Gary O'Neil
Former Portsmouth midfielder on BBC Radio 5 Live

Manchester City would probably like to have another striker if they had the chance and the transfer window was open now they would probably like to have the option to buy one. But that's hindsight. When Sergio Aguero and Gabriel Jesus were available City would've felt that they were comfortable.

Aguero is 32-years-old and will probably start to pick up more injuries but they have Jesus who is young and hungry and more than capable of leading the line. You can't just sign loads of expensive players just in case there are injuries. Plus, to get a top class player, who are you going to get to sit on the bench and play as your third choice number 9? It would be very difficult. Pep has found the answers so many times when he's struggled with team selections, he usually comes up with something creative and makes it work.

Liverpool

Liverpool have only lost one of their last 26 home games in all European competition (W18 D7), although that defeat came last time out versus Atletico Madrid in March (2-3). They haven’t suffered consecutive home defeats in Europe since December 2009.

I don't know how many are in at the RZD Arena but my word they're making a din. I've missed that.

A huge train horn goes off for about 30 seconds to celebrate...

Just as we were discussing in the office how nobody can surely stop Bayern again this season, and moments after Kingsley Coman shot over after a lovely one-touch move, the hosts are level!

It's VERY loud in the stadium as Anton Miranchuk sidefoots home.

Gary O'Neil
Former Portsmouth midfielder on BBC Radio 5 Live

Diogo Jota has settled in really well at Liverpool - he's made a very good start. Sometimes it can take a while to fit in when you join a new club, especially joining such a big club. With the levels set so high as they are at Liverpool, to go in and have the impact he has had already is impressive.

It's an astute signing by the club, you know he's more than capable of stepping up if someone gets injured or if you need to rest someone. He's there to put pressure on the guys already in the front three - who have been fantastic and pretty much pick themselves. But now there is a fourth option and he can slot in and the levels won't drop too much from what we're used to seeing in that Liverpool front three.

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Lokomotiv Moscow 0-1 Bayern Munich

Wow! VAR have a look at that and decide that not only was it not a penalty, it's not even a foul.

Brilliant from Robert Lewandowski, slaloming between three defenders before he's chopped down. Is that outside the box or just in? Penalty given but they'll check this.

Somehow Inter Milan have failed to take the lead against Shakhtar Donetsk in Kyiv.

Inter hit the bar twice in the first half and, inside 10 minutes of the second, Marcelo Brozovic's fierce effort was parried by teenage goalkeeper Anatolii Trubin with Lautaro Martinez firing wide from six yards out with the goal unguarded.

Pat Nevin
Former Chelsea and Scotland winger on BBC Radio 5 Live

Pep Guardiola has picked as strong a team as he possibly can, if you look at some of the substitutes they're youngsters. He wants to win the game and you know what it's like in Champions League - if you start well and win the first game and then manage to win your second one, which is a big ask for City tonight, then you can get through maybe with one or two games to go and are able to rest players. That makes a difference later in the season. As we know Pep is talking about his injury woes and that could make a huge difference towards the end of the season.

I remember Franck Ribery scoring against Bolton on that night.

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Bolton have just kicked off against Bradford in League Two. You can follow tonight's EFL games here.

Manchester City

Marseille have netted just five goals in their last 12 matches against English teams in European competition and never more than once in a game in this run. They last scored more than once versus an English side back in February 2006 against Bolton Wanderers (2-1, Uefa Cup).

I guarantee someone will be trying to make a quiz out of Liverpool's 10,000 goals for the site.

Kevin Chadwick: Re: 18.41 No chance... Origi will bag Liverpool's 10,000 goal tonight! Safest bet you're going to get today.

Reindeerhotdog: Midtjylland might have lost 4 nil against Atalanta last week but they had 47% possession & 9 shots, 6 of which were from outside the box. Atalanta won by crowding Midtjylland's box - Liverpool will need to get in their faces from the first whistle.

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Manchester City make five changes for tonight's game at Marseille.

Aymeric Laporte, Oleks Zinchenko, Ferran Torres, Kevin de Bruyne and Phil Foden all come in.

Record goalscorer Sergio Aguero misses out as he faces up to a month on the sidelines with injury.

For Marseille, Florian Thauvin and Nemanja Radonjic both start as Dimitri Payet and Dario Benedetto drop to the bench.

Marseille XI: Mandanda, Sakai, Balerdi, Alvaro, Caleta-Car, Amavi, Rongier, Kamara, Cuisance, Thauvin, Radonjic. Subs: Ngapandouetnbu, Strootman, Sanson, Benedetto, Payet, Luis Henrique, Pele, Gueye, Ake, Nagatomo, Germain.

Man City XI: Ederson, Walker, Dias, Laporte, Zinchenko, De Bruyne, Rodri, Gundogan, Foden, Sterling, Torres. Subs: Stones, Steffen, Bernardo Silva, Mahrez, Joao Cancelo, Carson, Garcia, Nmecha, Doyle, Harwood-Bellis, Palmer, Bernabe.

Rare starts for Xherdan Shaqiri, Divock Origi and Takumi Minamino as Liverpool make four changes to the side that started the 2-1 win over Sheffield United at the weekend.

Swiss winger Shaqiri makes his first club start since last month's Carabao Cup win at Lincoln City - as does Belgium forward Origi.

Minamino starts for the first time since 1 October while James Milner comes into the midfield.

Georginio Wijnaldum, Sadio Mane, Roberto Firmino and Mo Salah make way.

Liverpool XI: Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Fabinho, Gomez, Robertson, Henderson, Milner, Shaqiri, Jota, Minamino, Origi.

Substitutes: Wijnaldum, Firmino, Mane, Salah, Adrian, Jones, Rhys Williams, Jaros, Cain, Neco Williams.

Danish champions Midtjylland included two-time Celtic Scottish Premiership winner Erik Sviatchenko in defence.

Former Brighton winger Anders Dreyer also starts, while ex-Brentford forward Lasse Vibe is on the bench.

Midtjylland: Andersen, Andersson, Sviatchenko, Scholz, Paulinho, Onyeka, Cajuste, Dreyer, Sisto, Mabil, Kaba.

Substitutes: Cools, Evander, Kraev, James, Vibe, Ottesen, Pfeiffer, Anderson, Madsen, Dyhr, Isaksen, Thorsen.

Manchester City

Entertainment data company Gracenote says Manchester City have 98% chance of progressing to the knockout stages of the Champions League.

Simon Gleave, head of sports analysis at Nielsen's Gracenote, said: "Manchester City's win against FC Porto last week improved City's chance of progress by 2% to 98% according to the Euro Club Index. There is now a 90% chance that City will win Group C."

Just the one goal in the tea-time kick-offs. Bayern lead, naturally.

• Lokomotiv Moscow 0-1 Bayern Munich
• Shakhtar Donetsk 0-0 Inter

Jonny Vegas: Kudos to Bayern manager Hansi Flick who is on his way to his 10th consecutive victory in the UCL, as he is yet to drop a point. Not too bad for someone, who didn't manage a professional club team before. He is a world champion as assistant coach though, mind you.

Manchester City

Kevin de Bruyne captains Manchester City on the south coast of France as Pep makes five changes from the West Ham game.

Also in are Zinchenko, Laporte, Torres and Foden.

It's still goalless in the Group B match between Shakhtar Donetsk and Inter Milan - but only just.

Romelu Lukaku has just seen a powerful free-kick from just outside the penalty area superbly tipped onto the crossbar by 19-year-old goalkeeper Anatolii Trubin.

That's the second time Inter have hit the woodwork after Nicolo Barella's 18-yard effort bounced off the bar after Trubin had blocked Lukaku when the ex-Manchester United striker only had the keeper to beat.

Shakhtar gained a shock 3-2 win away at Real Madrid on matchday one and will be happy to have got to half time level in Kyiv.