Champions League lineups: VfB Stuttgart vs. Atalanta

Atalanta are hoping that Mateo Retegui, Ademola Lookman and Mario Pasalic can break through VfB Stuttgart with their former striker El Bilal Touré.

It starts at 8pm GMT at the MHPArena in Stuttgart.

You can follow all the build-up and action from this game and Inter-Arsenal in the live blog.

La Dea are in impressive Serie A form with five straight wins and surprised league leaders Napoli with a 3-0 result at the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona on Sunday.

They haven’t conceded a single goal in the European Cup, but were left to regret it after 0-0 home draws against Arsenal and Celtic.

Giorgio Scalvini and Gianluca Scamacca are still out of action, but Retegui returns to the starting XI, flanked by Lookman and Pasalic, and sends Charles De Ketelaere to the bench.

VfB Stuttgart lost against Real Madrid and had to win 1-1 against Sparta Prague before causing a stir with a 1-0 away win at Juventus on October 22nd.

The Germans also have injury problems with Dan-Axel Zagadou, Yannik Keitel, Luca Raimund and Jamie Leweling missing.

Touré played for Atalanta last season but was rarely used due to repeated injury problems and scored the winning goal for Stuttgart in Turin.

He starts with Deniz Undav in attack, while winger Chris Führich fended off a blow and sent Ermedin Demirovic to the bench.

Lineups Stuttgart vs. Atalanta

VfB Stuttgart: Nübel; Vagnoman, Chase, Rouault, Mittelstädt; Karazor, Stiller; Millot, Undav, Fürich; Toure

Atalanta: Carnesecchi; Djimsiti, Hien, Kolasinac; Bellanova, De Roon, Ederson, Zappacosta; Pasalic; Retegui, Lookman

Ref: Obrenovic (SVN)

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