UCL Preview: Chelsea target first home win

Manchester City continue their search for a first Champions League win this season when they face CSKA Moscow on Tuesday, while Chelsea, Bayern Munich, Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain are among the sides in action elsewhere.

AFP Sports looks at all the fixtures in Groups G on Tuesday:

SCHALKE 04 V SPORTING (7:45 p.m.) Roberto di Matteo, who won the Champions League with Chelsea as coach in 2012, leads his new club Schalke in the competition for the first time. The Italian got off to a winning start with the Gelsenkirchen side, leading them to a 2-0 win over Hertha Berlin in the Bundesliga on Saturday. And now they could desperately do with another victory after drawing their opening two matches in Group G.

Sporting head to Germany still chasing their first win in the section. The Lions have only been beaten once this season — their 1-0 home loss to Chelsea on matchday two – and are fresh from a 3-1 win at FC Porto in the third round of the Portuguese Cup at the weekend.

CHELSEA V MARIBOR (7:45 p.m.)

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has said that striker Diego Costa will miss the visit of Slovenian champions Maribor to Stamford Bridge with the hamstring problem that kept him out of the 2-1 win at Crystal Palace at the weekend. However, even without the prolific Spanish international, the Premier League leaders should be far too strong for their visitors.

The London club have recorded nine wins and two draws in 11 games this season, although they were held 1-1 by Schalke in their only previous home outing in Group G. Maribor, who lost 3-1 at Wigan Athletic in the Europa League last season, have held both Sporting and Schalke so far but warmed up for the trip by losing 2-1 at home to Celje on Saturday, defender Aleksander Rajcevic scoring two own goals.