reuters
  • Manchester City's Erling Haaland, right, and Ruben Diaz during training. PA
    Manchester City's Erling Haaland, right, and Ruben Diaz during training. PA
  • Manchester City's Erling Haaland during training. Reuters
    Manchester City's Erling Haaland during training. Reuters
  • Manchester City's Jack Grealish, Manuel Akanji and Nathan Ake. Reuters
    Manchester City's Jack Grealish, Manuel Akanji and Nathan Ake. Reuters
  • Kalvin Phillips, Nathan Ake and Jack Grealish during training. Reuters
    Kalvin Phillips, Nathan Ake and Jack Grealish during training. Reuters
  • Manchester City's English midfielder Jack Grealish trains. AFP
    Manchester City's English midfielder Jack Grealish trains. AFP
  • Manchester City's Julian Alvarez at training. Reuters
    Manchester City's Julian Alvarez at training. Reuters
  • Manchester City's Phil Foden, centre, trains with teammates. PA
    Manchester City's Phil Foden, centre, trains with teammates. PA
  • Manchester City's Nathan Ake and Kalvin Phillips train. Reuters
    Manchester City's Nathan Ake and Kalvin Phillips train. Reuters
  • Manchester City's Julian Alvarez, centre, during training. PA
    Manchester City's Julian Alvarez, centre, during training. PA
  • Kalvin Phillips at training. Reuters
    Kalvin Phillips at training. Reuters
  • Manchester City's Rico Lewis during training. Reuters
    Manchester City's Rico Lewis during training. Reuters
  • Manchester City's Phil Foden. PA
    Manchester City's Phil Foden. PA
  • Manchester City's Nathan Ake, right, and Kyle Walker at training. PA
    Manchester City's Nathan Ake, right, and Kyle Walker at training. PA
  • Maximo Perrone, Kalvin Phillips, Phil Foden and Jack Grealish train. Reuters
    Maximo Perrone, Kalvin Phillips, Phil Foden and Jack Grealish train. Reuters
  • Phil Foden works with the ball at training. Reuters
    Phil Foden works with the ball at training. Reuters

Man City's Haaland and Grealish train for RB Leipzig Champions League clash - in pictures


Stuart James
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Manchester City get their Champions League knockout phase campaign under way with a visit to RB Leipzig in the last-16 first leg on Wednesday.

Pep Guardiola's side will be out for revenge at the Red Bull Arena after they lost 2-1 there in the group stage of last season's competition.

City cruised through qualification for the knockouts this season, topping Group G with 14 points, five clear of second-placed Borussia Dortmund.

Leipzig on the other hand, looked to be struggling to get out of Group F after losing their first two matches against Shakhtar Donetsk and Real Madrid.

But Marco Rose's side then won four on the bounce to finish runners-up behind Madrid, who they beat 3-2 at home.

Those wins were part of an 18-game unbeaten run for Leipzig, which came to and end with a 2-1 Bundesliga defeat to Union Berlin on February 11.

But they bounced back last weekend with at 3-0 away victory over Wolfsburg and now sit in fifth place in the league.

Manchester City, meanwhile, have failed to win four of their last five away games and their 1-1 draw at Nottingham Forest on Saturday was a setback in their efforts to catch Arsenal in the Premier League.

You can see Erling Haaland and the rest of the City squad training for the RB Leipzig game in the gallery above. To move to the next photo, click on the arrows, or swipe if using a mobile device.

Nottingham Forest 1 Manchester City 1 - in pictures

  • Nottingham Forest's Chris Wood celebrates scoring in the 1-1 Premier League draw against Manchester City on February 18, 2023. Action Images
    Nottingham Forest's Chris Wood celebrates scoring in the 1-1 Premier League draw against Manchester City on February 18, 2023. Action Images
  • Chris Wood scores for Nottingham Forest. Getty
    Chris Wood scores for Nottingham Forest. Getty
  • Forest's Chris Wood (right) celebrates with Joe Worrall. PA
    Forest's Chris Wood (right) celebrates with Joe Worrall. PA
  • Manchester City's Bernardo Silva celebrates after scoring the team's first goal at Nottingham Forest. Getty
    Manchester City's Bernardo Silva celebrates after scoring the team's first goal at Nottingham Forest. Getty
  • Bernardo Silva scores the opening goal for City. PA
    Bernardo Silva scores the opening goal for City. PA
  • City's Bernardo Silva celebrates scoring their first goal with Phil Foden and Kevin De Bruyne. Reuters
    City's Bernardo Silva celebrates scoring their first goal with Phil Foden and Kevin De Bruyne. Reuters
  • City's Rodri rues a missed chance. PA
    City's Rodri rues a missed chance. PA
  • City manager Pep Guardiola applauds their fans after the match. Getty
    City manager Pep Guardiola applauds their fans after the match. Getty
Updated: February 22, 2023, 6:53 AM