Inter Milan are aiming to continue their fine UEFA Champions League form at home to Leipzig, who will look for their first points of the league phase on Matchday 5.

Italian champions Inter opened the 2024/25 campaign with a 0-0 draw at Manchester City in a repeat of the 2023 final and have since beaten Crvena Zvezda (4-0) and, on Matchday 4, Arsenal (1-0) at San Siro either side of a 1-0 win at Young Boys.

Leipzig are among the five teams to have lost their first four games, losing at Atlético de Madrid (1-2) and, last time out, Celtic (1-3) and at home to Juventus (2-3) and Liverpool (0-1).

This is the clubs' first fixture and just Leipzig's sixth game against an Italian team.

Form guide

Inter

Record vs German clubs: W19 D10 L17 F65 A60

Home record vs German clubs: W11 D2 L9

Inter have not played a Bundesliga team since the 2022/23 group stage, when they lost 2-0 to Bayern München in both Milan and Munich.

The Nerazzurri have won only four of their last 16 matches against German teams (D2 L10).

Inter won nine of their first 12 home games against German visitors (L3) but have managed only two victories in the subsequent ten (D2 L6).

This is the Nerazzurri's 18th appearance in the Champions League, and a seventh in succession.

The run to the 2023 final was Inter's most successful campaign since lifting the trophy in 2010. Simone Inzaghi's side were second behind Real Sociedad in Group D in 2023/24 but were then edged out by Atlético de Madrid in the round of 16 (1-0 h, 1-2 a, 2-3 pens).

That was the second time in the last three seasons than Inter's campaign had foundered in the last 16.

Inter have won 12 of their last 24 home Champions League games (D7 L5), although 11 of their last 15 (D2 L2).

Champions of Europe in 1964, 1965 and 2010, Inter claimed their 20th Serie A title in 2023/24. It was their first since 2021 and only a second in the past 14 seasons.

Leipzig

Record vs Italian clubs: W2 D1 L2 F8 A7

Away record vs Italian clubs: W2 D0 L0

Leipzig have already lost to Italian opponents this season, going down 2-3 at home to ten-man Juventus on Matchday 2 in a game they led twice.

The German club have never won at home to Serie A visitors (D1 L2) but have been victorious in both games in Italy – 3-1 at Napoli in the 2017/18 UEFA Europa League round of 32 first leg (3-3 aggregate, won on away goals) and 2-0 at Atalanta in the Europa League quarter-final second leg in 2021/22 (3-1 aggregate).

This is Leipzig's seventh campaign in the Champions League, all since 2017/18, and a sixth in a row.

Semi-finalists in 2019/20, losing a one-off tie 3-0 to Paris Saint-Germain, the German club have reached the knockout rounds in four of their last five campaigns, including 2023/24.

Last season Marco Rose's side finished second in Group G behind Manchester City before being edged out by eventual champions Real Madrid in the last 16 (0-1 h, 1-1 a).

Leipzig's away European record is W13 D6 L16, with seven wins and seven defeats in the last 15.

This is only Leipzig's eighth season of European football. They became the first club to make their continental debut in the Champions League group stage in September 2017.

Rose's charges were fourth in the Bundesliga in 2023/24, Leipzig's sixth successive top-four finish and a sixth in seven years since being promoted to the German top flight for the first time in 2016.

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Inter

On Saturday Inter were 5-0 winners at Hellas Verona, Marcus Thuram scoring twice.

All the goals came in the first half, just the second time the Nerazzurri had scored five in a Serie A away game and the first since March 1964.

Inter came from behind to draw 1-1 at home against Serie A leaders Napoli on 10 November, the only goal they have conceded in five matches.

Hakan Çalhanoğlu scored for the Nerazzurri against Napoli but also hit the post with a penalty, his first spot-kick failure in Serie A after 17 conversions and his first miss for Inter after 19 successful penalties.

Lautaro Martínez scored in Argentina's 2-1 FIFA World Cup qualifying defeat against Paraguay on 14 November and got the only goal against Peru five days later.

Also on 14 November, Mehdi Taremi set up three goals in the first half of Iran's 3-2 win against North Korea before scoring an own goal and missing a penalty in the second. He then scored the opener in a 3-2 win in Kyrgyzstan on 19 November.

Denzel Dumfries scored for Netherlands in a 4-0 UEFA Nations League win against Hungary on 16 November.

Çalhanoğlu returned from international duties with Türkiye with a thigh injury and missed Saturday's win.

Martínez also sat out the weekend victory due to flu while Francesco Acerbi went off early due a thigh problem.

On 15 November Yann Bisseck renewed his contract until 2029.

Leipzig

Leipzig are four games without a win (D1 L3), going down 4-3 at Hoffenheim on Saturday in a game they led three times with the last two goals coming in the final ten minutes.

The four goals Marco Rose's side conceded on Saturday is only one less than in their first ten league games combined.

Leipzig's unbeaten start to the Bundesliga season was ended by a 2-1 loss at Borussia Dortmund on 2 November, ending their 19-game unbeaten Bundesliga run (W13 D6) that had surpassed the club record set in 2018/19, and their ten-match unbeaten away league sequence – another club best.

Péter Gulácsi did not concede in the Bundesliga for 510 minutes between 31 August and 26 October, a new Leipzig record.

On 14 November Antonia Nusa scored twice in Norway's 4-1 UEFA Nations League win in Slovenia, for whom Benjamin Šeško was on target with a penalty.

On the same day Christoph Baumgartner scored for Austria in a 2-0 win in Kazakhstan.

On 17 November Nusa also registered in a 5-0 win against Kazakhstan.

Eljif Elmas and Yussuf Poulsen both suffered thigh injuries on international duty and missed Saturday's game.

El Chadaille Bitshiabu also picked up a thigh injury in Leipzig training during the international break and was absent at the weekend.

Xavi Simons (out since 23 October, ankle) and David Raum (6 October, ankle) have also been sidelined.