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• Lille 3-2 Sturm Graz: Super sub Haraldsson snatches all three points for hosts

  Hakon Haraldsson climbed off the bench to score the winner, as Lille edged out Sturm Graz 3-2 at Stade Pierre-Mauroy.

  The Icelandic midfielder had only been on the pitch a minute when he settled the five-goal thriller, while lifting Bruno Genesio's side into the Champions League's top eight.

  Osame Sahraoui drilled the hosts in front on 37 minutes, while Mitchel Bakker rounded off a sweeping move to double the lead in first-half stoppage time.

  However, Sturm Graz responded before the break as Otar Kiteishvili fired into the roof of the net, before Mika Biereth turned home William Boving's cross within two minutes of the restart.

  But there was to be a final twist as, nine minutes from time, substitute Haraldsson found the top corner to seal another three points for Lille.

  Data Debrief: Super sub Haraldsson the hero

  Haraldsson's strike sealed successive Champions League home wins in the same season for the first time for Lille, who are now unbeaten in five games.

  That is their longest such streak since at least 2004-05.

  Scoring more than once in a Champions League home game for the first time in 15 attempts, Lille took their tally for the season to 10 - their most in a single campaign.

  Haraldsson was the hero, scoring just 56 seconds after his introduction. That is the second-quickest substitute goal in this season's Champions League, after Brest’s Mathias Pereira Lage took just 47 seconds to net against Salzburg in October.

  As for Sturm Graz, their winless streak away against French opposition stretches to six matches (losing five).

• Atletico Madrid 3-1 Slovan Bratislava: Griezmann double helps hosts close in on top eight

  Antoine Griezmann scored twice as Atletico Madrid claimed a comfortable 3-1 victory over Slovan Bratislava in the Champions League.

  The Spanish side have now won each of their last 10 matches in all competitions as they closed in on the automatic qualification spots.

  Julian Alvarez opened the scoring for Atletico with a well-taken strike, curling his shot into the top-right corner past Dominik Takac after just 16 minutes.

  Slovan almost caused an upset against the run of play shortly after as Tigran Barseghyan caught out Jan Oblak with a floated effort, but struck the top of the crossbar.

  Atletico continued to dominate in the first half and got their reward as Griezmann scored for the fifth successive match with a thumping header just before the break.

  The visitors briefly got back into the match to pull it back to 2-1 when Davis Strelec earned a penalty and converted himself from 12 yards, but Griezmann restored the two-goal cushion six minutes later with a simple finish at the near post. 

  Atletico moved up to 10th with 12 points from six matches, while Slovan are rooted to the bottom of the 36-team table having lost all six games and they cannot make the playoffs.

  Data Debrief: Atletico's winning run goes on

  After a poor start to the Champions League that saw Atletico lose two of their first three games, they have since turned things around by winning the following three in the competition.

  But it is not just in Europe where they are flying high as they have now scored 30 goals during their 10-match winning run.

  Since the start of last season, no team have won more home matches in the Champions League than Atletico (W7 L1), and have scored at least two goals in all of those home victories.

  Among teams who have scored 100+ goals in the Champions League, only Lionel Messi (20.4% for Barcelona) has scored a higher percentage of a club's goals in the competition than Griezmann has for Atletico (19% - 36 of 189). 

• Chelsea's 16-hour Conference League trip 'not normal', says Maresca

  Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca said it is "not normal" for a player to make the 16-hour round trip to Kazakhstan to then play on Sunday night against Brentford. 

  The Blues are in action in the Europa Conference League on Thursday against Astana, facing a 3,700-mile journey to Almaty, in the south of the country. 

  Maresca's side will play at the Almaty Central Stadium, which is 600 miles from the Kazakhstan capital, because of renovations to Astana's home stadium. 

  Chelsea will land back in London on Friday morning, before preparing to face Brentford in the Premier League, hoping to keep pace with league leaders Liverpool. 

  "Eight hours is not a normal time for a game, but we have to go there, we have to play, and we want to try to do our best, thinking also about the next game," said Maresca.

  The Blues are currently top of the Conference League standings after four games, with Polish side Legia Warszawa the only other side with a 100% record in the competition. 

  Maresca also said a number of first-team players will be rested for the trip, including Noni Madueke, with Pedro Neto suspended for Sunday's clash against the Bees. 

  The Chelsea boss also confirmed that defender Josh Acheampong will be handed a first senior start after a breakthrough in contract talks.

  Youth players Ato Ampah, Shumaira Mheuka, Harrison McMahon, Kaiden Wilson, Richard Olise and Harrison Murray-Campbell are in the travelling squad.

  "The ones that are not involved tomorrow, first of all, they're going to be training, and they have to train well," added Maresca.

  "You never know whether we might need one of the guys who play tomorrow on Sunday. Ideally, we prefer not.

  "We are going to land at 6am on Friday, and it's not normal for one of them, if they land at 6am on Friday, to play again on Sunday."

  "But if we need [them to], they are going to make the effort."

  Adding to the long flight, temperatures are expected to be at around minus 11, though defender Axel Disasi was not worried about the conditions. 

  "We just have to put on two pairs of gloves and be ready to compete in these conditions," Disasi added. 

  "We all know the conditions of these games, it's an eight-hour flight and minus 11, so download some movies to watch on the plane, be ready to fight and keep first place."