Inter Milan vs Atletico Madrid LIVE: Latest Champions League result and reaction including PSV vs Dortmund
Live goals and score updates from both last-16 first leg encounters
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Your support makes all the difference.The Uefa Champions League continued with its last-16 ties getting underway on Tuesday evening, with a double bill in Italy and Netherlands taking centre stage.
At the San Siro, Serie A league leaders Inter Milan narrowly beat LaLiga outfit Atletico Madrid, with Marko Arnautovic’s second-half goal the only strike of the game. Elsewhere, PSV Eindhoven held Borussia Dortmund to a 1-1 draw, Luuk de Jong levelling from the penalty spot after Donyell Malen scored for the visitors against his former club.
Relive the action from both fixtures below in our blog and get the latest Champions League odds and tips here.
Champions League - LIVE
OK we are about ready to go.
As a reminder, we’ll be main focus on Inter vs Atleti, but keeping you fully updated from PSV vs Dortmund as well - stay right here and you’ll be sure to stay on top of events right across the board in Europe tonight.
Champions League - LIVE
Just over ten minutes to go until kick-off!
A reminder of the rest of the last-16 games played last week and still ahead tomorrow:
Copenhagen 1-3 Man City
Leipzig 0-1 Real Madrid
PSG 2-0 Real Sociedad
Lazio 1-0 Bayern
Tonight:
Inter vs Atletico, PSV vs Dortmund
Wednesday:
FC Porto vs Arsenal, Napoli vs Barcelona
Champions League - LIVE
Worth noting that Alvaro Morata is missing for Atletico tonight - he’s the joint-top scorer in the Champions League with five so far, though teammate Antoine Griezmann also has five so they are not lacking for firepower all the same.
After that pair though, the next highest scorers for tonight’s teams are Dortmund’s Karim Adeyemi and Inter’s Alexis Sanchez, with neither starting. Both have two.
Lautaro Martinez is starting though and he’s also got a couple, along with PSV’s Luuk de Jong and Atleti wing-back Samuel Lino.
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Will any of tonight’s quartet be able to go the distance? Man City are of course favourites for the Champions League and Real Madrid are second.
Out of this four, Inter are highest in the latest odds to win the title at 14/1 - they are sixth favourites.
Atletico are 25/1, Dortmund 33/1 and PSV 150/1 outsiders.
Champions League - LIVE
Here’s how each time arrived at the last-16 stage...
Inter finished second in Group D behind Real Sociedad on head to head, while Atletico Madrid topped Group E, four points clear of Lazio and unbeaten.
As for Dortmund, they surprisingly finished first in the tough-looking Group F, ahead of PSG, Milan and Newcastle - now they are away to Group B runners-up PSV, who finished behind Arsenal but ahead of Lens by a point.
PSV vs Dortmund - confirmed lineups
And the lineups now for PSV vs BVB:
PSV - Benitez, Teze, Schouten, Boscagli, Dest, Veerman, Tillman, Saibari, Bakayoko, De Jong, Lozano
DORTMUND - Kobel, Ryerson, Hummels, Schlotterbeck, Maatsen, Can, Sabitzer, Malen, Reus, Sancho, Fullkrug
Inter Milan vs Atletico Madrid - confirmed lineups
Team news is in!
INTER - Sommer, Pavard, De Vrij, Bastoni, Darmian, Barella, Calhanoglu, Mkhitaryan, Dimarco, Thuram, Lautaro
ATLETI - Oblak, Gimenez, Witsel, Hermoso, Molina, De Paul, Koke, Saul, Lino, Llorente, Griezmann
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As for opponents Borussia Dortmund, they are similar to Atletico in terms of being in a battle to finish in the top four in their league.
The Bundesliga is typically tight around the top, with BVB fourth, just a point ahead of Leipzig but five points behind third-placed Stuttgart.
A good run of form of late sees Edin Terzic’s side unbeaten in nine, though they have probably drawn too many of them for the manager’s liking.
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So, onto that game: PSV are runaway leaders in the Eredivisie and are in fact unbeaten in the Dutch league all year - they have a ten point lead over Feyenoord and have only lost twice in all competitions this term.
One was in the cup recently to that same domestic rival; once was in the Champions League group stage at Arsenal.
PSV are very much in form and have scored ten in their last four matches.
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Our second game tonight is PSV vs Dortmund and it could well be an open-flowing, attack-minded affair which both teams feel they can progress from. Here are the latest odds and tips for that tie.
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