Key occasions
There are additionally seven Championship video games this night, plus a bumper League One line-up, and Hibs v Aberdeen within the Scottish Premiership. I’ll endeavour to maintain you up to date.
Milan are taking good care of enterprise in Bratislava, with Rafael Leão placing them 2-1 up earlier than Tammy Abraham pounced on a woeful backpass to make it three. Up the highway in Prague, it’s Sparta 0-4 Atlético, Álvarez (once more) and Griezmann including the second-half objectives.
Extra staff information, beginning in Catalonia …
Barcelona v Brest
Barcelona (4-3-3): Pena; Kounde, Cubarsi, Martinez, Gerard; Casado, Pedri, Fermin Lopez; Raphinha (c), Lewandowski, Olmo.
Subs: Szczesny, Kochen, Balde, Gavi, Torre, Victor, de Jong, Garcia, Fort, Dominguez, Cuenca, Guille Fernandez.
Brest (4-4-2): Bizot; Lala, Le Cardinal, Chardonnet (c), Haidara; Camara, Fernandes, Magnetti, Doumbia; Sima, Ajorque.
Subs: Coudert, Jauny, Niakhate Ndiaye, Del Castillo, Camblan, Balde, Faivre, Amavi, Pereira Lage, Martin, Salah.
… Whereas at San Siro, Leipzig have simply six gamers on the bench amid an damage disaster …
Inter v RB Leipzig
Internazionale (3-5-2): Sommer; Pavard, de Vrij, Bastoni; Dumfries, Barella, Calhanoglu, Zielinski, Dimarco; Taremi, Lautaro Martinez.
Subs: Di Gennaro, Josep Martinez, Arnautovic, Thuram, Buchanan, Asllani, Mkhitaryan, Carlos Augusto, Bisseck, Darmian, Aidoo.
RB Leipzig (4-4-2): Gulacsi; Geertruida, Orban, Lukeba, Henrichs; Baumgartner, Haidara, Kampl, Nusa; Andre Silva, Openda.
Subs: Vandevoordt, Seiwald, Vermeeren, Ouedraogo, Sesko, Gebel.
Bayern Munich v PSG groups
Bayern Munich (4-2-3-1): Neuer (c); Laimer, Upamecano, Kim, Davies; Kimmich, Goretzka; Sane, Musiala, Coman; Kane.
Subs: Peretz, Schmitt, Gnabry, Dier, Olise, Ibrahimovic, Guerreiro, Boey, Muller, Tel.
Paris Saint-Germain (4-3-3): Safonov; Hakimi, Marquinhos (c), Pacho, Nuno Mendes; Joao Neves, Vitinha, Fabian Ruiz; Zaire Emery, Dembele, Barcola.
Subs: Donnarumma, Tenas, Goncalo Ramos, Asensio, Doue, Lee, Muani, Lucas Beraldo, Skriniar, Zague.
Sporting v Arsenal groups
Sporting CP (3-4-3): Israel; St Juste, Diomande, Inacio; Quenda, Morita, Hjulmand (c), Araujo: Edwards, Gyokeres, Trincao.
Subs: Kovacevic, Callai, Matheus Reis, Tougher, Catamo, Fresneda, Braganca, Ricardo Esgaio, Couto, Alves, Simoes, Brito.
Arsenal (4-3-3): Raya; Timber, Saliba, Gabriel, Calafiori; Odegaard (c), Partey, Rice; Saka, Havertz, Martinelli.
Subs: Neto, Setford, Tierney, Gabriel Jesus, Kiwior, Zinchenko, Trossard, Jorginho, Merino, Sterling, Lewis-Skelly, Nwaneri.
A notable identify on the Atlético scoresheet: Júlian Álvarez, who left Manchester Metropolis in the summertime however has had a gradual begin to life in Madrid. He’s actually been missed by Pep Guardiola’s facet, who’re bidding to finish a run of 5 (!) straight defeats at house to Feyenoord:
It’s half-time within the 5.45pm (GMT) kick-offs, happening in Czechia and Slovakia. Atlético Madrid lead Sparta Prague 2-0, whereas Slovan Bratislava are holding Milan to a 1-1 draw.
Preamble
Arsenal’s final eight away video games in Europe have produced one win, three attracts and 4 defeats; of their final 4 journeys to the continent, they haven’t scored a single purpose. As one in every of their most celebrated alumni would possibly say: Drawback!
Massive drawback? Not but. Arsenal have seven factors and sit twelfth within the large Champions League desk; they may absolutely advance, however this recreation will assist resolve whether or not they achieve this by way of the playoffs, incurring extra difficult away journeys. As you might need heard, Sporting have misplaced supervisor Ruben Amorim, however they’re nonetheless a free-scoring menace and have earlier. The primary of these eight Arsenal away video games got here in Lisbon, a 2-2 Europa League draw which led to defeat on penalties again on the Emirates.
It might be excessive leisure and comparatively low stakes in Portugal, however Bayern Munich v PSG is a distinct story. The Parisians have been the weakest of Ligue 1’s quartet to this point and sit under the pink line in twenty fifth (!) place with powerful video games nonetheless to return. Bayern aren’t faring significantly better, that opening 9-2 win over Dinamo Zagreb adopted by back-to-back defeats, which means the Croatian facet at the moment are above them in mid-table. Oh Vinnie!
However wait, there’s extra. Barcelona host Brest in a top-six battle no person anticipated, whereas Leverkusen look to rediscover their fizz towards Crimson Bull Salzburg. Italian outfits Inter and Atalanta – taking part in to sort by not conceding one purpose between them to this point – look to maintain that going towards pointless opponents RB Leipzig and Younger Boys. Kick-off is 8pm in these video games, however two early matches have already began. Eat my purpose!
