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.

Beyond the best two teams in the tournament so far tonight also sees the worst, in the shape of Slovan Bratislava, who visit Roma. 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.

Champions League (8pm unless otherwise indicated)
Fenerbahce v Slavia Prague (5.45pm)
Liverpool v Villarreal
Manchester City v AEK Athens
Napoli v Bodo/Glimt
Paris Saint-Germain v Barcelona
Porto v PSV
Roma v Slovan Bratislava
Sabah v Borussia Dortmund (5.45pm)
Stuttgart v Atletico Madrid

Also! In the Championship (Football League fixtures 7.45pm unless otherwise indicated)
Wolverhampton Wanderers v Portsmouth

And in League One
AFC Wimbledon v Mansfield
Blackpool v MK Dons
Bromley v Leicester
Burton v Bradford
Cambridge v Wycombe
Doncaster v Stockport
Huddersfield v Peterborough
Luton v Barnsley
Notts County v Sheff Wed
Oxford v Wigan
Stevenage v Plymouth

League Two
Barnet v Swindon
Bristol Rovers v Salford
Cheltenham v Fleetwood
Chesterfield v Colchester
Crawley v Shrewsbury
Exeter v Crewe
Gillingham v Port Vale (8pm)
Northampton v Tranmere
Rochdale v Grimsby
Rotherham v Newport
Walsall v Oldham
York v Accrington