Benfica v Real Madrid, Monaco v PSG, and more: Champions League – live

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Galatasaray's Noa Lang celebrates scoring their second goal against Juventus.

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Galatasaray 2-2 Juventus. That was Noa Lang’s first goal for his new club, since joining Galatasaray on loan from Napoli, where the 26-year-old Dutch winger suffered an underwhelming few months since joining the Italian champions from PSV in the summer.

The 8pm teamsheets

Benfica: Trubin, Dedic, Tomas Araujo, Otamendi, Dahl, Barreiro, Aursnes, Prestianni, Rafa Silva, Schjelderup, Pavlidis.
Subs: Ferreira, Antonio Silva, Barrenechea, Bah, Bruma, Ivanovic, Sudakov, Lukebakio, Cabral, Manu, Rios, Anisio Cabral.
Real Madrid: Courtois, Alexander-Arnold, Rudiger, Huijsen, Carreras, Guler, Valverde, Tchouameni, Camavinga, Mbappe, Vinicius Junior.
Subs: Lunin, Carvajal, Alaba, Gonzalo Garcia, Ceballos, Francisco Garcia, Diaz, Mendy, Mastantuono, Cestero, Martinez, Pitarch.

Borussia Dortmund: Kobel, Reggiani, Anton, Bensebaini, Ryerson, Bellingham, Nmecha, Svensson, Beier, Brandt, Guirassy.
Subs: Ostrzinski, Meyer, Yan Couto, Ozcan, Chukwuemeka, Sabitzer, Silva, Adeyemi, Inacio, Kabar, Krevsun, Benkara.
Atalanta: Carnesecchi, Kossounou, Djimsiti, Kolasinac, Zappacosta, de Roon, Ederson Silva, Bernasconi, Pasalic, Zalewski, Scamacca.
Subs: Rossi, Sportiello, Hien, Bakker, Musah, Sulemana, Samardzic, Bellanova, Scalvini, Ahanor, Krstovic, Vavassori.

Monaco: Kohn, Vanderson, Teze, Faes, Henrique, Camara, Zakaria, Akliouche, Golovin, Adingra, Balogun.
Subs: Stawiecki , Lienard, Biereth, Idumbo-Muzambo, Bamba, Diatta, Coulibaly, Toure, Nibombe.
PSG: Safonov, Hakimi, Marquinhos, Pacho, Nuno Mendes, Zaire Emery, Vitinha, Neves, Kvaratskhelia, Dembele, Barcola.
Subs: Chevalier, Marin, Lucas Beraldo, Zabarnyi, Goncalo Ramos, Doue, Lee, Hernandez, Fernandez, Mbaye.

GOAL! Galatasaray 2-2 Juventus (Lang 49)

Galatasaray haul themselves level early in the second half! Barış Alper Yılmaz hits a lively low shot-cum-cross from a tight angle on the right. Michele Di Gregorio parries, but can only tee up Noa Lang, who can’t miss from a couple of yards. Bedlam!

Galatasaray 1-2 Juventus. The second half starts in Istanbul. Juve have made a second sub, Juan Cabal replacing Andrea Cambiaso. That’s the last we’ll see of Cambiaso in this tie, as he was booked in the first half and misses the second leg as a result.

For the completist, here are the teamsheets from the Ali Sami Yen. Federico Gatti came on for Bremer just after the half-hour mark, the Brazilian defender limping off with a hamstring issue.

Galatasaray: Cakir, Sallai, Sanchez, Bardakci, Jakobs, Torreira, Gabriel Sara, Baris Yilmaz, Yunus Akgun, Lang, Osimhen.
Subs: Sen, Guvenc, Icardi, Sane, Elmali, Gundogan, Kutucu, Asprilla, Ayhan, Singo, Boey.

Juventus: Di Gregorio, Kalulu Kyatengwa, Bremer, Kelly, Cambiaso, Thuram, Locatelli, Koopmeiners, Francisco Conceicao, Yildiz, McKennie.
Subs: Perin, Pinsoglio, Gatti, Zhegrova, Boga, Adzic, Kostic, Openda, Miretti, Cabal.

HALF TIME: Galatasaray 1-2 Juventus

The early kick-off at the Ali Sami Yen in Istanbul has reached the halfway mark. Gabriel Sara gave the hosts the lead on 15 minutes, slotting into the bottom left from the edge of the box. But Juve hit back immediately, Teun Koopmeiners slotting from close range after Uğurcan Çakır parried Pierre Kalulu’s header. Koopmeiners then completed the turnaround on 32 minutes with an absolute pearler, one-twoing into space down the middle with Weston McKennie, before roofing from distance into the top-left corner. Roland Sallai missed a good chance to equalise for Gala just before the break. So that’s been eventful.

The big game of the evening is undoubtedly Benfica v Real Madrid. The absurd Keith Houchen-channeling antics of Anatoliy Trubin have seen to that …

… though it’s low-level astonishing that these two famous old clubs, steeped in golden-age European Cup history having won the first seven stagings between them, had only ever met twice before last month’s match. Benfica won the 1962 final 5-3, then put Real out 6-3 on aggregate (5-1, 1-2) in the 1964-65 quarters. Eusébio helped himself to five goals over those three matches. All totted up, Benfica have won three and lost one, to the aggregate tune of 15-8. Not sure Real Madrid have had their trousers more frequently handed to them, freshly pressed and laundered, by any other club on the European scene. It’s not quite Dundee United’s genuinely side-splitting competitive hex on Barcelona (P4 W4) but it’s still something.

Preamble

It’s the first night of the first legs of the Champions League play-off round … and it promises to be a humdinger. We’ve got three kick-offs at 8pm …