Champions League Real Madrid Visitors Dortmund as Leister hosts Porto AFP sports

PARIS - AFP Sports looks ahead to Tuesday's
Champions League action as last year's winners
Real Madrid go to Borussia Dortmund and
Premier League champions Leicester City host
Porto hopefully to claim a second win in as many
games (all kick-offs 1845 GMT):

Group E
At Monaco
Monaco (FRA) v Bayer Leverkusen (GER)
Former runners-up Monaco will be looking to
build on their impressive opening win over
Tottenham Hotspur when they welcome Bayer
Leverkusen to the Stade Louis II. The principality
club have not lost in four previous meetings with
Leverkusen, beating them home and away in the
group stage two seasons ago. Leonardo Jardim's
side are fresh from beating Angers 2-1 to go top
of Ligue 1. It was their eighth win in their last
nine games but they were without Radamel
Falcao in that game after he suffered concussion
in last Wednesday's 4-0 defeat at Nice.
Leverkusen, who drew 2-2 at home to CSKA
Moscow on matchday one, are mid-table in the
Bundesliga but they travel to the Mediterranean
coast on the back of a 3-2 win at Mainz on
Saturday, in which Javier 'Chicharito' Hernandez
scored a hat-trick. Karim Bellarabi is out until
the end of the year with a groin injury.
At Moscow
CSKA Moscow (RUS) v Tottenham Hotspur
(ENG)
Tottenham will look to kickstart their European
campaign in the Russian capital after losing 2-1
to Monaco at Wembley last time out. Mauricio
Pochettino's side go to Moscow for the first time
and do so in second place in the Premier League
after a 2-1 weekend win at Middlesbrough in
which Son Heung-Min scored twice. Moussa
Sissoko could miss the game after suffering
concussion at the weekend and a depleted Spurs
are already without striker Harry Kane while also
having major doubts over Mousa Dembele, Eric
Dier and Danny Rose. CSKA came from two
goals down to draw in Leverkusen last time out
to set them up nicely for their first Champions
League game in their new 30,000-seat stadium.
Leonid Slutsky's side drew 1-1 at home to
Krasnodar at the weekend with a goal from giant
Ivorian striker Lacina Traore, who once had a
spell at Everton.
Group F
At Dortmund, Germany
Borussia Dortmund (GER) v Real Madrid (ESP)
One of the most highly-anticipated showdowns
of the group stage sees reigning champions Real
Madrid head to Germany to take on 1997 winners
and 2013 runners-up Dortmund at the Signal
Iduna Park. Both teams are expected to progress
to the last 16 and both won their opening
matches, albeit in contrasting circumstances.
While Dortmund romped to a 6-0 win away at
Legia Warsaw, Real needed two late goals to
come back and beat Sporting 2-1 at the Santiago
Bernabeu. Madrid won 3-2 on aggregate when
the teams last met in the quarter-finals in
2013/14, but they have been beaten on their last
three visits to Dortmund and they do not have a
good record in Germany, with just four wins from
29 trips. Zinedine Zidane's side -- for whom Pepe
is set to return -- are still unbeaten this season
but have drawn their last two La Liga games at
home to Villarreal and away at Las Palmas.
Dortmund, meanwhile, have won four on the
bounce in all competitions, scoring 20 goals in
the process, and are unbeaten in 24 home
Bundesliga games, equalling a club record, after
defeating Freiburg 3-1 on Friday. Marco Reus is
among the long-term absentees for Dortmund.
At Lisbon
Sporting (POR) v Legia Warsaw (POL)
These sides are expected to be fighting it out for
third place and a Europa League berth in the
new year and both lost their opening matches.
Jorge Jesus' Sporting were unlucky not to take
something from their trip to Madrid and will be
favourites at the Estadio Jose Alvalade, where
they beat Estoril 4-2 on Friday with Dutch
summer signing Bas Dost scoring twice as they
stayed second in the Portuguese league behind
leaders Benfica. Jesus serves a touchline ban
against Legia, who have changed coach since
their humbling home loss to Dortmund. A 3-2
home defeat to Zaglebie Lubin brought an end to
Besnik Hasi's brief reign in the dugout. Former
player Jacek Magiera is the new coach of a
team who have won just once in seven games.
Group G
At Copenhagen
FC Copenhagen (DEN) v Club Brugge (BEL)
The Group G outsiders meet in the Danish capital
with Copenhagen looking to build on a 1-1 draw
away to FC Porto last time out. Stale
Solbakken's side are unbeaten in seven
European outings already this season and are
four points clear atop their domestic league after
defeating AGH Aarhus 2-0 at the weekend with
goals from the Paraguayan forward Federico
Santander and Kasper Kusk. In contrast to their
hosts, former European Cup runners-up Club
Brugge have had a poor start to the season and
were brushed aside by Leicester City, losing 3-0
on matchday one. Since then they have won
three in a row in all competitions, though. They
also won 4-0 when they last went to the Parken
Stadium two seasons ago in the Europa League.
Bjorn Engels and Lior Refaelov miss the trip due
to injury.
At Leicester, England
Leicester City (ENG) v FC Porto (POR)
The Premier League champions get set for
another historic moment as they host two-time
European champions Porto in the first ever
Champions League game at the King Power
Stadium. Claudio Ranieri's team lost 4-1 at
Manchester United on Saturday, their third league
defeat already this season. However, a 3-0 win in
Bruges was an ideal start to their European
campaign and Porto have lost and failed to score
on each of their last four visits to England. They
will be familiar with the threat of Leicester's
record signing Islam Slimani from his time in
Portugal with Sporting. Andre Silva scored twice
as Porto beat city rivals Boavista 3-1 at the
weekend. Maxi Pereira is expected to be fit for
Nuno Espirito Santo's side, who were held at
home by Copenhagen after beating Roma to
reach the group stage.
Group H
At Seville, Spain
Sevilla (ESP) v Lyon (FRA)
These two teams should fight it out to go
through to the last 16 along with Juventus. The
Spaniards will fancy their chances of taking
three points at the Sanchez Pizjuan. Europa
League winners in each of the last three years,
they held Juve in Italy in their group opener and
are looking good under new coach Jorge
Sampaoli. A 3-1 defeat at Athletic Bilbao on
Saturday ended a six-game unbeaten run, though,
for a side that features half a dozen French
players. Lyon beat Dinamo Zagreb 3-0 at home in
their opener but have won just once in five in
Ligue 1 outings and are without injured top
scorer Alexandre Lacazette for the trip. Their
only win in last season's group stage came in
Spain, against Valencia.
At Zagreb
Dinamo Zagreb (CRO) v Juventus (ITA)
The Italian champions, runners-up in 2015, did
not get off to the best start as they were held to
a goalless draw by Sevilla but they will be
expected to get a win under their belts in Croatia
against one of the weakest sides in the
competition. The Turin giants have injury worries
too, with Kwadwo Asamoah and Daniele Rugani
joining Medhi Benatia and Claudio Marchisio on
the sidelines in the wake of the 1-0 weekend win
at Palermo. Marko Pjaca could play, though,
against the team he left in the summer -- he
played for them and scored twice in the win over
Vardar Skopje in the second qualifying round.
Dinamo, who beat Arsenal at home last season,
have bounced back from a run of three straight
defeats with back-to-back domestic wins.