⚽ Updates from Tuesday’s Champions League games ⚽ Liverpool v Villarreal | Live scores | Table | Mail Simon LIVE Updated 8m ago Simon Burnton Tue 20 Oct 2026 19.07 BSTFirst published on Tue 20 Oct 2026 18.30 BST Share Key events 12m ago Teams!

44m ago Preamble PSG’s Ousmane Dembélé on the red carpet outside the Parc des Princes.

44m ago Preamble So Erling Haaland is fit enough only for the Manchester City bench, with Enzo Maresca making eight changes to the team that beat Ipswich on Saturday.

The most eye-catching pick is 17-year-old midfielder Floyd Samba, son of former Blackburn and QPR centre-back Christopher.

Team news is filtering in, and here are the people who’ve got the Champions League nod: Liverpool v Villarreal Liverpool: Alisson, Araujo, Jacquet, van Dijk, Tsimikas, Gravenberch, Nyoni, Mac Allister, Ngumoha, Koumas, Gakpo.

Subs: Mamardashvili, Woodman, Gomez, Kerkez, Wirtz, Isak, Barcola, Laffey, Chambers, McConnell, Danns.

Villarreal: Gulacsi, Mourino, Navarro, Veiga, Cardona, Saliba, Gueye, Buchanan, Comesana, Moleiro, Mikautadze.

Subs: Junior, Costa, Freeman, Diatta, Gerard, Foyth, Akhomach, Macia, Oluwaseyi, Perez, El Jmili, Gaitan Diaz.

Referee: Szymon Marciniak (Poland).

Man City v AEK Athens Man City: Donnarumma, Lewis, Dias, Khusanov, Gvardiol, Anderson, Fernandez, Allan, Cherki, Foden, Floyd Samba.

Subs: Bettinelli, Rulli, Guehi, Ndiaye, Haaland, Ait Nouri, Vitor Reis, Bouaddi, McAidoo, Braithwaite, Doku.

AEK Athens: Brignoli, Rota, Moukoudi, Relvas, Pilios, Majer, Arriaga, Marin, Joao Mario, Varga, Jovic.

Subs: Balamotis, Kairinen, Gacinovic, Zubkov, Koita, Mantalos, Vida, Lykogiannis, Vitalis, Zini.

Referee: Willy Delajod (France).

Napoli v Bodo/Glimt Napoli: Meret, Di Lorenzo, Rrahmani, Marin, Politano, Anguissa, McTominay, Spinazzola, De Bruyne, Lang, Hojlund.

Subs: Contini, Milinkovic-Savic, Badiashile, Gilmour, Olivera, Lucca, Giovane, Beukema, Lobotka.

Bodo/Glimt: Haikin, Sjovold, Gundersen, Bjortuft, Bjorkan, Auklend, Berg, Fet, Blomberg, Helmersen, Hauge.

Subs: Lund, Nielsen, Aleesami, Saltnes, Kitolano, Brynhildsen, Mvuka, Maatta.

Referee: Jose Maria Sanchez (Spain).

Paris Saint-Germain v Barcelona Paris Saint-Germain: Safonov, Hakimi, Marquinhos, Pacho, Hernandez, Neves, Vitinha, Fabian, Doue, Dembele, Kvaratskhelia.

Subs: Chevalier, Mouak, Lucas Beraldo, Torres, Akliouche, Digne, Godts, Mayulu, Fernandez, Zaire Emery, Ndjantou, Zabarnyi.

Barcelona: Joan Garcia, Joao Cancelo, Cubarsi, Gerard, Espart, Bernal, Gonzalez, Yamal, Olmo, Gordon, Raphinha.

Subs: Szczesny, Livakovic, Balde, Farinas, Gavi, Lopez, Gabriel Jesus, Adeyemi, Rodri, de Jong, Abdelkarim, Campos.

Referee: Michael Oliver (England).

Porto v PSV Porto: Costa, Alberto Costa, Bednarek, Kiwior, Sanusi, Froholdt, Rosario, Veiga, Pepe, Aghehowa, Pietuszewski.

Subs: Claudio Ramos, Joao Costa, Hwang, Sainz, Perez, Andre Silva, Varela, Gimenez, Souza, Fofana, Fernandes, Moura.

PSV: Kovar, Dest, Geertruida, Gasiorowski, Kostic, Sano, Junior, Bajraktarevic, Til, Perisic, Mijnans.

Subs: Olij, Smolenaars, Obispo, Flamingo, Bro Hansen, Man, Fernandez, Santos, Bouhamdi, Cornecion.

Referee: Daniel Siebert (Germany).

Roma v Slovan Bratislava Roma: Gollini, Ghilardi, Balerdi, Hermoso, Molina, de Roon, Pisilli, Wesley, Pellegrini, Mora, Malen.

Subs: Vasquez, De Marzi, Rensch, Koulierakis, Cristante, N’Dicka, Castro, Soule, Mancini, Di Nunzio, Lulli.

Slovan Bratislava: Takac, Blackman, Bajric, Markovic, Cruz, Pokorny, Barseghyan, Ibrahim, Gajdos, Suleiman Camara, Marcelli.

Subs: Popovic, Kozlovsky, Wimmer, Hofstadter, Yirajang, Mustafic, Tomanek, Maros, Sahmkou Camara, Martinez, Ignatenko, Matsuoka.

Referee: Sandro Scharer (Switzerland).

Stuttgart v Atletico Madrid Stuttgart: Seimen, Chabot, Hendriks, Mittelstadt, Vagnoman, Promel, Stiller, Fuhrich, Leweling, El Khannous, Undav.

Subs: Bredlow, Funk, Al Dakhil, Demirovic, Jaquez, Karazor, Pejcinovic, Assignon, Nartey, Jeltsch, Sauer.

Atletico Madrid: Oblak, Llorente, Pubill, Hancko, Grimaldo, Simeone, Hjulmand, Barrios, Baena, David, Alvarez.

Subs: Musso, Vargas, Mendoza, Johnny, Lee, Sorloth, Lookman, Ortiz, Le Normand, Dominguez, Martinez, Castillo.

Referee: Serdar Gozubuyuk (Netherlands).

Hello world!

Another busy night lies ahead in Europe and in the English Football League, with much attention destined to be focused on Paris, scene in recent days of violence and looting but host tonight of one of the prestige fixtures of the group stage as the teams sitting first and second in the nascent table after two fixtures, five-time champions Barcelona and double reigning champions Paris Saint Germain, meet at the Parc des Princes.

Manchester City, meanwhile, may be without Erling Haaland for the visit of AEK Athens, who are promising not to go all-out defensive for a trip to a side Marko Nikolic, the Greek side’s Serbian coach, described as “one of the best teams in the world of football”.

“We must bring our identity, not change much and be strong on the pitch,” he said.

“If you change and go defensive and try only to survive, it will not work.

We have to stick to the challenge.

We want to do it with our game.

We can be a decent opponent for everybody.

I have a lot of confidence in our team.” You can get a decent idea of how much any kind of good result would mean to AEK by the scenes of jubilatory bedlam that greeted yesterday’s 1-1 draw in the Uefa Youth League.

Players of AEK Athens celebrate securing a draw against Manchester City in the Uefa Youth League.

Slovan, who last failed to win the Slovakian title in 2018, are currently fourth in their domestic league but their position at the bottom of this table is largely down to them having had the misfortune to come up against PSG, who thumped them 6-1, a goal difference hit from which they are yet to recover.

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