Good evening! Welcome to Eurosport's coverage of Real Madrid's trip to Ukraine to face Shakhtar Donetsk.

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Benzema with some quick feet on the edge of the box squares it to Asensio, whose short range clip beats Trubin but comes off the woodwork and behind for a corner. He should have scored.

Taison clips in a good ball to Moraes, who clearly controls it with his hand and is rightly flagged.

It's a positive start for Real Madrid, but with a big asterisk. Rodrygo gets down the right well and tries to cross but kicks the turf as he does so. He looks to be in some discomfort.

And we're off! How will Real Madrid fare in Ukraine?

The teams are out, we've had our dose of the Champions League anthem and we're almost ready to go!

So a win would take Real Madrid through from the group stage yet again - they have done so every year since 1997-98.

Shakhtar need a win, really. Borussia Monchengladbach sit top of this challenging group with two games left to play and a win would lift Shakhtar above Real Madrid, level on points with the Spanish champions but ahead on head-to-head.

Zinedine Zidane's men lost their encounter with Ukrainians in the Spanish capital. Borussia Monchengladbach took a point off them in the next game but back to back wins over Inter Milan have put the competition's most successful side back in driving seat for qualification.