A Team News For The Alexis Sanchez Returns To The Bench As Isaac Cuenca Earns Starting Slot For Barcelona Versus Viktoria Plzen.

Gerard Pique and Carles Puyol partner each other at the back as Xavi, Andres Iniesta, and Javier Mascherano are left on the bench for the European champions and the barcelona welcome back Alexis Sanchez from injury, who is fit enough to earn a place on the bench in tonight's Group H Champions League encounter with Czech side Viktoria Plzen and the Catalan side managed to defeat 2-0 in their last European match.

Pep Guardiola also awards Isaac Cuenca another start as the young Spaniard continues to impress in barca attack and there is no place in the squad for David Villa as Adriano takes up the role on the left of the attacking trio and viktoria Plzen opt for a 5 man midfield against the European Champions and Marek Bakos is selected in the lone striker role.

Viktoria Plzen (4-5-1): Pavlik, Limbersky, Bystron, Cisovsky, Pilar, Horvath, Petrzela, Jiracek,
Kolar, Rajtoral, Bakos

Subs: Tichacek, Reznik, Sevinsky, Fillo, Darida, Duris, Hora

Barcelona (4-3-3): Valdes, Alves, Pique, Puyol, Abidal, Fabregas, Thiago, Busquets, Adriano, Cuenca, Messi

Subs: Pinto, Maxwell, Xavi, Iniesta, Mascherano, Keita, Sanchez

Jordan Rhodes Has Won His First Call-up For Scotland's Friendly With Cyprus & Barry Bannan Has Been Dropped From The Squad.

Norwich defender Russell Martin and Queens Park Rangers striker Jamie Mackie have also won recalls from Scotland boss Craig Levein and the mackie's last appearance for the Scots was almost a year ago against the Faroe Islands for the Martin earned his only cap against Wales in the Carling Nations Cup in May.

Levein revealed over the weekend that in-form Huddersfield striker Rhodes was in line for his 1st senior cap against Cyprus and that he would link up with the Under 21 squad for the European Championship qualifier against Holland on 14th November for the aston Villa midfielder Bannan has been omitted from the squad, following his arrest on suspicion of drink-driving and the rangers forward Steven Naismith and Celtic midfielder Scott Brown are both missing through injury.

Full squad:

Allan McGregor (Rangers), David Marshall (Cardiff City), Matt Gilks (Blackpool), Phil Bardsley (Sunderland), Christophe Berra (Wolverhampton Wanderers), Gary Caldwell (Wigan Athletic), Grant Hanley (Blackburn Rovers), Alan Hutton (Aston Villa), Russell Martin (Norwich City), Lee Wallace (Rangers), Steven Whittaker (Rangers), Charlie Adam (Liverpool), Don Cowie (Cardiff City), Graham Dorrans (West Bromwich Albion), Darren Fletcher (Manchester United), James McArthur (Wigan Athletic), James Morrison (West Bromwich Albion), Barry Robson (Middlesbrough), Robert Snodgrass (Leeds United), David Goodwillie (Blackburn Rovers), Craig Mackail-Smith (Brighton and Hove Albion), Jamie Mackie (Queens Park Rangers), Kenny Miller (Cardiff City), James Morrison (West Bromwich Albion), Jordan Rhodes (Huddersfield Town)

Wayne Rooney Is Only British Player On Ballon d'Or World Footballer Of The Year Shortlist.

Barcelona have eight players on the list, including Lionel Messi, who has won the award for the past two seasons and the nani (Man Utd), Luis Suarez (Liverpool) and Sergio Aguero (Man City) are the other England-based players named.

BRITISH BALLON D'OR WINNERS for a 1956: Stanley Matthews, 1964: Denis Law, 1966: Bobby Charlton, 1968: George Best, 1978/79: Kevin Keegan and the 2001: Michael Owen.

Arsenal's Arsene Wenger joins Sir Alex Ferguson and Chelsea's Andre Villas-Boas on the managerial list for a decision will be made on 9 January and the rooney helped Manchester United lift a record 19th league title in 2011 and reach the final of the European Cup and the european champions Barcelona dominate Fifa's list, Cesc Fabregas, who spent part of 2011 with Arsenal, named alongside Messi.

Real Madrid have 5 nominees, including former Manchester United player Cristiano Ronaldo and ex-Liverpool midfielder Xabi Alonso and the shortlist will be narrowed down to three names for each category on 5 December.

Player nominees:

Eric Abidal (France), Sergio Aguero (Argentina), Karim Benzema (France), Iker Casillas (Spain), Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal), Dani Alves (Brazil), Samuel Eto'o (Cameroon), Cesc Fabregas (Spain), Diego Forlan (Uruguay), Andres Iniesta (Spain), Lionel Messi (Argentina), Thomas Muller (Germany), Nani (Portugal), Neymar (Brazil), Mesut Ozil (Germany), Gerard Pique (Spain), Wayne Rooney (England), Bastian Schweinsteiger (Germany), Wesley Sneijder (Netherlands), Luis Suarez (Uruguay), David Villa (Spain), Xabi Alonso (Spain), Xavi (Spain).

Coach nominees:

Vicente Del Bosque (Spain/Spain national team), Sir Alex Ferguson (Scotland/Manchester United), Rudi Garcia (France/Lille), Pep Guardiola (Spain/Barcelona), Jurgen Klopp (Germany/Borussia Dortmund), Joachim Loew (Germany/Germany national team), Jose Mourinho (Portugal/Real Madrid), Oscar Tabarez (Uruguay/Uruguay national team), Andre Villas-Boas (Portugal/Porto, Chelsea), Arsene Wenger (France/Arsenal).

Marouane Chamakh Striker Out Of Champions League Clash With Knee Injury.

Marouane Chamakh has been ruled out of Arsenal's UEFA Champions League clash with Marseille on Tuesday and the 27-year-old striker is likely to be replaced on the bench for the Group F clash by Park Chu-Young after suffering a knee injury to a arsenal boss Arsene Wenger now faces an anxious wait to see how long the Morocco striker is sidelined.

The Chamakh is injured, said Wenger he has a knee problem and is not involved and joining the promising South Korean on the bench will be Thomas Vermaelen as he eases himself back to full fitness.

The Belgian defender suffered a minor calf strain on his return against Bolton and featured late on as a substitute in Arsenal's 5-3 mauling of Chelsea on Saturday and the wenger is also able to welcome back Carl Jenkinson who was named in the squad alongside his defensive partner he added, They will both be available and in the squad tomorrow and i have not picked the team yet so I don't know if they are fit enough to start are they fit enough to play? Yes, of course for a yossi Benayoun is also back in the squad.

International career for a Chamakh is a Moroccan international at the senior level in prior to representing Morocco he played for the under-19 team of France and made his debut on 12 February 2003 in a friendly match against the Czech Republic to that was his only appearance with the team in qualification for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, Chamakh scored 3 goals and One of his goals during qualification occurred on 8 October 2010 against Tunisia for he appeared in only 4 matches and scored no goals as Morocco failed to qualify for both the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations and the 2010 FIFA World Cup.After going scoreless for 6 months at international level, on 4 June 2011, Chamakh scored the second goal in a 4–0 win over Algeria in qualification for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations.

Barcelona defender Dani Alves

Dani Alves the Media Try To Destabilise Barcelona, Nothing Will Affect Us and the Brazilian full-back has stressed that the Catalans should not let any criticism get to them and insists that he and his team-mates have never doubted their abilities.

Barcelona defender Dani Alves has made it clear that media criticism cannot destabilise the Champions League holders as he feels nothing can affect them and the Catalans' form has been questioned in recent weeks after a goalless draw against Sevilla and a narrow 1-0 win over Granada.

The Alves insists he and his team-mates remain unperturbed as they ignore any negative comments from outside of the club to we have to avoid looking at what's being said about us in the media, because they are usually full of the Alves was quoted as saying by they are trying to destabilise us, but nothing can affect Barca.

We should not give any importance to criticism from the outside world. We have to trust in our potential to the important thing is that we never doubted our own abilities and the barcelona climbed to second place in La Liga following their impressive 5-0 home win over Mallorca on Saturday.

Striker Robert Hall Only Experienced One Defeat In His 10 Games At Oxford And He Recalled By West Ham.

West Ham United have recalled striker Robert Hall from his loan spell at League Two Oxford United and he 18, has been instrumental in Oxford's success this season scoring 6 goals in 10 games for the U's and the U's had wanted to extend his loan stay but West Ham have injury concerns and have asked Hall to return.

Although we are disappointed to see Robbie go at this point, we always knew this was a possibility when taking him on loan said, chairman Kelvin Thomas added, The timing is tough as we had begun discussions on extending his loan for a longer period and there would have been no issue with this without West Ham's injury problems.

The positive is that it is great for Robbie He has come here, played well to scored goals and had that little bit of experience and west Ham are very happy with the way he has been looked after and the way he has played and have taken him back to be involved with the 1st team squad.

West Ham are very happy with the way he has been looked after and says, Kelvin Thomas

Emmanuel Adebayor Has Scored Three Goals For Tottenham This Season And My Time At Man City Was A Headache Says Emmanuel Adebayor.

Emmanuel Adebayor insists he has no regrets about leaving Manchester City and described his time at the club as a "headache" and he joined Tottenham on a season-long loan in August after being frozen out of Roberto Mancini's plans since last December in e told BBC Sport, "I wish them the best of luck do I wish to be part of that team right now? No.

The Mancini's expensively-assembled side have moved to the top of the Premier League in Adebayor's absence, but the former Arsenal striker said he is not missing life at City after quickly settling into his new surroundings in north London and you want to be in a house where you feel comfortable, added the former Togo striker.

Adebayor has scored three goals in 6 games this season to help edge Tottenham closer to the top four and qualification for the Champions League in we have to do everything it takes to go beyond that line, he said, we can achieve that as a goal and the adebayor said he was impressed with the strength of Tottenham's squad and it is not only Rafael Van der Vaart, Luka Modric and Gareth Bale who have caught his eye.

Every morning when you come in you see lots of lads working hard in the gym to be fit for the weekend which is a very good sign, added Adebayor and the tottenham's next game is against Queens Park Rangers on Sunday.