You can probably tell from all this digression that it's fairly quiet at Cagliari. A patient Juventus passing move ends with Paulo Dybala sending a shot miles over the bar from about 20 yards.

Incidentally, that is the third penalty that Atletico Madrid have failed to convert in three games. Antoine Griezmann had one saved against Leganes last weekend, and Kevin Gameiro skied over the bar against Barcelona in the Copa del Rey in midweek. Don't they practice them in training?

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...which Fernando Torres has thumped against the bar! His evening's had more twists than an overwritten soap opera character...

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It's not our main game this evening - simply because it has less of an impact at the top of its league - but the match at the Vicente Calderon Stadium is proving a cracking watch. A lovely Celta Vigo move ends with Jozabed striking the post from 20 yards - and now Atletico have a penalty...

Cagliari defending solidly, as Juve start to get on top here. Juan Cuadrado, the matchwinner against Inter last weekend, spies a chance to play in a cross in the direction of Mandzukic and Higuain, but there's no way through yet.

Dave Wood: Torres just rolled the clock back about 10 years with that strike. 

He did, Dave. He really did.

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That Fernando Torres goal for Atletico Madrid really was sensational. I know he's had his critics down the years, but he is capable of brilliance when he's on his game.

In honour of that moment, I'd like you to nominate your goal of the season so far. It can be in any league, at any level: From Premier League to Sunday league. Give me a little description as well, just in case I haven't seen it. (Which I won't have done if it was your mate scoring for the Dog and Partridge.) Tweet to #bbceurofooty, and I'll post a selection up here. Ta.

Well, here's an unexpected development. Giorgio Chiellini's night is over, and I just wonder if the Juve defender did himself some damage in stretching for that challenge on Barella. Chiellini cannot continue, and Daniele Rugani is on in his place.

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Another Juve booking, this one deserved, quickly follows, as Giorgio Chiellini is late on Nicolo Barella right on the edge of the area. Cagliari ask if the challenge is inside the box. It isn't.

Bruno Alves, who can get some welly behind a free-kick, gives it the full blast, but clears the bar.

Back on Sardinia, Juve full-back Stephan Lichtsteiner is perhaps a little unlucky to see yellow for his first foul of the game. Yes, he sends Marco Boriello flying through the air, but the challenge wasn't that bad as the Cagliari forward made it look.

Almost a goal at the Stadio Sant'Elia too. Juve, having absorbed some early Cagliari pressure, attack down the right. Juan Cuadrado swings over a cross, and Mario Mandzukic flings himself at it - but fouls a defender in the process as the ball drops wide.

Barella swings that corner over, and it's the dependable Giorgio Chiellini, back in the Juventus defence after his midweek breather, who gets his boot to the ball to clear.

First clattering challenge of the game, with less than 30 seconds gone. Juve midfielder Claudio Marchisio ctaches Nicolo Barella with a high boot. The Cagliari free-kick is dealt with, but the home side keep on the pressure and win a corner.

This is Max Allegri's 100th Serie A match in charge of Juventus. He's won most of them - including the last four. Will he get to celebrate the century in style? Gianpaolo Calvarese, the referee, gets us going. Cagliari in red and navy halves, Juve in an all-white change strip.

We're off and running in Madrid too.

Spanish La Liga

Something of a quirk in La Liga's fixture list this weekend: Yesterday, the two teams who came through the midweek Copa del Rey semi-finals met each other - with Barcelona winning 6-0 at Alaves.

Tonight, it's the two losing semi-finalists who face off, as Atletico Madrid seek to revive their push for Champions League qualification at home to Celta Vigo. We'll have updates from the Vicente Calderon Stadium throughout the evening.

And after being on La Liga reporting duty for the BBC yesterday as there were horrendous injuries to Barcelona's Aleix Vidal and Osasuna's Tano Bonnin, I'd be very grateful if we could get through tonight with no repeats.

Atletico Madrid: Moya; Juanfran, Gomez, Savic, Luis; Carrasco, Fernandez, Saul, Koke; Torres, Griezmann.

Celta Vigo: Sergio; Mallo, Cabral, Roncaglia, Jonny; Radoja, Pablo Hernandez; Aspas, Jozabed, Sisto; Guidetti. 

Two changes for Cagliari to the side beaten 2-0 at Atalanta last weekend. Centre-back Luca Ceppitelli is suspended, so Nicola Murru steps into a reshuffled back four. Marco Sau is in up front, as Panagiotis Tachtadis drops to the bench. Midfielder Mauricio Isla (below) used to play for Juventus – and QPR too.

Cagliari: Rafael; Pisacane, Capuano, Bruno Alves, Murru; Isla, Dessena, Di Gennaro, Barella; Borriello, Sau.

Substitutes: Colombo, Crosta, Gabriel, Miangue, Salamon, Deiola, Ionita, Padoin, Tachtsidis, Ibarbo.

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Max Allegri rested five players for the midweek win at Crotone, and brings four of them back tonight – defenders Stephan Lichtsteiner, Giorgio Chiellini and Alex Sandro, plus Juan Cuadrado, who got the winner against Inter Milan last weekend. Miralem Pjanic is not recalled, though, as Claudio Marchisio gets the nod alongside Sami Khedira in midfield.

Juventus: Buffon; Lichtsteiner, Bonucci, Chiellini, Alex Sandro; Khedira, Marchisio; Cuadrado, Dybala, Mandzukic; Higuain.

Substitutes: Neto, Audero, Dani Alves, Benatia, Rugani, Asamoah, Pjanic, Lemina, Sturaro, Rincon, Pjaca.