Gary Neville strikes me as being a fairly patriotic type of bloke. And the under-fire Valencia boss may as well have pinned up posters bearing the morale-boosting British wartime slogan of 'Keep Calm and Carry On' around the training ground. (In a Spanish translation, of course.)

"There's been no huge sway to behave in a different way the last few weeks of results," says the ex-England defender. 

"We've not changed tack, we've not changed the way in which we work. We believe in our work and proving ourselves."

Keep calm and carry on indeed.

If Gary Neville could have picked his opponent tonight, then the chances are Espanyol would still have been turning up to the Mestalla tonight. 

Fourth bottom in the table, fresh from two successive spankings (6-0 at Real Madrid and 5-0 at home to Real Sociedad).

If cheap Danish lagers did football match-ups...

So let's hear from you. Is Gary Neville out of his depth? Or would even the most hardened of coaches struggled at Valencia this season? 

And how do you see Italy's whopper of a game panning out? Whatever you want to talk about (football related of course), we want to hear it.

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Valencia XI: Alves, Cancelo, Siqueira, Perez, Santos, Abdennour, Feghouli, Parejo, Alcacer, Rodrigo, Cheryshev. 

Espanyol XI: Pau, López, Álvarez, Diop, González, Duarte, Asensio, Abraham, Sylla, Caicedo, Burgui.

So what the blooming heck has Morrissey got to do with Gary Neville? Not much really. I just wanted to use a picture of the eternally miserable, quiffed wordsmith.

Well there is a link. Sort of. G.Nev, not unlike the Smiths frontman, has been talking a lot about panic this week.

His Valencia side have not won in nine Liga matches, slipping down to 14th in the Spanish top-flight. But Neville reckons he is not flapping.

"I haven't seen the players panic and they've not seen me panic," says the ex-England defender.

"There can be a hurricane on the outside but you have to be in the eye of the storm on the inside."

Hola amigos! Or should that be ciao amici?! Whatever...welcome to our second jaunt to mainland Europe today.

A cracker of a two-for-one deal is coming your way - and you don't have to pay a penny. No catches.

As well as seeing if Gary Neville can break his La Liga duck as Valencia host Espanyol at the Mestalla, we'll also be regularly popping across the Med. That's because Juventus are hosting Napoli in a bona fide, top-of-the-table rumble.

So sit back, relax and enjoy the ride...

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Nine league matches, no wins. This managerial lark is harder than it looks from the television studio isn't it?

To say Gary Neville's reign in Spain has not started smoothly would be an understatement. Throw in a 7-0 spanking in the cup at Barcelona, a club legend demanding that you resign, plus plenty of vitriol from fans, and most managers would have been on the first flight back from Manises to Manchester.

And the airport departure lounge might just be where Neville finds himself tomorrow if Valencia lose tonight...

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"Panic on the streets of Carlisle. Dublin, Dundee, Humberside..." droned legendary Smiths frontman Morrissey.

But, according to another mouthy Manc, there isn't any panic in Valencia....