This is worthy of a read. Aubemeyang is on the Marseille bench tonight, with the French side 4- up on Villarreal from the first leg.
Ibrox is heading to be absolutely rocking tonight. The group is on a abundant run of variety, Benfica is a pearler of a European tie and there will also be tributes to Thomas McAllister, a lover who shed his everyday living in Lisbon just after the initial leg.
Group news
Villarreal v Marseille
Villarreal: Reina, Femenia, Bailly, Mandi, Cuenca, Coquelin, Capoue, Parejo, Goncalo Guedes, Gerard, Sorloth.
Subs: Mosquera, Comesana, Jorgensen, Trigueros, Morales, Baena, Altimira, Akhomach.
Marseille: Pau Lopez, Meite, Mbemba, Balerdi, Merlin, Clauss, Kondogbia, Ounahi, Veretout, Ndiaye, Sarr.
Subs: Aubameyang, Harit, Moumbagna, Correa, Blanco, Soglo, Tunkadi, Luis Henrique.
West Ham v Freiburg
West Ham: Fabianski, Coufal, Mavropanos, Zouma, Cresswell, Soucek, Alvarez, Kudus, Bowen, Lucas Paqueta, Antonio.
Subs: Johnson, Ward-Prowse, Phillips, Ings, Ogbonna, Areola, Aguerd, Earthy, Casey, Mubama, Orford, Knightbridge.
Freiburg: Atubolu, Sildialli, Ginter, Gulde, Gunter, Hofler, Doan, Eggestein, Holer, Grifo, Sallai.
Subs: Lienhart, Szalai, Keitel, Kubler, Adamu, Muller, Muslija, Philipp, Uphoff, Makengo, Rohl, Gregoritsch.
Rangers v Benfica
Rangers: Butland, Tavernier, Goldson, Souttar, Yilmaz, Diomande, Lundstram, Scott Wright, Lawrence, Silva, Dessers.
Subs: Cantwell, Matondo, Roofe, Davies, McCrorie, Barisic, King, Raskin, McCausland, Yfeko, Fraser, McKinnon.
Benfica: Trubin, Bah, Silva, Otamendi, Aursnes, Neves, Florentino, Di Maria, Rafa Silva, Neres, Marcos Leonardo.
Subs: Fernandez, Morato, Arthur Cabral, Kokcu, Tengstedt, Joao Mario, Soares, Rollheiser, Araujo, Kokubo, Gouveia.
Slavia Prague v Milan
Slavia Prague: Stanek, Vlcek, Ogbu, Zima, Zmrzly, Holes, Dorley, Doudera, Provod, Wallem, Chytil.
Subs: Tijani, Zafeiris, Dominik Pech, van Buren, Jurecka, Sevcik, Schranz, Mandous, Tomic, Sirotnik, Jurasek, Konecny.
Milan: Maignan, Calabria, Gabbia, Tomori, Hernandez, Adli, Musah, Pulisic, Loftus-Cheek, Leao, Giroud.
Subs: Bennacer, Reijnders, Jovic, Okafor, Kalulu Kyatengwa, Chukwueze, Kjaer, Thiaw, Terracciano, Sportiello, Nava.
Preamble
Good day environment! Thursday is the new Wednesday, have not you read? An night for the football hipsters.
What, you have never ever read of new Benfica wonderkid João Neves?! Ha! He’s got increased-waisted shorts than Javier Zanetti and Scott Parker, an engine like a young James Milner and the vision of a teenage Rui Costa. Adhere that up your Champions League and smoke it.
The stage is, there are dozens of tiny storylines in this article. Some nicely-thumbed, some waiting around to be explored. We have eight next legs on offer you in the early kick-offs (5.45pm GMT), and eight matches in the lates (8pm GMT, which will be introduced to you afterwards by Rob Smyth).
The 5.45pm (GMT) kick offs:
Rangers v Benfica (2-2 agg)
West Ham v Freiburg (-1 agg)
Slavia Prague v Milan (2-4 agg)
Villarreal v Marseille (-4 agg)