Capital One Cup:

UEFA Champions League: Zenit St Petersburg- AEL Limassol

Normally I would be loathe to bet a team giving up a big handicap start in a match they did not need to win. However, like in the first leg and as we saw from Atletico last night, PSG are a team looking to establish themselves at the very highest level and every performance is the chance to improve,learn something and perhaps more importantly, throw down a marker to the more established major European clubs. PSG have an eight point lead at the top of Ligue 1 and will be able to coast to the title there and I do not think they will be overly concerned about the upcoming domestic fixture.

Serie A is all but over for Milan, catching Inter, whom they currently trail by seven points will doubtless be a target, but the focus otherwise will be the Champions League and Coppa Italia, so a big match this evening.

Aside from the Champions League they is not too much for us to discuss today , the FIFA Club World Cup does get underway in Morocco , but Raja Casablanca - Auckland City hardly gets the heart beating a little faster and we can wait until the bigger boys arrive. They do not come any bigger in Asia than Guangzhou Evergrande and I must admit that I am a little excited to see how our email favourites get on, but the competition does not start in earnest until Saturday and we can wait until then.

UEFA Champions League:

Juventus have really hit their stride in Serie A, scored a few goals , conceding few and that Roma five point advantage of a month ago has disappeared and the Old Lady is back on top. Carlos Tevez and Fernando Llorente are starting to gel up front and things are suddenly looking rosy, but they are at the foot of this Champions League group and simply have to win tonight and I feel it will be more about the result, than performance and that unless the first goal comes very early,we will see Juve adopt a professional and pragmatic approach.