Champions League: Five fascinating player picks to watch out for

Holly Thackeray | November 2, 2015

The Champions League brings its best and brightest back to our TV screens, as the group stage returns for its first November spell of superb fixtures.

So, Coral have compiled five fantastic players to watch out for this week, as top talent gathers across the continent. See who made our list!

Javier Hernandez (Bayer Leverkusen)

Bayer have so far benefited immensely from their summer swiping of the sharpshooter, who has struck six in his last four fixtures, including a lethal brace to help Leverkusen bag a point in their previous frantic 4-4 Champions League goal-fest with Roma.

Now the striker will make his way to the Stadio Olimpico stage for the reverse, and who would bet against him causing havoc again?

Miralem Pjanic (Roma)

Punters will be hoping the second installment of Roma (14/5 to score three or more again) against Leverkusen will provide just as much potency as the first and, if Hernandez is the German’s goal hope, the Giallorossi’s is superb playmaker Pjanic.

The Bosnia and Herzegovina star has been pulling the Eternal City outfit’s strings all season, after Roma managed to dodge apparent Premier League interest in their excelling attacker.

Pjanic has added yet more strings so his bow this term, turning prolific scorer in four of his past five, so should be one on the radar. An early bath against Inter Milan last time out will mean the maestro is now even keener to make amends and impress for the Italians in Europe.