The hosts, who had lost their four previous Champions League league phase matches this season, had last won in Europe's premier competition in October 2019 when they beat Olympiacos 3-1. Stuttgart's only win in this season's campaign remains their 1-0 victory over Juventus on matchday three.

Playing against his parent club Stuttgart in the Champions League, on-loan Red Star Belgrade forward Silas had just a low-key celebration for the goal he scored in a 5-1 win Wednesday. Silas played five years at Stuttgart before being loaned out to spend this season with the Serbian champion — a deal that went through after the Champions League fixtures were drawn and both parties to the loan were set to meet in the

Red Star have shown flashes of promise and should belatedly pick up their first point, but Stuttgart will surely breach their hosts' leaky back line at least once. For data analysis of the most likely results, scorelines and more for this match please click here.

Red Star Belgrade and Sturm Graz ended four-game losing runs in the Champions League to get their first points and wins on Wednesday. Red Star, the 1991 European Cup winner, rallied for a 5-1 rout of Stuttgart after the German team had taken the lead in the fifth minute.

Silas ignited a comeback against his parent club as Red Star Belgrade thrashed VfB Stuttgart 5-1 to earn their first points of the Champions League season, along with Sturm Graz who edged Girona 1-0 in the other early kick-off on Wednesday.