Inter v Liverpool: Champions League – live

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There’s plenty of hot, sweaty Champions League action tonight, including Spurs v Slavia Prague and Atalanta v Chelsea. You can follow those games with Niall McVeigh.

‘A meltdown worthy of Saturday Kitchen’

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We interrupt the news cycle to bring you news of an actual football match: Internazionale v Liverpool in the Champions League. Liverpool’s miserable season took another twist when Mo Salah torched a load of metaphorical bridges at Elland Road on Saturday night. He isn’t in the squad for tonight’s game and may have played his last game for the club. At this rate, given the difficulties their new players have had settling in, Liverpool’s end-of-season DVD will be called Mo Money Mo Problems.

Or maybe it’ll be The Magnificent Seven. Liverpool know as well as any club that a disappointing first half of the season doesn’t preclude you winning trophies in the second: 1980-81, 1981-82 and 2004-05 spring to mind. Right now, despite everything, they are still in the hunt for a seventh European Cup.

They started the day in 13th place in the Champions League table, but only two points behind PSG in second. Inter, who were humiliated by PSG in last year’s final, have put that behind him to take 12 points from their first five games. In the end, the actual football is what matters – even if, on nights like tonight, you wouldn’t necessarily know it.

Kick off 8pm GMT.