Team news and expected lineups

Here’s our preview of Wednesday’s UEFA Champions League clash between Crvena Zvezda and VfB Stuttgart, including our expected lineups.

Injury-depleted VfB Stuttgart continue their Champions League campaign and travel to Belgrade on Wednesday to face Serbian champions Crvena Zvezda.

With Jamie Leweling, El Bilal Touré and Deniz Undav, Stuttgart were hit particularly hard in attack, but Sebastian Hoeneß’s side still managed to beat Bochum 2-0 at the weekend and move up to ninth place in the Bundesliga.

Nick Woltemade, who started against Bochum, and Justin Diehl, who came on as a goalscorer, are unavailable due to squad registration rules in the Champions League, meaning the Swabians have even less power.

Ramon Hendriks is also not reported, while Dan Axel Zagadou (knee) is definitely out and Amin Al-Dakhil is questionable (due to illness).

With four points from their first four Champions League games, Stuttgart could definitely use a win, and the same goes for Crvena Zvezda, who are in second-to-last place with 0 points.

Having lost 5-2 to Barcelona and 5-1 to Monaco in the last two games of the competition, the Serbian champions will certainly be hoping for a different result this time.

However, they have been dominant at the domestic level and lead the Serbian Superliga with 40 points – 11 more than second-placed Mladost, who have played two more games.

As for injuries, they will be without Olayinka (Achilles tendon), while Duarte (hamstring) and Mimović (metatarsal) are questionable.

Click here to see our predicted Crvena Zvezda vs Stuttgart lineup.