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The Netherlands international remains unavailable due to injury and will miss Tuesday's Champions League match against the Czech side

Pep Guardiola's men won 5-0 when these two sides met in Munich and our tipster expects the defending European champions to record another emphatic victory on Tuesday night

Bayern Munich will match the Catalans' run of nine consecutive Champions League wins set a decade ago with victory over Viktoria Plzen, and the 42-year-old is eager to do so

The striker came off the bench to ensure that Pep Guardiola's men are guaranteed to qualify from the group stage, while equalling Barcelona's record for consecutive wins

Check out some of the most interesting shots from around Europe, as Juventus slipped to bottom of their group, Manchester City thrashed CSKA, and Manchester United were held

Europe's best took huge steps towards the knockout rounds of the Champions League, stealing marches on their rivals, while certain individuals showed their class

Several sides are on the cusp of qualification for European football after Christmas ahead of this week's Champions League action

VIDEO: Our Champions League show returns for the penultimate round of the group stages, as we preview this week's major games from Europe's premier club competition

The England goalkeeper returns to the starting XI for Manuel Pellegrini's side, who have qualified for the knockout stages and romped to a 6-0 victory over Tottenham on Sunday

After another high scoring weekend for Manuel Pellegrini's side, Hugh Wilson is backing City to continue where they left off this evening

The visiting Czechs twice equalised with Manuel Pellegrini's side before two strikers saw the hosts over the line, Tomas Horava and Stanislav Tecl having put hearts in mouths

Wednesday's games produced a staggering 36 goals and just as many memorable images - Goal rounds up the best photos from a compelling night of action

The groups, in places, are done and dusted as the big guns racked up big wins but some intriguing results elsewhere leave it all to play for

Several sides are on the cusp of qualification for the knockouts ahead of the final round of group-stage action, with Napoli and Galatasaray among those in the mix

The Japan international is to join AC Milan in January but will hope to guide his current side to third place in the group by avoiding defeat in the Czech Republic

The Czechs finish third in Group D following victory over nine-man CSKA, meaning coach Pavel Vrba, who is set to take over the Czech national team, leaves the club on a high

Goal takes a look at the most eye-catching images for another night of compelling continental action

There was meaningful action right up to the final whistle before the final qualifiers for the last 16 were confirmed on Wednesday night

The final round of first-phase action was completed on Thursday, and with the draw scheduled to take place on Monday, Goal takes a look at who will be there in the pot

Managerless Tottenham have been pitted against Dnipro while Porto travel to Eintracht Frankfurt and Fiorentina face Esbjerg

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