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Your support makes all the difference.Monaco are bracing themselves for a very different Borussia Monchengladbach as the Germans fight for survival in their Uefa Cup second round second leg today.
Borussia are 4-2 down after a home leg in which Monaco hit them with some brilliant counter-attacks and clinical finishing. However, the French First Division side's coach, Jean Tigana, insists he is taking nothing for granted, expecting Borussia to do their utmost to keep German interest in the competition four-strong.
"The Germans never admit defeat," Tigana said. "They underestimated us in the first leg. They're going to show a different face and we'll have to be fully concentrated.
"It's up to us to kill the match. We'll have to worry them from the start - go out as if we were 0-0 and not change our game."
Metz, France's other representatives, travel to Lisbon to face Sporting with a 2-0 lead from the first leg.
The Portuguese side's Belgian coach, Robert Waseige, said: "We're at a two-goal disadvantage, which is serious, but two consecutive victories in the Portuguese League have given us the strength to overcome this handicap."
Italy's Roma are in a totally different position from Monaco against another German side, Karlsruhe, who won their home leg 3-0.
But two other Italian clubs travel with 1-0 first-leg leads - Internazionale to Austria where they meet Casino Graz, Lazio to the Canary Islands to face Tenerife.
However, Lazio have problems in defence with their left-back Giuseppe Favalli suspended, South Africa's Mark Fish injured and Argentina's Jose Chamot able to play only with a protective bandage on his left arm.
In Spain, Valencia, who beat Bayern Munich in the last round, entertain Slavia Prague 1-0 and Espanyol face a difficult task of overcoming a 3- 0 deficit away to the Dutch side Feyenoord. The party for Romario's return lasted exactly 39 minutes.
The 1994 Fifa player of the year had a disappointing debut for Flamengo on Sunday, leaving the game with an injury in a 2-1 loss to Internacional in a First Division game.
Romario, who moved on loan from the Spanish side, Valencia, on Friday, was visibly out of shape and hampered by the heavy, rain-soaked field. He did not touch the ball for the first nine minutes and there were few of the expected link-ups with Bebeto, one of his team-mates from Brazil's 1994 World Cup-winning team.
In the 40th minute, Romario was chasing a defender when he suddenly pulled up short, put his hand to the back of his thigh and limped off the field. He told team doctors he had felt a twinge, but the extent of the injury was not clear. He underwent tests yesterday.
The crowd of nearly 40,000 that had turned out at Rio's Maracana stadium to cheer for Romario saw Internacional erase Flamengo's 1-0 lead with two goals by Fabiano in the final six minutes. The defeat left Flamengo in 14th place among 24 teams.
The Barcelona striker Hristo Stoichkov was named yesterday in Bulgaria's squad for two friendlies ahead of a World Cup qualifier against Cyprus - despite saying he would not play for the national side.
Bulgaria will play Saudi Arabia on 6 November and Thailand on 8 November. They face Cyprus on 15 December.
Stoichkov missed Bulgaria's first two World Cup European Group Five qualifiers after he vowed to quit the national team unless the country's top football officials resigned.
Bulgaria lost 2-1 to Israel and managed only a meagre 2-1 win over Luxembourg in a disappointing opening to their World Cup campaign. Other foreign-based players in the squad for the friendlies include Krasimir Balakov of VfB Stuttgart, Yordan Lechkov of Marseilles, and Trifon Ivanov of Rapid Vienna.
Lucas Radebe, the Leeds United defender, is in South Africa's squad for their home World Cup qualifier against Zaire on 9 November.
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