1.  Liverpool hope Barnes will recover from hamstring trouble but are again without a shoal of injured defenders.

2.  So he wore the jersey of injured defender Curt Onalfo.

3.  The omission of the injured defender Claudio Suarez will not help psychologically.

4.  Partizan will miss injured central defender Milan Stojanovcki and midfielder Zoltan Sabo.

5.  Rayo, without an away win all season, will lack its injured young central defender Diego Mainz and midfielder Pablo Sanz.

6.  A big worry is having injured defender Jaap Stam and winger Ryan Giggs ready for Wednesday.

7.  Also absent will be injured Brazilian defender Julio Cesar and Joerg Heinrich.

8.  And the side played Wednesday without injured defender Jens Nowotny and suspended leftback Ze Roberto, who is leaving next season for wealthy Bayern Munich.

9.  Auxerre, eliminated from the French Cup and struggling with a porous defense, will be without injured defender Franck Silvestre, although goalkeeper Lionel Charbonnier will return.

10.  Deportivo, which lies third in the league, will be without injured defenders Manuel Pablo Garcia, Donato and Goran Djorovic.