Gary Neville’s first game as a manager could see him take Valencia into the knockout stages of the Champions League. Now that wouldn’t be too shabby a way for the best pundit in English football to kick off his career as a head coach! We’ll have build-up and team news right here before full text commentary of the game at the Mestalla.

Kick-off is just five minutes away. The players are in the tunnel and the needle is about to drop on the Champions League anthem.

Hey, Jamie, how are you holding up? Don't pretend you're not watching... everybody knows that you are.

But one thing's for sure, Gary certainly talks a good game (in English at least):

There's a lot of quality in the Valencia squad and one of the biggest challenges for Neville will be settling on what his first-choice line-up is. Tonight he's sprung a bit of a surprise by playing Pareja as a defensive midfielder, which isn’t a position he's particularly used to. It'll be interesting to see how that plays out.

Visitors Lyon are rooted to the foot of Group H and guaranteed to finish bottom regardless of the result tonight, but there’s plenty at stake for Valencia this evening. A win would take them up to nine points and leave them relying on Zenit to take points Gent in the other game. Gent start a point ahead of Valencia, but are facing a Zenit side who have bossed the group and are targeting a perfect run of six wins from six.

The Valencia supporters haven't been overjoyed with their club's hierarchy this season, to say the least, but they came out in force to welcome the new manager in his first training session this week.

Obviously the new Valencia manager taking charge of his first game is one of the biggest stories of the night, but before we get to that… the team news is in.