Nick Ames has already filed his report of Benfica 1-1 Arsenal, so I’ll leave you with that. Thanks for your company and emails, goodnight!

Peep peep! Rangers have a slight advantage after a crazy game that included a red card, three penalties - only two of them dodgy - and chances galore at both ends.

Antwerp 3-4 Rangers The substitute Koji Miyoshi rifles an excellent shot that beats McGregor and hits the outside of the post!

Antwerp 3-4 Rangers There are six minutes of added time in Antwerp. The other matches have all finished, and these are the final scores:

• Benfica 1-1 Arsenal
• Granada 2-0 Napoli
• Lille 1-2 Ajax
• Maccabi Tel-Aviv 0-2 Shakhtar Donetsk
• Molde 3-3 Hoffenheim
• Salzburg 0-2 Villarreal

Benfica 1-1 Arsenal That’s a decent result for Arsenal in a slightly low-key game, though it would have been better had Pierre-Emerick Aubayemang not missed two great chances. They should go through next week. Should.

What a preposterous game of football!

Barisic scores his second penalty of the night, sweeping the ball high into the net!

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Peep peep!

PENALTY TO RANGERS AND ABDOULAYE SECK SENT OFF! Kent’s shot hits the hand of Seck, though he was trying to pull his arm out of the way. It’s checked by VAR but the decision stands. Seck was also given a second yellow card, so he’s off.

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Antwerp 3-3 Rangers Now the substitute Ryan Jack has cleared off the line from Ritchie De Laet! This is an absurd game.

GOAL! Maccabi Tel-Aviv 0-2 Shakhtar Donetsk (Tete 90+3)

Antwerp 3-3 Rangers Both teams almost take the lead in the space of 10 seconds. First Kent was played through by Hagi and clipped a left-footed shot that was saved with his legs by De Wolf. Antwerp broke devastatingly and moments later McGregor saved with his legs from Martin Hongla!

Ryan Kent equalises with a belter! He played a neat one-two with Morelos on the edge of the area, skipped past Le Marchand and smashed the ball past De Wolf. Brilliant goal.

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GOALS! Lille 1-2 Ajax (Tadic 87 pen, Brobbey 89) Ajax have scored twice in the last few minutes in Lille! They’ve changed the narrative!

Antwerp 3-2 Rangers The substitute Ianis Hagi has missed a great chance to equalise, shooting wide from eight yards after a brilliant cross from Barisic.

“Adel Taraabt running straight at David Luiz,” weeps Matt Dony. “That is a match-up where literally ANYTHING could happen. Two players who redefined ‘mercurial’ (or, less charitably, ‘occasional genius paired with maddening inconsistency and hilarious errors’). I was amazed to see that Taraabt is only 31. It seems like a lifetime ago he was in the Premier League.”

He is/was astonishingly talented. The second goal here is a national scandal.

Antwerp 3-2 Rangers The Antwerp keeper Alireza Beiranvand has gone off injured, with Ortwin De Wolf replacing him.

The latest scores

• Antwerp 3-2 Rangers
• Benfica 1-1 Arsenal
• Granada 2-0 Napoli
• Lille 1-0 Ajax
• Maccabi Tel-Aviv 0-1 Shakhtar Donetsk
• Molde 3-3 Hoffenheim
• Salzburg 0-2 Villarreal

GOAL! Molde 3-3 Hoffenheim (Fofana 74) Molde have come from 2-0 and 3-1 down to equalise!

Benfica 1-1 Arsenal Another good chance for Arsenal. Gabriel’s ball over the top finds Aubameyang, who controls it majestically on the run to move through on goal. But then, instead of shooting, he tries to cut back inside Verissimo and is tackled.

Benfica 1-1 Arsenal Adel Taarabt surges through midfield and finds Everton on the left. He runs at David Luiz, cuts inside and whips a curling shot just wide of the far post.

GOAL! Molde 2-3 Hoffenheim (Ulland Andersen 70)

For the love of Scottish football. Antwerp have taken the lead again! Martin Hongla is given too much time on the edge of the D and whips an excellent shot across McGregor into the far corner.

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GOALS PLURAL! Lille 1-0 Ajax (Weah 72), Salzburg 0-2 Villarreal (Nino 71)

Benfica 1-1 Arsenal It’s been a more even game in the second half, with Benfica carrying more of a threat. I suspect Arsenal would be happy with this result, although we said that in 1991.

Antwerp 2-2 Rangers Arfield’s low cross shot is saved by Beiranvand. Rangers are much the better team at the moment.

“On looking at said Portuguese table from 1990/91,” begins Jimmy Maloney, “I was amazed to see only 3 points separating a relegation place from a European place. Squeaky-bum times all round.”

That’s an excellent spot, although I’ve seen worse.

With James Tavernier off injured, Borna Barisic steps forward and smacks the penalty through the hands of the diving Alireza Beiranvand. Rangers are level!

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PENALTY TO RANGERS! This time VAR does intervene, with Ritchie de Laet penalised for pulling the shirt of Alfredo Morelos.

Benfica 1-1 Arsenal Benfica almost take the lead again. The substitute Rafa Silva beats Gabriel with ease, moves into the D and flicks a nonchalant shot with the outside of the boot. Leno springs to his right to push it away.

The latest scores

• Antwerp 2-1 Rangers
• Benfica 1-1 Arsenal
• Granada 2-0 Napoli
• Lille 0-0 Ajax
• Maccabi Tel-Aviv 0-1 Shakhtar Donetsk
• Molde 1-3 Hoffenheim
• Salzburg 0-1 Villarreal

Antwerp 2-1 Rangers Joe Aribo almost equalises on the break, but Maxime Le Marchand boots his low shot away inside the six-yard box. Actually, replays suggest the shot might have been going wide anyway, though Le Marchand didn’t know that.

Yes, it stands. It was beautifully worked: Odegaard slipped a lovely pass through to Cedric on the left of the area, and his precise cross was turned in from close range by Saka.

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NO GOAL! Molde 1-3 Hoffenheim Dabbur is denied a hat-trick by VAR.

An excellent equaliser from Arsenal - but it’s being checked by VAR.

GOAL! Molde 1-4 Hoffenheim (Dabbur 55) Munas Dabbur completes a hat-trick in Norway, and all but puts Hoffenheim into the last 16.

Benfica 1-0 Arsenal It’s quite hard to see what happened with that penalty award. I’m pretty sure it hit Smith-Rowe’s hand, but it may have deflected off his body first.

Pizzi scores with a swagger, stopping in his run up and then sliding the ball into the bottom-right corner. Leno went the right way but couldn’t get there.

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PENALTY TO BENFICA! Grimaldo’s cross hits Smith-Rowe, who is penalised for handball. His arm was up, though it may have hit his chest first and then deflected onto his arm. After a brief VAR check, the penalty is given!

Benfica 0-0 Arsenal An excellent chance for Arsenal. Bukayo Saka surges thrillingly into the area, only to drag a tame shot wide of the near post.

“There seems to be no VAR debates when the midweek Euro games are on,” says Ian Copestake. “Is that a) because they are not using it, b) they are but the refereeing is far better or c) because of Brexit?”

Obviously you’re not a golfer you haven’t been following the Rangers game. I suspect Steven Gerrard will have plenty to say about the penalty not being overturned.

Benfica 0-0 Arsenal Benfica have made a lively start to the second half, with the captain Pizzi forcing an admittedly comfortable save from Bernd Leno.

“Not really relevant to the football, but that was a wonderful song you linked to earlier,” says Matt Dony. “I’ve never heard of Lael Neale, but the Sub Pop logo was more than enough to tempt me. Until I was about 13, I desperately wanted to be Liverpool’s striker. Then I discovered music, and all I could dream of was signing a contract with Sub Pop. I have thus far conspicuously failed to realise either dream. Ah well. Still time, I guess.”

Especially with the way Firmino’s playing roflcopter.

Peep peep! The second halves are under way. Most of them, anyway: Rangers are a bit behind due to the four hours of added time in the first half.

Right, these are the half-time scores. Study them, digest them, embrace them while I get a drink.

• Antwerp 2-1 Rangers
• Benfica 0-0 Arsenal
• Granada 2-0 Napoli
• Lille 0-0 Ajax
• Maccabi Tel-Aviv 0-1 Shakhtar Donetsk
• Molde 1-3 Hoffenheim
• Salzburg 0-1 Villarreal
  

Half time: Antwerp 2-1 Rangers How did that happen? Rangers were good for most of the first half yet they find themselves 2-1 down. Their frustration will be compounded by the fact the penalty was such a soft one, with Davis barely touching Refaelov.

Rangers have also lost two players to injury: James Tavernier early on and now Kemar Roofe, who was replaced by Ryan Kent just before the penalty.