As ever after the first legs in European competition a few clubs have one foot in the next round but for others there’s a mountain climb.
Braga fall in to the latter category after a 4-2 defeat at home to Qarabag last week. A 6,000km trip to Azerbaijan doesn’t make their task any easier but the bookies still make them 13/10 favourites to win on the Caspian Sea tonight.
But Qarabag, with their troupe of Brazilians and Frenchmen earned enough respect last week to suggest they could be a bit of value on home soil at 19/10.
After coming through two qualifying rounds they finished second in Group H behind all-conquering Bayer Leverkusen and although a win isn’t required tonight they punished the Portuguese last week and can take advantage of their visitors having to go for the win tonight.
Feyenoord didn’t travel well in the Champions League, losing all three away games at Atletico, Celtic and Lazio and they face a tough trip back to the Eternal City tonight.
Romelu Lukaku earned Roma a draw in Rotterdam and the Italians look well priced at 23/20 to get the job done this evening.
In the Europa Conference League Molde allowed Legia Warsaw back in to the tie and face a tough trip to the Polish capital tonight. The Norwegians looked to be cruising after going 3-0 up inside 25 minutes but they struggled in the second half, conceding twice to leave the tie finely poised at 3-2.
Legia are 21/20 to get the win they need to at least stay in the competition and it could be another match laden with goals. Over 2.5 pays 3/4 whilst over 3.5 is appealing at 7/4.
Bodo/Glimt didn’t let us down on the goals front last week either. Like their Eliteserien counterparts they led 2-0 away to Ajax but were reduced to 10 men and conceded two injury-time goals to hand the advantage back to the Dutchmen.
It should be an epic encounter in the Arctic Circle tonight when Over 2.5 goals is just 2/5. Doubling that with Over 2.5 in Warsaw pays 29/20.
Dinamo Zagreb look overpriced at 2/1 to beat Real Betis again. The Croatians sneaked a 1-0 win in Seville last week, their first every in Spain.
The Spaniards were described as undercooked and negative by the Spanish press so will need to show some more fire tonight but they’ve already lost away to Rangers and Sparta Prague this season and barely merit being 13/10 faves this evening.
Super Singles
- Qarabaq to win 19/10 Bet365
- Roma to win 23/20 Bet365
- Legia Warsaw to score 2+ 10/11 Bet365
- Dinamo Zagreb – Draw no bet 11/10 Bet365
Over 2.5 Goals Double
- Bodo/Glimt v Ajax & Legia Warsaw v Molde 29/20 Bet365
Upcoming Match Previews & Tips
- Thursday’s Goals Accumulator Tips: Today’s 6/1 Both Teams to Score & Over 2.5 Goals Acca
- Football Bet of the Day: Plenty of Goals in Prague on Thursday Night
- Weekend Football Predictions: Samsunspor vs Rizespor, Mechelen vs Kortrijk, Twente vs Go Ahead Eagles
- Thu 17:45 Rennes vs AC Milan
- Thu 17:45 Bodo/Glimt vs Ajax
- Thu 17:45 Toulouse vs Benfica
- Thu 17:45 SC Freiburg vs Lens
- Thu 17:45 Dinamo Zagreb vs Real Betis
- Thu 20:00 Roma vs Feyenoord
- Thu 20:00 Sporting CP vs Young Boys
- Thu 20:00 Eintracht Frankfurt vs Union St Gilloise
- Fri 19:45 Partick Thsitle vs Dunfermline
- Fri 20:00 Leeds United vs Leicester City
Golf Tips
The DP World Tour returns after a short break with a visit to the African continent for this week's Kenya Open at Muthaiga Golf Club, Nairobi, Kenya.
Racing Tips
Rizzel's sole selection of Wednesday was placed at 11/1 at Doncaster. For Thursday, he has one fancy who runs in the opener at Lingfield.
As always, post your betting tips for today in the comments section below.
In December 2020 we sadly 
Rennes v Milan – btts
Sporting win and over 1 goal
Sparta Prague v Galatasaray over 2.5 goals
Bodo v Ajax over 2.5 goals
Legia Warsaw over 1 team goal
11.45
Some favourable refs for cards in the following games and I’ll be doing red cards in these games…
Ferencvaros v Olympiacos – no price yet
C. Turpin(France)6 reds in his last 10
Toulouse v Benfica 4/1
M. Mariani(Italy)8 reds in his last 17
Qarabag v Braga 9/2
G. Kabakov(Bulgarian)5 reds in his last 10 including 3 of the last 4
Sparta Prague v Galatasaray 7/2
Anthony Taylor is the ref but I’ve picked this as there was 2 reds in the first match
Big thanks to elander for flagging up Luton to score 4/6 last night. i duly jumped on it and cleared my losses from the weekend. Also done the bet to happen in the 1st half at 13/8 so got 2 bets up.THX again.
Bodo/Glimt v Ajax 17:45
BTTS and 50+ booking points 11/10 Sky
Ajax’s last 15 match in all comps have seen BTTS. Greek ref in charge of tonight’s game shows an average of 6.3 cards a game. He dished out 11 bookings in his last Europa League Conference game. First leg saw 55 booking pts (including a red).
Toulouse v Benfica 17:45
1+ Toulouse goal and 20+ Toulouse booking points 3/4 Sky so 2.7/1 double
Benfica haven’t kept a clean sheet in Europe this season. Toulouse have found the back of the net in seven of last eight games and scored in first leg. Toulouse have registered multiple booking in 12/13 games. They received six yellows and a red in first game.
What can go wrong 😬 GL.
Qarabag
Bodo/Glimt
Over 2.5 mgs double 1.08/1 ,
Goodluck with the bets 👍
Nope both a goal short 👎
2 lines for me the night,had to substitute Ferencvaros for Rennes as no option in the Hungary game for a red n pen….
Red card shown & penalty taken
Toulouse v Benfica 10/1
Qarabag v Braga 10/1
Rennes v AC Milan 11/1
Sparta Prague v Galatasaray 7/1
Yankee bet
Any 2,3 and all 4(11 bets)
BTTS in all 5:45pm kickoffs,was 1 goal short last week and that side had a disallowed goal after 3mins
BTTS 5:45pm games – 26/1
Best of luck all 👍
Got my NB up last night so no real damage done, Arsenal very disappointing though.
Onto tonight and small stake stuff – early games first.
Qarabag game over 2.5mgs
Ajax over 1.5 tgs
Freiburg game under 2.5mgs – pays 22/5.
Late games
Sparta Prague game BTTS
Roma game BTTS
Eintracht Frankfurt game BTTS – touch over 3/1.
Loose change in account bet
Freiburg v Lens draw
Roma v Feyenoord draw
Marvelled v Shakhtar draw
Olympicoas win.
All 4 and 3 from 4.
Good luck 👍
Early game treble – LOST
Late game treble – WON
Longshot perm got 3 out of 4 -WON
Decent night well done all winners
Sparta Prague over 1.5tgs evens
Sporting Lisbon over 1.5tgs
Legia Warsaw btts
Double 6/5
Treble 16/5
Good luck
Sparta Prague over 1.5tgs evens**WON**
Sporting Lisbon over 1.5tgs
Legia Warsaw btts
Double 6/5**LOST**
Treble 16/5**LOST**
Well done all winners
COLOMBIAN FOOTBALL
LA EQUIDAD TO SCORE 4/5 NAP
REAL SANTANDER TO SCORE 11/10 NB
Bologna v Verona
Red card in the match 11/4
Red card & penalty 8/1