Evening all, and welcome to Manchester City v Porto!

Play the music!

The players are with us.

On top of that, all those teams have the ability to improve on what they've got in January. If Liverpool sign the right centre-back, or if Man United find the right controlling midfielder, we're immediately talking about very different teams.

Wondering about who'll win the Champions League this term, it's a strange one. There's Bayern, who are the best around, then lots of other teams with puncher's chances - Paris, Liverpool, Man United, Man City, Juventus, Barcelona, Madrid. By that I mean teams with flaws but with brilliant enough attackers to make it hard to back against them on any given night.

Pepe marking Sergio Aguero also looks like a lot of fun.

Marega, the Porto striker, looks a decent player. He'll be running in behind City's back four, but if the defenders try to make it physical, he's more than capable of dealing with that.

There are more Portuguese in City's team than in Porto's.

Guardiola says he'll play all his players in their positions, which he absolutely did not do at the weekend. He's pleased Aguero is fit again and says Laporte is close. He's wearing a roll-neck.

I wonder how helpful less challenging groups are for the teams playing in them. On the one hand, the better teams can progress with minimal effort, but on the other, when things get difficult they are less well prepared than those who've been scrapping with serious teams already.

Sterling is also captaining City tonight. What a player and what a man he is.

On BT, we're having a look at Ruben Dias, who speaks very good English. This City side is well past its peak now, but if they can be solid at the back they're more than capable of finally doing something in this competition.

In Madrid, Real have retrieved two-thirds of a 0-3 half-time deficit against Shakhtar. You can follow along with the closing stages that one here.

Elsewhere in the group: Olympiakos v Marseille. I fancy Marseille for that one, but the only thing we know about any of this is that we know nothing.

City prepare....

It's got to be said that this is an extremely unadventurous XI Guardiola has sent out. I'm glad to see that Bernardo is back in midfield - he's wasted out wide - but I'm not sure they need both Rodri and Gundogan. There's no De Bruyne, incidentally - I guess he's rested but he might be injured.

City make two changes from the weekend. Out go Ake, who must be peeved not to be making his Champions League dayboo, and Foden. In come Garcia and Gudogan.

Teams!