#UCL matchday three: all we need to know
The pivotal info
The matches
Group E: Spartak Moskva v Sevilla, Maribor v Liverpool
Group F: Manchester City v Napoli, Feyenoord v Shakhtar Donetsk
Group G: Monaco v Beşiktaş, RB Leipzig v Porto
Group H: Real Madrid v Tottenham, APOEL v Borussia Dortmund
Group A: Benfica v Manchester United, CSKA Moskva v Basel
Group B: Bayern München v Celtic, Anderlecht v Paris Saint-Germain
Group C: Qarabağ v Atlético Madrid, Chelsea v Roma
Group D: Barcelona v Olympiacos, Juventus v Sporting CP
- All games during 20:45CET execpt Qarabağ v Atlético (18:00CET)
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- Watch highlights of each diversion from 24:00CET on a night
Play and win
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The large five: what to watch
- Perfect showdown
There is usually one territory in that dual teams have ideal records – Group H, where Real Madrid and Tottenham face off on Tuesday during a Santiago Bernabéu before a Wembley lapse a fortnight later. Locking horns will be dual of a competition’s deadliest strikers, all-time record-holder Cristiano Ronaldo and Harry Kane, a initial actor to have 5 goals after dual matchdays.
- Bayern behind to a future
The final time Jupp Heynckes led Bayern in Europe, they were winning a 2013 final during Wembley. Out of retirement for a fourth spell during a helm, a 72-year-old will bid to spin the oldest male to manager a UEFA bar foe winner. He rejoins a movement during home to Celtic, who are spin on 3 points with Bayern following a latter’s 3-0 detriment during Paris that curtailed Carlo Ancelotti’s reign.
- Fifty seasons on
Whenever Benfica take on Manchester United, thoughts spin fundamentally to a 1968 final – especially in this 50th anniversary season. The tie also brings José Mourinho behind to a bar he coached for only 9 games in 2000 (eerily, it was Heynckes he took over from), as he chases a third win in a group. For Benfica, meanwhile, a aim is to redeem from a 5-0 annulment during Basel final time out.
- On a roll
Along with Madrid, Spurs and United, 5 other teams have ideal starts to say this week. On Tuesday, Manchester City accommodate Napoli, who finished a English club’s 2011/12 UEFA Champions League entrance in a organisation stage, while Beşiktaş revisit a Monaco side surprisingly on a singular point. Paris transport to point-less Anderlecht, now coached by Hein Vanhaezebrouck, on Wednesday when Chelsea – who like a French collateral bar have bagged 8 goals already – horde Roma. Barcelona play Olympiacos.
- Second possibility for first-timers
Neither of this season’s organisation theatre debutants have purebred a victory, though both will wish to do so in their second home games. Leipzig acquire Porto on Tuesday before Qarabağ try to get off a symbol opposite Atlético in Wednesday’s early kick-off.
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