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Manchester City winger Ferran Torres is looking to become the third-youngest player in Champions League history to score in four consecutive appearances (20y 248d), behind only Kylian Mbappé (18y 120d) and Erling Haaland (19y 107d).

It's a funny old campaign for Shakhtar so far. They were without 13 players because of Covid but still won away at Real Madrid - fast forward a fortnight and they're 5-0 down at home with 25 minutes still to go.

A shocker at the back allows Lars Stindl to fire in the fifth.

Only Barcelona (39) and Porto (33) have conceded more away Champions League goals in England than Olympiakos (29), whose ratio of 2.9 goals conceded per visit (10 in total) is the highest of the 10 teams to have played 10+ away games in England.

You wouldn't have guessed the number one on that list would you?

Real Madrid
Real Madrid

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This is the first meeting of these two giants since 1998 - when Roberto Baggio scored two late goals to give the Italians the win.

Having reached the semi-finals or better for eight successive seasons between 2010-11 and 2017-18, Real are on the slide.

They have won only one of their last six Champions League matches (D2 L3); the opening-day loss to Shakhtar this season made it one victory in seven home games (D2 L4).

There's full comms from the City game to come as well.

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Serie A side Atalanta make two changes from the weekend's 2-1 win at Crotone.

Dangerous forward Duvan Zapata and Jose Luis Palomino come into the side, with Cristian Romero and Ruslan Malinovsky dropping out.

Amad Traore, who will join Manchester United in January, is on the bench.

Atalanta XI: Sportiello, Toloi, Palomino, Djimsiti, Hateboer, Pasalic, Freuler, Mojica, Zapata, Gomez, Muriel.

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Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola makes five changes from the side that beat Sheffield United on Saturday, with right-back Kyle Walker the only defender keeping his place.

With Aymeric Laporte and Ruben Dias rested and on the bench, John Stones and Nathan Ake partner each other at the back for the first time since City’s first game of the season, a 3-1 win at Wolves, with Oleksandr Zinchenko replacing Joao Cancelo at left-back.

Ilkay Gundogan and Phil Foden come in for Rodri and Bernardo Silva in midfield, with Riyad Mahrez, Raheem Sterling and Ferran Torres continuing up front - although Gabriel Jesus is fit enough to be among the substitutes.

Man City XI: Ederson, Walker, Stones, Ake, Zinchenko, Gundogan, De Bruyne, Foden, Mahrez, Sterling, Torres

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As they prepare to take on Liverpool in the Champions League, 91�ȱ� Sport finds out how Atalanta have become a force in Italy and on the continent.

John Stones and Nathan Ake line up in defence for City tonight as Pep Guardiola makes five changes. Phil Foden is also back in from the off.

Roberto Firmino is dropped by Liverpool as Jurgen Klopp makes two changes to the side that beat West Ham 2-1 in the Premier League at the weekend.

Summer signing Diogo Jota comes in for the Brazilian, with England U21 international Rhys Williams replacing Nathaniel Phillips in defence.

Joel Matip and Naby Keita were doubts before the game but both players are on the bench.

Liverpool XI: Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Williams, Gomez, Robertson, Jones, Henderson, Wijnaldum, Salah, Jota, Mane.

Borussia Mönchengladbach are the eighth away team to score four goals in the first half of a Champions League match.

One of the other seven away teams is Shakhtar Donetsk. As it stands, Real Madrid are four points from top spot in the group.

Liverpool

Roberto Firmino is NOT in the Liverpool XI tonight as in-form Diogo Jota gets the nod.

Full team news on the way.

We should get goals tonight, at the very least. City v Olympiakos has home banker written all over it while Atalanta score by the lorryload full.

Gladbach have just gone 4-0 up before half-time in Ukraine as well.

Who are you rooting for tonight? Any danger for the Premier League boys? Get in touch.

The group stage is reaching the halfway point and it's heating up.

Our two Premier League sides are comfortably top of their sections with 100% records but some other big guns - Real Madrid, we mean you - are in a bit of bother...

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• Lokomotiv Moscow 1-1 Atletico Madrid (Latest)
• Shakhtar Donetsk 0-3 Borussia Monchengladbach (Latest)
• Atalanta v Liverpool (20:00 GMT)
• Midtjylland v Ajax (20:00 GMT)
• RB Salzburg v Bayern Munich (20:00 GMT)
• Real Madrid v Inter (20:00 GMT)
• Porto v Marseille (20:00 GMT)
• Manchester City v Olympiakos (20:00 GMT)

It's a big night when it comes to red v blue.

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Some results later on in the evening may have more significance, I suppose, but Liverpool face a tricky night against Atalanta while Manchester City should make light work of Olympiakos.

Shall we?