Champions League stars in the EURO play-offs
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
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Zlatan Ibrahimović, Miralem Pjanić and Yevhen Konoplyanka are just three of the UEFA Champions League stars set to feature in the upcoming UEFA EURO play-offs.
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The UEFA Champions League may not resume until 24 November, but plenty of the competition's stars will nevertheless be strutting their stuff on the biggest stage this week.
The UEFA EURO 2016 play-offs run from Thursday to next Tuesday, 17 November, and six of the eight contenders have UEFA Champions League representatives in their squads, with 32 players from 16 clubs set to be involved in all. Who are they?
Astana
Branko Ilič (Slovenia)
Atlético Madrid
Jan Oblak (Slovenia)
Chelsea
Asmir Begović (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Dinamo Zagreb
Armin Hodžić (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Dynamo Kyiv
Yevhen Khacheridi, Oleh Gusev, Andriy Yarmolenko, Serhiy Sydorchuk, Denys Garmash, Serhiy Rybalka, Artem Kravets (all Ukraine)
Gent
Erik Johansson (Sweden)
Leverkusen
Kevin Kampl (Slovenia)
Malmö
Jo Inge Berget (Norway), Oscar Lewicki (Sweden)
Mönchengladbach
Andreas Christensen (Denmark), Håvard Nordtveit (Norway)
Olympiacos
Omar Elabdellaoui (Norway), Jimmy Durmaz (Sweden)
Paris Saint-Germain
Zlatan Ibrahimović (Sweden)
Real Madrid
Martin Ødegaard (Norway)
Roma
Miralem Pjanić (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Edin Džeko (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Sevilla
Michael Krohn-Dehli (Denmark), Yevhen Konoplyanka (Ukraine)
Shakhtar Donetsk
Andriy Pyatov, Vyacheslav Shevchuk, Olexandr Kucher, Yaroslav Rakitskiy, Taras Stepanenko, Olexandr Gladkiy (all Ukraine)
Wolfsburg
Nicklas Bendtner (Denmark)