🔗 Share this article Champions League Fixtures This Evening: Marseille v Newcastle & More Greetings to another night of exciting European Cup football. Nine games are scheduled for tonight, including three English teams in play. The Blues take on Barcelona in the standout match of the night, while Newcastle visit the French side and Manchester City host Bayer Leverkusen. League Table It's the halfway stage of the league stage, so the rankings is taking form. Each of the six English clubs are currently in the top 12, but there are only 2 pts between 5th and 16th place, thus there's a hint of uncertainty about the whole thing. It’s all up for grabs. Tonight’s Fixtures Here are this evening's games, each kicking off at 8pm except where noted: Benfica lead Ajax 1-0 (17:45) Union SG and Galatasaray level at 0-0 (17:45) Bodo/Glimt v Juventus Chelsea v Barcelona Villarreal meet Dortmund Leverkusen visit Man City Newcastle travel to Marseille Qarabag play Napoli Athletic Bilbao clash with Slavia Prague Squad Updates Fofana, Moises Caicedo, Alejandro Garnacho, Gusto and Estevao are included in the Blues team. Excluded are Tosin Adarabioyo, Andrey Santos, Jamie Gittens, Pedro and Delap. Lamine Yamal is in the starting lineup for Barça; Marcus Rashford is among the substitutes. Chelsea (probable 4-3-3) Sanchez; Reece James, Fofana, Chalobah, Marc Cucurella; Malo Gusto, Caicedo, Enzo; Estevao, Pedro Neto, Garnacho. Substitutes: Kjell Scherpen, Adarabioyo, Badiashile, Delap, Bynoe-Gittens, Santos, Pedro, Hato, George, Joshua Acheampong, Guiu, Facundo Buonanotte. Barça (possible four-two-three-one): Garcia; Kounde, Ronald Araujo, Cubarsi, Balde; Eric Garcia, De Jong; Lamine Yamal, Fermin Lopez, Torres; Lewandowski. Subs: Wojciech Szczesny, Kochen, Raphinha, Marcus Rashford, Andreas Christensen, Marc Casado, Gerard, Olmo, Bernal, Dro Fernandez, Roony Bardghji. Official Vincic (Slovenian). Past Meetings The only previous meeting involving Marseille and Newcastle was the Europa League semi-final of 2004, claimed by an emerging star from Ivory Coast. Bayer Leverkusen and Manchester City have not faced each other previously. Barcelona and Chelsea have a peedie bit of history. Initial Game Reports Only a single goal in the first half of the early fixtures. Samuel Dahl's sixth-minute sizzler has earned Jose Mourinho’s Benfica a one-nil advantage away to the Dutch side. Marseille v Newcastle Preview Even though The Magpies arrived in the south of France coming off their confidence-boosting 2-1 home English top-flight win over Manchester City on the weekend, and having defeated Union SG, the Portuguese side and Athletic Bilbao in the European Cup, their only away win since the start of April came in the Belgian capital at Union SG. Not that Howe was overly keen to talk about the mental side of this travel sickness. “The Champions League is different to domestic games,” said the manager, whose side are 6th in the European table, with nine points from a possible twelve and direct qualification to the knockout phase nearly secured. “I am not sure if you can draw parallels between them.” A dedicated live feed is available for Chelsea v Barcelona. Murray, the minute-by-minute version of Diego Maradona is handling for that.