The current holders meet the most successful club in the competition in tonight's intriguing Champions League clash at Stamford Bridge.
Chelsea have endured a tumultuous season so far. Success on the pitch has been overshadowed by the furore and banning of Roman Abramovich from owning the club so the Champions League offers Thomas Tuchel's men the chance to write some back-page headlines once more.
But Saturday's 4-1 loss at home to Brentford was a real wake-up call and described as an abject defensive performance, the last thing you need before the likes of Karim Benzema, who has scored 34 goals in 35 appearances, comes calling.
Benzema's record in the Champions League is even more impressive this season, averaging more than a goal per game to cement his place as the foruth highest scorer in the competition, six goals behind Robert Lewandowski. The Frenchman is 7/4 to score anytime tonight and 5/1 to break the deadlock.
Madrid saw off PSG's challenge with a tremendous comeback in the last round but a 4-0 humbling at home to Barcelona two weeks ago was perhaps the wake-up call they needed too. 11/4 feels like a generous price for the away win especially when Chelsea aren't exactly sailing on calm waters at the moment but the fact it's the first leg of two makes the Draw No Bet market a bit more appealing at 11/8.
The night's other Champions League match looks a mismatch according to the bookies. Bayern Munich are just 1/12 to qualify at Villarreal's expense and 8/15 to win on the night.
But the Europa League champions will have something to say about that and cup king Unai Emery knows a thing or two about outfoxing more illustrious opponents. However his Villarreal side managed just one clean sheet in the group stages while Bayern rattled in 22 goals in their six games so Bayern's firepower should previal over the course of the two legs.
The aformentioned Lewandowski is the key danger but he's just 1/2 to score anytime. Instead back him as best bet to net first.
Keep an eye out for Jamie Kennedy's Acca tonight after he landed last night's at just over 9/2 inside the first half. As did Greg MacLean's Bet of the Day, tongiht he's turning his attention to the Bundesliga clash between Augsburg and Mainz.
Super Singles
- Real Madrid Draw No Bet 11/8 Bet365
First Goalscorer Double
- Benzema & Lewandowski 18/1 Bet365
Upcoming Match Previews & Tips
- Wednesday's Goals Accumulator Tips: Today’s 9/1 Both Teams to Score & Total Team Goals Acca
- Football Bet of the Day: Competitive clash expected in Bavaria on Wednesday teatime
- SlipsTips Tips: Nottingham Forest vs Coventry City
- Wed 12:05 Perth Glory v Melbourne Victory
- Wed 19:30 Burnley v Everton
- Wed 19:45 Middlesbrough v Fulham
- Wed 19:45 Nottingham Forest v Coventry City
- Wed 20:00 West Bromwich Albion v AFC Bournemouth
- Wed 20:00 Villarreal v Bayern Munich
- Wed 20:00 Chelsea v Real Madrid
- Thu 20:00 Eintract Frankfurt v Barcelona
- Thu 20:00 Leicester City v PSV Eindhoven
- Thu 20:00 Braga v Rangers
Today's Racing Tips
Rizzel has picked out his two best selections for Wednesday's racing at Nottingham and Lingfield.
The Masters Golf Tips
As if the usual build-up to The Masters wasn't exciting enough, the news that five-time champions Tiger Woods looks likely to compete has the golfing world in a frenzy. But worry not, The Caddy is here to add some much need perspective to proceedings and narrows down the field to present his three top tips to claim the famous green jacket on Sunday. Don't miss his outright betting tips as well as a trio of tournament bets for the weekend.
Our famous Masters Fantasy Golf Competition is now open for entries too. There's £100 in free bets up for grabs and it's free to enter. Just pick three players and the person with the lowest aggregate score will scoop the top prize.
As always, let us know your tips and predictions for today in the comments section below and good luck with all your bets!
Combined Jamie’s selections (did hamburg to score 3) with Greg’s and the main tip of Liverpool to score 3 for a lovely 44/1 acca last night. Thanks all
Colon de Santa v Penarol
23:15
Copa Libertadores
Both teams to score 13-10 (HILLS) main bet ??
Side bets
Over 2.5 goals 7-4
BTTS and over 2.5 goals 23-10
Both at HILLS
1-1 probably best case scenario as these don’t score many in their leagues.
Penerol travel poorly in this competition and if I had to pick a winner it would be colon.
Prediction 2-1
——————————————————-
Finished on the money 2-1 thanks to a late colon winner.
13-10. 7-4 and 23-10 winners.
——————————————————
Good Morning Guys,
UCL kick off 20:00
Chelsea vs Real Madrid
Chelsea over 1.5 offsides
@ 6/4 using bet365 bet builder
Good Luck with all bets today!!!
???????Notts Forest v Coventry ???????
?Bet: Forest to score 2+ goals: 26/25 (Unibet) 1/1 (Skybet/Hills/bet365)
?5 pts NAP ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Forest are the form team in the Championship right now. They have an array of attacking talent and are blowing teams away. They’re surging towards the play off spots and with the carrot of premier league football very much a possibility, there’ll be no let up from them tonight.
Forest have score 11 goals in their last 3 games, including an impressive 1-4 away win at Blackpool last Saturday. They’ve also scored 2+ in their last 5 home games and in 8 of their last 9 home games. In those home games they’ve scored: 3,4,2,2,3,2,0,2,2.
Coventry, on the other hand, are really falling away and on a downward spiral. After a good start to the season, their threadbare squad is feeling the strain in recent months. They are conceding pretty much every game on their travels; in recent away games they’ve conceded 2+ in 3 of their last 5, all against poor teams (2+ v Cardiff, Reading, Swansea), even conceding 1 v lowly Derby, Bristol city and bottom of the league Peterborough. All those teams are in the bottom half of the league.
I’m backing a sharp and firing Forest to get 2+ at home in front of a raucous home crowd against a leaky and tired Coventry side tonight.
Good luck all ??
Great reasoning that Kris. I’m waiting on a Forest win in a double with MK Dons ??
Great win that forshie ??
I’ll be on Forest 2+ goals again on Saturday – home to B’ham who are worse than Cov. 11/10 at bet365
Any tips for oz sean?
Melbourne City vs Sydney FC
BTTS 5/6
Bet boost on bet365
Great price for any Oz game to go btts I think
Good luck all
❌ Sydney were terrible!
Not to be yesterday. Always let down by the English games.
Today’s OVER 1.5 MGS treble
ALMOPOS – TRIKALA ??
FK PODGORICA – SUTJESKA ??
SZ. HALADAS – SOROKSAR ??
69/50
Good luck with your bets today!
Double chance double for me tonight
Real Madrid double chance at 8/11
Villarreal double chance at 5/4
double at 2.88/1
Best of luck
Burnley v Everton
Burnley to win at 31/20 (NAP)
Red card in the game at 9/2
Massive game for both sides here and Everton come in to this game without Keane who is suspended due to his red card and host of other players missing,probably a game i shouldn’t touch but the players that are missing it’s a big loss for the visitors.Expect Burnley to dig in and grind out a result.Given the nature of the game and the fact Everton are ill disciplined a red card is worth backing also.
Best of luck
Yer macca I’d edge towards a burnley win tonight ?
? TT Cup Ukraina ⏰️ 1310
Maksym Kolos to beat Dmytro Krysthal
5/6 Bet365 Stake 4/5
? TT Cup Ukraina ⏰️ 1310
Maksym Kolos to beat Dmytro Krysthal
5/6 Bet365 Stake 4/5
✅️WON
Much like Kris said, Forest are the form team in the championship.
Forest to win 2.05 odds.
Afternoon Acca:-
Dinamo Tbilisi v Dila 2.5+ 11/10
Jezero v Iskra btts 21/20
Concordia v Unirea 2.5+ 5/4
Dukla Prague v Jihlava btts 4/6
Fourfold pays 16/1
Good luck today!
Which leagues concordia and jezero in bud
Concordia are Romania and Jerezo are Montenegrin
Afternoon
Last post Friday Longshot (lost)
Tonight Longshot
Augsburg v Mainz over 2.5 match goals
Real Madrid to score 1 or more goals
Nott Forest to score 2 or more goals
Bayern Munich to score 2 or more goals
Pays 7/1 skybet
good luck everyone
Free tenner bet on a 5 fold punt
Real Kashmir v Churchill Brothers BTTS 8/13
Anorthosis Famagusta o1.5tgls 11/10
Rakow v Legia Warsaw BTTS 4/5
Nottingham Forest o1.5tgls 1/1
Bayern Munich o1.5tgls 1/2
17/1
Anorthosis Famagusta are a great price to score 2+ against APOEL in the Cypriot Cup today.
They’ve won 5/6 of the most recent H2H meetings scoring 2+ in 4 of those wins including thumping them 4-1 on Saturday in a league match at the Antonis Papadopoulos Stadium,they also triumphed 2-0 away too the same team in the league on February 17th
Famagusta 2+ goals 11/10 is a decent single
***Oh and APOEL are 2-1 up from the first leg so Anorthosis need at least 2 to go through
TEATIME LONGSHOT
FC Hegelmann v FK Banga
16:00
Lithuanian A Lyga
Banga to score 5-4 (HILLS)
7 of 8 h2h seen banga score.
In hegelmanns 5 games so far they conceded to the only 2 teams below banga in the standings.
??????????
Thanks fot that smokeyjoe
Afternoon gents,
Came up short in the corner bets last night with just 8 in the game ? Well done all who had winners!
Onto tonight and fancy both CL games to see goals from both ends – will also add the The Baggies game for a treble longshot:
CHELSEA VS. REAL MADRID
BOTH TEAMS TO SCORE
(19/20, bet365) NAP ⭐️⭐️⭐️
CHELSEA VS. REAL MADRID
VILLAREAL VS. BAYERN MUNICH
BOTH TEAMS TO SCORE DOUBLE
(21/10, bet365) NB ⭐️⭐️
CHELSEA VS. REAL MADRID
VILLAREAL VS. BAYERN MUNICH
WEST BROM VS. BOURNEMOUTH
BOTH TEAMS TO SCORE TREBLE
(9/2, bet365) LONGSHOT ⭐️
Best of luck!
Afternoon Acca:-
Dinamo Tbilisi v Dila 2.5+ 11/10✅
Jezero v Iskra btts 21/20✅
Concordia v Unirea 2.5+ 5/4❌
Dukla Prague v Jihlava btts 4/6✅
Fourfold pays 16/1 (3 out of 4, Concordia game falling short on the goals front)….?
Small stakes double for tonight like a few it involves forest ,
Forest o1.5 team goals
West brom o2.5 mg’s
Double 3.4/1 skybet
Goodluck all tonight ?
Villarreal v B Munich
Header scored 11/10 hills
Good luck
20.30 Al Ahly – Al Ittihad; Al Ahly over 1.5 team goals
22.00 Barranquilla – Llaneros; Barranquilla over 0.5 team goals
Double @ 2.14 with Bet365
Good luck all!
LOST – no 2nd goal from Al Ahly; missed penalty didn’t help.
Well done all winners today.
Longshot interest acca for tonight:
Burnley Win 31/20
Real Madrid Win 29/10
Both Teams to Score
Villarreal v Bayern Munich 8/15
Both Teams to Score
Middlesbrough v Fulham 3/4
2.5+mgls Dunfermline v Raith 6/5
Both Teams to Score
Tiverton v Farnborough 3/5
Both Teams to Score
Truro City v Taunton Town 4/7
All 7 pays about 146/1…..
Good luck all tonight ?
both teams to score double
wimbledon v charlton
salford v port vale
ladbrokes 29/10
NAP lost
Real Madrid
Raith rovers
Bournemouth
Over 0.5tgs treble 2/1
Chelsea
Villarreal
West Brom
Dunfermline
Btts 4 fold 8/1
Good luck
Earlier longshot in Lithuania lost ❌.
————————————————
??????????
Al Ahly v El-Ittihad
20:30
Egyptian Premier League
El ittihad to score 6-4 (SKYBET).
just 11-10 at HILLS ?
Again SKYBET have btts at 11-8, lower than just the away goal !!.
Al ahly average 3 team goals per game so should ittihad score BTTS should land too.
Think there could well be an away consolation here, on the rare occasions they concede at home it’s invariably against teams in mid table which ittihad are
Ittihad are 6th in the goals scored and have the second worst defence in the league
Prediction 3-1
??????????
Forest to win. ?
Shout out to Kris with Forest over 1.5tg.
Looking at Leics Thurs 2.5g.
Thanks mate ??
???????Notts Forest v Coventry ???????
?Bet: Forest to score 2+ goals: 26/25 (Unibet) 1/1 (Skybet/Hills/bet365)
?5 pts NAP ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ✅ (2-0 60 mins)
Super Forest at the double once again. I’ve just looked, they’re home to B’ham Saturday and are 11/10 to repeat tonight and score 2+
I’ll be on that ????
well done to Slips tips whose selections on the Burnley and Forest games landed, relentless consistency on his predictions..
Both bets down tonight well done all winners
Double chance double
Real Madrid double chance at 8/11
Villarreal double chance at 5/4
Double at 2.88/1 WON
Burnley v Everton
Burnley to win at 31/20 WON
Red card in the game at 9/2 lost
well done all winners
Nice one mate ??
Villarreal v B Munich
Header scored 11/10 hills
Good luck
❌ picked the wrong game
Well done all winners