Good evening all. Real Madrid's players will be hoping there's a chill in the Milan air tonight, because like this and this and this, revenge is a dish best served cold. A fortnight ago, woefully out of form Milan emerged from their torpor to beat Real Madrid by the odd goal of five in a match many have hailed as the only Champions League game to have been played in Spain on the Wednesday of Matchday Three. Tonight the sides meet again in a clash that some purists are describing as "potentially worth keeping an eye on until Gordon Ramsey's F-Word starts at nine".
In less sensationalist administrative group standing, injury and suspension news, both teams go into tonight's game deadlocked at the top of Group C with six points each, while Marseille and Zurich, who face off in France this evening, are equally deadlocked at the bottom with three points each.