New Delhi: Champions League defending champions Manchester United will take on Danish Champions BK Aalborg in Group E.
Manchetser United were held to a draw at home by Villareal last week in the Group E opening fixture and they will want to score all three points from the match against BK Aalborg.
Winger Cristiano Ronaldo is back to full fitness and will possibly start for Manchester but manager Sir Alex Ferguson will have to choose between him, Carlos Tevez, Wayne Rooney and new signing Dimitar Berbatov for his three-man attack.
Gary Neville and Owen Hargreaves have both been left out of the squad..
"Alborg are a small club, 10,000 people here, and what they have to get from Manchester United is our respect, to make sure that we don't fall into any traps, we play to our best performance, best level, and play our best team," Sir Ferguson said.
Arsenal will play Porto at home. They had lost to Hull City 2-1 in their English Premier League match on the weekend.
The English club has a perfect record at the Emirates Stadium and will be looking to extend that run.
While Porto who are coming from a 3-1 win over Fenerbahce in the opening fixture have failed to win on English soil in their last 10 attempts.
"Well I believe that you have not as well to make too much of it. We lost a game that we did not want to lose of course but we have as well enough strength inside the club inside the team to deal with that. It can happen but it cannot be repeated," Arsene Wenger, Arsenal manager, said.
Spanish Champions Real Madrid travel to Russia to play Zenit St Petersburg in their Group G match.
Real are on top of the group with the three points they won from their opening fixture.
But they have lost their last seven away matches, with their last victory on the road coming in October 2006.
Things will only be made tougher by the absense of midfielders Wesley Sneijder, Jose "Guti" Gutierrez and Fernando Gago who are all recovering from leg injuries.
And German side Bayern Munich will be hosting Olympique Lyon. They are on their worst Bundesliga start in 31 years, and have lost their last two consecutive league matches.
Bayern, however did win their Champions League openeing fixture 1-0 against Steaua Bucharest earlier this month. French international Franck Ribery is expected to play making his Champions League debut.
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