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Argentine players in the Champions League, Thursday preview, Equi Fernández and Claudio Echeverri

The Champions League continues on Thursday with six matches, three of which involving Argentine players.

Wednesday had a total of 14 Argentine players eligible to play in the Champions League and Thursday has five, one of which is injured.

Exequiel Palacios is injured and is set to return to Bayer Leverkusen at the start of the year. Equi Fernández and Claudio Echeverri travel with Bayer Leverkusen and will play FC Copenhagen.

Zaid Romero and Club Brugge will host AS Monaco.

Mauro Icardi and Galatasaray travel to Germany to play Eintracht Fankfurt.

Here are the matches on Thursday:

FC Copenhagen vs. Bayer Leverkusen (Exequiel Palacios, Equi Fernández and Claudio Echeverri)

Club Brugge (Zaid Romero) vs. Monaco

Eintracht Frankfurt vs. Galatasaray (Mauro Icardi)

Newcastle United vs. FC Barcelona

Manchester City vs. Napoli

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