Guillem Balague
Spanish football journalist in Naples

As soon as I walked into Napoli, the first conversation I had Diego Maradona was mentioned, of course.

You drive up the hills to the Spanish quarter and you start to see more celebration of Maradona. Tonight everybody who has something will put something on the balconies all over Napoli and you begin to sense that what has happened is massive.

Even though the average age of people [around the stadium] is very young, I spoke to some guys who have said though they never saw him, they heard about him many times. They talk about the Napoli side that beat the North, beat the rich man. In Napoli you smell that it is a poor place - you see it, but you smell it as well.

Nothing prepared me for coming to the stadium. They have the sound track ‘Ho visto Maradona' on, they keep chanting, there are flares, banners and flags. There is an area in front of a big flag that reads 'the king' where people have left candles and photos and all kinds of things.

There must easily be 300, 400 people. This is, at the moment, a sense of celebration that Maradona belonged to them. The sense is he hasn't died, there are people crying but it is a vindication of Maradona as one of their own and he will not be forgotten here.

It's 24 hours since news broke that football legend Diego Maradona, one of the greatest players of all time, has died at the age of 60.

Spanish football expert Guillem Balague is at Napoli, one of Maradona's former clubs, for the Europa League tie with Rijeka.

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Spurs return to London after two Europa League games on the road and will fancy their chances of completing the Group J double over a Ludogorets side that's yet to record a point.

It's tight with Tottenham on six points level with both Austrian side LASK and Royal Antwerp.

Leicester City

Sporting Braga boss Carlos Carvalhal on facing Leicester three weeks after losing 4-0 to the Foxes: "We have 100% respect and 0% fear.

"We approach this game in a positive way and if we win the three points, we will be making a spectacular journey. Let's go to the fight."

Danny Murphy
Former Liverpool and England midfielder

Mikel Arteta's first objective was to make his side harder to beat and he has achieved that.

The next step will be to play more free-flowing football and open up the opposition as well, but I think he has the players in his squad with the quality that will allow him to do that.

It is hard to find the right balance between being entertaining and being too open, and just because Arteta has achieved so much so quickly, doesn't mean he shouldn't be given time to get the next part right.

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A red card for Nicolas Pepe, a training ground incident involving Dani Ceballos and David Luiz as well as one win in five league games - there's been lots of noise coming out of Arsenal in the past few days.

Danny Murphy has been having his say on how Mikel Arteta is handling the job.

Leicester City

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Kelechi Iheanacho is loving the Europa League.

The former Manchester City forward is struggling for game-time in the Premier League but he's Leicester's main man when it comes to scoring in the Europa League.

Iheanacho, who starts in Portugal, has netted three of his side's nine goals in this season's competition.

Rangers and Celtic are also in Europa League action against Benfica and Sparta Prague respectively.

You can follow how they get on here.

Tottenham Hotspur

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It's Thursday. It's the Europa League. That means there's a decent chance Jose Mourinho will be on social media later.

After their shock defeat to Royal Antwerp last month, Mourinho published a picture of himself sat on the team coach looking unhappy.

He followed it up a week later eating a snack after winning away to Ludogorets with the message: "When you win but you don’t play especially well."

During the international break, after Matt Doherty tested positive for coronavirus and Son Heung-min was forced to quarantine, Mourinho posted a picture of him in the gym with the caption: "Great emotions in the national team matches, superb friendlies and total safety.

"Covid test results after matches been played, random people running on the pitch while team sessions are taking place and much more.

"After another training session with only six players, it is now time to take care of myself."

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His side are 12th in the Premier League but Mikel Aterta's Arsenal are bossing it in the Europa League.

They've won their first three matches by an aggregate score of 9-2. Victory over nearest rivals Molde in Norway will secure their passage into the last 32.

Tottenham Hotspur

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Tottenham sit top of the Premier League and have a huge match at third-placed Chelsea on Sunday.

Does Jose Mourinho risk the likes of Harry Kane, Son Heung-min and Hugo Lloris against Bulgaria's Ludogorets?

It's going to be really interesting to see what side the Spurs boss puts out.

Tottenham's next five league games are: Chelsea (away), Arsenal (home), Crystal Palace (away), Liverpool (away) and Leicester (home).

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And the first Premier League match with fans for nine months will be West Ham versus Manchester United on Saturday, 5 December at 17:30 GMT.

Get that bubble machine started.

Arsenal

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Arsenal will be admitting 2,000 fans to their Europa League home game with Rapid Vienna next Thursday following the announcement that their ground falls into a tier 2 area.

In a statement,, external the Gunners said: "It’s been almost nine long months since we had fans in attendance at Emirates Stadium and our matches have simply not been the same without you.

"While we appreciate that reduced capacity matches will be far from being ‘back to normal’, we can’t wait to welcome our fans back home for what will be a historic moment for the club."

Remember when fans were allowed into grounds to watch matches?

It feels like an eternity doesn't it?

Well the new coronavirus tier restrictions mean a limited number of supporters will be allowed back to watch some games as early as next week.

Sensational news.

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Leicester are enjoying their first taste of Europa League group football.

A win in Portugal will secure their place in the knockout stage.

Leicester's maximum haul has them three points above Braga and six better off than third-placed AEK Athens, who host Zorya Luhansk at 17:55 GMT.

Leicester City make four changes from their 3-0 defeat by Liverpool.

Kelechi Iheanacho, Hamza Choudhury, Dennis Praet and Luke Thomas replace Wesley Fofana, Youri Tielemans, Nampalys Mendy and James Maddison.

Those four and Jamie Vardy are all on a very strong bench in case Leicester need to turn the game around.

Only Six of the Braga team who lost 4-0 to Leicester in their last Europa League game start .

Braga: Matheus, Tormena, Sequeira, Al Musrati, Paulinho, R Horta, Viana, Medeiros, Esgaio, Castro, Galeno

Leicester: Schmeichel, Justin, Evans, Fuchs, Thomas, Praet, Choudhury, Albrighton, Barnes, Under, Iheanacho.

Nicolas Pepe keeps his Arsenal place despite his red card at Elland Road and impending three-match domestic ban.

David Luiz returns after missing the Leeds game following the birth of his daughter, plus there's a start for Icelandic goalkeeper Runar Alex Runarsson.

Arsenal Xl: Runarsson, Cedric, Luiz, Mustafi, Maitland-Niles, Xhaka, Willock, Nelson, Pepe, Nketiah, Lacazette (C).

Subs: Macey, Bellerin, Tierney, Holding, Ceballos, Smith Rowe, Cottrell, Azeez, Balogun, Hein.

Molde Xl: Linde, Wingo, Gregersen, Sinyan, Risa, Aursnes, Ellingsen, Hussain, Hestad, Wolff Eikrem, James.

Straight to team news for our two early games.

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Planning on putting your Christmas lights up?

Stop right now! It's still November...and anyway we've got a bumper few hours of action to keep you occupied.

17:55 GMT: Molde v Arsenal

17:55 GMT: Sporting Braga v Leicester City

20:00 GMT: Tottenham v Ludogorets