Spartak will miss their suspended top scorer Andrei Tikhonov. Ex-Brit flops Peter van Vossen (Rangers) and Jon Dahl Tomasson (Newcastle) will be eager to prove a point.UEFA CUPSPARTAK MOSCOW V LEEDS UNITEDA SECOND trip to Moscow will see a much harder task for David O’Leary’s team. The labouring Dutch champions are at the centre of an immigration investigation over seven teenagers from Brazil, Ghana and Sierra Leone whom the authorities say are too young to work. The Argentine star will be fresh after being rested for the 3-3 epic with Barcelona, but United will be hoping that, like Arsenal, they can keep a clean sheet in Florence.CHELSEA V FEYENOORDFEYENOORD WILL welcome the chance to sort out old boy Ed de Goey after a week of unwelcome publicity.

“For us, there is little difference playing away and playing at home,” Beenhakker insists.”We are not a team that start a game looking for a draw and defending We play our own match. Up to now, there has been no reason to change that.”OPERATION EUROPE: PHIL GORDON’S GUIDE TO THIS WEEK’S ACTIONCHAMPIONS’ LEAGUEFIORENTINA V MANCHESTER UNITEDA SURVEY by a top “sexologist” last week revealed that most Italian men think about Gabriel Batistuta – with his kit on, celebrating a goal – when making love. Only when a team is playing well can a player with special qualities demonstrate what they can do.”Similarly, even at Stamford Bridge, Feyenoord will not radically alter their adventurous policy of deploying Jon Dahl Tomasson behind two forwards. “With all respect to Chelsea, I will not be looking to give special attention to any of their players,” he says. “In the past, say 15 years ago, one player could win a match, a Maradona, whoever But now more than ever football is about teamwork.

You can’t talk about Chelsea or Arsenal as being typical of British football now Also, football has no secrets any more. We all have TV, we all have video, we all travel to watch our opponents.”Beenhakker is a study of insouciance; a character who has only turned his thoughts to the challenge of Chelsea since Friday night’s domestic fixture, when Feyenoord threw away a 3-0 lead to draw 3-3 at Maastricht. He has no plans to counter specifically any of Chelsea’s principal threats, even Gianfranco Zola. “It was useful when British football was British football,” he says. “But little by little, every country is losing a bit of its own football culture. But the venerable coach maintains that it is of no particular significance these days.