• Manchester City are unbeaten in their last nine Champions League home games (W6 D3), their longest run without a defeat on home soil in the competition. City’s last defeat at the Etihad dates back to September 2015 against Juventus (1-2).

...Well, two coaches and a mini-bus actually.

Shakhtar fans have a long enough trek to get to home games but it does not appear many of them have made the 2,000+ mile trip to Manchester - there are only the above three vehicles in the away car-park and no sign of any visiting supporters.

The stewards outside the turnstiles say they are expecting a few hundred but only about 80 have gone in the ground so far. Where are they all? In the pub I expect...

Does that mean we are looking for a draw in Moscow? Ordinarily a decent result you might think - but having drawn at home to Sevilla already Liverpool need a win.

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• Spartak Moscow have won only five of their last 36 Champions League games (D6 L25). They have also failed to keep a clean sheet in their last 11 outings in the competition.

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• Liverpool have failed to win any of their last six Champions League games (D3 L3), their longest ever run without a victory in the competition. They have also failed to keep a clean sheet in their last eight Champions League games.

There are plenty of big names on show in this match, including Arsenal and Liverpool summer target Thomas Lemar.

The midfielder will line-up for Monaco alongside former Manchester United striker Radamel Falcao and ex-Manchester City striker Stevan Jovetic.

The pair have scored 12 goals between them already this season, with Falcao admittedly getting 11 of those.

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Porto are flying with five wins in their last six games and they currently sit two points clear at the top of the Portuguese Primeira table.

Former Real Madrid legend Iker Casillas plays in goal for Porto and he has three Champions League winner's medals to his name. That's one more than his club!

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Fail to prepare, prepare to fail!

Conor McNamara
BBC Radio 5 live commentator

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Yeah... But can Jeff Stelling do it while commentating on a game!!??!!

The sheet on the left are the full schedule of fixtures in the Football League, we'll keep you up to date with all the goals as they come in from up and down the country.

68 teams to keep on top of!!!!

And you can follow the EFL live text here.

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• 64% of Shakhtar Donetsk’s goals in the Champions League have been scored by Brazilians (69 out of 108), the highest ratio for any team having made at least three appearances in the competition.

• No Cypriot side has ever beaten English opposition in European competition, in 12 attempts (D2 L10).

John Southall
BBC Radio Five Live football reporter

This is how we expect Tottenham to line up tonight, though these Uefa line-ups are not always right.

It could be Kieran Trippier further forward rather than Serge Aurier but it does look like it will be a four at the back for Spurs.

If Mauricio Pochettino opts for the three then Ben Davies will shuffle across into the middle and Trippier will switch to left back. All will be revealed shortly.

What do you think of Liverpool's line-up tonight?

KoloKK: If only Can & Hendo can combine tonight as DMs & allow Coutinho to feed off the movement of Bobby; & the pace of Manè & Salah...

Dan: One word describes Liverpool's attacking four; Terrifying. Shame they can't defend with that same label...

Mudiaga: Terrific attack, terrible defence sums up Liverpool so far. Hope tonight will be different?

Loris Karius starts in goal for Liverpool tonight, that makes it three keepers in three games, in three different competitions.

Rotation, rotation, rotation.

Does that help a defence which is not exactly watertight at the best of times?

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Manchester City fans will want to have one eye on this game as the other two teams in Group F go head-to-head.

Italian side Napoli are flying in the league and have picked up five wins from their last six games.

Feyenoord have been a little inconsistent and have lost three of their last four so are in need of a victory.

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Away from tonight's Champions League fixtures, there's a full round of games in the English Football League to be played during the next couple of evenings.

The pick of tonight's games is third-placed Cardiff against leaders Leeds, with the winners sure to end the night top of the Championship.

Click here for live text coverage.

Alistair Bruce-Ball
BBC Radio 5 live

I've been stadium-hopping on Moscow's Circle Line today, going from Jose Mourinho's press conference at the VEB Arena ahead of Manchester United's game against CSKA Moscow tomorrow onto the Otkrytiye Arena for Spartak Moscow vs Liverpool tonight.

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Jurgen Klopp has unleashed the so-called Fab Four of Coutinho, Mane, Salah and Firmino from the start of a game for the first time this season against a Spartak team who've been struggling in domestic football this season.

Klopp will be hoping things go a little more smoothly than yesterday's press conference where some quirky questions and a translator who knew nothing about football turned the whole affair into a bit of a shambles.

Ally McCoist
Former Scotland striker on BBC Radio 5 live

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The great sides over the years could go away from home and win 1-0. If Liverpool aren't playing well, they have to score three goals to win a game.

They don't look comfortable at the back. If you start the game thinking you have to score two or three goals to win, you have a problem.

BBC Radio 5 live

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• This is the ninth game between Borussia Dortmund and Real Madrid in the Champions League since 2012/13, more than any other fixture in the competition over that period.
• Borussia Dortmund are unbeaten in their last three Champions League games against Real Madrid (W1 D2), scoring exactly two goals in each of those three games.

Spartak Moscow's team includes 22-year-old on-loan Chelsea midfielder Mario Pasalic, who has also had loan stints at AC Milan, Elche and Monaco.

Spartak Moscow: Rebrov, Tasci, Fernando, Adriano, Dzhikiya, Bocchetti, Samedov, Kutepov, Eschenko, Pasalic, Popov.

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