Key events
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GOAL! Paris Saint-Germain 3-2 Barcelona (Vitinha, 81 mins)
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GOAL! Paris Saint-Germain 2-2 Barcelona (Lamine Yamal, 79 mins)
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GOAL! Manchester City 5-1 AEK Athens (Foden, 76 mins)
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GOAL! Paris Saint-Germain 2-1 Barcelona (Hernandez, 72 mins)
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GOAL! Manchester City 4-1 AEK (Foden, 65 mins)
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GOAL! PSG 1-1 Barcelona (Xavi Espart, 55 mins)
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GOAL! Manchester City 3-1 AEK (Cherki, 57 mins)
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GOAL! Manchester City 2-1 AEK Athens (Pilios, 52 mins)
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Half-time scores
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GOAL! Paris Saint-Germain 1-0 Barcelona (Doue, 38 mins)
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GOAL! Manchester City 2-0 AEK Athens (Foden, 34 mins)
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GOAL! Liverpool 0-2 Villarreal (Cardona, 29 mins)
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GOAL! Manchester City 1-0 AEK Athens (Anderson, 12 mins)
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Teams!
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Preamble
GOAL! Paris Saint-Germain 3-2 Barcelona (Vitinha, 81 mins)
And two minutes later PSG lead once more! A cross from the right is headed out to Vitinha, 25 yards out, and he chests it down, lets it bounce, and then volleys hard and low past Joan Garcia!
ShareGOAL! Paris Saint-Germain 2-2 Barcelona (Lamine Yamal, 79 mins)
That is a beautifully taken goal! Zaire-Emery tries to cut out a lofted pass to Lamine Yamal but only gets his eyebrows to it, and Yamal – latest custodian of the captain’s armband for Barcelona – runs onto it, gets into the area and lifts the ball into the roof of the net from a silly angle!
Liverpool meanwhile have scored twice in four second-half minutes to take a 4-2 lead over Villarreal, with Florian Wirtz getting the fourth. They have only ever come from two down to win once before in the Champions League – and that was also against Villarreal!
And the third of the right-wing-cross-created goals comes in Naples, where Politano – scorer of the first goal – chips the ball into the box with his left foot, and Scott McTominay – scorer of the second and now also the third – meets it with an excellent header. It’s Napoli 3-2 Bodo/Glimt!
ShareGOAL! Manchester City 5-1 AEK Athens (Foden, 76 mins)
Phil Foden completes his hat-trick in Manchester! McAidoo crosses low from the right, and Foden just has to turn it in from the six-yard line!
Manchester City’s Phil Foden scores fifth goal and complete his hat-trick. Photograph: Dave Thompson/APShare
Updated at 16.45 EDT
GOAL! Paris Saint-Germain 2-1 Barcelona (Hernandez, 72 mins)
A corner from the right, Lucas Hernandez outjumps Anthony Gordon, and he sends the ball into the top corner – one of three goals from right-wing crosses across the continent in the space of about 45 seconds!
PSG’s Lucas Hernandez (right) scores his side’s second goal. Photograph: Thibault Camus/APShare
Updated at 16.43 EDT
Now they hit the post! Hakimi slides the ball across from the right, and Ferran Torres’ sidefoots into the base of the stanchion!
A really good chance for PSG, but Doue overhits his pass to Ferran Torres and the moment passes.
PSG have brought on Akliouche for Kvaratskhelia, and Zabarnyi for Marquinhos. “I’m watching PSG vs Barcelona,” writes Michael Meagher. “Marquinhos was wearing black boots. I didn’t know they even made them anymore …”
More big-name injury news from Paris, where Khvicha Kvaratskhelia has now been helped off.
ShareGOAL! Manchester City 4-1 AEK (Foden, 65 mins)
That’s a nice goal, and a ludicrous finish! The ball is lifted into the penalty area – no pressure on the ball, and a ridiculously deep back-line – Lewis cushions it back into the path of Foden, and he half-volleys right into the top corner, off the inside of the post!
Phil Foden bags his second, and Manchester City’s fourth goal of the game. Photograph: Lee Smith/Action Images/ReutersCue the trademark celebration. Photograph: Mike Egerton/PAShare
Updated at 16.32 EDT
GOAL! It’s Napoli 2-2 Bodo/Glimt! Andreas Helmersen levels for Bodo/Glimt with a nice enough, and very precise, shot but that was just too easy!
Red card! Atletico Madrid’s Morten Hjulmand catches Stiller’s ankle from behind, and it’s an early bath for him!
ShareGOAL! PSG 1-1 Barcelona (Xavi Espart, 55 mins)
Barcelona’s right-back brings the scores level! He passes infield to Fermin Lopez, inside his own half, spots space opening up in front of him and sprints into it. Lopez spots him – hard not to, given how bright the Barcelona kit is – and picks the pass, and Xavi Espart runs into the area and puts his laces through it, giving Safonov no chance!
Pick that one out the old onion bag. Photograph: David Ramos/Uefa/Getty ImagesXavi Espart (right) celebrates with his teammates after scoring Barcelona’s equaliser. Photograph: Thibault Camus/APShare
Updated at 16.28 EDT
GOAL! Manchester City 3-1 AEK (Cherki, 57 mins)
That is coolly done! The ball is played across the edge of the area from the right to Rayan Cherki, running onto it on his right foot. He lets it run across him and shifts onto his left, Arriaga is completely befuddled by it, and he uses his new-found space to slam a shot past Brignoli!
Manchester City’s Rayan Cherki scores their side’s third goal. Photograph: Martin Rickett/PAManchester City’s Rayan Cherki celebrates scoring their third goal as AEK Athens’ Stavros Pilios looks dejected. Photograph: Scott Heppell/ReutersShare
Updated at 16.24 EDT
And it’s 4-0! The keeper goes the right way, but the ball goes the right way quicker. And the deadlock is broken at Porto! It’s a scuffed shot from Miljnans on the right of goal, which was going wide until Guus Til turned it in, and it’s Porto 0-1 PSV!
And now a penalty for Roma! Wesley Franca is fouled in the box, and Malen has grabbed the ball …
There’s been a third for Roma at home to Slovan Bratislava! It’s a bit of a mess, with Barseghyan losing the ball as he tried to shepherd it out of play, leading to a brief outbreak of penalty-area ping-pong that ends with Pisilli hammering it into the roof of the net.
ShareGOAL! Manchester City 2-1 AEK Athens (Pilios, 52 mins)
Game on! AEK have put together a couple of decent attacks in the second half and this time they’re rewarded! Stavros Pilios is in all sorts of space as he runs onto a ball infield from the left, carries it into the box, and slides a low shot past Donnarumma that nestles inside the far post!
AEK Athens’ Stavros Pilios scores their first goal. Photograph: Scott Heppell/ReutersShare
Updated at 16.21 EDT
Atletico Madrid equalise within two minutes of the restart! Julian Alvarez has the goal, finding the toppest of bins from Ademola Lookman’s pass infield from the left.
Peeeeep! Manchester City kick off the second half!
ShareHalf-time scores
The referee ends a spell of intense PSG attacking with a half-time whistle in Paris, and here are the scores as they stand at 8.50pm BST:
Champions League (8pm kick-offs unless otherwise indicated)
Fenerbahce 2-2 Slavia Prague (final score)
Liverpool 2-2 Villarreal
Manchester City 2-0 AEK Athens
Napoli 2-1 Bodo/Glimt
Paris Saint-Germain 1-0 Barcelona
Porto 0-0 PSV
Roma 2-0 Slovan Bratislava
Sabah 1-2 Borussia Dortmund (final score)
Stuttgart 1-0 Atletico Madrid
Also! In the Championship (Football League fixtures 7.45pm starts unless otherwise indicated)
Wolverhampton Wanderers 0-0 Portsmouth
And in League One
AFC Wimbledon 0-2 Mansfield
Blackpool 0-0 MK Dons
Bromley 0-3 Leicester
Burton 0-0 Bradford
Cambridge 0-1 Wycombe
Doncaster 0-0 Stockport
Huddersfield 1-0 Peterborough
Luton 2-0 Barnsley
Notts County 1-0 Sheff Wed
Oxford 1-0 Wigan
Stevenage 2-0 Plymouth
League Two
Barnet 0-3 Swindon
Bristol Rovers 0-2 Salford
Cheltenham 3-0 Fleetwood
Chesterfield 1-0 Colchester
Crawley 1-0 Shrewsbury
Exeter 1-0 Crewe
Gillingham 1-0 Port Vale (8pm)
Northampton 0-1 Tranmere
Rochdale 1-0 Grimsby
Rotherham 2-1 Newport
Walsall 2-0 Oldham
York 0-0 Accrington
The half-time whistle has gone in many of tonight’s games, but they’re still going in Paris, in the second of three minutes of stoppage time.
Big change at Anfield! It’s half-time there and Liverpool have pulled it back to 2-2, Ronald Araujo equalising deep into first-half stoppage time. Scott Murray is watching this one here:
Napoli are back in front, thanks to a nice pass from Kevin de Bruyne and a deflected shot from Scott McTominay. It’s Napoli 2-1 Bodo/Glimt now.
Oooo0f! Fermin Lopes has a chance for Barcelona, the keeper saves it, and then the Spaniard tries to volley in the loose ball but connects only with Pacho’s head! VAR checks for a possible red card but does not recommend one – it was a genuine attempt to play the ball. Pacho continues, after some medical attention.
ShareGOAL! Paris Saint-Germain 1-0 Barcelona (Doue, 38 mins)
Lamine Yamal, favourite to win the Ballon d’Or next week, makes the difference in Paris … by giving the ball away deep inside his own half! It’s headed down to Doue, who buries his shot from the edge of the area, with Joan Garcia potentially unsighted by all the defenders ineffectively standing in front of him!
Desire Doue of PSG fires home to score the opening goal against Barcelona. Photograph: Yoan Valat/EPADoue (centre) celebrates. Photograph: Thibault Camus/APShare
Updated at 15.52 EDT
And a second goal for Roma! Malen carries the ball into the area from the left, checks onto his right foot and scuffs a shot towards the far post which dribbles just too far away from Takac for the Bratislava keeper to both save and hold – and Nahuel Molina buries the rebound.
Roma’s Nahuel Molina celebrates scoring their second goal. Photograph: Remo Casilli/ReutersShare
Updated at 15.55 EDT
Jamie Leweling gives Stuttgart the lead at home to Atletico, with a left-footed shot from just outside the area which didn’t look particularly cleanly struck but was precise enough to zing past Oblak, assisted by a deflection off Hjulmand.
ShareGOAL! Manchester City 2-0 AEK Athens (Foden, 34 mins)
Manchester City are also in the lead-doubling business, Foden cutting infield from the right, passing into the path of Lewis, collecting a smart return pass and hammering into the roof of the net!
Manchester City’s Phil Foden scores their second goal. Photograph: Scott Heppell/ReutersShare
Updated at 15.46 EDT
GOAL! Liverpool 0-2 Villarreal (Cardona, 29 mins)
The stats suggest that the two teams at Anfield are very well matched, but the scoreline does not – it’s 2-0 now, and Sergi Cardona has doubled the Spanish side’s lead. And there has also been a goal in Naples, where Bodo/Glimt have equalised thanks to Jens Petter Hauge’s lovely, precise finish.
How are PSG not ahead now? Three or four great chances in quick succession are blocked by flying defenders or goalkeepers, each miss less likely than the last.
Meanwhile the physios are back on in Paris, this time to deal with an issue with Olmo, and he too is going to be forced off.
Save! The ball is nodded by Joao Neves into the path of Ferran Torres, who came on for Dembele a few minutes ago for PSG, but he scuffs his attempted finish into Joan Garcia.
Roma take the lead against Slovan Bratislava, Mario Hermoso heading in from the goalline, or near enough, after a free-kick from the left was headed back across goal.
Roma’s Mario Hermoso (second left) uses his head to put the home side ahead. Photograph: Andrew Medichini/APShare
Updated at 15.31 EDT
A blow for PSG: Dembele is feeling his right left hamstring and asking to be taken off.
Updated at 15.22 EDT
Barcelona’s Joao Cancelo is booked for not fouling Doue. He certainly threw a leg out and got nowhere near the ball, but Doue leapt over his leg, absolutely no contact being made, before throwing himself to the ground in apparent agony. Book the both of them, I say.
In Paris, Dani Olmo’s 22-yarder swerves just the wrong side of the post. TV cameras find Lenny Kravitz in the crowd. “I don’t know whose way it’s going to go, but I don’t think it’s going to go his way,” we’re told.
ShareGOAL! Manchester City 1-0 AEK Athens (Anderson, 12 mins)
Elliot Anderson scores his first goal for Manchester City, and it couldn’t have been easier! It’s a free-kick from 20 yards or so, which Fernandez sends over the wall, into the bar, off the keeper, and plopping in front of Anderson, who finds an empty net!
Manchester City’s Enzo Fernandez curls the ball over the wall and onto the bar … Photograph: Lee Smith/Action Images/ReutersAnd Elliot Anderson is the first to react and gives Manchester City the lead. Photograph: Scott Heppell/ReutersAnderson celebrates. Photograph: Richard Sellers/Allstar Picture Library/SportsphotoShare
Updated at 15.25 EDT
In Paris, it’s looking like it’s going to be a busy night for both goalkeepers. Joan Garcia has been repeatedly tested from distance, while Safonov in the PSG goal has just had a bit of work to do, most recently catching Cubarsi’s header on goal.
But there have been goals in Naples, where Matteo Politano has volleyed Napoli into a first-minute lead against Bodo/Glimt, and at Anfield, where Georges Mikautadze has latched onto a Van Dijk back-header to put Villarreal ahead!
Napoli’s Matteo Politano celebrates scoring their first goal. Photograph: Ciro De Luca/ReutersGeorges Mikautadze fires Villarreal into the lead. Photograph: Phil Noble/ReutersShare
Updated at 15.28 EDT
PSG hit the post with less than two minutes on the clock! It’s Kvaratskhelia with the shot from 20 yards or so, and the ball rebounds off the woodwork straight to Dembele, who a) embarrassingly completely misses the target, and not by a small margin, and b) is offside.
Peeeeeeeeep! The games have begun! Except for the one in Paris, which is running late.
These are the final moments of pre-match precursive preambulation, with kick-off moments away. “Now, I’m just reading what you’ve written and I don’t know what it looks like, but this might be the week to avoid excessive displays of fire in the French capital, don’t you think?” writes Jason Geer. Rest assured, t looked like the very opposite of chaos.
Teams are gathering in tunnels. In Paris, a very fancy light-and-fire display has begun.
Enzo Maresca says Haaland was left out “just to manage his minutes … and also from the last game he had some small problem. It’s just a mix of different things.”
The Barcelona dressing room certainly has no hors d’oeuvres to be seen, just some small and unpromising plastic containers. PSG are not only top of the table, they also have a top table.
General view inside the Barcelona dressing room before the Champions League match against Paris Saint-Germain at Parc des Princes. Photograph: David Ramos/UEFA/Getty ImagesShare
Meanwhile, the Atletico Madrid changing room in Stuttgart features one small table and some bananas.
General view inside the Atletico Madrid dressing room before the Champions League match against Stuttgart at Stuttgart Arena. Photograph: Stuart Franklin/UEFA/Getty ImagesShare
A peek inside Paris Saint-Germain’s dressing-room and their pre-match snack lineup. Fruit, for sure, but then a variety of finger food. French sides, by law*, must offer an array of hors d’oeuvres.
* Potentially not factual
General view inside the Paris Saint-Germain dressing room before the Champions League match against Barcelona at Parc des Princes. Photograph: David Ramos/Uefa/Getty ImagesShare
So Erling Haaland is fit enough only for the Manchester City bench, with Enzo Maresca making eight changes to the team that beat Ipswich on Saturday. The most eye-catching pick is 17-year-old midfielder Floyd Samba, son of former Blackburn and QPR centre-back Christopher.
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Team news is filtering in, and here are the people who’ve got the Champions League nod:
Liverpool v Villarreal
Liverpool: Alisson, Araujo, Jacquet, van Dijk, Tsimikas, Gravenberch, Nyoni, Mac Allister, Ngumoha, Koumas, Gakpo. Subs: Mamardashvili, Woodman, Gomez, Kerkez, Wirtz, Isak, Barcola, Laffey, Chambers, McConnell, Danns.
Villarreal: Gulacsi, Mourino, Navarro, Veiga, Cardona, Saliba, Gueye, Buchanan, Comesana, Moleiro, Mikautadze. Subs: Junior, Costa, Freeman, Diatta, Gerard, Foyth, Akhomach, Macia, Oluwaseyi, Perez, El Jmili, Gaitan Diaz.
Referee: Szymon Marciniak (Poland).
Man City v AEK Athens
Man City: Donnarumma, Lewis, Dias, Khusanov, Gvardiol, Anderson, Fernandez, Allan, Cherki, Foden, Floyd Samba. Subs: Bettinelli, Rulli, Guehi, Ndiaye, Haaland, Ait Nouri, Vitor Reis, Bouaddi, McAidoo, Braithwaite, Doku.
AEK Athens: Brignoli, Rota, Moukoudi, Relvas, Pilios, Majer, Arriaga, Marin, Joao Mario, Varga, Jovic. Subs: Balamotis, Kairinen, Gacinovic, Zubkov, Koita, Mantalos, Vida, Lykogiannis, Vitalis, Zini.
Referee: Willy Delajod (France).
Napoli v Bodo/Glimt
Napoli: Meret, Di Lorenzo, Rrahmani, Marin, Politano, Anguissa, McTominay, Spinazzola, De Bruyne, Lang, Hojlund. Subs: Contini, Milinkovic-Savic, Badiashile, Gilmour, Olivera, Lucca, Giovane, Beukema, Lobotka.
Bodo/Glimt: Haikin, Sjovold, Gundersen, Bjortuft, Bjorkan, Auklend, Berg, Fet, Blomberg, Helmersen, Hauge. Subs: Lund, Nielsen, Aleesami, Saltnes, Kitolano, Brynhildsen, Mvuka, Maatta. Referee: Jose Maria Sanchez (Spain).
Paris Saint-Germain v Barcelona
Paris Saint-Germain: Safonov, Hakimi, Marquinhos, Pacho, Hernandez, Neves, Vitinha, Fabian, Doue, Dembele, Kvaratskhelia. Subs: Chevalier, Mouak, Lucas Beraldo, Torres, Akliouche, Digne, Godts, Mayulu, Fernandez, Zaire Emery, Ndjantou, Zabarnyi.
Barcelona: Joan Garcia, Joao Cancelo, Cubarsi, Gerard, Espart, Bernal, Gonzalez, Yamal, Olmo, Gordon, Raphinha. Subs: Szczesny, Livakovic, Balde, Farinas, Gavi, Lopez, Gabriel Jesus, Adeyemi, Rodri, de Jong, Abdelkarim, Campos.
Referee: Michael Oliver (England).
Porto v PSV
Porto: Costa, Alberto Costa, Bednarek, Kiwior, Sanusi, Froholdt, Rosario, Veiga, Pepe, Aghehowa, Pietuszewski. Subs: Claudio Ramos, Joao Costa, Hwang, Sainz, Perez, Andre Silva, Varela, Gimenez, Souza, Fofana, Fernandes, Moura.
PSV: Kovar, Dest, Geertruida, Gasiorowski, Kostic, Sano, Junior, Bajraktarevic, Til, Perisic, Mijnans. Subs: Olij, Smolenaars, Obispo, Flamingo, Bro Hansen, Man, Fernandez, Santos, Bouhamdi, Cornecion.
Referee: Daniel Siebert (Germany).
Roma v Slovan Bratislava
Roma: Gollini, Ghilardi, Balerdi, Hermoso, Molina, de Roon, Pisilli, Wesley, Pellegrini, Mora, Malen. Subs: Vasquez, De Marzi, Rensch, Koulierakis, Cristante, N’Dicka, Castro, Soule, Mancini, Di Nunzio, Lulli.
Slovan Bratislava: Takac, Blackman, Bajric, Markovic, Cruz, Pokorny, Barseghyan, Ibrahim, Gajdos, Suleiman Camara, Marcelli. Subs: Popovic, Kozlovsky, Wimmer, Hofstadter, Yirajang, Mustafic, Tomanek, Maros, Sahmkou Camara, Martinez, Ignatenko, Matsuoka.
Referee: Sandro Scharer (Switzerland).
Stuttgart v Atletico Madrid
Stuttgart: Seimen, Chabot, Hendriks, Mittelstadt, Vagnoman, Promel, Stiller, Fuhrich, Leweling, El Khannous, Undav. Subs: Bredlow, Funk, Al Dakhil, Demirovic, Jaquez, Karazor, Pejcinovic, Assignon, Nartey, Jeltsch, Sauer.
Atletico Madrid: Oblak, Llorente, Pubill, Hancko, Grimaldo, Simeone, Hjulmand, Barrios, Baena, David, Alvarez. Subs: Musso, Vargas, Mendoza, Johnny, Lee, Sorloth, Lookman, Ortiz, Le Normand, Dominguez, Martinez, Castillo.
Referee: Serdar Gozubuyuk (Netherlands).
SharePreamble
Hello world! Another busy night lies ahead in Europe and in the English Football League, with much attention destined to be focused on Paris, scene in recent days of violence and looting but host tonight of one of the prestige fixtures of the group stage as the teams sitting first and second in the nascent table after two fixtures, five-time champions Barcelona and double reigning champions Paris Saint Germain, meet at the Parc des Princes.
Manchester City, meanwhile, may be without Erling Haaland for the visit of AEK Athens, who are promising not to go all-out defensive for a trip to a side Marko Nikolic, the Greek side’s Serbian coach, described as “one of the best teams in the world of football”. “We must bring our identity, not change much and be strong on the pitch,” he said. “If you change and go defensive and try only to survive, it will not work. We have to stick to the challenge. We want to do it with our game. We can be a decent opponent for everybody. I have a lot of confidence in our team.” You can get a decent idea of how much any kind of good result would mean to AEK by the scenes of jubilatory bedlam that greeted yesterday’s 1-1 draw in the Uefa Youth League.
Players of AEK Athens celebrate securing a draw against Manchester City in the Uefa Youth League. Photograph: Carl Recine/Getty Images
Beyond the best two teams in the tournament so far tonight also sees the worst, in the shape of Slovan Bratislava, who visit Roma. Slovan, who last failed to win the Slovakian title in 2018, are currently fourth in their domestic league but their position at the bottom of this table is largely down to them having had the misfortune to come up against PSG, who thumped them 6-1, a goal difference hit from which they are yet to recover.
Champions League (8pm unless otherwise indicated)
Fenerbahce v Slavia Prague (5.45pm)
Liverpool v Villarreal
Manchester City v AEK Athens
Napoli v Bodo/Glimt
Paris Saint-Germain v Barcelona
Porto v PSV
Roma v Slovan Bratislava
Sabah v Borussia Dortmund (5.45pm)
Stuttgart v Atletico Madrid
Also! In the Championship (Football League fixtures 7.45pm unless otherwise indicated)
Wolverhampton Wanderers v Portsmouth
And in League One
AFC Wimbledon v Mansfield
Blackpool v MK Dons
Bromley v Leicester
Burton v Bradford
Cambridge v Wycombe
Doncaster v Stockport
Huddersfield v Peterborough
Luton v Barnsley
Notts County v Sheff Wed
Oxford v Wigan
Stevenage v Plymouth
League Two
Barnet v Swindon
Bristol Rovers v Salford
Cheltenham v Fleetwood
Chesterfield v Colchester
Crawley v Shrewsbury
Exeter v Crewe
Gillingham v Port Vale (8pm)
Northampton v Tranmere
Rochdale v Grimsby
Rotherham v Newport
Walsall v Oldham
York v Accrington