UThe UEFA Champions League schedule has been off for a bit, but they will pick things up next week on Tuesday with a number of big games and teams in groups A through D will be playing, including clubs like Real Madrid, Manchester United, Paris Saint-Germain, Juventus and Real Sociedad, while Chelsea and Barcelona will play Wednesday
The schedule has a number of top teams in action and the first matches of the day will be Manchester United taking on Shakhtar Donetsk at Old Trafford and other matches includes Real Sociedad and Bayer Leverkusen playing at the Estadio Anoeta, while FC Copenhagen and Real Madrid play a Group B match at the Parkstadion and Galatasaray and Juventus play at Türk Telekom Arena in another group match from B. Group C is also in action on Tuesday as Benfica and Paris Saint-Germain matchup and so will Olympiakos and Anderlecht.
The Group D matches for Tuesday includes Bayern Munich and Manchester City at Allianz Arena, while Viktoria Plzen and CSKA Moscow will be matching up. The Wednesday matches have some big name teams going at it, including Barcelona and Celtic as well as Arsenal and Napoli while Chelsea will be playing Steaua Bucuresti.
Check here for the Champions League schedule.
Ajax Amsterdam captain Siem de Jong and striker Kolbeinn Sigthorsson will miss Dutch league action again this weekend and are in doubt for next Wednesday's vital Champions League match at AC Milan.
De Jong has a hamstring injury, picked up on international duty with the Netherlands last month, and is out of Saturday's home game against NAC Breda.
Iceland international Sigthorsson has returned to training after an ankle injury but worked apart from the rest of the first team on Wednesday, Ajax said on their website.
Ajax will be keen to get both back to bolster their chances in their final Champions League Group H match at the San Siro, which they must win to qualify for the knockout phase.
Barcelona, top of the group with 10 points, are already through, but Milan, second on eight points, and Ajax, on seven, will fight it out for the second qualifying spot. Celtic have been eliminated on three points from five matches.
Ajax were boosted last weekend by the return from injury of Bojan Krkic, the forward on loan from Barcelona. He scored in their win over ADO Den Haag on Sunday, a game missed by both De Jong and Sigthorsson.
Ajax are second in the Dutch league, two points behind leaders Vitesse Arnhem.
(Reuters)
