Champions League Betting

Champions League Betting

Chelsea’s visit to the San Siro to renew acquaintance with ‘The Special One’ is the highlight of the second week of Champions League Last 16, first leg encounters.

Jose Mourinho’s Inter are the current runaway leaders of Serie A and their charismatic coach has been stirring things up ahead of the home leg of their tie with the Blues by claiming Chelsea would have won more trophies had they not dispensed with his services in 2007. The Londoners only success since Mourinho left has come in the FA Cup. Chelsea, of course, are in an excellent position to put that right in the Premier League this year but their displays on the road so far in this season’s Champions League have been far from exemplary. (more…)

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Champions League Betting

The Champions League has reached the knockout stages, and, with the notable absences of Juventus and Liverpool (and possibly Atletico Madrid) it’s pretty much as expected. The draw is dominated once again by the major European leagues with three representatives from England, Spain and Italy, two from Germany and France and one each from Russia, Greece and Portugal.

Reigning champions Barcelona are the 3/1 favourites and have been drawn against struggling Stuttgart. The German side sit 15th at the half way stage of the Bundesliga season and recently parted company with manager Markus Babbel, installing former Tottenham manager Christian Gross as their new head coach. (more…)

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Sir Alex Ferguson takes a young squad to Germany as Man Utd take on Wolfsburg in the final round of Champions League matches.

A depleted squad including 15 injuries and illness’ means that youngsters Magnus Eikrem, Cameron Stewart, Matty James and Oliver Norwood could all feature at some point in the game. Qualification is already guaranteed for the Reds but they will be looking for at least a point to confirm their spot as group winners and in theory get an easier pick of matches in the 1st knockout round. One player who has travelled with the squad is young French winger Gabriel Obertan. The 20-year-old has made a handful of impressive appearances since overcoming an injury in the summer and is 18/1 to score first in Germany. (more…)

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There seems to be a recurring theme to these tipping articles which revolves around Liverpool desperately needing to win. This week’s Champions League game with Debrecen of Hungary is no different. Six games without a win for Rafa Benitez’s men has seen them fall five points off the top four and left their European hopes hanging by a thread.

They travel to Budapest to take on the Hungarian champions, who they managed to beat 1-0 in the opening round of the matches thanks to a Dirk Kuyt strike on the stroke of half-time. The Merseysider’s know that a win may not be enough to save their Champions League dream as a win for Fiorentina over Lyon would spell the end of the road for Benitez’s side. (more…)

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Champions League

Manchester United can confirm their place in the Champions League 1^st Knockout round with a victory over CKSA Moscow at Old Trafford.

The Reds have won three out of three in Group B this season and have a phenomenal record in Europe recently, having suffered their only defeat in 26 games at the hands of Barcelona in last year’s final. Since United travelled to Moscow and picked up a 2-0 win, the Muscovites have sacked Juande Ramos, following a spell of just 47 days at the club. I can’t see anything but a comfortable Utd win here with Sir Alex Ferguson wanting to get his side on form ahead of their massive clash with Chelsea next weekend. 3-0 Man U at 7/1 is my choice. (more…)

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