Ciaran Kelly
BBC Sport reporter at St James' Park

Newcastle United make two changes as Anthony Gordon and Anthony Elanga come into the side against Barcelona.

Gordon is currently serving a domestic ban, but he is eligible to play in the Champions League tonight and replaces record signing Nick Woltemade in the starting line-up.

Anthony Elanga is also recalled in place of Jacob Murphy.

Newcastle United starting line-up: Pope, Trippier, Schar, Burn, Livramento, Tonali, Guimaraes, Joelinton, Elanga, Gordon, Barnes

Subs: Thompson, Ramsdale, Hall, Botman, Thiaw, Krafth, Osula, J. Murphy, Woltemade, Willock, A.Murphy, Miley

Barcelona make four changes as Ronald Araujo, Frenkie De Jong, Raphinha and Robert Lewandowski come into the side.

Marcus Rashford starts on his return to England after joining Barcelona on loan from Manchester United in the summer.

Barcelona starting line-up: J Garcia, Kounde, Araújo, Cubarsi, Martín, Pedri, De Jong, Raphinha, Fermín López, Rashford, Lewandowski

Subs: Ferran, Christensen, Casado, Olmo, Bernal, Eric, Szczesny, Jofre, Roony, Fernandez, Kochen

Time to get tucked into some team news.

Ciaran Kelly
BBC Sport reporter at St James' Park

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Newcastle United do not have to look too far for inspiration tonight.

Tino Asprilla, who scored a hat-trick against Barcelona 28 years ago, has jetted in especially from Colombia to watch tonight’s game at St James’ Park.

And head coach Eddie Howe has not ruled out tapping into Sir Bobby Robson’s connection to this fixture in his pre-match address.

Sir Bobby, of course, managed both clubs – overseeing some memorable wins in Europe during his time in charge at Newcastle - and a half-and-half scarf is draped around his statue outside the stadium.

But this group have already created their own history.

Not only have they ended Newcastle 70-year wait for a major domestic trophy - they have stepped up on this stage before.

It is nearly two years, to the day, since Newcastle blew Paris St-Germain away in a 4-1 victory and defender Dan Burn has called on his team-mates and supporters to “make this PSG 2.0”.

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Stash13: KDB was/is a class player. He paints pictures on the pitch. What is often overlooked is that he’s also a class bloke. Always plays the game as though he really enjoys it & rarely any histrionics. Not the sort of guy you could ever see going on strike, others should take note!

In the other early kick-off, Club Brugge have been running riot at home.

The Belgian side are 3-0 up against Monaco thanks to goals from Nicolo Tresoldi, Raphael Onyedika and Hans Vanaken in a chaotic first half.

Monaco had the chance to open the scoring when Simon Mignolet gave away a penalty, but the former Liverpool keeper saved Maghnes Akliouche's spot-kick.

Mignolet then received a yellow card for celebrating in the referee's face before being subbed off moments later with a groin injury.

It's been eventful to say the least.

And in case you were wondering, yes Jordan Larsson is the son of Celtic legend Henrik.

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It's half-time in our two 17:45 BST matches - and in one of them FC Copenhagen are currently leading, and dominating, German side Bayer Leverkusen.

Swedish forward Jordan Larsson put the hosts in front in the ninth minute, diverting in a cross from the left with a crisp finish from the penalty spot.

They've been good value for their lead so far. Copenhagen have won just two of their last 12 Champions League games, but they're ahead tonight at the break.

The major headlines if you don't really fancy watching an hour of highlights were...

• Liverpool scoring yet another late winner, this time against Atletico Madrid
• Arsenal and Tottenham both winning
• Chelsea losing to Bayern Munich and Harry Kane's double
• Juventus and Borussia Dortmund playing out a 4-4 thriller
• Champions League debutants Union Saint-Gilloise winning and Pafos and Bodo/Glimt both getting draws
• Wins for champions PSG, plus Inter Milan and Real Madrid

You can watch highlights of all of Tuesday's and Wednesday's Champions League on BBC iPlayer by following this link.

Manchester City face Napoli in the Kevin de Bruyne derby.

And Newcastle host Barcelona in a repeat of that game they played years ago.

Also Sporting face Kairat Almaty and Eintracht Frankfurt host Galatasaray.

Plus there are two ongoing games - Club Brugge v Monaco and Copenhagen v Leverkusen. Those two kicked off at 17:45 BST.

Hello and welcome to our live text commentary of tonight's European action.

Being a Thursday it must be Europa and Conference League action. Let's see who FC Noah and Shelbourne are playing.

WAIT?!

For one and one week only it's the Champions League on a Thursday. And we have some cracking ties.

Sorry Noah and Shels fans.