Good evening and welcome to LIVE coverage of Valencia against Lille at the Mestalla in this Group F Champions League fixture.

A ball from the right hand side sees played in and going down Jonas in the box. The home crowd appeal for a penalty and the referee says no.

Barragán is booked for persistent fouling, his third heavy challenge of the night, this time on Gueye bringing out a yellow card.

Valencia attempt to step up the pace with some nice play around the edge of the Lille box, though they are trying to walk their way into the goal and are getting nowhere.

This is Valencia's 100th European Cup game. Nelson Valdez's goal on matchday one was their 150th in the competition.

Lille are finally coming into the game and are starting to have spells of possession, so their manager Garcia will not be overly worried at this stage.

Barragán again fouls Mendes, this time on the left hand side on the edge of Valencia's penalty area and Lille's Pedretti takes the free kick. A weak effort hits the Valencia wall and the danger is cleared.

The Lille fans away in the far right hand corner as we see the play are making all the noise. They object loudly as Soldado fouls Landreau in the air and the referee agress that it's a free kick.

Valencia's Barragán fouls Mendes in the centre of the park and Lille are able to press forward for a brief spell. Debuchy then fouls Guardado and Valencia move forwards themselves.

Valencia have picked up five points from their opening five La Liga games, their worst start to a campaign since mustering just one in 1999/2000 – incidentally the season when they reached the UEFA Champions League final before losing to Real Madrid.

Costa takes another corner for Valencia but a poor delivery means Lille get the opportunity to clear and break again. However they're unable to get forward in numbers.

Valencia are consistently applying pressure down their right hand side and are keeping full back Beria very busy - thus far he's dealing with the challenge.

Lille attacker Mendes forges forward in an inside right position and tries his luck from outside the box, but the ball dribbles wide. Neither team's strikers are threatening much thus far.

Valencia's 'new' manager Pellegrino, the former Argentina international and one time assistant to Rafa Benítez at Liverpool and Inter, replaced Unai Emery at the helm at the Mestalla this summer.

Valencia take a short corner to Guardado but it comes to nothing and the visitors mount a counter attack to relieve some pressure.

Lille's Roux can't get near Gago so far in midfield and resorts to bringing him down, a straight forward foul for the referee to award.

Soldado is yellow carded for a cynical foul on Beria on the Lille left, but from the resulting free kick the Frenchmen are unable to forge a clear opening.

Valencia are really in charge thus far, with 60% of the possession thus far, a big contrast to their opening match at Bayern München, where they were bullied about, managing just 26% of possession.

Gago again causing problems for Lille as he nearly plays Jonas in but the Lille 'keeper Landreau collects the through ball comfortably.

Valencia are still controlling the play here, with Lille sitting off and absorbing the pressure in the opening exchanges. Valencia's Gago is the key man in midfield at this early stage.

Both teams have won just two matches each in all competitions thus far this term, so tonight is a chance to kick-start their campaigns. Valencia are currently 10th in La Liga whilst Lille sit 15th in the French league table.

A great through ball from Gago put Valencia's Feghouli in on goal and he really should score, but puts it harmlessly wide for a goal kick.