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By Jonathan Stevenson

1902: David Weir fails a late fitness test on an ankle injury and will be replaced in the Rangers team by Lee McCulloch in central defence. Kenny Miler will play the lone striker, with Kris Boyd dropping to the bench. Kevin Thomson takes over McCulloch’s weekend holding role and Steven Naismith comes in to bolster a five-man midfield. Former Arsenal man Alexander Hleb is playing for Stuttgart despite the Germans insisting he was unlikely to be fit.1901: Liverpool v Debrecen line-ups:
Liverpool: Reina, Johnson, Carragher, Skrtel, Insua, Benayoun, Lucas, Gerrard, Riera, Kuyt, Torres.
Subs: Cavalieri, Voronin, Aurelio, Kyrgiakos, Babel, Mascherano, Spearing.
Debrecen: Poleksic, Bodnar, Komlosi, Meszaros, Fodor, Kiss, Ramos, Czvitkovics, Leandro, Szakaly, Coulibaly.
Subs: Pantic, Szucs, Feczesin, Bernath, Olah, Katona, Laczko.
Referee: Pedro Proenca (Portugal)1901: VfB Stuttgart v Rangers line-ups:
VfB Stuttgart: Lehmann, Trasch, Tasci, Delpierre, Boka, Hilbert, Hitzlsperger, Khedira, Hleb, Cacau, Pogrebniak.
Subs: Ulreich, Boulahrouz, Marica, Gebhart, Celozzi, Kuzmanovic, Schieber.
Rangers: McGregor, Whittaker, McCulloch, Bougherra, Papac, Naismith, Davis, Thomson, Mendes, Rothen, Miller.
Subs: Alexander, Boyd, Novo, Beasley, Smith, Fleck, Little.
Referee: Massimo Busacca (Switzerland)1900: Stevo’s Champions League Predos:
Liverpool 3-1 Debrecen
Lyon 2-2 Fiorentina
Inter Milan 1-1 Barcelona
Dinamo Kiev 2-1 Rubin Kazan
Stuttgart 2-1 Rangers
Sevilla 2-0 Unirea Urziceni
Olympiakos 1-1 AZ Alkmaar
Standard Liege 1-2 Arsenal
1856:
Predos and team news are all coming right up, so don’t go anywhere will you There are another five debutants this evening, as Debrecen (Hungary), Rubin Kazan (Russia), Unirea Urziceni (Romania), AZ Alkmaar (Netherlands) and Standard Liege (Belgium) make their group stage bows. What Michel Platini wants, Michel Platini gets… let’s hope the new boys are all up to it.1853: … as holders Barcelona travel to the San Siro to take on Inter Milan. It’s Jose Mourinho v Pep Guardiola andSamuel Eto’o v Zlatan Ibrahimovic,as two of the favourites go head-to-head. If you’d like to have your say on this fine eve, why not drop us a line On606, the debate will go on all night (2300 BST, at least)and texts can be sent to 81111. As always, the most impressive will appear here.1849: Welcome to Matchday Two as they call it at Uefa, as the other 16 teams involved in club football’s grandest competition get their campaigns under way. Arsenal, Liverpool and Rangers are all in action, and there’s a little beauty to salivate over in Italy, too…1845: Hi. I’ll be honest with you - I’m torn between wanting the Champions League group stage to throw up some surprises and hoping to see all the biggest clubs contest the knockout stages. Can somebody help meThis article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.

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