Liverpool, Manchester City and Tottenham all won on a historic Champions League night for English football.

Manchester City slumped to their first defeat of the season with a 2-1 loss to Shakhtar Donetsk in their final Champions League Group F game.

Toure has featured little this season but has been impressed by the performances of his team-mates.

Paulo Fonseca admits his Shakhtar Donetsk side face a daunting task to contain Manchester City.

Manchester United’s crunch Europa League clash with Zorya Luhansk is under threat due to a frozen pitch that Jose Mourinho claims his team should never have had to encounter.

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Villarreal eased into the semi-finals of the Europa League with a 4-2 second-leg victory over Sparta Prague last night.

Liverpool and Chelsea target Alex Teixeira has reportedly told Shakhtar Donetsk that he wants to join Jurgen Klopp at Anfield.

Dynamo Kiev 0 Chelsea 0: Eden Hazard and Willian hit the woodwork as Chelsea were held to a goalless draw at Dynamo Kiev last night.

Cristiano Ronaldo hit a second-half hat-trick as Real Madrid opened their Champions League campaign with a 4-0 victory over 10-man Shakhtar Donetsk in last night’s Group A showdown at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium.

The latest acting veteran who may have joined the cast of Game of Thrones is Richard E Grant, according to unconfirmed reports in the UK.

AC Milan went on a spending spree last night as they agreed deals for two hot European properties.

Manager Pep Guardiola says he opted to play the most offensive formation of his career as Bayern Munich put seven past hapless Shakhtar Donetsk to march to the Champions League quarter-finals.

Bayern Munich v Shaktar

Champions League Last 16 First Leg

Shakhtar Donetsk coach Mircea Lucescu is hoping his players can become "heroes" when they take on Bayern Munich in the last 16 of the Champions League (kick-off 7.45pm).

Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti: The Spanish club are dreaming of a clean sweep.

The Champions League group stage was due a knife-edge finale and it has duly arrived. Just four group winners have been decided and only one runner-up.

Tonight is when the Champions League starts to get serious.

Paris St-Germain shrugged off the absence of Zlatan Ibrahimovic to inflict a first defeat on Barcelona under their new coach Luis Enrique, with a thrilling 3-2 victory at the Parc des Princes last night.

Roma opened their Champions League Group E campaign in style with a 5-1 mauling of Russian side CSKA Moscow at the Stadio Olimpico.

Ukraine are due to play the United States tomorrow in one of those matches which cries out for George Orwell to do the post-match analysis in the studio.

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Manchester United midfielder Phil Jones admits the players’ confidence may have been shaken by their recent poor run but insists they have to be professional and deal with it.

Manchester United winger Ashley Young insists the players have to take their fair share of responsibility for their recent poor form.

Manchester United defender Alex Buttner admits the players do look at their own performances when results go badly but hopes their Champions League victory over Shakhtar Donetsk will provide a springboard to improved domestic results.

Manchester United 1 Shakhtar Donetsk 0

Manchester United 1 Shakhtar Donetsk 0

David Moyes has admitted the buck stops with him as he takes “complete responsibility” for the growing concern at Old Trafford.

Manchester United manager David Moyes accepts his team have a big job on their hands as they seek to book a place in the Champions League last 16 tonight.

Nemanja Vidic’s faith in the quality of Manchester United’s squad has not been shaken by their awful start to the Premier League campaign.

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The pressure has been well and truly cranked up but manager David Moyes insists Manchester United will turn around their depressing start to his tenure.

La Liga’s ‘big two’ go into the new Champions League campaign this week with new coaches in Gerardo Martino and Carlo Ancelotti, fresh expensive superstars in Neymar and Gareth Bale, but the same huge expectations as always.

Celtic have left themselves with it all to do to reach the Champions League after a surprise defeat to Kazakhstan champions Shakhter Karagandy in the first leg of their play-off at the Astana Arena.

Manchester City have confirmed the signing of Spain winger Jesus Navas from Sevilla.

Manchester City have confirmed the signing of Brazil international Fernandinho from Shakhtar Donetsk.

Manchester City look set to strike a double early blow in the transfer market as they close in on the signings of Fernandinho and Jesus Navas.

Real Madrid manager Jose Mourinho insists there will be no repeat of his famous dash down the Old Trafford touchline if his side progress to the Champions League quarter-finals at the expense of Manchester United.

A passenger plane carrying football fans skidded past a landing strip and overturned in Ukraine, killing five people.