Key events
Goal! Red Star 0-1 Leipzig (Xavi, 8)
All his own work, and Xavi Simons bobs and weaves. The young Dutchman is quite a talent, and then curls a beauty home.
Goal! Atletico 1-0 Celtic (Griezmann, 6)
The man who never stops gets some luck, shooting from the edge of the box, Cameron Carter-Vickers unfortunately deflecting the ball past Joe Hart. Diego Simeone celebrated that one hard.
Andy T lays out the gag of the night: “Hi John, sure I’m not the first but it really could be Man v Boys out there tonight?”
Jonathan Liew was in Dortmund to see Newcastle struggle again to breach BVB.
And off we go…the big news for Manchester City being Erling Haaland starting and Rico Lewis is standing in for Rodri.
The Champions League anthem is ringing out across Europe, and the teams are shaking hands.
Joe Pearson reports in: “If Milan beat PSG this afternoon, that puts Newcastle last in Group F. So maybe they won’t have to worry about Thursday football. Just saying.”
Full-time: Shakhtar Donetsk 1-0 Barcelona
What a win, what a club. Barcelona were poor but they came up against a heroic team who defended with such purpose. Barca have work still to do.
Full-time: Borussia Dortmund 2-0 Newcastle
Auf wiedersehen, Eddie? The Europa League is beckoning.
Shakhtar 1-0 Barcelona: Into extra-time and the team with no home since 2014 are about to beat Barcelona, just as they beat Real Madrid twice last season.
Lazio v Feyenoord teams
Lazio: Provedel, Lazzari, Patric Gil, Romagnoli, Hysaj, Kamada, Vecino, Luis Alberto, Felipe Anderson, Immobile, Zaccagni. Subs: Pellegrini, Guendouzi, Pedro, Isaksen, Castellanos, Cataldi, Sepe, Gila, Magro, Rovella.
Feyenoord: Bijlow, Nieuwkoop, Geertruida, Hancko, Hartman, Timber, Zerrouki, Wieffer, Stengs, Gimenez, Igor Paixao. Subs: Beelen, Jahanbakhsh, Ueda, Dilrosun, Lopez, Van den Belt, Ivanusec, Trauner, Wellenreuther, Milambo, Lamprou, Lingr.
FC Porto v Antwerp teams
FC Porto: Costa, Joao Mario, Kleper Pepe, Carmo, Sanusi, Andre Franco, Varela, Stephen Eustaquio, Eduardo Pepe, Evanilson, Taremi. Subs: Fabio Cardoso, Grujic,
Francisco Conceicao, Claudio Ramos, Sanchez, Gonzalez, Loader, Navarro, Baro, Martinez, Borges, Pereira Folha.
Antwerp: Lammens, De Laet, Van Den Bosch, Coulibaly, Wijndal, Yusuf, Vermeeren, Kerk, Ekkelenkamp, Balikwisha, Ilenikhena. Subs: Muja, Janssen, Ejuke, De Wolf, Bataille, Corbanie, Devalckeneer, Tuypens, Horemans.
Red Star Belgrade v RB Leipzig teams
Red Star Belgrade: Glazer, Mijailovic, Dragovic, Djiga, Rodic, Kanga, Hwang, Bukari, Ivanic, Lucic, Krasso. Subs: Kabic, Mitrovic, Popovic, Nedeljkovic, Degenek, Spajic, Stamenic, Ndiaye, Katai, Olayinka, Kangwa, Mijatovic.
RB Leipzig: Blaswich, Henrichs, Simakan, Lukeba, Raum, Simons, Schlager, Haidara, Forsberg, Openda, Sesko. Subs: Gulacsi, Lenz, Poulsen, Seiwald, Baumgartner, Klostermann, Carvalho, Kampl.
Man City v Young Boys teams
Man City: Ederson, Akanji, Dias, Gvardiol, Stones, Lewis, Foden, Matheus Luiz, Kovacic, Grealish, Haaland. Subs: Walker, Phillips, Ake, Doku, Rodri, Ortega, Alvarez, Bernardo Silva, Carson, Bobb.
Young Boys: Racioppi, Janko, Amenda, Camara, Benito, Garcia, Niasse, Lauper, Ugrinic, Elia, Itten. Subs: Colley, Chaiwa, Nsame, Persson, Rrudhani, von Ballmoos, Blum, Lustenberger, Ganvoula, Males, Marzino, Monteiro.
Atletico Madrid v Celtic teams
Atletico Madrid: Oblak, Molina, Gimenez, Witsel, Hermoso, Riquelme, Barrios, Koke, Griezmann, Morata, Correa. Subs: Grbic, Azpilicueta, Soyuncu, Saul, Samuel Dias, Llorente, Savic, Galan, Gomis.
Celtic: Hart, Alistair Johnston, Carter-Vickers, Scales, Taylor, O’Riley, McGregor, Bernardo, Maeda, Furuhashi, Palma. Subs: Lagerbielke, Phillips, Yang, Turnbull, Holm, Oh, Iwata, Bain, Forrest, Ralston, Welsh, Michael Johnston.
Goal! Borussia Dortmund 2-0 Newcastle (Brandt, 79)
Newcastle had committed too many men forward and Livramento was left exposed and Brandt sails from the halfway line and fires past Nick Pope. Newcastle are in big trouble.
AC Milan v PSG teams
AC Milan: Maignan, Calabria, Thiaw, Tomori, Hernandez, Loftus-Cheek, Musah, Reijnders, Pulisic, Giroud, Leao. Subs: Adli, Jovic, Okafor, Chukwueze, Pobega, Krunic, Florenzi, Nava, Mirante, Bartesaghi.
PSG: Donnarumma, Hakimi, Marquinhos, Skriniar, Hernandez, Zaire Emery, Ugarte, Vitinha, Dembele, Muani, Kylian Mbappe. Subs: Fabian, Goncalo Ramos, Lee, Mukiele, Carlos Soler, Barcola, Letellier, Tenas.
Shakhtar 1-0 Barcelona: Newerton, the Shakhtar forward, bursts on and smashes the ball into the side-netting. Barcelona leaving gaps at the back in their chase for an equaliser. Matviyenko is leaving the field, having lain down on the floor in agony.
Shakhtar 1-0 Barcelona: Barca are absolutely piling it on now, and Shakhtar have lost their goalscorer, Sikan, to a shoulder problem.
And meanwhile, Shakhtar are beating Barcelona 1-0, which may throw open Group H.
Newcastle are in a bit of lumber in their match with Borussia Dortmund.
Preamble
Good evening, Europe and the whole wide world. The business end of the group stages is here, as they turn for home, the Europa League or the last 16. So, what’s at stake tonight? Remember, we are playing the return of those matches two weeks ago.
Atletico v Celtic sees a rerun of what was one of the best games in the tournament so far, it finishing 2-2. Brendan Rodgers, never the most confident on the European stage, and his team still have a chance of making the knockouts but they probably need to win in Spain for that to be in any way probable.
Manchester City v Young Boys can see the holders book their place. Would it be more fun if they played their youth team against the Swiss outfit? Probably, but Pep Guardiola doesn’t think like that, does he?
Lazio v Feyenoord is a battle of third versus first in Group E, the Italians got a 3-1 chasing in the De Kuip last time out.
Milan v PSG will see the seven-time winners take on the no-time winners, who at least won 3-0 last time and showed off their new breed, which turned out not to be just Kylian Mbappe.
Porto v Antwerp is the Champions League perennials against the Belgian team they crushed 4-1 last time, to take control of the group. All eyes on Evanilson and Eustaquio, the latest off the production line?
Red Star Belgrade v RB Leipzig is vital to the German team’s hopes of making the next round, and that of the Serbian team’s chances of snatching a Europa League place off Young Boys.
All that and the latest news and reaction from the earlier kick-offs. Join me.