Tottenham Hotspur

With Dele Alli, Jan Vertonghen and Christian Eriksen all out, Tottenham are forced to make three changes to the team that beat West Ham on Saturday.

Harry Winks, Kieran Trippier and Son Heung-min all come into the side. That could mean Serge Aurier on the wing in front of Kevin Trippier or Spurs could stick with their 3-4-3 with Tripper switching to left wing-back and Ben Davies moving into central defence.

Tottenham XI: Lloris (C), Trippier, Alderweireld, Sanchez, Davies, Aurier, Dier, Winks, Sissoko, Son, Kane.

Subs: Vorm, N'Koudou, Llorente, Foyth, Walker-Pieters, Georgiou, Oakley-Boothe

Apoel Nicosia XI: Waterman, Carlao, Lago, Vouros, Rueda, Morais (C), Aloneftis, Vinicius, Sallai, Zahid, De Camargo

Subs: Gudiño, Alexandrou, Makris, Antoniou, Merkis, Farías, Poté

BBC Radio 5 live

Conor McNamara on 5 live: "Do not underestimate Shakhtar.

"Although they have never won a European game on English soil, they did beat Napoli in their opening group game. Napoli are the current Serie A leaders with six wins from six games.

"Shakhtar have had a resilience about them in recent seasons… they have won their last five away games in Europe and they have only lost two of their last 10 away European games."

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Ally McCoist on Radio 5 live: "It's the first time I have seen Manchester City live this season and from what I have seen on TV I'm very, very impressed so far.

"I think they look as strong as they have been in recent seasons from middle to front.

"I see this being a tougher game however than a lot of people expect after their great result against Napoli and I also think the City defence will be tested at a level they haven't been so far this season."

Juliette Ferrington
BBC Radio 5 live

Pep's programme notes - "We cannot just think that this will be easy. We have to be careful. To win our second game in this competition is very important. Three more points would be a big boost to our ambitions in the Champions League where we hope to make big strides this season."

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They're here!

Dortmund will have their work cut out tonight against Madrid.

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Simon Stone
BBC Sport at the Etihad Stadium

There was a time - quite a while ago admittedly - when players used to travel to games on the same transport as the fans.

Not any more.

Manchester City get a state-of-the art coach to take them basically across the street from the club's amazing academy - where their Under-19s have just beaten Shakhtar 3-1 in the Uefa Youth League - before getting announced off the coach and walking through a line of fans and into the stadium.

Philippe Coutinho, Sadio Mane, Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino all start for Liverpool but there is no room for Georginio Wijnaldum.

German keeper Loris Karius also returns along with 18-year-old defender Trent Alexander-Arnold.

Liverpool: Karius, Alexander-Arnold, Lovren, Matip, Moreno, Henderson, Can, Coutinho, Salah, Mane, Firmino.

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Two changes for Manchester City after Saturday's 5-0 thrashing of Crystal Palace. Benjamin Mendy, who has been to see a specialist in Barcelona about a knee problems, is out, so in comes Fabian Delph at left-back. Gabriel Jesus replaces Raheem Sterling.

City XI: Ederson, Walker, Stones, Otamendi, Delph, Fernandinho, Silva, De Bruyne, Sane, Jesus, Aguero.

Shakhtar Donetsk goalkeeper Andiy Pyatov becomes the fourth Ukrainian to reach 50 games in the Champions League.

Shakhtar XI: Pyatov, Kutko, Ordets, Rakitskiy, Ismaily, Fred, Stepanenko, Marlos, Taison, Bernard, Ferreyra.

• Liverpool have only won one of their last seven away games in the Champions League (D3 L3) – this coming against Debrecen in November 2009 (1-0).

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Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero has made a fine start to the Premier League season with six goals in six games.

The Argentine scored against Crystal Palace at the weekend, moving him on to 176 goals for City and two more against Ukrainian side Shakhtar will make him the club's all-time top scorer.

Alistair Bruce-Ball
BBC Radio 5 live

A warming bowl of borscht - the perfect thing to prepare you for watching Champions League football on a chilly Moscow night!

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Borscht, external

Another big night of action across the footballing capitals of Europe then.

Must Liverpool leave Moscow with three points tonight? Is anything other than three wins for the three English teams a let-down?

And will Borussia Dortmund be in big trouble if they lose at home to Real Madrid?

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With Real Madrid in the group, that opening night win for Spurs against Dortmund felt like a massive win. Much may depend on how Dortmund fare at home to the holders tonight - but all of Spurs' hard work will come undone if they don't win tonight.

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You can draw a line through the first lot of games in Group E - nothing to see here after a pair of draws.

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Dropping points at Anfield does make tonight's mission to Moscow a bit tougher though.

Pretty, pretty, pretty good for Manchester City.

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City thrashed Feyenoord in Rotterdam, and made it look easy. This is City’s seventh consecutive Champions League participation. They have made it past the round of 16 only once, it was in 2015-16 when they reached the semi-finals (knocked out by Real Madrid).

Scorcher for Spurspublished at 18:40 British Summer Time 26 September 2017

18:40 BST 26 September 2017

Apoel Nicosia v Tottenham (19:45 BST)

John Southall
BBC Radio Five Live football reporter

Near on 1,200 Tottenham supporters are expected in the ancient city of Nicosia tonight, not a bad venue for a Champions League game in late September. Temperatures hit 32C this afternoon but should drop to a more manageable mid 20s by kick-off at 22:45 local time.

It's a game you'd expect Spurs to win but they're without the core of their team. Christian Eriksen, Dele Alli, Jan Vertonghen, Victor Wanyama, Moussa Dembele, Danny Rose and of course Erik Lamela are all missing.

Despite that Tottenham should pick up their second group win which could put them six points clear in second place tonight.

Tottenham Hotspur

Tottenham are light on numbers tonight and start two right-backs - is that 4-4-2 with Serge Aurier in front of Kieran Trippier?

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Liverpool

Philippe Coutinho, Mohamed Salah, Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mane all start together, for the first time.

Attack, attack, attack...

Conor McNamara
BBC Radio 5 live commentator

Benjamin Mendy has looked great as an attacking left-back for Manchester City this season. However he limped off injured during the win over Crystal Palace on Saturday. Guardiola has no natural left-sided replacement.

He could move either Kyle Walker or Danilo over from the right side, but has decided to slot Fabian Delph in there. City are short on left-sided defenders after both Aleksandar Kolorov and Gael Clichy left in the summer.

Manchester City

Fabian Delph starts at left-back for Manchester City.

Full team news to come from all tonight's key games.

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