UEFA Champions League; Sporting vs Chelsea, Man City vs Roma, PSG vs Barca: Starting Lineups, TV Times and Open Thread

The UEFA Champions League returns with a myriad of interesting fixtures. The biggest of which is Paris Saint-Germain vs Barcelona, but PSG will be without Zlatan Ibrahimovic who has been ruled out of the game.

Here are the TV listings for today’s matches (all times Eastern):

2:45pm Manchester City vs AS Roma (FoxSports-1 and FOX Sports GO)
2:45pm Sporting Lisbon vs Chelsea (FoxSports-2 and FOX Sports GO)
2:45pm PSG v Barcelona (FoxSportsNet Regionals, Fox Deportes and FOX Sports GO)
2:45pm Shakhtar vs FC Porto (ESPN Deportes, DirecTV-482, WatchESPN, FOX Soccer 2 GO)
2:45pm Schalke 04 vs NK maribor (DirecTV-483, WatchESPN, FOX Soccer 2 GO)
2:45pm APOEL FC vs AFC Ajax (DirecTV-484, WatchESPN, FOX Soccer 2 GO)
2:45pm BATE Borisov vs Athletic Bilbao (DirecTV-485, WatchESPN, FOX Soccer 2 GO)

Starting lineups:

Manchester City: Hart, Zabaleta, Kompany, Demichelis, Clichy, Navas, Fernandinho, Yaya Toure, Silva, Aguero, Dzeko

Subs: Caballero, Sagna, Kolarov, Milner, Lampard, Jovetic, Mangala

AS Roma: Skorupski, Maicon, Manolas, Mapou, Cole, Pjanic, Keita, Nainggolan, Florenzi, Totti, Gervinho

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Sporting Lisbon: Rui Patrício; Cédric, Maurício, Sarr, Silva; João Mário, Carvalho, Adrien Silva; Carrillo, Slimani, Nani

Chelsea: Courtois, Ivanovic, Cahill, Terry, Filipe Luis, Matic, Fabregas, Schurrle, Oscar, Hazard, Diego Costa

Subs: Cech, Azpilicueta, Zouma, Mikel, Salah, Willian, Remy

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Paris Saint-Germain: Sirigu, van der Wiel, Marquinhos, Luiz, Maxwell, Motta, Verratti, Matuidi, Pastore, Cavani, Lucas

Barcelona: Ter Stegen, Alves, Mascherano, Mathieu, Alba- Busquets, Rakitic, Iniesta- Pedro, Messi, Neymar

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