The European Champions hope to seal their progress to the knockout stage, there’s a potential Nou Camp classic and both United and Arsenal battle for pride on Thursday night.

With neither English club in Wednesday’s section yet guaranteed progress from their Champions League group and the Europa League just as open, British clubs face difficult ties at home and abroad as plenty of scores need to be settled this midweek.

Champions League choices narrow for Super Cup players

When Liverpool and Chelsea battled it out for the European Super Cup back in August, both might have been forgiven for believing their respective Champions League groups to be merely formalities. No teams in there that looked too threatening on paper, they might have thought as their executives nodded politely at the draw whilst mentally spending the money the knockout stages were clearly going to bring.