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Bizarrely, but brilliantly, Gent have a Native American on their crest, which also helps explain their nickname 'the Buffalos'.

Why? Well obviously it stems from the fact that in the late 19th century William F Cody, aka Buffalo Bill, travelled to Gent with his famed Barnum & Bailey circus. In a show featuring buffalos and Native Americans on horses, the chant "Buffalo, Buffalo, Wild West Ra" was heard – and the students who had just formed their football team adopted this for their club. 

Obvious really! 

No Gareth Bale for Real Madrid? So when the world's most expensive player is injured you have to bring in the fifth most expensive. Hard times for Real...

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Former Manchester City striker Edin Dzeko is on the bench for Roma, who hand Stephan El Shaarawy and Diego Perotti their European debuts for the club.

Roma XI: Szczesny; Florenzi, Manolas, Rudiger, Digne; Vainqueur, Pjanic, Nainggolan; Salah, El Shaarawy, Perotti.  

For Real Madrid, Gareth Bale is out with injury and did not travel with the squad, so James Rodriguez, Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema lead the attack.

Real Madrid XI: Navas; Carvajal, Ramos, Varane, Marcelo; Kroos, Modric, Isco; Rodriguez, Ronaldo, Benzema.

Will Zinedine Zidane turn out to be the manager Real Madrid hope? Or will he lose his cool World Cup 2006-style and cost them in the long run?Only time, and a few tantrums, will tell.

Which former player would you love to see have a go as manager of your club? Giggs? Gerrard? Savage?...

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Cristiano Ronaldo may have been riled by questions about his form, but he'll be pleased to know that Roma manager Luciano Spalletti is not planning to "cage" him tonight.

Despite conceding 16 goals in the group stage, Spalletti will not sacrifice players to mark Ronaldo out of the game.

The Portuguese forward is the Champions League's all-time record scorer with 88 goals and has 11 already this season.

"I'm not going to order three players to mark him," said Spalletti.

Speaking ahead of the first leg at the Stadio Olimpico, Spalletti added: "I don't want to say that my players have one third of Ronaldo's quality. If so, we'd need 33 players to deal with him."

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Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo walked out, external of a news conference on Tuesday after being questioned about his record in away matches this season.

Ronaldo, 31, has scored 32 goals this season but has not netted away from the Bernabeu since 29 November.

"Who else has scored more goals away from home than me since I arrived in Spain?" said Ronaldo, the all-time top scorer in the Champions League.

"Name one player who has scored more than me. No answer? OK. Thank you."

Tonight's other game sees two of the lesser lights of European football crash it out for a place at the top table.

Wolfsburg are in the last 16 for the first time and face competition newcomers Gent after ending a five-match winless run with a 2-0 victory over Ingolstadt last weekend.

Midfielder Julian Draxler said: "The fans were right to criticise us. We hadn't shown for a while what we could do.

"We've drawn a line under things now."

Germany international and World Cup winner Draxler, 22, scored the opening goal against Ingolstadt as Wolfsburg won for the first time since beating Manchester United 3-2 to knock United out at the group stage in December.

Zinedine Zidane was the player of his generation, There, I've said it.

For more than a decade the French number 10 captivated me, and millions more around the world. From his graceful turns, brilliant goals, World Cup winning displays and free-kicks to the occasional blown gasket, stamp and headbutt, he was a maverick. A magician.

He is also a surprise choice as Real Madrid manager. So far he has won five and drawn one in the league, seeing his side score 23 times in the process.

Tonight it's his European debut

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Six men have inked their names into the record books and won the European Cup as a player and a manager.

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Former Republic of Ireland boss Giovanni Trapattoni won it twice with AC Milan in the 1960s before coaching Juve to the title in 1985. While Johan Cruyff added to his three cup wins for Ajax by bossing Barca to a Wembley win in 1992.

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Carlo Ancelotti won it twice in the great Milan midfield of the late 1980s and has won it three more times as manager. Impressive.

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Frank Rijkaard was another Milan midfielder - he also won it with Ajax - who went on to do it, managing Barca to victory and Pep Guardiola has (so far) won it as a player and coach of the Catalans.

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Miguel Munoz managed it as player (three times) and boss (twice) at Real Madrid - can the great, great Zinedine Zidane follow in his foosteps and become the seventh man on the list?