UEFA Champions League/Europa League 1/2/3 October *** Spoilers ***

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Champions League Matchday 2 - 19:45 (except ## at 17:00)

Tuesday 1​

Arsenal v Napoli, GpF, Sky Sports 2
Steaua Bucuresti v Chelsea, GpE, Sky Sports 4
Celtic v Barcelona, GpH, ITV and Radio 5 live

All fixtures on Sky Red Button:

FC Porto v Atletico Madrid, GpG
Ajax v AC Milan, GpH, Sky Sports Xtra
Basle v Schalke 04, GpE
Borussia Dortmund v Marseille, GpF
Zenit St Petersburg v FK Austria Vienna, GpG, Sky Sports 2, ##

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Wednesday 2​

Man City v Bayern Munich, GpD, Sky Sports 2 and Radio 5 live
Shakhtar Donetsk v Man Utd, GpA, Sky Sports 4

All fixtures on Sky Red Button:

Bayer Leverkusen v Real Sociedad, GpA
CSKA Moscow v Plzen, GpD, Sky Sports 4, ##
Juventus v Galatasaray, GpB
Real Madrid v FC Copenhagen, GpB
PSG v Benfica, GpC
Anderlecht v Olympiacos, GC

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Europa League Matchday 2

Thursday 3​

Anzhi Makhachkala v Spurs, GpK, 17:00, ITV4
Swansea v St Gallen, GpA, 20:05, ITV4
Wigan v Maribor, GpD, 20:05, 20:05, BT SPORT 1/ESPN​

The Rest

Kuban Krasnodar v Valencia, GpA, 17:00
Rubin Kazan v Zulte-Waregem, GpD, 17:00
Shakhtyor Karagandy v Maccabi Haifa, 17:00
Rapid Vienna v Dynamo Kiev, 18:00
Genk v FC Thun, 18:00
Sevilla v SC Freiburg, 18:00, BT SPORT 1/ESPN
Liberec v Estoril, 18:00
Rijeka v Real Betis, 18:00
Lyon v Guimaraes, 18:00
Legia Warsaw v Apollon Limassol, 18:00
Trabzonspor v Lazio, 18:00
Tromso v FC Sheriff, GpK, 18:00
AZ v PAOK Salonika, 18:00
Ludogorets v Dinamo Zagreb, 20:05
Chornomorets v PSV, 20:05
Esbjerg v SV Red Bull Salzburg, 20:05
IF Elfsborg v Standard Liege, 20:05
Dnipro v Fiorentina, 20:05
Pacos Ferreira v Pandurii Targu-Jiu, 20:05
Apoel Nicosia v Eintracht Frankfurt, 20:05
Bordeaux v Maccabi Tel-Aviv, 20:05

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Lots of really good games this week.

Celtic/Barcelona
City/Bayern
Arsenal/Napoli

Shakhtar Donetsk are third in their league and are the leading goal scorers with 24 goals after 11 games. I expect them to score against us. To win this one, we need 3 goals I would imagine.
 
You know what they say, when you're down the games come thick and fast and when you're on a good run of form you get an international break. Can easily see us losing again.
 
The current Donetsk team isn't as good as some they have had, but they are still pretty dangerous and their home games they will be looking for 3 points against any team in Europe. So i'm a bit apprehensive about the game. Still we beat Leverkusen in the middle of some poor league performances so...
 
First biggest test for us in the CL, playing against Napoli who are at the top of Serie A themselves. Id be happy with a draw against them, even better would be a win but this game is going to be hard to call. Still wouldnt be surprised if we lose this one as Napoli have some good players in their squad.
 
Won't be a repeat of that awful home defeat by Basel. Steaua leading and undefeated in their league but beaten 3-0 by Schalke a couple of weeks ago. I think we’ll be too strong for them and expect us to walk away with three points from this game.
 
The game against Napoli in the Emirates cup was a bit meh but we'd just come back from our Asian tour... I think we SHOULD be okay as far as not losing goes, but it's going to be a difficult game. We could really do with Marseille getting something from their game but as they're away it's probably unlikely.
 
I love the group Arsenal have been drawn in. I'd prefer this than a much easier group. The champions league is all about the excitement of playing the top teams in europe imo.

Agree with Cliffy, we need to pick up 3 points from every home game because I can't see us picking up enough points in our remaining 2 away fixtures. Its not going to be easy tomorrow but I fancy us to scrape though. It'll be a very tight game. Benitez knows how to set his teams up in europe and I expect them to be very well organised and very hard to break down whilst always looking to counter us, something we've been very vulnerable to in the past. Lets hope we've learnt from this (i've probably been hoping for this the past 4 or 5 seasons :p).
 
CliffyG said:
Need to win all our home games, think we'll nick it against Napoli.
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This pretty much, need to win our home games and then hope to nick a point when we play at Napoli and Dortmund.

We can beat both Napoli and Dortmund i feel, just we have to be at our very best though.

Tomo is probably going to be our biggest test of the season as we havent played Utd, Chelsea or City yet.

Just hearing Rosicky is back in training and is available for the game tomo, good to see some of our injured players slowly coming back into the squad.
 
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Hahaha Jose just walked out of the press conference a few mins ago lol. Got fed up of the journos asking him the same question about why certain players arent being picked.

Dont blame him in all honesty.
 
Chelsea team: Cech; Ivanovic, D Luiz, Terry (c), Cole; Ramires, Lampard; Mata, Oscar, Schurrle; Torres

Subs: Schwarzer, Azpilicueta, Cahill, Mikel, Willian, Ba, Eto’o.
 
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