Champions League teams
Qarabag and Ferencvaros are currently drawing 2-2 in the early kick-off, with Qarabag therefore nursing a 5-3 aggregate advantage. The lineups for the late Champions League games, meanwhile, are here:
Benfica v Fenerbahce
Benfica: Trubin, Dedic, Antonio Silva, Otamendi, Dahl, Rios, Barrenechea, Aursnes, Barreiro, Akturkoglu, Pavlidis. Subs: Soares, Obrador, Ivanovic, Schjelderup, Prestianni,
Henrique Araujo, Tomas Araujo, Gouveia, Oliveira, Veloso, Santos, Prioste.
Fenerbahce: Livakovic, Muldur, Skriniar, Oosterwolde, Nelson Semedo, Amrabat, Fred, Brown, Szymanski, En Nesyri, Talisca. Subs: Egribayat, Yuksek, Djiku, Duran, Demir, Kahveci, Under, Munir Mercan, Elmaz, Aydin, Akcicek, Soyuncu.
Referee: Slavko Vincic (Slovenia).
Club Brugge v Rangers
Club Brugge: Mignolet, Sabbe, Spileers, Mechele, Seys, Stankovic, Nwadike, Forbs, Vanaken, Tzolis, Tresoldi. Subs: Jackers, Romero, Reis, Vetlesen, Sandra, Meijer, Nilsson, Skoras, Siquet, Audoor, Diakhon, Furo.
Rangers: Butland, Aarons, Djiga, Souttar, Meghoma, Cameron, Aasgaard, Rothwell, Antman, Danilo, Gassama. Subs: Kelly, Wright, Tavernier, Barron, Dessers, Diomande, Fernandez, Raskin, Moore, Gentles, Curtis, Hutton.
Referee: Felix Zwayer (Germany).
Copenhagen v Basel
Copenhagen: Kotarski, Huescas, Hatzidiakos, Gabriel Pereira, Lopez, Larsson, Mattsson, Lerager, Achouri, Cornelius, Elyounoussi. Subs: Runarsson, Gadeberg-Burr, Garananga,
Claesson, Moukoko, Robert, Suzuki, Zague, Sarapata, Meling, Delaney, Clem.
Basel: Hitz, Tsunemoto, Barisic, Vouilloz, Schmid, Metinho, Leroy, Soticek, Shaqiri, Otele, Broschinski. Subs: Salvi, Pfeiffer, Koindredi, Bacanin, Ajeti, Ruegg, Kacuri, Cisse, Ze, Rexhaj, Akahomen, Kaio Eduardo.
Referee: Istvan Kovacs (Romania).
Hello world!
Not quite so many matches tonight as there were yesterday, but it’s about quality not quantity and after Celtic stunk out Tuesday evening there’s definite room for improvement there. We’ve got just four Champions League fixtures to keep an eye out for, one of which started a while ago, and precisely the same number of Carabao Cup games. And they are:
Champions League play-off second leg (kick-offs 8pm BST unless stated)
Benfica v Fenerbahce (0-0 after first leg)
Club Brugge v Rangers (Brugge won the first leg 3-1)
Copenhagen v Basel (the first leg was drawn 1-1)
Qarabag FK v Ferencvaros (5.45pm BST, Qarabag won the first leg 3-1)
Carabao Cup second round (7.45pm BST kick-offs unless stated)
Everton v Mansfield
Fulham v Bristol City
Grimsby v Man Utd (8pm)
Oxford Utd v Brighton
Also tonight: Celta Vigo v Real Betis in La Liga (8pm), Bayern Munich play a first-round German cup tie at Wehen Wiesbaden (7.45pm), Hamilton Academical host Edinburgh City in the Scottish Challenge Cup (7.45pm), and Hibernian play a Women’s Champions League qualifying semi-final against Fortuna Hjorring (7.30pm).
And while we wait for all of that:
It’s all looking very grim for West Ham, says Jacob Steinberg:
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Some women’s Champions League qualifiers have already been played and Tom Garry was monitoring them
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