Lopetegui keeping Keylor or Courtois cards close to his chest 

Well, that was an absolute blast. 

Tuesday's Champions League action that is. 

Liverpool v PSG delivered dazzles and drama while Leo Messi had on his 'business time' trousers with a hat-trick for Barcelona against PSV.

Wednesday's teams in Champions League action have a lot to follow with but 16 of them will be giving it their all, lead by Real Madrid beginning yet another defence of its Champions League title as the Spanish outfit tries to win the title for a fourth time in a row. 

Roma is in town - a team that has had a fairly humdrum start to the Serie A season - but the big question for Julen Lopetegui from the media was his goalkeeper plans for the clash. 

Will it be Keylor Navas, the figure who has been key in Madrid's last three Champions League wins, or the shinier, newer, Thibaut Courtois, who has played the last two league games?

Lopetegui was refusing to budge on the matter at Tuesday's press conference. "I am not going to say who is going to play and who is not going to play," which is coach-talk for 'it's Courtois' in Sport's Burst's own interpretation.  

Real Madrid against Roma kicks off potentially Keylor-free at 3PM ET / 12PM PT. 

Cristiano Ronaldo renews Messi battle in Champions League 

Team Messi v Team Ronaldo may not be a concept in La Liga anymore, but it is certainly game-on in the Champions League where the Portuguese poacher has been dominant of late. 

Messi has already chalked up three goals in the competition which means Ronaldo needs to fly off the starting blocks with some gusto with Juventus taking on Valencia in Mestalla, in an early return to Spain for CR7. 

In other clashes, Manchester City might be looking at opening a can of whup ass on Lyon with an irate Pep Guardiola canceling a day off for his team on Sunday, fuming that his players were not clinical enough against Fulham at the weekend in a 3-0 victory.

Manchester United are in action against Young Boys, Benfica hosts Bayern Munich while the kool-kat tie looks like being Shakhtar Donetsk against Hoffenheim.  

Catch all of the best Champions League action from Wednesday on the XTRA at 7PM ET / 4PM PT. 

Campeones Cup launched as Toronto takes on Tigres

The Old World isn't having all of the fun on Wednesday as North America is kicking off the first ever Campeones Cup, a new competition that sees the MLS reigning champions taking on the current Liga MX champions, Tigres UANL.

The contest is part of a partnership between the three 2026 World Cup-hosting nations to display both unity and also rivalry at the same time. A tricky balance. 

MLS will also be in action with three games including a debut for San Jose Earthquakes interim boss, Steve Ralston, whose team is taking on Atlanta United in a bit of a trial by fire. Elsewhere, Portland hosts Columbus while Seattle takes on Philadelphia Union. 

World saved as North and South Korea bid for 2032 Olympic Games 

Providing the world has not been atomized into a bleak wasteland occupied solely by those of an indestructible nature such as Arsene Wenger and the cast of Big Bang Theory, then the summer Olympics of 2032 might well be held on the Korean Peninsula. 

But it will not be a repeat of the 1988 games in Seoul. Oh no. 

On Wednesday, a joint bid was announced between both North and South Korea to cohost the games in fourteen years time. The two teams fielded joint teams in this year's Winter Olympics and the bid would be part of an admirable ongoing effort from both nations not to wipe each other out of existence. 

As well as being the kind of Nobel Peace Prize-loving initiative the Olympic movement adores, the world might also get to watch events in the biggest stadium around, North Korea's May Day stadium which has a reported capacity of 150,000. 

Expect La Liga to be shifting Atletico Madrid v Villarreal there once they hear that fancy fact.