Three more minutes to be played at the Red Bull Arena.

Both sides are still looking to get forward. Will we see a late winner?

The action-packed half we thought we'd see between these sides. We've had disallowed goals, a Werner comeback strike, Cologne's immediate equaliser and now a red card. Still all to play for in the second half!

He's caught on the boot by Thielmann, who sees yellow. The Germany international needs a few moments to get back to his feet, though.

Strap yourselves in for what's bound to be a breathless 90 minutes!

Christopher Nkunku – one of the 30 nominees for this year’s Ballon d’Or – had six efforts on goal and another six passes to a shot last matchday – no Bundesliga player had more. Teammate Dani Olmo also fired off six shots and had ‘just’ five passes to a shot – the latter placing him second in the division standings. But someone like Ljubicic also had five efforts on goal last week, so expect plenty of attacking intent on display today.

Cologne boss Baumgart is known for sticking to his attacking principle. It worked so well last year, so why change now? They attack down the wings and put plenty of high balls into the box. Their 28 crosses from open play and six headers on goal weren’t just division bests on the opening matchday but also produced the goods, with Kainz’s goal coming from a cross and Ljubicic’s a header. It’s still working even without Modeste. Florian Dietz was given his debut for the club in his place last week and had four efforts on goal.

It could’ve been an even bigger win for Cologne on the opening day, even without last season’s top scorer Modeste. Their 30 efforts on goal was the most of all teams on Matchday 1 and the most by the Billy Goats in a Bundesliga game since November 2003. Their xG against Schalke was up at 4.6.

It's exactly 777 days since Werner last featured in a Leipzig shirt. That was on 27 June 2020 against Augsburg, when he bagged a brace.

Cologne kicked off this season with a 3-1 win at home to Schalke, which was the same result they had to start the last campaign, which they ultimately finished in seventh to qualify for the UEFA Europa Conference League. Most Effzeh fans would take a repeat of that again this year. The last time Cologne made Europe in two consecutive seasons was in 1989 and 1990.

Leipzig have never lost their first home game of a Bundesliga season, winning five and drawing once. Last season it was a comprehensive 4-0 win over Stuttgart, which followed a shock 1-0 loss at Mainz. Stuttgart were their opponents on Matchday 1 this year, where they were held to a 1-1 draw. RB have always managed a win in the first two games except in 2018/19 when they took three matches to get going under Ralf Rangnick.

Steffen Baumgart also makes three changes to the side that beat Schalke last weekend. Kingsley Ehizibue, Eric Martel (for his Bundesliga debut against the club he left this summer) and Timo Hübers come in. Benno Schmitz, Jeff Chabot and Kingsley Schindler drop to the bench.

It's three changes for Leipzig compared to the opening weekend. The returning Timo Werner is thrown straight in for a start alongside Christopher Nkunku in an attacking line-up that also features Dani Olmo and Dominik Szoboszlai. Mohamed Simakan comes in for the injured Lukas Klostermann, while Kevin Kampl drops to the bench.

Horn, Schmitz, Pedersen, Duda, Adamyan, Chabot, Lemperle, Maina, Olesen

Schwäbe - Ehizibue, Kilian, Hübers, Hector (c) – Martel, Skhiri - Thielmann, Ljubicic, Kainz - Dietz

Blaswich, Haidara, Forsberg, Silva, Schlager, Ba, Gvardiol, Sorloth, Kampl

Gulacsi (c) - Simakan, Orban, Halstenberg – Novoa, Henrichs, Olmo, Raum – Szoboszlai - Nkunku, Werner

Welcome along to coverage of today's tantalising Bundesliga clash between RB Leipzig and Cologne at the Red Bull Arena.