Esteve hoping for Champions League debut – and Haaland reunion

Maxime Esteve is hoping to make his Champions League debut against Manchester City and Erling Haaland, the man he rates as the best striker in the world. In this interview, he discusses working with Vincent Kompany at Burnley and his new life at RB Leipzig…

A reunion with Manchester City brings bad memories for the RB Leipzig defender Maxime Esteve. He scored two own goals at the Etihad Stadium last year. Not that he has advertised this to his new teammates. "Maybe they don't even know," he jokes.

It is an amusing statistic that this time last year, indeed until the final days of November, a dozen games into the Premier League season, Esteve had found the net for City more times than everyone bar Erling Haaland. "This is a secret. You don't have to say!"

The 24-year-old French centre-back left Burnley for Leipzig in the summer and the truth is that he is aching to face City again. He has been on the bench for their opening two Champions League games and is desperate to make his debut in the competition.

Source: Sky Sports