Can the English sides prevail?

The second week of the Champions League Spherical of 16 will get underway on Tuesday, with some enormous ties on supply, together with a repeat of final season’s ultimate.

We preview each English sides in motion this week beneath.

Liverpool vs Actual Madrid – Tuesday 20:00

Liverpool have exhibited cautious indicators that their season might be again on monitor with successive 2-0 wins in opposition to rivals Everton and high-flying Newcastle. The Reds have recorded consecutive clear sheets within the league for simply the second time this season, with a revitalised Joe Gomez taking part in an vital half subsequent to the returning Virgil van Dijk.

The duo should be at their finest if they’re to cease a formidable Actual Madrid assault on Tuesday night in what’s a repeat of final 12 months’s ultimate in Paris, however nonetheless begin as 13/10 favourites to win on the evening. The percentages for every crew to qualify into the quarters are neck-and-neck at 5/6.

Carlo Ancelotti’s males are additionally off the again of successive league wins, with Saturday’s late 2-0 victory at Osasuna making it three wins in 4 for Los Blancos. They’ll nevertheless want to maneuver heaven and earth if they’re to make up the eight-point hole between them and Barcelona in first, so an excellent Champions League run at present appears a extra possible path to a serious trophy this season. The Spanish giants will begin Tuesday’s tie at 2/1 to win in 90 minutes.

You’re feeling there can be loads of goalmouth motion on this one, with over 2.5 objectives within the sport priced low at 4/6, and we particularly just like the look of Mohamed Salah at 17/10 as an anytime goalscorer. Karim Benzema predictably leads the goalscoring marketplace for the guests (23/10), though Vinicius Jr seems generously priced at 8/1 to repeat his feat in final 12 months’s ultimate by scoring the final aim of the sport.

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RB Leipzig vs Manchester Metropolis – Wednesday 20:00

Leipzig returned to profitable methods on Saturday with a dominant 3-0 victory over Wolfsburg, decreasing the hole between them and table-topping Bayern Munich to simply 4 factors. Remarkably, solely 5 factors separate the highest six within the Bundesliga in the mean time, however one hopes there gained’t be any consideration deficit to the glamourous European knockout competitions from our German pals. No matter this, Leipzig could have a sizeable process on their fingers from stopping this Manchester Metropolis facet on Wednesday, and are accordingly priced as 7/2 outsiders for victory.

Metropolis proceed to be an enigma; simply while you thought taking the initiative within the title race was changing into a formality, they had been knocked again once more by Saturday’s irritating 1-1 draw at Nottingham Forest, which means Pep Guardiola’s facet have gained simply certainly one of their final 4 league video games on the street. Nonetheless, you are feeling this Metropolis crew can flip it on when it issues most, as they exemplified in opposition to Arsenal final week, and also you wouldn’t be criticised for considering that almost all of this squad would quite triumph within the Champions League this 12 months.

Guardiola’s males are odds-on at 3/4 to win in 90 minutes on Wednesday and are overwhelming 1/7 favourites to progress into the following spherical on the expense of the German facet, who truly beat Metropolis 2-1 of their solely different matchup on the Crimson Bull Enviornment in September 2021. Metropolis nevertheless gained the return leg 6-3 that season, with Chelsea-bound Cristopher Nkunku scoring a hattrick on the evening, with the Frenchman 12/5 to seek out the web anytime after not too long ago getting back from damage.

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