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Key occasions
GOAL! Dinamo Zagreb 1-0 Milan (Baturina 19). Matteo Gabbia stands on the ball, permitting Martin Baturina to race off and slot. A dreadful error.
GOAL! Inter Milan 2 -0 Monaco (Martinez 16). Lautaro Martinez drives residence from the sting of the field, and ten-man Monaco are in a world of ache.
GOAL! Borussia Dortmund 1-0 Shakhtar Donetsk (Guirassy 17). A scrappy mess however all of them rely. Serhou Guirassy with the opener.
GOAL! Crimson Bull Salzburg 0-2 Atletico Madrid (Griezmann 13). Rodrigo De Paul sends Giuliano Simeone clear down the proper. Alexander Schlager rushes out of his field rashly. Simeone rounds him and rolls throughout for Antoine Griezmann, who can’t miss. A aim and now an help for the supervisor’s boy!
GOAL! Lille 1-1 Feyenoord (Gimenez 14). A nook in from the proper. Gernot Trauner heads down. Santiago Giménez pokes residence from shut vary.
Inter 1-0 Monaco. Marcus Thuram has already received a penalty. Now his bustle down the center teases Christian Mawissa into showcasing his rugby tackling expertise. Off Mawissa goes, and Monaco are in all kinds.
Barcelona 0-0 Atalanta. Lamine Yamal practically opens the scoring in jaw-dropping fashion, gliding in from the proper and curling a shot in the direction of the highest nook. Misses by inches.
GOAL! Lille 1-0 Feyenoord (Sahraoui 4). Osame Sahraoui sends a low forensic shot throughout Feyenoord keeper Justin Bijlow and into the underside left.
GOAL! Bayern Munich 1-0 Slovan Bratislava (Muller 8). One other close-range header, this time from the outdated boy Thomas Muller.
GOAL! Stuttgart 0-1 PSG (Barcola 6). Contemporary from giving Manchester Metropolis a superb hiding, PSG proceed on their upward climb. A nook from the proper flicked on and headed residence by Bradley Barcola from shut vary.
GOAL! Crimson Bull Salzburg 0-1 Atletico Madrid (Simeone 5). The supervisor’s son Giuliano Simeone opens the scoring for Atleti.
GOAL! Aston Villa 2-0 Celtic (Rogers 5)
It’s two for Villa, and two for Rogers, who lashes a spectacular one into the highest proper. Oh Brendan. Again to his dangerous methods in Europe.
GOAL! Inter 1-0 Monaco (Martinez 3). Denis Zakaria clips Marcus Thuram from behind. Penalty. Lautaro Martínez hammers it residence.
GOAL! Aston Villa 1-0 Celtic (Rogers 3)
Jacob Ramsey tears down the left and crosses low for Morgan Rogers, who can’t miss from six yards. What a begin at Villa Park!
Aston Villa 0-0 Celtic. An ideal probability for Hyunjun Yang to launch Reo Hatate clear by on aim, however he overhits the cross woefully. Villa’s excessive line getting away with one.
A definite lack of first-minute objectives. Most likely shouldn’t moan about this. In lieu of early drama, right here’s John Parry: “My prediction is that probably the most enjoyable will come within the closing 5 minutes, when some crew someplace, stress-free into slowing the sport down with a two-goal lead, blows the lot affecting another groups half a continent away.”
Right here we go, then. It’s on. I’m getting into. Good luck everybody.
The groups are out! Of the 36 presently doing their stretches, politely listening to company anthems, shaking arms, tossing cash and swapping pennants, solely 11 are certain of their destiny. Liverpool and Barcelona are undoubtedly by to the final 16; Bologna, Sparta Prague, RB Leipzig, Girona, Crimson Star Belgrade, Sturm Graz, RB Salzburg, Slovan Bratislava and Younger Boys already know the jig is up. Everybody else pensive, of their particular place. A form of hush, everywhere in the continent tonight. The calm earlier than the storm. We’ll be off in a few minutes.
Pre-pandemonium postbag. “The nonsense of the brand new Champions League format spilling into January implies that Man Metropolis can’t discipline their costly new striker to assist them recover from the road. In the meantime, whereas Eintracht Frankfurt are just about over the road within the Europa League, they have to certainly be additionally mildly [word redacted by Family Website editor] at shedding their high scorer earlier than the job is totally accomplished” – Ben Chia
“Earlier than you say ‘Liverpool are disrespecting European heritage and the opposition with this outrageous rotation’, I say Slot has earned the proper to discipline what may nonetheless be a aggressive aspect” – Michael
“Raheem Sterling then. He’s received a sure fund of goodwill to attract on, but it surely’s working out a bit faster than have to be snug for him; and also you sense he feels it, and desires to do one thing to high up the credit score. However what? He’s 30 and by no means an important runner anyway. He can dribble and transfer his legs about in mysterious methods, however so may Nicolas Pépé, and see the place that received him. He is aware of he’s there on sufferance. He’s been by rather a lot, and deserves higher. Might he rating a double hat-trick tonight, earlier than the waters shut over him” – Charles Antaki
Man Metropolis v Brugge crew information
Manchester Metropolis: Ederson, Nunes, Stones, Akanji, Gvardiol, Kovacic, Gundogan, De Bruyne, Silva, Foden, Haaland.
Subs: Ortega, Carson, Grealish, Savinho, Wright, Alleyne, O’Reilly, Lewis, McAtee.
Membership Brugge: Mignolet, Seys, Ordonez, Mechele, De Cuyper, Onyedika, Jashari, Talbi, Vanaken, Tzolis, Jutgla.
Subs: Romero, Vetlesen, Van de Heuvel, Vermant, Nilsson, Skoras, Nielsen, Jackers, Siquet, Spileers, Sabbe.
Daniel Harris has all the small print right here ☟☟☟☟☟.
Girona v Arsenal crew information
Girona: Lopez, Martinez, Tsygankov, Ruiz, Asprilla, Danjuma, Romeu, Juanpe, Frances, Martin, Yaakobishvili.
Subs: Gazzaniga, Danso, Van de Beek, Stuani, Miovski, Herrera, Solis, Portu, Comas, Clua, Kim, Artero.
Arsenal: Neto, Partey, Kiwior, Gabriel, Calafiori, Jorginho, Merino, Odegaard, Nwaneri, Sterling, Trossard.
Subs: Setford, Porter, Saliba, Tierney, Martinelli, Timber, Zinchenko, Havertz, Butler-Oyedeji, Rice, Lewis-Skelly, Oulad M’Hand.
Arsenal are just about sure of a top-eight end, so Mikel Arteta offers his beginning XI a superb outdated shoogle. Neto makes his first begin in aim, with David Raya placing his toes up at residence. Ethan Nwaneri, Raheem Sterling, Jacob Kiwior and Jorginho all begin.
PSV v Liverpool crew information
PSV: Benitez, Karsdorp, Boscagli, Obispo, Junior, Bakayoko, Land, Veerman, Saibari, Pepi, Til.
Subs: Drommel, Schiks, de Jong, Driouech, Babadi, Kuhn, Ledezma, Nagalo, Abed.
Liverpool: Kelleher, Bradley, Robertson, Quansah, Tsimikas, McConnell, Endo, Elliott, Chiesa, Danns, Gakpo.
Subs: Jaros, Davies, Nallo, Norris, Morton, Nyoni, Kone-Doherty, Mabaya, Morrison.
Liverpool make wholesale modifications with top-two qualification assured and a visit to Bournemouth this weekend uppermost in thoughts. Jayden Danns makes his first begin up entrance, alongside the lesser-spotted Federico Chiesa. Andy Robertson is getting a run-out in central defence by the appears of it.
Aston Villa v Celtic crew information
Aston Villa: Martinez, Money, Konsa, Bogarde, Digne, Tielemans, Kamara, Bailey, Rogers, Ramsey, Watkins.
Subs: Olsen, Zych, McGinn, Duran, Nedeljkovic, Maatsen, Swinkels, Patterson, Younger.
Celtic: Schmeichel, Johnston, Scales, Trusty, Taylor, Engels, McGregor, Hatate, Kuhn, Idah, Yang.
Subs: Sinisalo, Bain, Palma, McCowan, Nawrocki, Bernardo, Montgomery, Murray, Cummings, Ralston.
Ollie Watkins – reportedly the topic of a £60m bid from Arsenal – begins for Villa. Fellow switch goal Jhon Duran is on the bench. Celtic in the meantime fill the hole vacated by the departed Kyogo Furuhashi with Adam Idah.
Jeopardy Nook. Liverpool are assured a top-two end. Arsenal are virtually definitely going to qualify mechanically for the Spherical of 16. Aston Villa and Celtic – who face off on this week’s Battle of Britain – are shoo-ins for the play-offs, and each have an opportunity of a top-eight end if issues go their approach. Manchester Metropolis, nonetheless, are in a spot of hassle, so their must-win sport with Brugge will get the complete MBM remedy, courtesy of Daniel Harris. Please toggle between us to your coronary heart’s content material.
The mega-table, because it stands going into the ultimate matchday. I can categorically state that we are going to not be updating this each time a aim goes in. We love doing issues for you, however there are limits.
Preamble
Welcome to chaos. There are 36 golf equipment enjoying 18 fixtures to find out which eight qualify mechanically for the Spherical of 16 and which 16 go into the play-off spherical. Listed below are these fixtures …
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Aston Villa v Celtic
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Barcelona v Atalanta
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Bayer Leverkusen v Sparta Prague
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Bayern Munich v Slovan Bratislava
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Borussia Dortmund v Shakhtar Donetsk
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Brest v Actual Madrid
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Dinamo Zagreb v AC Milan
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Girona v Arsenal
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Internazionale v Monaco
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Juventus v Benfica
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Lille v Feyenoord
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Manchester Metropolis v Membership Brugge
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PSV v Liverpool
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Crimson Bull Salzburg v Atletico Madrid
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Sporting v Bologna
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Sturm Graz v RB Leipzig
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Stuttgart v Paris Saint-Germain
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Younger Boys v Crimson Star Belgrade
… and this ☟☟☟☟☟ is what every membership must do. Kick off is at 8pm GMT. Bedlam ahoy!