Elsewhere in Group F: AC Milan host Group leaders Borussia Dortmund at the San Siro. If the Italian side win and Newcastle lose, Eddie Howe’s men will be out of the Champions League and unable to achieve the third place finish that would see them drop into the Europa League knockout stages.

That Newcastle line-up: Suffering from whatever the polar opposite of a selection headache is, Eddie Howe has named the exact same team that started against Chelsea on Saturday. Allowed to name nine substitutes in the Champions League, he has picked just seven players for his bench. Two of them are goalkeepers and four of the remaining five are teenagers. Three of those youngsters – James Huntley, Michael Ndiweni and Ben Parkinson – have just two senior appearances between them for the club. Not one of Newcastle’s substitutes is an attacker.

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