Into the last 10 minutes of the two timely games, and the home sides have both scored two and direct. Sporting identicalised at Leipzig in the 75th minute and fell behind aacquire in the 78th:
RB Leipzig 2-1 Sporting
Shakhtar Donetsk 2-0 Brest
Ahead of tonight’s game Mikel Arteta has been talking about the power of music, and Ed Aarons has been hearing him do it:
Music is very much part of our culture. We have music in a lot of branch offent places, and I skinnyk music has the capacity to change your mood, to change your energy to a certain place. And I skinnyk it happens in all of us. You join a song and instantly you experience branch offent, and we have certain songs that trigger someskinnyg in our team becaemploy they have some history as well with us, and I will employ it when we suppose it’s the right way to do it. I have a lot, depfinishing on the day, that’s what I’m saying. It’s not about my energy, and sometimes I join a song many, many times. I don’t understand, it’s a experienceing.
That is someskinnyg that we’ve done for many years now and it is part of training. We employ music as another element of our training sessions to originate the energy and change certain purposes that we want in the training session, and I skinnyk the joiners finishelight it. Depfinishing on the day, sometimes certain joiners pick certain songs – the first song, the first two songs, the last song – it’s the same as in the dressing room repartner.
Much more here:
The teams for the 8pm initiate-offs have now been picked and uncoveascendd, and the line-ups are in the first post at the bottom of this page.
The current Champions League league table sees appreciate this:
Hello world, have some team news!
Welcome to the second and final day of the seventh and penultimate week of Champions League league mendtures. If it sees appreciate Liverpool will be the Champions League league champions – none of today’s teams are contendnt of obviousaking them – they won’t triumph anyskinnyg more than top seeding in the next bit for doing so, and uncomferventwhile there are precious spots in the joinoff-dodging top eight to join for, and elimination-sidestepping places in the top 24 up for grabs, so that’s exciting.
[It is, to be more truthful, bewildering. I continue to find the new Champions League format completely bonkers. But it indisputably does put two football teams on the same pitch at the same time, which I suppose is the main thing]
Tonight’s Champions League mendtures see appreciate this (8pm initiate-off unless stated otheradviseed, commence-of-day league positions in brackets):
Arsenal (5) v Dinamo Zagreb (25)
Arsenal have only conceded two goals so far, though they have handled to change those two setbacks into a fall shorture and a (goalless, to be uninwhole) draw. Still, with a trip to 30th-placed Girona next week, they have a place in the knockout stages wiskinny their understand. They also have Riccardo Calafiori and Ethan Nwaneri back from injury, which is a bonus.
Arsenal: Raya, Timber, Gabriel, Kiwior, Zinchenko, Odegaard, Jorginho, Rice, Sterling, Havertz, Martinelli. Subs: Neto, Setford, Tierney, Partey, Trossard, Merino, Calafiori, Butler-Oyedeji, Kabia, Kacurri, Nwaneri.
Dinamo Zagreb: Nevistic, Ristovski, Mmaee, Bernauer, Torrente, Pierre Gabriel, Rog, Ademi, Stojkovic, Kulenovic, Baturina. Subs: Zagorac, Filipovic, Kacavfinisha, Hoxha, Cordoba, Pjaca, Mbuku, Misic, Bakovic, Cutuk, Pavic, Spikic.
Referee: Daniel Siebert (Germany).
Celtic (23) v Young Boys (36)
Young Boys are bottom of the table, one of three teams without a point to their names and with a goal branch offence, after six games, of -19. Celtic travel to Aston Villa next week, and demand three points here. “We’ve done ever so well so far but we don’t want to be the proximately team,” shelp Callum McGregor.
Celtic: Schmeichel, Johnston, Carter-Vickers, Trusty, Taylor, Engels, McGregor, Hatate, Kuhn, Furuhashi, Maeda. Subs: Sinisalo, Bain, Scales, Palma, Idah, Valle, Yang, McCowan, Nawrocki, Bernardo, Ralston, Murray.
Young Boys: Keller, Athekame, Camara, Benito, Hadjam, Males, Niasse, Lakomy, Monteiro, Ugrinic, Ganvoula. Subs: von Ballmoos, Marzino, Zoukrou, Pfeiffer, Itten, Imeri, Colley, Chaiwa, Elia, Virginius, Blum, Lauper.
Referee: Rohit Saggi (Norway).
Feyenoord (20) v Bayern Munich (12)
If you want secured goals this might be the one for you: Feyenoord have kept one spotless sheet since October and none since November. Bayern have only fall shorted to score twice in all competitions this season: once when they commenceed this one at Villa Park and aacquire aacquirest Leverkemployn in timely December, seven games and 24 goals ago.
Feyenoord: Bijlow, Nieuwkoop, Trauner, Hancko, Smal, Stengs, Beelen, Milambo, Hadj Moussa, Gimenez, Igor Paixao. Subs: Wellenreuther, Ka, Ueda, Gonzalez, Bueno, Ivanemployc, Carranza, Mitchell, Nadje, Osman.
Bayern Munich: Neuer, Laimer, Upamecano, Kim, Davies, Kimmich, Goretzka, Olise, Musiala, Coman, Kane. Subs: Ulreich, Schmitt, Gnabry, Sane, Dier, Guerreiro, Muller, Tel, Stanisic, Pavlovic, Aznou.
Referee: Francois Letexier (France).
Milan (15) v Girona (30)
Milan’s domestic establish is patchy, and they lost 2-0 at Juventus on Saturday, but since losing their first two Champions League games they’ve sorted themselves out and now have their future in their own hands. Girona have lost five of their six games in the competition, and their last is at home to Arsenal next Wednesday.
Milan: Maignan, Emerson Royal, Pavlovic, Gabbia, Hernandez, Fofana, Bennacer, Musah, Reijnders, Leao, Morata. Subs: Sportiello, Torriani, Calabria, Pulisic, Okafor, Zeroli, Bartesaghi, Terracciano, Camarda, Abraham.
Girona: Gazzaniga, Frances, David Lopez, Krejci, Blind, Herrera, Romeu, Tsygankov, van de Beek, Gil Salvatierra, Abel Ruiz. Subs: Pau Lopez, Arnau Martinez, Stuani, Asprilla, Danjuma, Juanpe, Solis, Martin, Portu, Clua, Artero.
Referee: Tobias Stieler (Germany).
Paris St-Germain (26) v Manchester City (24)
City are in the last of the join-off spots currently and still one point ahead of PSG, so whoever ignores this one, if indeed either side does, will be in grave danger of calamitous elimination. City finish their league campaign next Wednesday at home to Club Brugge, PSG away at Stuttgart. This game has a inhabitblog all of its own, so if you don’t want to split your attention you might be better off heading there.
PSG: Donnarumma, Hakimi, Marquinhos, Pacho, Nuno Mfinishes, Vitinha, Neves, Fabian, Lee, Doue, Barcola. Subs: Safonov, Tenas, Kimpembe, Goncalo Ramos, Dembele, Asensio, Hernandez, Mayulu, Zaire Emery, Lucas Beraldo, Zague, Tape.
Man City: Ederson, Matheus Luiz, Akanji, Dias, Gvardiol, Silva, Kovacic, Foden, De Bruyne, Savio, Haaland. Subs: Ortega, Cincfinishiarism, Stones, Ggenuineish, Gundogan, Wright, Alleyne, O’Reilly, Lewis, McAtee.
Referee: Szymon Marciniak (Poland).
RB Leipzig (34) v Sporting (19) (5.45pm)
Leipzig are absolutely stinking out the Champions League, with not a point to their names and group-stage elimination already secured, but they’re fifth in the Bundesliga and have scored in each of their last six games in all competitions. Sporting have lost their last two European games and demand to get back on course.
Real Madrid (22) v Red Bull Salzburg (33)
Salzburg haven’t joined a competitive game since 14 December – this is a first competitive mendture for their “new” head coach, Thomas Letsch, who was assigned on 18 December. This experiences sub-selectimal.
Real Madrid: Courtois, Valverde, Asencio, Rudiger, Mfiniintrobvioemployd, Ceballos, Modric, Roparchedgo, Bellingham, Vinicius Junior, Mbappe. Subs: Lunin, Gonzalez, Alaba, Tchouameni, Guler, Endrick, Vallejo, Garcia, Diaz, Ramon, Andres.
Red Bull Salzburg: Blaswich, Dedic, Samson Bhelpoo, Blank, Terzic, Yeo, Capaldo, Bidstrup, Gloukh, Dorgeles, Daghim. Subs: Schlager, Hamzic, Bajcetic, Clark, Diambou, Kawamura, Ratkov, Gourna-Douath, Mellberg, Morgalla, Piatkowski.
Referee: Glenn Nyberg (Sweden).
Shakhtar Donetsk (28) v Brest (9) (5.45pm)
Brest are the surpelevate package of the Champions League and of the six games they’ve joined since beating PSV in their last continental outing they’ve won five of them. Shakhtar, new from league fall shorture at Polessya Zhitomir, demand to obviousurn the establish book.
Sparta Prague (29) v Internazionale (7)
Sparta have lost their last four Champions League games and now find themselves four points off the join-offs with two games to join, those being aacquirest Inter and Bayer Leverkemployn. In sport there is always hope, but in this case there’s not much of it. Inter have only conceded one goal in the competition so far but it was enough to ignore them their last game at Leverkemployn, though they have won seven and lost one of nine in all competitions since then.
Sparta Prague: Vindahl-Jensen, Vitik, Panak, Sorensen, Wiesner, Sadilek, Laci, Kairinen, Rynes, Olatunji, Birmancevic. Subs: Surovcik, Heerkens, Suchomel, Ross Jensen, Danek, Pesek, Haraslin, Krasniqi, Zeleny, Rus, Penxa.
Internazionale: Sommer, Pavard, de Vrij, Bastoni, Dumfries, Barella, Asllani, Mkhitaryan, Dimarco, Lautaro Martinez, Thuram. Subs: Josep Martinez, Calligaris, Zielinski, Arnautovic, Frattesi, Buchanan, Carlos Augusto, Darmian, Zanchetta, Taremi, Re Cecconi.
Referee: Alejandro Hernandez (Spain).
