2 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SPECIAL TdTuesday, September18, 2018 racingpost.com CHAM IONS LEAGUE MARKLANGDON’S VERDICT S ECIAL Tipping & expert opinion Verdict...... 2-3 Didi Hamann ...... 4 Premier powerhouses KevinPullein ...... 13 Spreadwise...... 13 Topscorer ...... 16-17 Oddsmakers...... 28 SteveMcManaman ...... 32 canconquer Europe Team-by-team guide GroupA...... 6 GroupB...... 8 ManCityand Liverpool should fear nobody on thecontinent GroupC...... 10-11 GroupD...... 12 HE CHAMPIO S that attackisclearly thefirst Salah’s earlysubstitution in Threats areeverywherein to stamptheir authority on the GroupE...... 18 LEAGUE hasbecome form of defence. Therewerean thefinal defeat to Real Madrid theChampions League and the Champions League, while GroupF...... 20 thepinnacle of averageofmorethan three wasatelling blowand yet obvious place to startisLaLiga, coachErnesto alverde needs GroupG...... 21 T footballing goals per game in lastseason’s Liverpool were stillwell in the seeing as Spain have provided to work out Philippe Coutinho’s excellence and the Champions League in atotal of game until Loris Karius made thelastfivewinnersand two bestposition. GroupH...... 22 1 -1 edition looksthe 1. twohorrendous errors,while runners-up in that period. Will he playwide or is he perfectopportunity forthe Liverpool scored 1 of those, theother goal wasaonce-in-a- Real Madrid have collected Iniesta’s midfield replacement Today’sgames Premier League to become top excluding qualifiers, morethan lifetime effort from Gareth four of those titles, all withthe Thereare pros and cons to each Odds &form...... 26-27 dogs once more. anyother side, as they reached Bale. aid of Cristiano Ronaldo, whose but thereare also doubts over English teams have struggled Matchpreviews...... 29 thefinal in thrilling Liverpool were notfar away sale to Juventus leavesa alverde’s ability as Barca losta to make an impact in recent circumstances and Klopp’s from asixthEuropean Cup and seismic hole in their attackfor -1 first-leg lead to Roma last Inter vTottenham ..30-31 seasons –Chelsea’s surprise outfit have thepotential to go withAlisson signed as a newboss Julen Lopetegui to season amid achaotic night LiverpoolvPSG...... 31 success in 1 is their only one better despiteatough draw significant upgrade between fill. whereGerardPique wasseen triumph in thepastten years– alongside ParisSt-Germain and thesticks it could come 1 Therehas hardlybeena questioning their tactics. Editor MatthewIreland but their financial powerwill apoli. months later in Madrid. tsunami of changeatthe Slow-starting Atletico, who Production team Phil Agius, tell eventuallyand Manchester Their strengths remain the irgil van Dijk has improved Bernabeu despitethe will hostthe final, maybeof Alex Hilton, DanWilliams,James City and Liverpool look ideally same withadevastatingfront their defence immeasurably departures of Ronaldo and boss moreinterest. Milton, HenryHardwicke placed to lead thecharge. threeofRobertoFirmino, Sadio since signing in Januaryand inedine idane, but asummer Stats ChrisMann, Glenn Jeffreys, Therewas atimewhen the Mane and Mohamed Salah, Fabinho, abig-moneyarrival without aGalactico arrival to TOI E Dave Clark GRIE MA has Pictures &graphics Liam Hill, Premier League representatives although cruciallythe Reds from Monaco, is seen as a replace Ronaldo has leftReal Stefan Searle,JoelVaughan resembled loadsamoney have gone biginmaking shrewdtactical influence who vulnerable. Theyhavealso had remained loyal characters, barging intoan investments to improve their maybeofmorebenefit in the plenty of good fortune in their A amid interestfrom exclusiveclub shouting their weaknesses, mostnotablyin Champions League than the hat-trickoftriumphs. Barca and Diego mouths offabout having the goal. Premier League. Madrid’s arch-rivals Simeone can still call upon the bestleague in theworld Barcelona will alwayshave services of DiegoGodin and Web racingpost.com/sport Jan Oblak as well as araftof soccerbase.com without theability or grace to their backers withLionel Messi Twitter @racingpostsport match their lofty claims. in their ranksbut onlyoncein newsignings including Thomas @soccerbase All thegear but no idea if you thelastfour years–when they Lemar and Rodri, who is seen like. owthereisaplan. were champions in 1 –have by manyinSpain as thenew High-class managerssuchas theCatalans gone beyond the Sergio Busquets. DRA PepGuardiola and Jurgen quarter-finals. The Europa League winners, Group A Klopp have been lured to That waswiththe dream however, will struggle to keep up withteams who arepushing Atletico Madrid BDortmund England and withmanyof team of Messi, eymar and a Monaco Club Brugge Europe’s eliteclubs in flux the peak Luis Suarez up front and theattacking boundaries. Group B superior stable environments in Andres Iniesta pullingthe Juventus, forsolong strings in midfield. eymar and Europe’s defensivebenchmark, BarcelonaTottenham Manchesterand Merseyside PSVEindhoven Inter could be key. Iniesta have gone and Suarez, have blownafortune on Group C City’s twoChampions League in January, has scored a becoming amoreoffensive attemptsunder Guardiola have total of four goals in thelast powerwiththe arrival of ParisSt-GermainNapoli twoChampions League -year-old Ronaldo Liverpool RedStarBelgrade ended in frustration as they lost campaigns. This maybea representing afascinating Group D gung-ho battles withMonaco and Liverpool at thelast-16 and season tooearly forOusmane gamble in abid to land their Lokomotiv Moscow Porto Dembele, Malcom and Arthur firstEuropean Cup since 1 6. SchalkeGalatasaray quarter-final stages Group E respectively. Butthisseason’s group drawwithHoffenheim, BayernMunich Benfica Ajax AEKAthens Shakhtar Donetsk and Lyon TO A Y ROM RO Group F gives thePremier League Group A champions an ideal platformto Manchester City Shakhtar bet3 5 Betfair BetfredBetwayBoyles Coral HillsLadbrokes PPowerSky Bet1 Bet Lyon Hoffenheim reachthe knockouts again. Records galorewerebroken Atletico Madrid 1-8 1-20 1-9 1-8 1-10 1-10 1-10 1-10 1-20 1-10 1-10 Group G by Guardiola lastseason as City Dortmund 8-15 1-4 2-5 1-2 4-9 1-3 1-2 1-3 1-4 4-9 7-15 Real Madrid Roma romped to Premier League Monaco 13-10 7-4 6-4 7-5 6-4 7-4 11-8 7-4 7-4 11-8 6-5 CSKA Moscow Viktoria Plzen glory, hitting1 points and Group H Club Brugge 7 13 88887813 86 reaching aconsistentlevel of Group B Juventus Manchester Utd brilliance whichmakes them Valencia YoungBoys worthyChampions League bet3 5 Betfair BetfredBetwayBoyles Coral HillsLadbrokes PPowerSky Bet1 Bet favourites. Barcelona 1-8 1-18 1-9 1-9 1-10 1-10 1-10 1-10 1-18 1-8 1-16 RECENT NA S Kevin De Bruyne’s summer Tottenham 1-2 4-6 1-2 4-7 8-15 1-2 4-9 1-2 4-6 1-2 3-7 injurymay be of long-term 2017-18 Real Madrid 3Liverpool1 Inter 13-10 11-10 5-4 11-8 5-4 11-8 11-8 11-8 11-10 5-4 23-17 benefit if they gethim back 2016-17 Real Madrid 4Juventus 1 fresh forthe keystagesofthe PSV 8 17-2 87888817-2 13-2 13-2 2015-16 Real Madrid 1Atl Madrid 1 competition and they often Group C Real won5-3 on penalties Liverpool colossus irgil van i and eorginio i naldum dominatemidfield battles 2014-15 Barcelona3Juventus 1 bet3 5 Betfair BetfredBetwayBoyles Coral HillsLadbrokes PPowerSky Bet1 Bet through theSilvas, David and PSG 1-6 1-5 1-5 1-5 1-5 1-6 1-5 1-6 1-5 2-9 2-13 2013-14 Real Madrid 1Atl Madrid 1 Bernardo. The blistering pace Real won4-1 afterextra-time of Leroy Sane and Raheem Spurskicking offnew era Liverpool 1-4 3-10 1-4 1-4 2-7 1-4 1-4 1-4 3-10 1-4 1-5 2012-13 BMunich 2BDortmund1 Sterling should offerthe kind of Napoli 13-10 5-6 5-4 5-4 5-4 11-8 5-4 11-8 5-6 11-10 6-5 2011-12 Bayern 1Chelsea 1 counter-attacking threat which LL ans ill e a le to arcelona toda ill e Red Star Belgrade 25 17 25 20 20 33 20 33 17 22 20 Chelsea wononpenalties is crucial in two-legged ties atchevenmore o this roadcast at pm time season’sChampions League throughout thegroup stage Group D 2010-11 Barcelona3Man Utd1 settled by theaway-goals rule. 2009-10 Inter2Bayern0 due to staggered ic o and theremaining six ixtures bet3 5 Betfair BetfredBetwayBoyles Coral HillsLadbrokes PPowerSky Bet1 Bet Their often-criticised times ill egin at pm 2008-09 Barcelona2Man Utd0 Porto 4-9 4-11 1-2 1-2 4-9 4-9 1-2 4-9 4-11 1-2 2-5 rearguardisnoworse than the omatches per night o remier League out it Schalke 8-13 4-7 4-7 4-7 4-7 4-7 8-15 4-7 4-9 4-7 8-15 2007-08 ManUtd 1Chelsea 1 defences of themajority of starting ith nter versus ill host amatchinthe earlier ManUtd wononpenalties their market rivals as thegame ottenham and ’stripto time slot Lokomotiv 13-8 5-4 11-8 11-8 11-8 6-5 5-4 6-5 Evs 5-4 23-17 2006-07 Milan2Liverpool1 has evolvedtosuchanextent Galatasaray 11-8 13-8 6-4 6-4 7-4 13-8 13-8 13-8 5-2 3-2 23-17 Racing Post Tuesday, September 18, 2018 3
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Last six seasons bet365 BetBright Betfair Betfred Betway Boyles Coral Hills Ladbrokes P Power Sky Bet 188Bet r 16 16 SF 16 F Man City 9-2 9-2 9-2 9-2 9-2 9-2 9-2 9-2 9-2 9-2 6 9-2 SF F W F F F Barcelona 6 6 6 6 11-2 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 F r+SF F 16 F F Juventus 13-2 13-2 13-2 13-2 13-2 13-2 13-2 6 13-2 F F F F 16 16 Paris St-Germain 15-2 7 7 8 15-2 7 7 15-2 7 7 7 7 SF W SF W W W Real Madrid 8 8 1 -2 7 8 7 8 8 8 1 -2 7 1 -2 W SF SF SF F SF Bayern Munich 10 88788988879 32 F F F SF r+ Atletico Madrid 12 12 12 12 12 12 10 12 11 12 11 12 32 - r+32 F - F Liverpool 12 12 12 12 12 12 11 12 11 12 14 12 F 16 32 16 r+32 16 Tottenham 20 25 25 25 25 22 20 25 25 25 20 25 16 F - r+16 16 Man Utd 28 20 20 25 28 20 25 28 25 20 25 30 - - r+16 16 PO+16 SF Roma 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 32 r+16 +SF 32 16 r+32 Napoli 50 40 40 40 66 50 50 40 50 40 25 50 F F 16 F F r+16 Borussia Dortmund 80 40 40 40 66 50 50 40 50 40 33 70 16 - 16 - Gr - Inter 50 50 40 66 66 66 80 40 80 40 80 70 16 r+ F F r+32 16 16 Porto 100 100 125 80 100 80 80 66 80 125 80 100 16 SF - r+16 - - Valencia 150 80 80 80 125 100 80 80 80 80 50 100 - - F PO+Gr SF r Monaco 200 80 100 100 200 100 150 100 150 100 80 150 r+F r+F r F 16 r Benfica 150 150 80 100 200 100 200 150 200 80 150 150 16 16 16 32 F - Schalke 250 100 100 80 150 100 100 50 100 100 80 150 r+32 r+32 r+16 +Gr PO+F +PO Ajax 200 200 150 200 150 150 150 150 150 150 250 250 - - - - - PO+Gr Hoffenheim 250 150 150 100 250 150 250 80 250 150 80 250 32 PO+ F PO r r+SF 16 Lyon 125 80 100 80 250 80 80 80 80 100 300 120 - - PO 32 - 16 Lokomotiv Moscow 200 250 250 200 250 200 200 500 200 250 250 250 F 16 r r+32 - Galatasaray 250 150 250 150 250 200 250 125 250 250 500 300 16 r+32 16 r+SF +32 16 Shakhtar 150 150 125 200 500 150 250 200 250 125 500 250 Gr +Gr 32 16 r PSV Eindhoven 250 200 250 200 500 250 500 200 500 250 200 250 PO r r r r r+ F CSKA Moscow 500 200 250 250 500 250 500 250 500 250 250 500 +Gr F PO+Gr r + Club Brugge 500 350 500 500 50 500 500 500 500 500 500 50 - - - - +32 AEK Athens 50 500 500 500 50 500 500 500 500 500 500 50 Gr - 32 +PO PO+Gr PO+Gr Young Boys 1000 500 500 500 750 500 1000 500 1000 500 500 750 PO - +PO 32 Red Star Belgrade 500 500 500 500 750 500 1000 500 1000 500 - 1000 16 r+16 +Gr PO+Gr +16 Viktoria Plzen 500 500 500 500 750 500 1000 500 1000 500 1000 1000 Ea h-way 1 2 1 2 All oted Key to club record in Europe: W = winner, F = finalist, SF = lost in semi-final, QF = lost in quarter final, 16 = eliminated in last 16, 32 = eliminated in last 32, Gr = eliminated at group stage, QP = lost in qualifying playoff, 3Q = lost in third qualifying round, 2Q = lost in second qualifying round, - = did not take part. Figures in bold signify Europa League.
G OUP ST AIGHT O ECASTS Group A Group E Leroy ane of Manchester City celebrates ith his teammate ernandinho bet365 Betfred Boyles Coral Hills Ladbrokes Sky Bet bet365 Betfred Boyles Coral Hills Ladbrokes Sky Bet Atletico-Dortmund 11-8 5-4 11-8 6-5 5-4 6-5 6-4 The Old Lady were the big market. At around the same Lassana Diarra is one Bayern-Benfica 11-8 13-8 6-4 13-8 13-8 13-8 11-8 summer market movers and the price a stronger case can be possible defensive anchor but Dortmund-Atletico 4 10-3 7-2 10-3 10-3 10-3 4 Bayern-Ajax 2 13-8 2 8-5 13-8 8-5 9-4 gamble gathered pace when made for Paris St-Germain’s new boss Thomas Tuchel is Atletico-Monaco 9-2 5 5 11-2 4 11-2 3 Bayern-AEK Athens 8 13-2 7 13-2 13-2 13-2 15-2 Atletico-Club Brugge 14 12 12 10 12 10 16 defender Leonardo Bonucci three-pronged attack of toying with the idea of using Benfica-Bayern 10 12 10 12 12 12 15-2 returned to the club. eymar, Edinson Cavani and centre-back Marquinhos as his Dortmund-Monaco 12 16 16 16 16 16 14 Ajax-Bayern 12 12 12 12 12 12 14 Where everyone will move to teenage World Cup superstar number six which is far from Monaco-Atletico 12 16 12 18 14 18 11 ideal. Benfica-Ajax 33 40 33 40 33 40 28 accommodate Ronaldo is a Kylian Mbappe. Monaco-Dortmund 20 25 20 25 20 25 18 tactical conundrum for Max That Paris front three is a Group B Ajax-Benfica 40 40 33 40 40 40 33 Allegri to solve and the betting thing of beauty and yet the EEPI G the egos in check won’t be easy Group F has already fully reacted to the French outfit have refused to bet365 Betfred Boyles Coral Hills Ladbrokes Sky Bet for Tuchel, who like bet365 Betfred Boyles Coral Hills Ladbrokes Sky Bet transfer, leaving little wriggle address their problematic and Barcelona-Tottenham 5-4 11-8 5-4 6-5 11-8 6-5 11-8 Real Madrid’s room for those just entering the crucial midfield area. K Tottenham-Barcelona 4 7-2 4 3 7-2 3 4 Man City-Lyon 9-4 13-8 2 13-8 7-4 13-8 2 Lopetegui and iko Man City-Hoffenheim 5-2 9-4 9-4 9-4 9-4 9-4 9-4 Kovac at Bayern Munich, is in Barcelona-Inter 4 4 7-2 4 3 4 7-2 his first campaign steering this Tottenham-Inter 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 Man City-Shakhtar 3 10-3 3 10-3 3 10-3 3 kind of corporate juggernaut. Inter-Barcelona 14 16 14 16 14 16 12 Hoffenheim-Man City 16 16 16 16 16 16 14 Group E Former Eintracht Frankfurt Barcelona-PSV 16 16 16 16 16 16 12 Lyon-Man City 16 14 12 12 14 12 18 chief Kovac is unlikely to be bet365 Betfair Betfred Betway Boyles Coral Hills Ladbrokes P Power Sky Bet 188Bet Inter-Tottenham 20 20 20 22 20 22 18 Shakhtar-Man City 25 25 25 25 25 25 20 tested in the Bundesliga and Tottenham-PSV 40 33 33 28 33 28 50 Bayern Munich 1-25 1-80 1-25 1-25 1-33 1-33 1-33 1-33 1-80 1-25 1-33 will be judged by the results in Hoffenheim-Lyon 50 50 66 50 50 50 50 Benfica 10-11 10-11 Evs 10-11 10-11 11-10 5-6 11-10 10-11 8-11 9-10 this competition but Bayern Group C Lyon-Hoffenheim 50 50 66 50 50 50 50 Ajax 6-5 11-8 11-10 5-4 6-5 11-10 5-4 11-10 11-8 5-4 Evs have barely spent a Euro this bet365 Betfred Boyles Coral Hills Ladbrokes Sky Bet Group G
AEK Athens 5 7-2 5 9-2 5 4 5 4 7-2 5 4 summer and standing still in PSG-Liverpool 2 7-4 2 7-4 15-8 7-4 9-4 bet365 Betfred Boyles Coral Hills Ladbrokes Sky Bet the Champions League usually Group F Liverpool-PSG 9-4 9-4 9-4 12-5 9-4 12-5 15-8 Real Madrid-Roma 4-6 8-11 4-5 4-5 8-11 4-5 8-11 means going backwards. PSG-Napoli 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 bet365 Betfair Betfred Betway Boyles Coral Hills Ladbrokes P Power Sky Bet 188Bet Tottenham were even more Roma-Real Madrid 9-2 4 4 9-2 9-2 9-2 4 Man City 1-40 1-40 1-25 1-25 1-33 1-33 1-33 1-33 1-40 1-25 1-41 stagnant in the transfer market Liverpool-Napoli 6 6 11-2 6 13-2 Real Madrid-CSKA 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 Napoli-PSG 10 11 9 11 11 11 10 Lyon 6-5 13-10 5-4 5-4 5-4 11-10 6-5 11-10 13-10 11-8 Evs and Manchester United were Real Madrid-V Plzen 16 12 11 12 12 12 11 Napoli-Liverpool 12 12 10 12 11 12 10 Hoffenheim 11-5 6-4 6-4 6-4 7-4 6-4 6-4 6-4 6-4 6-4 8-5 nowhere near as busy as Jose Roma-CSKA 33 25 25 25 25 25 28 Mourinho wanted, leaving both Shakhtar 2 15-8 9-4 3 2 5-2 2 5-2 15-8 15-8 2 Group D short of the standard usually CSKA-Real Madrid 33 33 25 22 22 22 33 bet365 Betfred Boyles Coral Hills Ladbrokes Sky Bet Group G required to win a tournament CSKA-Roma 66 50 50 50 50 50 66 Porto-Schalke 4 4 9-2 4 4 4 5 bet365 Betfair Betfred Betway Boyles Coral Hills Ladbrokes P Power Sky Bet 188Bet of this magnitude. Roma-Viktoria Plzen 66 50 50 66 50 66 50 Schalke-Porto 5 11-2 5 11-2 11-2 11-2 5 Real Madrid 1-50 1-50 1-33 1-33 1-33 1-33 1-33 1-33 1-50 1-33 1-41 However, in the year when Viktoria Plzen-R Madrid 100 80 100 80 80 80 80 Britain is due to leave the EU Porto-Galatasaray 10 13-2 7 13-2 7 13-2 8 Roma 1-4 3-10 1-4 2-9 1-4 2-7 1-4 2-7 3-10 1-4 1-5 Group H there may not be a Champions Schalke-Lokomotiv 11 10 9 10 10 10 9 CSKA Moscow 9-2 15-8 7-2 4 7-2 11-4 3 11-4 15-8 10-3 3 bet365 Betfred Boyles Coral Hills Ladbrokes Sky Bet League exit for all of England’s Schalke-Galatasaray 10 11 10 11 10 11 9 Viktoria Plzen 5 19 8 7 13-2 8 8 8 19 13-2 6 Juventus-Man Utd 5-4 5-4 5-4 6-4 11-8 6-4 5-4 finest. Porto-Lokomotiv 12 13-2 7 13-2 7 13-2 15-2 Group H Lokomotiv-Porto 12 11 11 10 10 10 11 Juventus-Valencia 10-3 3 3 13-5 11-4 13-5 10-3 bet365 Betfair Betfred Betway Boyles Coral Hills Ladbrokes P Power Sky Bet 188Bet Recommendations Galatasaray-Porto 12 11 12 11 11 11 12 Man Utd-Juventus 4 4 10-3 9-2 4 9-2 7-2 Juventus 1-9 1-14 1-8 1-8 1-10 1-12 1-10 1-12 1-14 1-12 1-12 Manchester City Lokomotiv-Schalke 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 Valencia-Juventus 12 10 10 17-2 9 17-2 11 Man Utd 4-11 1-4 2-5 4-11 1-3 1-2 1-3 1-2 1-4 4-11 3-10 2pts 6-1 Sky Bet Galatasaray-Schalke 12 14 12 14 14 14 14 Man Utd-Valencia 16 12 14 12 12 12 14 Liverpool Valencia 6-5 13-10 6-5 5-4 11-8 11-10 11-8 11-10 13-10 11-8 13-10 Valencia-Man Utd 20 18 16 16 18 16 18 1pt 14-1 Sky Bet Galatasaray-Lokomotiv 20 18 20 18 18 18 20 Young Boys 20 14 16 16 20 16 14 16 14 14 14 Lokomotiv-Galatasaray 20 18 20 18 18 18 20 Juventus-Young Boys 33 25 28 40 25 40 25 4 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SPECIAL Tuesday, September18, 2018 racingpost.com
The Champions League winner thinks Pep Guardiola DIDI HAMANN will have learned from last season’s disappointment Improving Citizens have greatchance of Euro glory
ALF an hour of madness primed to avoid that type of outcome maywellhavecost once again. ManchesterCity their tilt Youneed alot of good fortune to win H at Champions League theChampions League –adecent draw glory lastseason but, with in theknockout stages helps and lessons learned and improvements injuries naturallyplayabigpartin made, Iexpect PepGuardiola to getit deciding who goes furthest. right this time. The competition doesn’t reallystart Twice aChampions League winner until February because City and all as manager of Barcelona, Guardiola their biggestrivals should stillbe failed to add to that collection at involved afterthe group stage. Bayern Munichbut he is poised to But right nowCity look as good as complete thehat-trick withCity. anyteam in Europe, and better than This is potentiallythe mostwide- most, and they will onlyget stronger. open Champions League foryearswith Theyare thepickofthe four Premier question marks over one or twoofthe League teams, but Iexpect all of them adio Mane s header leftManchesterCitytrailing in lastseason s uarter nal rst leg at n eld bigger names and cases to be made for to qualify forthe last16. concerned that if they don’t win it this goals. Theyare amanager’s dream. bigger-priced teams suchasLiverpool, The drawhas been kind to season they maynot be contenders DIDI’SDIAMONDS but City look absolutelyready to take ManchesterCity and Manchester But they won’t be together forever. that next step. United, but less so to Tottenhamand again foryearstocome. Perhaps this is thelastseason when Manchester City to win The point about Guardiola is that he Liverpool. It’s very rare, once-in-a-lifetime they areall at Anfield if some big Champions League 6-1 SkyBet stuff, that aclub is improves players and improves teams. Even so, English clubs now blessed withafront moneyisthrowndownnextsummer. Atletico Madrid-BorussiaDortmund We’veseenthat withRaheem Sterling, understand what’s needed to succeed threeofthe calibreofSadio Mane, Yes, thereare alot of exceptionally straight forecastinGroup A Kevin De Bruyne and Leroy Sane and in Europe and all four should makeit. Roberto Firmino and Mo Salah. Each talented frontmen out there, anyof 6-4 SkyBet we should see it again withAymeric Liverpool have to believein of them is agenius, eachhas special whom could do well at Anfield, but LokomotivMoscow to qualifyfrom Laporte and Riyad Mahrez. Under themselvesafter what happened last skills, all threecan scoregoals, and thereare no guarantees. GroupD13-8 bet365 they justclickunbelievablywell. Mane, Firmino and Salah have Pep’swingtheywill getbetteras season when they did wonderfullywell Manchester City-Shakhtar Donetsk players. getting to thefinal. What they achieved lastseason was quality in abundance and if they are straight forecastinGroup F Guardiola is themasteroflearning To fall shortagainst Real Madrid, extraordinary, to theextent that broken up it could take awhile for 100-30 Betfred, Coral, Ladbrokes nobody waseventalking about Liverpool to recover. from previous flaws, so that specialists in that type of occasion, is Manchester United to winGroup H catastrophic starttotheir quarter-final absolutelynodisgrace. Philippe Coutinho’s sale to Barcelona, So rather than celebratelastseason’s 11-4 bet365,Betway tie at Anfield wheretheyfound Thereisnow abelief running whichwas supposed to be a near-miss as Liverpool arriving in the AllfourEnglish teams catastrophe. big time, I’dbeabit more concerned themselves - down to Liverpool after through Anfield that Liverpool will be to qualifyfor last 16 1 minutes will have been logged by consistentlychallenging for Mane, Firmino and Salah stayed fit, that time is runningout fortheir Accumulator pays 2.78-1 Betway theCitychief. He’ll be absolutely Champions League glorybut I’m scared defences to deathand scored golden trio to shine in thesame side. Mourinho No margin forerror forSchalke maytrump I’M sureBayern will qualify from Group E–although Iwouldn’tsuggest backing them at shortodds –but I’m less confident about Schalkeand compatriot Hoffenheim. Hoffenheim’s squad is shortof numbersand they foundEuropean C ’ 2 remier football tough lastterm. Theywere League in at at ord ashardl undone by Liverpool in theChampions hold the ac page stu ut League qualifying stageand then atching ose ourinho cele rate finished bottom of their group in the at icarage oadon aturda told Europa League. met alo Schalke, adistant second behind e have all een critical o Bayern Munichinthe Bundesligalast ourinho’sda tpress con erences season, have gotoff to ashocking start ut his od language a terthe in at at ord the hugging o sta withthree straight defeats. applauding the ans smac edo Theyfind themselvesinthe most someone ho is desperateto open group of thelot,Group D, succeed and ho no s he’s under alongside Porto, Galatasarayand pressure ose Mourinho desperateto in Lokomotiv Moscow. It’s deja vu for ormer ermanydefender hat could e aturning point or Porto, who were in themost enedi t o edesisacanny nited at ord ere going ell and team the a he spar ed eal competitivesection lasttermaswell, signing forLo omotiv Mosco nited had to digin so ma e their adrid ’m notsosure also alongside Turkish and German season starts no nited and ourinho in opponents. Benedikt Howedes added to adefence indications that standards had he could e massivevalueto particular ereunder thespotlight Portoare favourites but in agroup already featuring theexcellent edran dropped offunder Carlo Ancelotti so in roup throughout 2 ut i there’s as open as this, whereyou can makea uventus loo a too short one thing the ortuguese is good at Corluka. theintensity should have returned es Cristiano onaldo has arrived it’s inning ig games in urope t case forall four,I’ll take thebig price Dortmund have startedthe season under ikoKovac. That hardwork to a an are and uvehave asnosurprise to me that the about Lokomotiv. fairly well under new management maywell payoff although injuries are responded getting o toa l ing uali ied or the noc out stage as It takesagood team to win the and will getbetter, so take them to already biting withCorentin Tolisso, startin erie ut at theage o group inners anc the same Russian Premier League and followAtletico Madrid out of Group A. KingsleyComan and Rafinha ill he e a le to inspire his ne thing ill happen this time Lokomotiv arestronger again with As forBayern,therewereclear sidelined. Racing Post Tuesday, September 18, 2018 5 6 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SPECIAL Tuesday,September 18, 2018 racingpost.com RO A MARK AN DON S RO DE
Manager Manager ATLETICO MADRID 1 -1 DiegoSimeone BDORTMUND 0-1 LucienFavre Squad details PosApp Gls R Squad details 1Antonio Adan G0000 Home finalthe incentive PosApp Gls R BetonFavre to impress 13 JanOblak G4000 1Roman BurkiG3000 2Diego GodinD4010 35 Marwin Hitz G0000 3FilipeLuisD3010 Mostmanagerswould be 2Dan-AxelZagadou D0000 Given that Marco Reus has 4Santiago Arias D0(1) 000 Recent club record 4Abdou Diallo D3110 Recent club record 15 Stefan SavicD3021 satisfied withthree European 12-13 13-14 14-1515-1 1 -1 1 -1 5AchrafHakimi D0000 beenmanaged by Jurgen 12-13 13-14 14-1515-1 1 -1 1 -1 20 Juanfran D3010 finals in five years, but Diego Europe 32 F FFSF W 13 RaphaelGuerreiro D0(2)0 00 Klopp and Joachim Low, it is Europe F F16 F F 1 21 LucasHernandez D1000 Gr 15 Jeremy Toljan D0000 Gr 24 Jose GimenezD2000 Simeone is notmostmanagers. perhaps telling just howhighly Domestic 3rd1st 3rd3rd 3rd2nd 16 Manuel Akanji D3000 Domestic 2nd2nd 7th2nd 3rd4th 5Thomas Partey M1(2)0 10 Having wonthe Europa Figuresinboldsignify EuropaLeague 26 LucaszPiszczekD 3000 he regardsBorussia Figuresinboldsignify Europa League 6KokeM3(1) 020 League lastseason and 29 Marcel SchmelzerD 3000 Dortmund’s newmanager 8 SaulM4010 Previous twomeetings 36 Omer Toprak D0000 Previous twomeetings 11 Thomas LemarM3(1) 000 reached twoChampions 6Thomas DelaneyM3000 Lucien Favrethat he recently AtleticoMadrid: Oct96(h) 1-2, Oct96 14 RodrigoM2000 Club Brugge: Mar 78 (h)3-2, Mar 78 (a) League finals, Simeone is 0-2 10 MarioGotze M0 000 said Favre is probably the (a) 1-0 23 Vitolo M0(1) 000 11 MarcoReusM3100 Borussia Dortmund: Oct96(a) 2-1, Club Brugge: Aug03(h) 2-1, Aug03(a) 28 CristianRodriguez M0 000 desperatetoclaim Europe’s 17 Sergio GomezM0000 bestcoachIhave ever had. 1-2) 7Antoine GriezmannF 4100 Oct96(h) 0-1 elitetrophythisseason with 19 Mahmoud DahoudM 3110 Reus struck up his beautiful Monaco: Apr17(a) 1-3, Apr17(h) 2-3 9NikolaKalinic F0(1) 000 Monaco: No meetings 22 Christian PulisicM 1000 relationship withFavre when 10 AngelCorreaF3(1) 100 thefinal takingplace at 23 Shinji Kagawa M0 000 18 Gelson MartinsF0(2) 000 Atletico’s own 28 Axel Witsel M2(1) 100 thepairworkedtogether 19 DiegoCosta F4010 stadium. theEuropean Super 33 Julian WeiglM0000 at Monchengladbach, on goal difference, and 26 DarioPovedaF0000 34 JacobBLarsenM1000 32 BorjaGarcesF0(1) 100 Atletico’stop Cup, but it is crucial 7JadonSanchoF0(3) 000 helpingthe club aclearout was Last season in Europe man, WorldCup that Atletico don’t 9Francisco AlcacerF0(1) 100 go from relegation needed this 20 MaxPhilipp F3000 1st Bkgs Cnrs winner Antoine straytoo far away certainties to summer with Europa League final 27 fMarius Wol F2(1)1 00 Marseille 0Atl Madrid 321507 Griezmann, from thedefensive Last season inEurope Champions Gonzalo Castro, Europa League semi-final resistedthe urges basics whichhave League uri Sahin, AtlMadrid1Arsenal0 45 60 10 1st Bkgs Cnrs Arsenal1Atl Madrid 1613511 of Barcelona to madethem such Europa League last 16 qualifiers, and the and Andriy Europa League quarter-final RB Salzburg 0BDortmund0 90 60 4 experienced Swiss Sporting 1Atl Madrid 028 6012 remain at theclub awkwardcustomers BDortmund1RBSalzburg2 49 60 9 Yarmolenkoamong AtlMadrid2Sporting0 16011 and an aggressive formoreillustrious Europa League last 32 boss looksbetter those to exit. Europa League last 16 Atalanta 1BDortmund1 11 50 12 suited to therole than Lok. Moscow 1Atl Madrid 5160 11 recruitmentpolicy saw opponents. BDortmund3Atalanta 230609 Goalkeeper Marwin AtlMadrid3Lok.Moscow 0223010 lastseason’s shockers Peter Europa League last 32 Thomas Lemar,Rodri, Atletico concededjust ChampionsLeaguegroup stage Hitz, centre-backAbdou Diallo AtlMadrid1FCCopenhagen 07 010 Gelson Martins, SantiagoArias goals in lastseason’s La Liga Real Madrid 3BDortmund2 8 1012 Bosz and PeterStoger. and midfielder Axel Witsel are FC Copenhagen1Atl Madrid 415205 BDortmund1Tottenham 2312018 With suchproblems in the ChampionsLeaguegroup stage and ikola Kalinic arrive as they finished second, and BDortmund1ApoelNicosia1 29 30 10 tasked withimproving the Chelsea1Atl Madrid 1562015 among others. they should be capable of ApoelNicosia1BDortmund1 62 60 13 dugout Dortmund nearly defensive effort whilePaco AtlMadrid2Roma0 69 55 6 BDortmund1RealMadrid3 18 50 13 AtlMadrid1FKQarabag 1409014 Expectations have risen, greatlyimproving on their Tottenham 3BDortmund1 46510 missed out on atop-four spot Alcacer gets an opportunity as FK Qarabag0Atl Madrid 090557 in theBundesliga, reaching AtlMadrid1Chelsea 240307 particularly aftertheybeat shockgroup-stage exit last areplacement forPierre- Roma 0Atl Madrid 0901012 arch-rivals Real Madrid - in term. theChampionsLeagueonly EmerickAubameyang.
Manager Manager MONACO 00-1 Leonardo Jardim CLUB BRUGGE 750-1 Ivan Leko Squad details Squad details PosApp Gls R Gamblesneedtopay off PosApp Gls R Belgianhopes Bruggered 40 Loic Badiashile G0000 1Karlo Letica G7000 1Danijel SubasicG0000 22 EthanHorvath G0(1) 000 16 DiegoBenaglioG5010 The 16-1 season must 4Luan PeresD0(2) 000 Belgium reached theWorld 39 BenjaminHenrichsD 2010 Recent club record 5BenoitPoulainD7120 Recent club record 3Antonio BarrecaD4000 seem likealifetime agofor 12-13 13-14 14-1515-1 1 -1 1 -1 15 MatejMitrovicD6010 Cup semi-finals, but don’t go 12-13 13-14 14-1515-1 1 -1 1 -1 5JemersonD5010 Monaco, whoreachedthe Europe -- F Gr SF Gr 21 Dion CoolsD1(3) 110 expectingtheir domestic Europe Gr ual F Gr Gr ual 18 Ronael PGabriel D1000 Champions League semi-finals PO 24 StefanoDenswil D6010 champions Club Bruggeto ual PO ual 19 DjibrilSidibeD1(2) 000 Domestic1st 2nd3rd 3rd2nd 2nd 35 SauloDecarli D0(2)0 00 Domestic4th3rd 1st1st 3rd1st 21 Julien SerranoD0(1) 000 and wonLigue 1but have lost 44 Brandon MecheleD 1000 makeanimpact in this season’s B League FiguresinboldsignifyEuropa League Figuresinbold signifyEuropaLeague 24 Andrea RaggiD0000 mostoftheir starsinthe 77 Clinton Mata D0000 Champions League. 25 KamilGlikD5010 Previous twomeetings 6SofyanAmrabat M0(2)0 00 Previous twomeetings 32 Benoit BMukinayi D0000 subsequent twosummers. AtleticoMadrid: No meetings 11 Krepin Diatta M1 000 Justreaching Europe’s AtleticoMadrid: Mar 78 (a) 2-3, Mar 78 (h)2-0 6Kevin N’DoramD0(1) 000 ThomasLemar,Joao Club Brugge: Nov88 (h) 6-1, Nov88 (a) 16 Siebe Schrijvers M2(1)1 00 premier club competition 38 AlmamyToure D2000 0-1 18MarvelousNakamba M0 000 Borussia Dortmund: Aug03(a) 1-2, 44 Yannis N-Yapende D0000 Moutinho, KeitaBalde and 19 ThibaultVlietinck M0(1) 000 courtesy of claiming the Aug03(h) 2-1 15 YAit BennasserM 2000 Borussia Dortmund: Apr17(h) 3-1, 20 Hans Vanaken M7 100 Fabinho leftinthe lasttransfer Apr17(a) 3-2 ProLeaguetitle wasan Monaco: Nov88 (a) 1-6, Nov88 (h) 1-0 4JeanAholouM5000 25 Ruud Vormer M7 130 7RonyLopes M4 100 window, following Benjamin 26 Mats Rits M7 100 achievement forBrugge, who 8 Youri TielemansM5200 Mendy,Bernardo Silva, Kylian 98 Brandon Baiye M0(1) 000 somehad suggested would 11 AdamaTraore M1(1)0 00 Mbappeand Tiemoue weretwo of themore 10 KavehRezaeiF3100 slip backwhen Ivan to join Sporting and was 17 AleksandrGolovinM 0000 7Wesley F5201 20 NacerChadliM1000 Bakayoko outofthee surprising arrivals, but 9Jelle VossenF3(1) 400 Leko replaced Miichel replaced by Charleroi’s 29 Samuel Grandsir M2(3)0 00 principality and betterbetstocome off 42DennisBonaventureF 3(2) 200 Preud’homme in thhe prolific hitman Kaveh 42 H-Noah MassengoM 0000 47 Arnaut GroeneveldF 7300 43 TristanMuyumba M0 000 puttingpressureon are Russian World 80 Lois Openda F1(3)0 00 managerial hotseat. Rezaei. The Iranian 13 Willem Geubbels F0(1) 000 sporting director Cup star Aleksandr Last season in Europe However, the is settopartner 9Radamel Falcao F3(1) 200 Michael Emenalo Golovin andbig Croatian, withthe Wesleyupfront in 10 StevanJovetic F2100 1st Bkgs Cnrs 22 JordiMboulaF2(2) 010 to signupanother German hope Europa League playoff help of 1 -goal Leko’spreferred 23 Pietro Pellegri F0(2)1 10 batch of potential Benjamin Henrichs, AEKAthens3ClubBrugge0 27 30 10 AbdoulayDiaby, - - formation. 34 MoussaSylla F1000 Club Brugge 0AEK Athens 090958 36 Sofiane Diop F2(1) 010 superstars. while teenage ChampionsLeaguethirdqualifying finishedthree imbabwe’s 41 Gobe Gouano F0000 IstanbulB2ClubBrugge0 7504 It’s adifficult job forwardWillem Club Brugge 3IstanbulB3 5104 points clear o f i njury-hit Last season in Europe and realistically Geubbels arrivesfrom Preud’homme’s Marvelous akamba 1st Bkgs Cnrs ChampionsLeaguegroup stage Monaco can onlyhoppe Lyon with atasty StandardLiegeina is partofamidfield Porto5Monaco2 9608 ratherthanexpect that reputation and foratasty convoluted playoff system whichincludes theinfluential Monaco 1RBLeipzig 4650 11 Besiktas 1Monaco1 45 70 11 their scattergun approachh million. despiteearly exitsinthe Ruud ormer and who could Monaco 1Besiktas 2303012 pays off. Adeep runisunlikelybut Champions League and hold their ownbut thelackof Monaco 0Porto 3317012 RB Leipzig1Monaco 132509 Pele no, notthat one and Monaco areset to battle Europa League. qualityinbothboxes means acer Chadli yes, that one Dortmund forsecondspot. Diabydepartedfor Lisbon Bruggeare setfor bottom spot.
RO A Atleti canclear first jump bet3 5 BetBright Betfair Betfred Betway Boyles Coral Hills Lads Power Sky Bet 1 Bet Atletico Madrid 1-2 1-2 4-9 4-9 8-15 4-9 4-7 8-15 4-7 4-9 1-2 1-2 VERDICT Simeone’s side gained some postponed for hours following Dortmund 10-3 33311-4 10-3 15-8 5-2 15-8 311-4 3 compensation by reigning an attackonthe Borussiateam Monaco 511-2 11-2 6511-2 8 6 8 11-2 13-2 11-2 supreme in theEuropa League. bus whichinjured MarcBartra. Club Brugge 33 40 40 28 33 40 33 40 33 40 40 35 ATLETICOMADRID made amess Atletico have already beaten Both sideshavechanged plenty Fixtures –today: Club Brugge vBorussia Dortmund, Monaco vAtletico Madrid; Oct3: of lastterm’sChampions League Real Madrid in theEuropean since and Monaco, who finished AtleticoMadridvClubBrugge, Borussia DortmundvMonaco; October24: Club Brugge v campaignand they have also Super Cup and arecapable of bottom of their group lastseason, Monaco,BorussiaDortmund vAtleticoMadrid; November 6: Monaco vClubBrugge, Atletico startedLaLigainshoddy fashion Madrid vBorussia Dortmund; November 28: AtleticoMadridvMonaco, Borussia Dortmund reaching alevel beyond their chief have been harder hit by the vClub Brugge; December 11: CubBruggevAtleticoMadrid, Monaco vBorussiaDortmund. this season, but they should still group rivals Borussia Dortmund departuresofKylian Mbappe, justify odds-on favouritism. and Monaco, while Club Brugge Bernardo Silva, Benjamin Mendy, them amorereliable defensive Recommendation Missing out to Chelsea and unit. Bruggehavenever qualified booked forbottomspot. Fabinho and morebesides. Atletico (1-2)&Barcelona Roma did notreadtoo badly The Dortmund-Monaco tussles Dortmund have notbeen at forthe knockout stages and the (Group B, 4-7) anyway as theItalians reached will bring backmemoriesoftheir their fluent bestbut Axel Witsel teamslook settofinish in market 1ptdouble Coral, Ladbrokes ntoine rie mann thesemi-finals,whileDiego 1 quarter-final whichwas and Thomas Delaney have made order. Racing Post Tuesday, September 18, 2018 7 8 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SPECIAL Tuesday,September 18,2018 racingpost.com RO MARK AN DON S RO DE
Manager Manager BARCELONA -1 Ernesto Valverde TOTTENHAM 5-1 Mauricio Pochettino Squaddetails Pos App Gls R Squaddetails 1M-A terStegenG4000 Theleagueisnot enough Pos App Gls R Spursneedtoraise game 13 Jasper Cillessen G0000 1HugoLloris G3000 30 IgnacioPenaG0000 13 Michel Vorm G2000 31 JokinEzkieta G0000 Barcelona have become the 22 Paulo GazzanigaG 0000 It has been adifficult summer 2NelsinhoD2000 Recent club record 2KieranTrippierD4100 Recent club record 3GerardPique D4010 kings of Spain, whichwould 12-13 13-14 14-1515-1 1 -1 1 -1 3Danny Rose D2(1) 010 forTottenham, who have been 12-13 13-14 14-1515-1 1 -1 1 -1 12 Rafinha D1000 have been perfectlyfinebut Europe SF F W F F F 4TobyAlderweireldD 4000 hit by significant delayson Europe F 1 32 1 32 16 15 ClementLenglet D0(1)0 00 5Jan Vertonghen D5100 18 JordiAlbaD4100 forthe fact that their arch- Domestic1st2nd 1st1st 2nd1st their newstadium and arethe Gr Figuresinboldsignify Europa League 6Davison SanchezD 3000 Domestic5th6th 5th3rd 2nd3rd 23 Samuel Umtiti D4010 rivals have been mopping up 15 Eric Dier D4010 onlyteam in this season’s 24 Thomas VermaelenD 0000 Previous twomeetings Figuresinbold signifyEuropaLeague four ChampionsLeague 16 KWalker-Peters D0000 Champions League notto 27 Juan MirandaD0000 Inter: Apr10(h) 1-0, Apr10(a) 1-3 24 SergeAurierD1(1) 000 Previous twomeetings 33 JorgeCuencaD0000 trophiesinthe past five years. 33 BenDaviesD3(1) 000 makeasigning. Barcelona: Apr82(a) 0-1, Apr82(h) 1-1 4IvanRakiticM4100 Tottenham: Apr82(h) 1-0, Apr82(a) 5SergiBusquetsM3(1) 000 During thesame period 1-1 7Heung-Min SonM0(2) 000 That has been followedby Inter: Mar 13 (a) 1-4, Mar 13 (h)3-0 8 Harry Winks M1(3)0 00 6Denis Suarez M0 000 Barca have claimed PSV: Dec97(a) 2-2, Dec97(h) 2-2 atough Champions League PSV: Mar 08 (a) 1-0, Mar 08 (h)0-1 8 ArthurM0(2) 000 11 Erik Lamela M0(2)1 00 16 SergiSamper M0 000 Champions League gloryjust 12 Victor WanyamaM0(1) 000 drawwiththe club desperately 20 SergiRoberto M4 000 once to leave theiconic Carles 17 MoussaSissoko M1 000 hoping to stillbeinthe 22 ArturoVidal M0(4)0 10 20 Dele Alli M4 100 26 CarlosAlena M0 000 Puyol furious 23 ChristianEriksen M5 000 competition to host 28 Ricard Puig M0 000 despite winning alverde to bring 27 LucasMoura M5 310 matches at the new yet another FA Cup 32 Monchu M0 000 continental 40 Luke Amos M0(1)0 00 semi-finalloss and 34 Alex Collado M0 000 four Spanish Cups 10 HarryKaneF5220 WhiteHartLane 35 Oriol Busquets M0 000 and threeLaLiga success. 18 Fernando LlorenteF 0(1) 000 afterthe grouup- ath ird-place 7PhilippeCoutinhoF 2(2) 100 Andres Iniesta 19 Mousa Dembele F3(2)0 10 leaguefinish, only 9LuisSuarez F4300 titles. stagefixtures at 10 Lionel Messi F4400 I think the headed to the Last season inEurope Wembley. increasedthe belief 11 OusmaneDembele F4300 FarEastand a 1st Bkgs Cnrs formanythatSpurs 14 Malcom F0(1)0 00 solution comes ChampionsLeaguelast16 Heading t o 19 Munir El HaddadiF 0(1) 000 from getting our stackofreserve Tottenham 1Juventus2 39 70 7 Wembley held no areanearlyside 29 Abel Ruiz F0000 players exited the Juventus 2Tottenham 2250 10 unable to take the priorities straight, Champions League groupstage fearsfor Spurslast Last season in Europe added Puyol club, enabling Tottenham 3ApoelNicosia0 20 40 11 season as theybeat next stepp. 1st Bkgs Cnrs BDortmund1Tottenham 2312018 ChampionsLeaguequarter-final following their latest them to beef up the Tottenham 3RealMadrid1 27 20 12 Dortmund anndReal However,nine of Roma 3Barcelona 0650 9 domestic doubleasBarca squad withthe arrivals Real Madrid 1Tottenham 128 2017 Madrid at theirpr temporary Tottenham’s ppllayersreached Barcelona4Roma1 38 20 17 ApoelNicosia0Tottenham 3393011 ChampionsLeaguelast16 lostjustonce in La Liga. of Arturo idal, Clement Tottenham 3BDortmund1 46510 home beforeexiting the theWorld Cupsemi-finals, Barcelona3Chelsea 0340 10 Lenglet, Malcom and Arthur. including triumphant France Chelsea1Barcelona 162507 However, their thirdstraight Champions League in ChampionsLeaguegroup stage Champions Leaguequarter- Barca arealwaysamassive unfortunatecircumstances captain HugoLloris and Barcelona2Sporting0 59 20 6 Juventus 0Barcelona 090505 finalelimination hurtmore threat withLionel Messi againstJuventus at thelast-16 Golden Bootwinner Harry Olympiakos 0Barcelona 0905016 than mostand thereis around but that is reflected in stage. Kane, and they should notbe Barcelona3Olympiakos 118 6511 Sporting 0Barcelona 149807 pressureonmanager Ernesto their odds. That defeat,combined with dismissed totally. Barcelona3Juventus0 45 60 10
Manager Manager SVEINDHOVEN 500-1 Mark vanBommel INTER 0-1 LucianoSpalletti Squad details Squad details PosApp Gls R Dutchdamnedbydraw PosApp Gls R Italians couldmix it up 1JeroenZoet G5000 93 Raffaele DiGennaroG 0000 13 Eloy Room G0000 1SamirHandanovicG 4000 31 Yanick vanOschG 0000 When PS trailed BateBorisov 27 DanielePadelliG0000 Theywerethe team to avoid 2NicholasI-Mirin D0000 Recent club record 46 TommasoBerni G0000 Recent club record 3AzizBehichD0(1) 000 1- in their Champions League 12-13 13-14 14-1515-1 1 -1 1 -1 59 Vladan DekicG0000 in potfour of theChampions 12-13 13-14 14-1515-1 1 -1 1 -1 4NickViergever D5210 playoff they could easily have Europe Gr Gr 32 16 Gr ual 2SimeVrsaljkoD1(1) 000 League and Inter’s arrival in Europe 1 - 1 - Gr - 5DanielSchwaab D5000 gone intopanic mode but they ual 6StefandeVrijD4110 Domestic 9th5th 8th4th 7th4th 6AngelinoD1000 13 Andrea Ranocchia D0000 Group Bhas made lifetricky composed themselvesto Domestic2nd4th 1st1st 3rd1st Figuresinboldsignify Europa League 8 JorritHendrix D5110 Figuresinboldsignify EuropaLeague 18 Kwadwo AsamoahD 3(1) 000 forBarcelona and Tottenham, Previous twomeetings 15 ArmandoObispoD 0000 comfortablyqualify forthe 23 MirandaD1010 who would have otherwise 20 TrentSainsbury D0(1) 000 Previous twomeetings 33 Danilo D’Ambrosio D4010 Barcelona: Apr10(a) 0-1, Apr10(h) 3-1 22 DenzelDumfries D5110 group stageand exorcise the Barcelona: Dec97(h) 2-2, Dec97(a) 2-2 37 MilanSkriniar D3000 fancied their chances of Tottenham: Mar 13 (h)4-1, Mar 13 (a) 33 Jordan Teze D0(1) 000 ghosts of seasons past. Inter: Dec07(h) 0-1, Dec07(a) 0-2 64 Ryan Nolan D0000 making easyprogress to the 0-3 36 Steven Theunissen D0000 99 Niccolo Corrado D0000 PS wererockedbyOsijek Tottenham: Mar 08 (h)0-1, Mar 08 (a) knockout phase. PSV: Dec07(a) 1-0, Dec07(h) 2-0 37 Maxime Soulas D0000 1-0 8 Matias Vecino M2(1)0 10 7Gaston PereiroM5400 in lastseason’s Europa League 14 RadjaNainggolan M2 100 Inter onlyjustscraped into 16 DanteRigoM1(2) 100 thirdqualifying round, 16 Matteo Politano M3(1) 000 18 Pablo RosarioM4010 20 BorjaValeroM0000 theChampions League–a 23 Bart Ramselaar M0(1) 000 following on from anightmare 40 LorenzoGavioli M0 000 dramaticcomebackwin 24 Ramon-PLundqvist M0 000 16 Champions PS asthey kept 44 Ivan PerisicM3(1) 200 over fourth-placed and KeitaBalde, while 25 ErickGutierrez M0(1) 100 65 MajRoric M0 000 28 Marlon FreyM0000 League campaign hold of their 67 Gabriele ZappaM0000 rivals Lazio on the MauroIcardi, Serie 30 Ryan Thomas M0 000 when they magnificent 77 MarceloBrozovicM 4010 final Serie A A’sjoint-top scorer 47 MauroJunior M0(2)0 00 finished bottom 87 Antonio CandrevaM 1(1) 100 9LuukdeJongF5300 Mexican 9Mauro Icardi F2(1)0 00 matchday from lastseason, 10 Maximiliano Romero F0(1) 000 of agroup Hirving 10 LautaroMartinezF 1(1) 000 secured their should be helped 11 HirvingLozanoF 5400 including Lozano and 11 KeitaBalde F2(1)0 00 in thegoal- 14 DonyellMalen F0(5)0 00 return to 17 Steven Bergwijn F5410 Rostov. addedhis Last season in Europe Europe’s elite getting stakes by 19 Cody GakpoF0000 Those results international Didnot qualify competition for newArgentinian This season in Europe highlight the midfield teammate thefirst time in six hitman Lautaro 1st Bkgs Cnrs Eredivisie’s worrying decline ChampionsLeagueplayoff ErickGutierrez. years–and the Martinez. PSV3BateBorisov 014305 –PS wonthe league lastterm Lozano and Steven Bergwijn erazzurri areinno The side already had Bate Borisov 2PSV 3960 8 –aseventhe biggestDutch arekey men in the - - used mood foraswiftexit. twoWorld Cup finalists in Last season in Europe clubs arelosing their top by Markvan Bommel,the new Radja ainggolanwas an Marcelo Brozovic and Ivan 1st Bkgs Cnrs Europa League thirdqualifying players early in their careers. head coachreplacing Phillip eye-catching arrival from Perisic plus arguablySerie A’s Osijek 1PSV Eindhoven0 25 70 13 That said,right-back PSVEindhoven 0Osijek1 57 40 13 Cocu, but thePhilips Stadion Roma,joinedbyplayers of the topdefenderin 1 -1 Milan SantiagoArias wasthe only side have been hammered by calibreofKwadwoAsamoah, Skriniar, so they willtestBarca significanton-field loss for thedraw. Stefan De rij,Sime rsaljko and Spurs.
RO Barcaset for12thinarow bet3 5 BetBright Betfair Betfred Betway Boyles Coral Hills Lads Power Sky Bet 1 Bet Barcelona 4-9 1-2 4-7 1-2 1-2 1-2 1-2 1-2 1-2 1-18 8-15 4-9 VERDICT champions PS Eindhovencould and areconsistentlyable to Tottenham 3 11-4 333311-4 11-4 11-4 4-6 11-4 3 pickuppoints aftermaintaining perform at this level having Inter 6645611-2 66611-10 6 13-2 theservicesofHirving Lozano. reached 11 straight Champions PSV 50 40 22 28 40 40 33 33 33 17-2 33 40 FEW teamscan matchBarcelona’s However, lastseason Barca League quarter-finals. Fixtures –today: BarcelonavPSV, IntervTottenham; October3: Tottenham vBarcelona, brilliance when it comes to breezed pastJuventus, ateam Spursovercame Real Madrid PSV vInter; October24: PSV vTottenham, Barcelona vInter, November 6: Tottenham v finishing topoftheir Champions who subsequently eliminated in lastseason’sgroup stage, PSV,Inter vBarcelona; November 28: PSV vBarcelona, Tottenham vInter, League group. The five-time Tottenham at thelast-16stage although theeventual champions December 11: BarcelonavTottenham, Inter vPSV. European winnershavewon their and theOld Lady also finished were in amessatthe time, and section in eachofthe last11 points ahead of Inter in Serie A. Mauricio Pochettino’s team have withdefeats to Sassuolo and Recommendation seasons and they candosoagain. Barca, withLionel Messi at the already suffereddefeats to Parma, andmay be at a Atletico (Group A, 1-2) This group will be trickier than heartofall their bestwork, have Watfordand Liverpool in the disadvantagetoSpurs,who are &Barcelona(4-7) most withTottenham andInter startedtheirLaLigatitle defence Premier League. settohead to Barcelona on 1ptdouble Coral, Ladbrokes usmane embele capable opponents while Dutch with 1 pointsfrom four matches Inter have also startedslowly, matchdaysix. Racing Post Tuesday, September 18, 2018 9 10 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SPECIAL Tuesday, September18, 2018 racingpost.com RO C MARK AN DON S RO DE
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Manager Pos AppGls R Manager Recent club record 17 Eric C-MotingF0000 12-13 13-14 14-1515-1 1 -1 1 -1 21 Timothy Weah F1(1) 110 Thomas Tuchel Carlo Ancelotti Europe 32 1 SF 32 16 32 27 Moussa DiabyF0(3) 100 Gr ual Gr Squad details Recent club record Squad details Domestic 2nd3rd 5th2nd 3rd2nd Figuresinbold signifyEuropaLeague Pos App Gls R 12-13 13-14 14-1515-1 1 -1 1 -1 PosApp Gls R 1GianluigiBuffon G2000 1AlexMeret G0000 16 Alphonse Areola G3000 Europe F F F F 16 16 25 DavidOspina G2000 Previous twomeetings 2Thiago SilvaD5000 Domestic1st1st 1st1st 2nd1st 27 Orestis Karnezis G2000 Figuresinboldsignify EuropaLeague Liverpool: Nov10(a) 1-3, Oct10(h) 0-0 3Presnel KimpembeD3000 2Kevin MalcuitD0000 ParisSt-Germain: No meetings 4ThiloKehrerD1(2) 010 Previous twomeetings 6Mario RuiD4010 5MarquinhosD4000 13 SebastianoLuperto D0(1) 000 RedStar: No meetings 12 Thomas Meunier D4010 Napoli: No meetings 19 Nikola Maksimovic D1000 13 Dani Alves D0000 Liverpool: Apr97(a) 0-2, Apr97(h) 3-0 21 Vlad ChirichesD0000 Last seasoninEurope 14 Juan Bernat D1000 RedStar: No meetings 23 Elseid HysajD4000 1st Bkgs Cnrs 20 Layvin KurzawaD 0000 26 KalidouKoulibalyD4 010 Europa League last 32 31 ColinDagba D2000 Last season in Europe 31 Faouzi GhoulamD 0000 RB Leipzig0Napoli 232606 32 KevinRimaneD0000 33 Raul Albiol D3000 Napoli 1RBLeipzig 3522010 34 StanleyN’SokiD2(1) 010 1st Bkgs Cnrs 5Allan M4 010 Champions League last 16 Champions League group stage 6Marco Verratti M1 000 ParisSt-G. 1RealMadrid2 51 65 15 8Fabian Ruiz Pena M0 000 Feyenoord 2Napoli1 25510 19 LassanaDiarra M2 000 Real Madrid 3Paris St-G.1 33 60 15 17 MarekHamsikM3000 Napoli 3Shakhtar 0565011 23 Julian DraxlerM1(3) 100 20 PiotrZielinski M4 210 Napoli 2Man City 4213010 Champions League group stage ManCity2Napoli1 9509 24 ChristopherNkunku M2(3)0 00 BMunich3Paris St-G.1 8608 30 MarkoRog M0(3)0 10 25 Adrien Rabiot M5 120 42 AmadouDiawara M1(2)0 10 Napoli 3Feyenoord 1750 7 ParisSt-G. 7Celtic1 1207 Shakhtar 2Napoli1 15 50 11 28 Antoine BernedeM 2000 ParisSt-G. 5Anderlecht 0300 10 7JoseCallejon F3000 29 Yacine Adli M0 000 Anderlecht 0Paris St-G.4 3407 9SimoneVerdi F1000 Champions League qualifying 7Kylian Mbappe F2(1) 411 ParisSt-G. 3BMunich0 25019 11 Adam OunasF0(2) 000 Nice 0Napoli2 48 30 11 9Edinson Cavani F3300 Celtic 0Paris St-G.5 19 30 7 14 DriesMertens F1(3)1 00 Napoli 2Nice0 13 60 11 10 Neymar F4410 24 LorenzoInsigne F4210 11 AngelDiMaria F5200 99 ArkadiuszMilik F3(1) 100 Big-spenders look set tofreezeout Ancelotti
VERDICT RO C bet3 5 BetBright BetfairBetfredBetwayBoyles Coral HillsLadbrokes PPowerSky Bet1 Bet APOLI have brought in triple PSG 10-11 9-10 Evs Evs 9-10 10-11 5-6 Evs 5-6 Evs Evs 11-13 EuropeanCup-winning coach Liverpool 11-8 11-8 6-4 13-8 11-8 11-8 7-5 11-8 7-5 6-4 5-4 26-19 Carlo Ancelotti in abid to improve Napoli 66446665 6 456 ontheiraverage Champions Red Star Belgrade 150 100 66 40 100 100 150 50 150 66 100 150 Leaguerecordbut they could fall Fixtures –today: LiverpoolvPSG,Red Star vNapoli; October3: PSGvRed Star Belgrade, shors tinahot section alongside Napoli vLiverpool; October24: PSGvNapoli, LiverpoolvRed Star Belgrade; ParisP St-Germain and Liverpool. November 6: Red Star Belgrade vLiverpool, Napoli vPSG; November 28: PSGvLiverpool, This willbe apoli’sfifth Napoli vRed Star Belgrade; December 11: LiverpoolvNapoli, RedStar Belgrade vPSG. Champions League attempt in the lasteight years, reaching thelast attackwith eymar and Kylian thecompetition alight lastseason, 16twice but never going further, Mbappe either side of Edinson scoring tengoals each. and Ancelotti’s arrival may Cavani and Liverpool’s forward Ancelotti’s team look booked actuallybeaproblem as theteam line of Sadio Mane, Mohamed forthird placeand ajourneyto moveawayfromthe styleofplay Salah and Roberto Firmino set theEuropa League. adoptedbyformer boss Maurizio RedStarBelgrade area Sarri. dominantdomestic forcein apoli have alivelyfront three Serbia but along wayout of their tochoose from withLorenzo depth. Insigne, Jose Callejon, Dries They were outplayed by Mertens and Arkadiusz Milik Salzburginthe lastoftheir four jostlingfor theforward positions, qualifying successes. but it is nowherenear the standardset by their chief rivals Recommendation ylian forf twoqualifying spots. Napoli to finishthird 1pt4-5 SkyBet Mbappe ParisSt-Germain arebuilt to apoli s ries Mertens Racing Post Tuesday, September 18, 2018 11
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Recent club record Pos AppGls R Manager Manager 19 Nikola Stojiljkovic F2(1) 200 12-13 13-14 14-1515-1 1 -1 1 -1 Vladan Milojevic 22 Jonathan CafuF2(1) 100 JurgenKlopp Europe 32 - 32 F -F 28 DejanJoveljic F1(2)1 10 Gr Squaddetails 31 BenNabouhaneF1(2) 300 Squad details Domestic 7th2nd 6th8th 4th4th 99 Richmond BoakyeF 1200 13 Alisson G5000 Figuresinbold signifyEuropaLeague. Pos App Gls R Recent club record 22 Simon MignoletG 0000 Previous twomeetings 1Zoran PopovicG3000 2Nathaniel ClyneD0000 27 NemanjaSupic G0000 12-13 13-14 14-1515-1 1 -1 1 -1 4 Virgilvan Dijk D5010 Napoli: Nov10(h) 3-1, Oct10(a) 0-0 82 MilanBorjanG4 0 00 Europe PO ual - ual PO 32 6Dejan Lovren D0000 ParisSt-G: Apr97(h) 2-0, Apr97(a) 0-3 5Milos nDege ek D5(1)0 00 ual 12 JoeGomezD5000 15 Srdan Babic D5220 18 AlbertoMoreno D0000 RedStar: Nov73(h) 1-2, Nov73(a) 1-2 Domestic 2nd1st 2nd1st 1st1st 23 MilanRodic D3110 Figuresinboldsignify Europa League 26 Andrew RobertsonD 5000 Last season in Europe 25 StrahinjaErakovic D0000 32 Joel MatipD0(3) 000 Previous twomeetings 66 TrentAlex-Arnold D5030 1st Bkgs Cnrs 30 FilipStojkovic D2000 3Fabinho M0 000 ChampionsLeaguefinal 37 Rashid SumailaD 2010 Napoli: No meetings 5GeorginioWijnaldum M5 100 Real Madrid 3Liverpool 1511014 77 MarkoGobeljic D5(2)1 10 Liverpool: Nov73(a) 2-1, Nov73(h) 2-1 ChampionsLeaguesemi-final 90 Vujadin SavicD2000 7James Milner M5 110 ParisSt-Germain: No meetings 8NabyKeita M4(1) 000 Roma 4 Liverpool2 95010 93 Aleksa TerzicD2000 14 Jordan HendersonM 1(4) 000 Liverpool5Roma2 35 50 11 3BrankoJovicic M4(1)0 10 This season in Europe ChampionsLeaguequarter-final 20 Adam LallanaM0(1) 000 7Nenad Krsticic M2(1)0 00 1st Bkgs Cnrs 23 Xherdan Shaqiri M0(2)0 00 ManCity1Liverpool 2260 11 8Dejan MelegM3(1) 000 ChampionsLeagueplayoff 9Roberto FirminoF 5200 Liverpool3Man City 012508 11 LorenzoEbecilioM 4 0 00 RB Salzburg 2Red Star 2456012 10 SadioManeF5400 ChampionsLeaguelast16 14 SlavoljubSrnic M3(1) 100 RedStar 0RBSalzburg0 90 30 7 Liverpool0Porto 090304 11 MohamedSalah F5200 17 MarkoMarin M1 100 ChampionsLeaguethird qualifying 15 Daniel SturridgeF0(4) 100 Porto0Liverpool5 25 07 SpartakTrnava1Red Star 261008 ChampionsLeaguegroup stage 20 GoranCausicM1100 27 Divock OrigiF0000 21 Veljko SimicM2(3) 110 RedStar 1Spartak Trnava 1233010 29 DominicSolankeF 0000 Liverpool7Spartak Moscow 04 30 6 ChampionsLeaguesecond qualifying Sevilla3Liverpool 3250 13 29 Dusan Jovancic M6 110 FK Suduva 0Red Star 2810 3 Liverpool3NKMaribor 0492019 33 MilanJevtovicM4(1) 100 RedStar 3FKSuduva0 23 10 8 NK Maribor0Liverpool 7430 9 40 Stefan CvetkovicM 0000 ChampionsLeaguefirstqualifying SpartakMoscow 1Liverpool 123307 9Milan Pavkov F3(1) 300 RedStar 2SpartaksJurmala 0785012 Liverpool2Sevilla 2575 13 Spartaks Jurmala0Red Star 090307
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Manager Manager SCHAL E 50-1 DomenicoTedesco GALATASARAY 500-1 FatihTerim Squad details Squad details Teddy’sboysare rocking PosApp Gls R Lions’ denwill be crucial Pos AppGls R 1FernandoMuslera G5000 1Ralf FahrmannG3000 13 Ismail Cipe G0000 35 Alexander NubelG 0000 Schalke’s sporting director 19 Omer Bayram D0000 Four proved to be themagic 3HamzaMendyl D1010 Recent club record 2Mariano D4(1) 020 Recent club record 5MatijaNastasic D2011 Christian Heidel is notafraid 12-13 13-14 14-1515-1 1 -1 1 -1 3Maicon D4000 number forGalatasaray as 12-13 13-14 14-1515-1 1 -1 1 -1 14 Baba RahmanD2000 to give young coaches a Europe 16 16 16 32 F - 4SerdarAzizD2200 they finished topafter atitanic Europe F 16 Gr 32 - ual 17 BenjaminStambouli D0000 chance. Domestic 4th3rd 6th5th 10th 2nd 5Ahmet Yilmaz CalikD 3000 Turkish title tussle. Gr 26 Salif SaneD3010 Figuresinboldsignify EuropaLeague 14 Martin LinnesD1000 29 Naldo D3000 Domestic 1st2nd 1st6th 4th1st He did justthat at his Previous twomeetings 15 Ryan Donk D3010 Therewerefour teams Figuresinboldsignify Europa League 32 Niklas WiemannD 0000 previousclub Mainz, 43 Ozan KabakD1(1) 000 gunning forthe championship 2Weston McKennie M2 010 Galatasaray: Mar 13 (h)2-3, Feb13(a) 55 Yuto NagatomoD 5010 Previous twomeetings 6OmarMascarell M0 000 appointing Jurgen Klopp who 1-1 17 BadouNdiayeM1000 beforeGala became Lokomotiv Moscow: Oct02(h) 1-2, 8SuatSerdarM1(1) 000 wasthen and replacing Lokomotiv Moscow: No meetings 7Garry RodriguesM2(1) 220 champions by four points Sep02(a) 2-0 10 NabilBentaleb M2(1)1 00 8SelcukInanM0(2) 000 Porto: No meetings 11 YevhenKonoplyankaM1 001 him withThomas Tuchel then Porto: Mar 08 (a) 0-1, Feb08(h) 1-0 under theguidance of coach 10 Younes BelhandaM 3(1) 011 Schalke: Mar 13 (a) 3-2, Feb13(h) 1-1 13 SebastianRudyM 2000 but Heidel’s job wason 20 Emre Akbaba M3(1) 200 FatihTerim, whowas 18 Daniel CaligiuriM 3000 25 Fernando M4 110 25 AmineHarit M1(1) 000 theline at Schalkefollowing 89 Sofiane Feghouli M0(2)0 00 reappointed in December for 27 Jannis KublerM0000 adisappointing startwhen 9ErenDerdiyokF5300 his fourth stintasboss. 28 Alessandro Schopf M0(1) 010 he took the 1-year- Tedesco awokea 11 SinanGumus F5100 Home form was key as this summer sawjust 39 BenjaminGollerM 0000 21 HenryOnyekuruF 4(1) 200 7MarkUth F3010 old Domenico sleepinggiant with 35 YunusAkgun F0(2)0 00 as theLions were threeforeignersjoin 9FrancoDiSanto F1000 asecond-placed 88 Mugdat Celik F0(1) 000 – experienced full- 15 AhmedKutucuF0000 Tedesco to crowned kings off 19 Guido BurgstallerF 2(1) 010 Gelsenkirchen. Bundesliga Last season inEurope thejungle –Gala backYuto 22 Steven SkrzybskiF 0000 Tedesco had finish, afine 1st Bkgs Cnrs won16and drew agatomo made 23 Cedric Teuchert F0(2)0 00 Europa League second qualifying 36 BreelEmboloF1(2) 110 finished topof achievement Galatasaray1Ostersunds1 60 50 - one of their 1 his loan deal Last season in Europe theclass at one even if Schalke Ostersunds 2Galatasaray 06840- home contests permanentand Didnot qualify of Germany’stop were adistant and the Papa diaye and coaching finishing fourth according intimidating HenryOnyekuru schools, ahead even to expected goals. Istanbul arena arrived on loan from of Julian agelsmann, Tedesco’s strength could be influential Stokeand Everton butitwas still ariskfor the washis abilitytonullify in atight Champpioionsns rerespectivelspe y. Italian-bornnovicewhose only opponentsand another League group. Onyekuru will be crucial previous senior work came in tactical masterclass will be However, gone arethe days forgoals, replacingBafetimbi Bundesliga atErzgebirge needed afterLeon Goretzka when Turkish teams could Gomis, who wasTurkey’stop Aue. andThiloKehrerleftfor compete financiallywithmost scorer lastseason with but The gamble paid offas Bayern and PSG respectively. of Europe foroverseas players has since leftfor Al-Hilal.
RO D Portobestofabad bunch bet3 5 BetBright BetfairBetfredBetwayBoyles Coral HillsLadbrokes PPowerSky Bet1 Bet Porto 5-4 5-4 17-10 11-8 6-4 5-4 7-5 7-5 7-5 17-10 13-8 23-17 VERDICT forthe rdtime, and they have onlytwice in sevenleague Schalke 226-4 7-4 15-8 15-8 7-4 13-8 7-4 6-4 15-8 24-13 progressed through to thelast16 matches this season. Lokomotiv 11-2 510-3 59-2 11-2 9-2 59-2 10-3 45 in threeoftheir lastfourattempts. Theyalso lostthe Russian Galatasaray 511-2 6 5511-2 511-2 5 6 9-2 5 IF GROUP Cwas thegroup of The Portuguese champions Super Cup to CSKA Moscowand Fixtures –today: Galatasaray vLokomotivMoscow, SchalkevPorto; October3: Lokomotiv deaththen thenextone is the sufferedasurprise defeat to don’t appear to have strengthened Moscow vSchalke, PortovGalatasaray; October24: LokomotivMoscow vPorto,Galatasaray groupoflifeand this shocking itoria Guimaraes early in the to makeanassault on Europe. vSchalke; November 6: PortovLokomotiv Moscow,SchalkevGalatasaray; November 28: selection of weak outfits looks at season but they remain dangerous Schalkewerefortunateto Lokomotiv Moscow vGalatasaray,Porto vSchalke; December 11: Galatasaray vPorto, SchalkevLokomotiv Moscow. themercy of Porto, who at least withHectorHerrera andYacine sneak second in lastterm’s come withsome European Brahimi in their ranks. Bundesligaand have regressed pedigree in recent campaigns. Topseeds Lokomotiv surprised in this campaignwithjusttwo departureofLeonGoretzkato Recommendation Bayern Munich. If Schalkedon’t o team have played in the manybyclaiming theRussian goals and no pointsonthe board Porto Champions League moreoften titlelastseason but they have in their openingthree league wake up sharpishGalatasaray, 1pt17-10 Betfair, PaddyPower orto s acine rahimi than Porto, who areatthis level failed to build on that, winning fixtures following thekey could push them forqualification. Racing Post Tuesday,September 18,2018 13 S READ SE Shakhtar KEVIN PULLEIN Liverpool’srun targeting to finalmay be knockouts catalyst formore
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Champions League Group C Player goals Sporting Index Sporting Index 1 to 1 .There wasalsoa Andeachofthose countries Vecino 3-6 Keita 7-10 Sporting Index Sporting Index Spanish team in thefirstseven hasbeenmorelikelytoprovide index Emmers 3-6 Messi 8-8.5 Fabinho 5-8 PSG 16-17.5 Gagliardini 2.5-5 finals,between 1 6 and1 6 . afinalistifitwas also represented Sporting Index Ronaldo 8-8.5 Nkunku 4-7 Liverpool 13.5-15 Winks 2.5-5 Real Madrid wasthe in thepreviousfinal than if it was Manchester City 43-46 Lewandowski 6.5-7 Adli 4-7 Napoli 8-9.5 Sissoko 2.5-5 Barcelona 41-44 Alves 3-6 commonestSpanish name in not. Red Star Belgrade 0.25-1 Neymar 5.5-6 Ranocchia 2-4 Real Madrid 36-39 Kurzawa 3-6 Bale 5.5-6 Davies 2-4 Group D Meunier 3-6 uventus 36-39 Salah 5.5-6 Sanchez 2-4 Wijnaldum 3-6 Bayern Munich 35-38 Sporting Index Aguero 5.5-6 Dier 2-4 Matip 3-6 PSG 32-35 Porto 13-14.5 Kane 5-5.5 Dembele 2-4 Atletico Madrid 29-32 Schalke 11-12.5 Griezmann 4-4.5 D’Ambrosio 2-4 Henderson 3-6 Liverpool 27-30 Galatasaray 7-8.5 Lukaku 3.5-4 Skriniar 1-3 Dijk 3-6 Tottenham 20-23 Lokomotiv Moscow 6.5-8 Inter vTottenham Miranda 1-3 Robertson 2.5-5 Manchester United 16-19 Asamoah 1-3 Milner 2.5-5 Group E BT Sport 3, 5.55pm Alexander-Arnold 2.5-5 Roma 15-18 Rose 1-3 Sporting Index Sporting Index Diarra 2.5-5 Borussia Dortmund 12-15 Aurier 1-3 Bayern Munich 22-23.5 Tottenham/Inter (h) 0-0.2 Clyne 2-4 Porto 11-14 Benfica 7.5-9 Total goals 2.45-2.65 Liverpool vPSG Rabiot 2-4 Napoli 8-11 Ajax 6.5-8 Shirt numbers 21-24 Bernat 2-4 Schalke 8-11 BT Sport 2, 8pm AEK Athens 1.5-3 Bookings index 38-42 Verratti 2-4 Benfica 7-10 Sporting Index Total corners 10.25-10.75 Silva 2-4 Inter 6.5-8.5 Group F Time of first goal 36-39 Liverpool/PSG 0.2-0.4 Total goals 3.3-3.5 Kehrer 2-4 Valencia 6-8 Sporting Index Time of first Igoal 53.5-56.5 Shirt numbers 29-32 Lyon 6-8 Time of first Tgoal 53-56 Manchester City 22.5-24 Bookings index 38-42 Champions League Monaco 6-8 Lyon 6-7.5 Multi-corners 26-29 Shirt sup (T/I) 1-2 Total corners 10.25-10.75 matches Ajax 6-8 Shakhtar Donetsk 4.5-6 Time of first goal 29.5-32 Bookings sup (T/I) -1-2 8pm unless stated Sporting Index Lokomotiv Moscow 4.5-6.5 Hoffenheim 4-5.5 Time of first Lgoal 44-47 Corners sup (I/T) 1.5-2.5 Barcelona/PSV 5.55pm 2.7-2.9 Galatasaray 4.5-6.5 Time of first PSG goal 49-52 Group G Inter 25 10 index 10.5-12 Hoffenheim 3.5-5.5 Multi-corners 26-29 Total goals 3.95-4.15 Tottenham 25 10 index 11.5-13 Time of first home goal 27.5-30.5 Shakhtar Donetsk 3.5-5.5 Sporting Index Shirt sup (L/PSG) 1-4 Real Madrid 21-22.5 Inter performance 36-40 Time of first away goal 68-71 CSKA Moscow 1.5-3 Bookings sup (PSG/L) 6-10 Roma 11-12.5 Tottenham performance 40-44 AEK Athens 0.5-2 Corners sup (L/PSG) 1.5-2.5 Dortmund/C Brugge (h) 0.65-08.5 CSKA Moscow 4-5.5 Performance scoring systems 25 win, 10 Viktoria Plzen 0.25-1.75 Liverpool 25 10 index 12.75-14.25 Total goals 2.9-3.1 Viktoria Plzen 1-2.5 draw, 15 per goal, 10 clean sheet, 3per corner, PSG 25 10 index 9.5-11 Time of first home goal 56-59 PSV 0.25-1.75 -5 per yellow card, -15 per red card. Liverpool performance 52-56 Time of first away goal 43-46 Club Brugge 0.25-1.75 Group H PSG performance 33-37 Red Star Belgrade 0-1 Sporting Index Goal minutes Napoli/Red Star (h) 1.2-1.4 Young Boys 0-1 uventus 19-20.5 Sporting Index Goal minutes Total goals 2.6-2.8 100 75 50 25 10 Manchester United 11-12.5 Kane 27-30 Sporting Index Time of first home goal 66.5-69.5 Valencia 6.5-8 Icardi 24-27 Salah 28-31 Time of first away goal 42-45 Group Aindex Young Boys 0.5-2 Martinez 14-17 Neymar 21-24 Schalke/Porto 0.1ch Sporting Index 25 10 5 Llorente 13-16 Mane 20-23 Total goals 2.5-2.7 Atletico Madrid 18.5-20 Balde 10-13 Cavani 20-23 Time of first home goal 52.5-55.5 Borussia Dortmund 10.5-12 Tournament Perisic 9-12 Sturridge 19-22 Alli 9-12 Time of first away goal 53-56 Monaco 7-8.5 totals Solanke 18-21 Moura 9-12 Firmino 18-21 Galatasaray/Lokomotiv 0.45-0.65 Club Brugge 1-2.5 125 matches Sporting Index Eriksen 8-11 Mbappe 15-18 Total goals 2.4-2.6 Goals 370-380 Group B Candreva 7-10 Bahebeck 14-17 Time of first home goal 48.5-51.5 Corners 1230-1270 Lamela 7-10 Weah 14-17 Time of first away goal 59.5-62.5 Sporting Index Yellow cards 470-480 Valero 6-9 Choupo-Moting 11-14 Barcelona 19-20.5 Red cards 22-23.5 Nainggolan 6-9 Sha iri 10-13 Atl Madrid/Monaco (h) 0.6-0.8 Tottenham 11-12.5 Headed goals 64-67 Brozovic 5-8 Lallana 8-11 Total goals 2.3-2.5 Inter 6.5-8 Own goals 14-15 Politano 5-8 Maria 7-10 Time of first home goal 62-65 PSV 0.5-2 Hat-tricks 5.5-6.5 Mario 3-6 Draxler 7-10 Time of first away goal 48-51 Liverpooland ames Milnerreachedlastyear s nal 14 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SPECIAL Tuesday, September 18, 2018 racingpost.com Racing Post Tuesday, September 18, 2018 15 16 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SPECIAL Tuesday, September18, 2018 racingpost.com TO SCORER
Mo alah HOTSHOTS STAT ACK Last season’s top scorers Champions League AEKAthens SAraujo* 11 highest average MLivaja 8 shots per game Ajax DNeres 14 1 CRonaldo 6.3 Atletico Madrid AGriezmann19 2 HKane 4.6 Barcelona LMessi 34 3 LMessi 4.4 4 RLewandowski 4.2 Bayern Munich RLewandowski29 5 PDybala 4.1 Benfica Jonas 34 6 Neymar 4 BDortmund P-EAubameyang*13 MPhilipp 9 7 EDzeko 3.8 Club Brugge ADiaby*15 =7 P-EAubameyang* 3.8 RVormer 13 RO A E ENA TY TAKERS 9 QPromes 3.6 CSKA Moscow Vitinho* 10 AEKAthens PMantalos =9 H-MSon 3.6 FChalov* 6 Ajax DTadic Most Champions League Galatasaray BGomis* 29 Atletico Madrid AGriezmann assists GMendesRodriguez 9 Barcelona LMessi/L Suarez 1 JMilner 8 Hoffenheim MUth*14 2 RFirmino 7 AKramaric 13 Bayern Munich RLewandowski 3 DAlli, KDeBruyne 4 Benfica Jonas/E Salvio Inter MIcardi 29 MSalah, Marcelo BorussiaDortmund MReus Juventus PDybala22 Premier League highest Liverpool MSalah 32 Club Brugge JVossen/KRezaei average shots per game CSKA Moscow AHernandez LokomotivMoscow JFarfan10 1 HKane 5 Galatasaray Unknown Lyon MDepay 19 2 MSalah 4 Hoffenheim AKramaric Manchester City SAguero21 3 SAguero 3.8 Inter MIcardi Manchester United RLukaku 16 Ligue 1highest average Monaco RFalacao 18 Juventus CRonaldo shots per game Napoli DMertens 18 Liverpool JMilner 1 Neymar 4.5 ParisSt-Germain ECavani 28 LokomotivMoscow MFernandes 2 MBalotelli* 3.9 Porto MMarega 22 Lyon NFekir/M Depay 3 FThauvin* 3.7 Manchester City SAguero PSVEindhoven HLozano17 Bundesliga highest Real Madrid CRonaldo*26 Manchester United PPogba average shots per game GBale 16 Monaco RFalcao 1 RLewandowski 4.2 RedStarBelgrade APesic 25 Napoli DMertens 2 TWerner* 3 RBoakye15 ParisSt-Germain Neymar 3 MGregoritsch* 2.9 Roma EDzeko16 Porto VAboubakar/ATelles Schalke G Burgstaller 11 Serie Ahighest average PSVEindhoven GPereiro shots per game Shakhtar Donetsk FFerreyra 21 Real Madrid SRamos 1 LInsigne 4.8 Marlos 18 RS Belgrade RBoakye/El Fardou Ben 2 EDzeko 4.2 Tottenham H Kane 30 Roma DPerotti/D De Rossi 3 PDybala 3.5 Valencia Rodrigo16 Schalke NBentaleb Viktoria Plzen MKrmencik 16 La Liga highest average Shakhtar Donetsk Marlos shots per game YoungBoys G Hoarau15 Tottenham HKane 1 CRonaldo 6.6 *Nolongeratclub. Players in italicsare thetop scorers Valencia DParejo 2 LMessi 5.5 amongplayers still at theclub; Viktoria Plzen MKrmencik 3 LSuarez 3.7 playersinboldwon theirdomestic Golden Boot. YoungBoys GHoarau *Playernot in this season’s competition
CHAM ONS EA ETO SCORERS 2017-18 2015-16 2013-14 GoalsBest odds GoalsBest odds GoalsBest odds 15 1 CRonaldo Real Madrid 5-1 16 1 CRonaldo Real Madrid 7-2 17 1 CRonaldo Real Madrid 7-2 10 =2 MSalah Liverpool40-1 92RLewandowski Bayern 16-1 2012-13 10 =2 SMane Liverpool40-1 8=3 LSuarez Barcelona9-1 GoalsBest odds 10 =2 RFirmino Liverpool50-1 8=3 TMuller Bayern 25-1 12 1 CRonaldo Real Madrid 6-1 2016-17 2014-15 2011-2012 GoalsBest odds GoalsBest odds GoalsBest odds 121CRonaldo Real Madrid 9-2 10 =1 Neymar Barcelona 33-1 14 1 LMessi Barcelona3-1 11 2 LMessi Barcelona 5-1 10 =1 CRonaldo RMadrid3-1 8=3 ECavani PSG 40-1 10 =1 LMessi Barcelona5-1 2010-2011 GoalsBest odds 8=3 RLewandowski Bayern 9-1 94LAdriano Shakhtar N/A 121LMessi Barcelona15-2 obertLe ando s i should getplenty of chances as thefocal point of ayern s attac Racing Post Tuesday, September 18, 2018 17
CHAM ONS EA ETO SCORER LAST 3 EARS bet3 5 BetBright Betfair Betfred Betway Boyles Coral Hills Ladbrokes PPower Sky Bet 1 Bet Prolific Pole 26/37/34 Messi Barcelona 5 - 4 5 9-2 5 9-2 - 9-2 49-2 5 35/25/26 Ronaldo Juventus 6 - 7 6665- 5 7 65 24/20/21 Aguero Manchester City 7 - 713-2 715-2 8 - 8 777 14/15/32 Salah Liverpool 11 - 12 91111 12 - 12 12 11 11 30/30/29 Lewandowski Bayern Munich 12 - 12 10 12 10 10 - 10 12 12 11 primed to end 24/13/19 Neymar Paris St-Germain 14 - 14 10 11 14 16 - 16 14 14 14 25/29/30 Kane Tottenham 14 - 12 12 14 14 16 - 16 12 16 14 19/35/28 Cavani Paris St-Germain 16 - 16 16 14 16 16 - 16 16 16 16 1/15/0 13 Mbappe Paris St-Germain 16 - 16 16 16 16 16 - 16 16 16 16 19/7/16 Bale Real Madrid 16 - 12 12 14 16 20 - 20 12 16 16 Ronaldo’sreign 40/29/25 Suarez Barcelona 20 - 20 20 20 20 10 - 10 20 20 20 22/16/19 Griezmann Atletico Madrid 25 - 25 25 25 25 33 - 33 25 25 25 24/11/5 Benzema Real Madrid 33 - 25 25 25 25 25 - 25 25 33 30 12/7/13 esus Man City 25 - 25 20 20 33 33 - 33 25 33 25 HE CHAMPIO S small matter of thederby with and theBundesligagiants - - LEAGUE top Torino and ahomeclash with usuallyset astrong standardin 18/25/16 Lukaku Man td 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 30 goalscorer market Roma beforeabusy Christmas theChampions League withsix 11/13/10 Mane Liverpool 33 - 33 40 33 33 33 - 33 33 33 30 has been alicence to period whichseesSerie A semi-final appearances in the 12/20/0 3 D Costa Atletico Madrid 50 - 33 40 40 40 33 - 33 33 40 50 T - - print moneyfor breaking withtradition to play past seven years. 10/11/15 Firmino Liverpool 50 50 50 40 66 66 66 50 50 50 Cristiano Ronaldo backers in on Boxing Dayand another Lewandowski has notched 25/1/18 Mariano Real Madrid 50 --66 - 66 66 - 66 - 50 50 recent years. round of fixtures before 1 times in Champions League 8/29/16 Dzeko Roma 66 - 66 66 66 66 50 - 50 66 66 60 Ronaldo has finished topof starts. matches, claiming theeach-way - - thecharts on his owninfiveof Messi is clearly moresettled moneyintwo of thepastthree 16/24/29 Icardi Inter 66 66 50 66 66 66 66 66 66 60 thelastsix yearsand in the in his role at Barcelona and years, and thereisnot ahuge 6/7/18 Sterling Man City 66 - 66 66 50 66 66 - 66 66 50 60 other season he dead-heated deservestobefavouritebut the amount of competition for 20/5/8 Muller Bayern Munich 66 - 66 66 50 66 50 - 50 66 66 70 with eymar and Lionel Messi group matches withInter,PS places in termsofthe striking 8/13/7 8 Coutinho Barcelona 66 - 66 80 50 66 66 - 66 - 66 70 who, muchlikehis greatrival, Eindhovenand Tottenham role at theAllianz Arena. 3/10/7 Isco Real Madrid 100 - 80 80 - 100 100 - 100 80 100 100 also has agreat recordinthis could have been mucheasier The averageSandroWagner 13/24/7 2 Sanchez Man td 100 - 100 100 - 100 66 - 66 100 100 100 betting heat. and his lastsolotriumph in this is next in line to challenge - - - Messi won four Champions marketwas in 1 . Lewandowski’s starting place at 21/5/5 Milik apoli 100 100 100 100 66 66 100 100 100 League Golden Boots in arow That mayhavesomething to Bayern and thePole showedhis 19/11/22 Dybala Juventus 100 - 100 100 - 100 50 - 50 100 100 100 between and 1 , while do withMessi’s unselfish wellbeing this season witha 0 4/3/6 Asensio Real Madrid 100 - 100 66 - 100 100 - 100 100 100 100 thefirst of Ronaldo’s top-scorer nature, apoint once again Super Cup hat-trickagainst 7/8/7 Rodriguez Bayern Munich 100 - 150 125 - 100 50 - 50 150 100 100 effortswas backinhis Eintracht Frankfurt. He also rammed home earlier this 0 11/4/9 Martial Man td 150 - 150 100 - 150 150 - 150 150 150 150 ManchesterUnited days in season when he passed over takesBayern’spenalties which 5/28/18 Mertens apoli 150 - 150 80 - 150 66 - 66 150 150 150 . spot-kickduties to teammate is another major positive. 1 1 The lastplayerother than Luis Suarez despitebeing on a Lewandowski can rely upon Each-way /4 1,2,3,4 (Sky Bet /4 1,2,3; Betfair &Power win only) Others on request Messi or Ronaldo to win on hat-trickagainst Huesca. ace service from thelikes of their ownwas Kaka withMilan Suarez will need even more Arjen Robben, FranckRibery man to fill thevoid if thebig rivals ParisSt-Germain’s Kylian Bernabeu to make afaststart. in , but theduopolycould help to be in themix withtwo and James Rodriguez and twofall shortoftheir usual Mbappe, eymar and Edinson The same cannotbesaid for be over this term. of thegreatestfootballersever appearsbyfar themostlikely astronomical standards. Cavani is virtuallyimpossible - WorldCup Golden Bootwinner Ronaldo is themostruthless to have graced thesport taking theBrazilian takestheir Harry Kane.Hehas plenty in A CHESTER hitman in thehistory of the thescoring to newheights with penalties but has been used in a his favour,taking penalties and CITY should put competition with1 goalsand Ronaldo notching goals slightlydeeperrole at times this being undroppable at Spurs, yet their group- he has little to prove. However, across thelastthree Champions season by newboss Thomas their drawwithInter and Barca stageopponents he has leftReal Madrid for League competitions, M Tuchel. means Tottenham will have to to thesword but Juventus, who don’t playinthe but thereare Who takesonthe hit theground runningjustto Sergio Agueromay have to same swashbuckling styleand enough responsibility of replacing qualify. sharetimewithGabriel Jesus their group, alongside doubts to Ronaldo’s goalsatReal Madrid Inter hotshotMauroIcardi is and around Europe thereare ManchesterUnited and tentatively will be fascinating. aSerie Agoal machine with teams withasmanyasthree alencia, is tricky. glance KarimBenzema and Gareth tallies of , 16, and in Those banking on Ronaldo elsewhereon possible Golden Boot Bale have both been in fine thepastfour years. LikeKane will be hoping it’s men against this occasion. contenderswhichmay form in theembryonic stages of he is first-choice and on boys when JuvemeetYoung What punters harmall of their thenew season, although penalties but theodds suggest Boys and that could be thecase need is an elite chances. returning forwardMariano Icardi will getjustsix matches in Turin, although at even striker, playing up Liverpool’s front Diaz is unlikelytoget enough in thecompetition. theultra-fit Portuguese ace will front on his own trio of Mohamed starts to maj ke ama or impact Morefixtures areanticipated need some looking after. without the Salah, Roberto when it comes to winning the forAntoine Griezmann and The away trip to Switzerland likelihood of squad rotation, for Firmino and Sadio Champions League Golden Romelu Lukaku at Atletico is on matchdaysix and if Juve aclub in acomfortable group Mane all collected Boot. Madrid and ManchesterUnited arealready throughtothe last withthe potential to go deep in theeach-way Counting againstall of them respectively. 16 don’t expect Ronaldo to be thecompetition and adecent moneylastterm, is theprobability of Sergio However, theduo are given muchofarun on the Champions League pedigree. although Ramos taking over penalty handicapped by playing for artificial surface at the o ertLe ando s i of repeatingthose duties from Ronaldo, but Real defensive-minded managers. Wankdorf. 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Manager Manager BAYERN MUNICH 10-1 Niko Kovac BEN ICA 00-1 RuiVitoria Squad details PosApp Gls R Squad details 1ManuelNeuer G3000 Toughtestfor newcoach PosApp Gls R Eagles maybegrounded 26 Sven UlreichG0000 1MileSvilarG0000 36 ChristianFruchtlG0000 12 BrunoVarelaG0000 39 RonHoffmann G0000 The German national team 99 OVlachodimos G4000 Benficawrote unwanted 4NiklasSuleD2000 Recent club record Recent club record 5MatsHummels D1000 and Bayern Munichare so 2GermanConti D0000 history in lastseason’s 13 Rafinha D1000 12-13 13-14 14-1515-1 1 -1 1 -1 3Alejandro Grimaldo D4110 12-13 13-14 14-1515-1 1 -1 1 -1 17 JeromeBoateng D3000 intrinsicallylinkeditwill be Europe WSFSFSF FSF 6Ruben Dias D4010 Champions League, becoming Europe F F Gr F16Gr 27 DavidAlaba D2(1)0 00 fascinating to see whether Domestic1st1st 1st1st 1st1st 7Sebastien Corchia D0000 thefirst team from potone to Gr Gr 30 Maxime AwoudjaD 0000 Figuresinboldsignify EuropaLeague 15 Yuri Ribeiro D0000 Domestic 2nd1st 1st1st 1st2nd 33 LukasMai D0000 Bayern sufferaWorld Cup Previous twomeetings 25 CristianLemaD0000 end thecampaignpointless Figuresinboldsignify Europa League 6Thiago AlcantaraM 3000 hangover. 33 Jardel D4010 afterashambolic effort. 7FranckRiberyM2000 AEK Athens: No meetings 34 AndreAlmeida D4000 Previous twomeetings 8JaviMartinezM1(1) 000 Germany’s group-stage exit Ajax: Dec04(a) 2-2, Sep 04 (h)4-0 60 PedroAmaralD0000 It wasnot even as if thethen AEK Athens: Dec09(h) 2-1, Oct09(a) 10 ArjenRobben M2(1)2 00 65 Luis PinheiroD0000 0-1 11 JamesRodriguez M0(3)1 00 rocked their nation and Benfica: Apr16(a) 2-2, Apr16(h) 1-0 Portuguese champions were 75 Branimir Kalaica D0000 Ajax: Apr72(h) 0-0, Apr72(a) 0-1 18 Leon Goretzka M1(1) 100 Bayern,withseven current 97 FranciscoFerreiraD 0000 in agroup of death– 20 Woo-YeongJeongM0 000 Bayern Munich: Apr16(h) 2-2, Apr16 22 SergeGnabryM1(1) 000 players–Manuel euer,Mats 5Ljubomir FejsaM4000 Manchester United, CSKA (a) 0-1 23 Jonathan MeierM 0000 Hummels, Thomas Muller, 8Gabriel M0 000 Moscowand Basel were 24 Corentin TolissoM1(1) 100 11 Franco CerviM4010 32 Joshua KimmichM 3000 Leon Goretzka, iklas 16 Alfa Semedo M0(3)0 10 relatively 35 Renato SanchesM 0000 Sule, Jerome Boateng second-round exit. 18 Eduardo Salvio M3 100 limited fortunateto 37 MeritanShabani M0 000 20 FilipKrovinovicM 0000 2SandroWagnerF0000 and Joshua Theyremainthe 21 PizziM4400 opponents – surviveinhis 9RobertLewandowskiF 3200 Kimmich–part dominant force 61 Florentino M0 000 but theLisbon side role.e 25 Thomas Muller F3210 79 Joao FelixM0(3) 100 29 Kingsley ComanF 1000 of that Russian domestically, 83 Gedson FernandesM 4010 were pathetic, finishing The qualifyingwins 34 Oliver BMeier0 F 000 winning eachof 10 JonasF0000 overFenerbahce 38 Franck Evina F0000 fiasco and need withawoeful goal thelastsix 14 HarisSeferovic F1(1) 100 and PAOK were 40MaximilianFranzke F0000 to restoretheir 17 AndrijaZivkovic F0(3)0 10 difference of miinus Last season in Europe reputations. Bundesliga 19 FacundoFerreyraF 3110 1 . incredibly 1st Bkgs Cnrs There’sno titles butthey 27 Rafa F1(2)1 00 Therewe re important from a ChampionsLeaguesemi-final 30 NicolasCastilloF 0000 Real Madrid 2BMunich2 34017 better place than maynot be 70 Jose GomesF0000 several lowpoints financialpoint of BMunich 1RealMadrid2 28 30 13 theChampions improving at abig 73 Joao Filipe F0000 withtwo standing view to reachthe ChampionsLeaguequarter-final 77 Nuno Santos F0000 BMunich0Sevilla 0906510 League to do justthat enough ratetokeep up out, a - loss att Basel group stageoncemore Sevilla1BMunich 232509 ThisseasoninEurope ChampionsLeaguelast16 and Bayern’s recordinthe withEurope’s finest. and scoring moreown and hopesare high Besiktas 1BMunich3 18 50 8 1st Bkgs Cnrs BMunich 5Besiktas 043659 competition over thepastten Alow-key summer sawfree ChampionsLeagueplayoff goals two than goals one . 1 -year-oldJoao Felix could ChampionsLeaguegroup stage yearsisconsistently excellent transferGoretzkabecomethe PAOK Salonika 1Benfica4 13 85 10 Benfica also hadtodeal become thenextbig talent to BMunich3Paris St-G.1 8608 Benfica 1PAOKSalonika1 45 50 5 Anderlecht 1BMunich 251504 with one win,two runners-up biggestarrival andnew coach withmissing out to Portoin showcase his talents in Lisbon. Celtic 1BMunich2 22 09 ChampionsLeaguethirdqualifying BMunich 3Celtic0 17 10 15 spots, four semi-finals, ikoKovac is untestedatthis Fenerbahce 1Benfica1 26 60 9 thedomestic title race and However, thelast16looks ParisSt-G. 3BMunich0 25019 twoquarter-finals and one level. Benfica 1Fenerbahce 069407 coachRui itoria wasarguably theabsolutelimit forBenfica. BMunich 3Anderlecht 0126514
Manager Manager AJA 50-1 Erik tenHag AE ATHENS 750-1 Marinos Ouzounidis Squad details Squad details PosApp Gls R PosApp Gls R Experience holdsthe key 1VasiliosBarkasG3000 Athens face atallorder 24 AndreOnana G5010 16 PanagiotisTsintotas G0000 26 Kostas Lamprou G0000 99 Panagiotis Ginis G0000 33 DominikKotarskiG 0000 Achange in emphasis over the 2MichalisBakakisD 3000 AEK Athens’first Greek 51 Stan vanBladerenG 0000 Recent club record 3HelderLopes D2(1)0 00 Recent club record 2RasmusKristensen D1000 summer sawAjax, sickofnot 12-13 13-14 14-1515-1 1 -1 1 -1 4MariosOikonomou D1010 Superleague title in years 12-13 13-14 14-1515-1 1 -1 1 -1 3JoelVeltman D0000 winning enough withtheir 5VLampropoulosD3000 wasnot shortofincident and 4MatthijsdeLigtD5100 Europe 32 32 1 Gr F PO 12 RodrigoGaloD1000 Europe -- -- 32 5MaximilianWober D1(1)0 00 youngsters,spend arecord Gr Gr Gr ual PO ual 15 Uros Cosic D1(2)0 00 akey moment arrivedinthe ual 17 DaleyBlind D5000 amount on experienced Domestic1st1st 2nd2nd 2nd2nd 19 DChygrynskiy D1000 unusual circumstances of title Domestic 15th -1st 3rd4th 1st 27 Perr SchuursD0000 Figuresinboldsignify EuropaLeague 23 Niklas Hult D1000 Figuresinbold signifyEuropaLeague.*BLeague 28 Luis Orejuela D0000 professionals Dusan Tadic and Previous twomeetings 24 StratosSvarnas D0000 rivals PAOK beingdocked Previous twomeetings 31 NicolasTagliaficoD4010 DaleyBlind. 33 GGiannoutsos D0000 points aftertheirowner AEK Athens: Dec94(h) 2-0, Sep 94 (a) 11 Yannis Gianniotas M0(1) 000 Ajax: Dec94(a) 0-2, Sep94(h) 1-2 35 MitchelBakker D0000 2-1 6Donny vandeBeekM 2(3) 000 Weneedtobecomethe 8Andre Simoes M2 000 entered thefield of playto Bayern Munich: No meetings Bayern Munich: Dec04(h) 2-2, Sep04 20 Petros Mandalos M2(1)1 10 Benfica: Dec09(a) 1-2, Oct09(h) 1-0 8Daley Sinkgraven M0 000 Bayern Munich of our league, (a) 0-4 threaten areferee withagun 12 NoussairMazraouiM 4(1) 000 25 KGalanopoulos M2 000 said technical director Marc Benfica: Apr72(a) 0-0, Apr72(h) 1-0 39 Erik Moran M0 000 during acontroversial contest 15 Carel Eiting M2(3)0 00 70 Giannis- BotosM0000 19 ZakariaLabyadM0(3) 000 Overmarsand theearly signs, 77 Christos GiousisM 0000 withthe eventualchampions. 20 Lasse Schone M3 010 at leastinEurope, have 95 Alef M2(1)0 10 The match in Marchwas 21 Frenkie De Jong M4(1) 000 Jongmixing alongsid 9GGiakoumakisF0(1) 000 foundationsofa 22 HakimZiyech M5 200 suggested it was 10 MarkoLivajaF3100 abandoned, PAOK 7David NeresF4000 money well spent as Tadic and Blind. 14 ABakasetas F3100 lostthree points and side who conceded 9Klaas-Jan Huntelaar F4(1)6 00 StrikerKlaas- 17 Viktor Klonaridis F0(2)2 10 just1 times last 10 Dusan TadicF5400 theone-timeDutch 22 Ezequiel PonceF3220 AEK were awarded 18 HassaneBande F0000 giants beat Sturm JanHuntelaar is 31 LucasBoyeF0000 a - win,decisions term.Early-season 25 Kasper Dolberg F0000 Graz, Standard another who whichproved form,however, 32 Vaclav Cerny F0000 This season in Europe 39 KajSierhuisF1(1) 000 Liegeand has bags of 1st Bkgs Cnrs pivotal in arace that hints Ouzounidis 41 Dennis JohnsenF0(1) 000 ChampionsLeagueplayoff Dynamo Kievto Champions AEKAthens1MOL Vidi 147130 12 wassettled by six will struggle in that This season in Europe qualify forthe League MOL Vidi 1AEK Athens 2349050 area. ChampionsLeaguethirdqualifying points. 1st Bkgs Cnrs group stagefor the experience from AEKAthens2Celtic1 6507 ManoloJimenez, AEKhavecome ChampionsLeagueplayoff Celtic 1AEK Athens 117658 Dynamo Kiev 0Ajax0 90 50 12 first time since 1 . his timewiththe theSpanish coacch through qualifying ties Ajax 3DynamoKiev1 24014 Winger Justin Kluivert, likes of Real Madrid Last season in Europe responsible forAEKEK’s againagainst Celtic and MOL ChampionsLeaguethirdqualifying 1st Bkgs Cnrs Ajax 3StLiege 0301011 son of Patrick, wassoldto Schalke, and this Ajax squad Europa League last 32 success, quit almost idi but theGreeksfailed to St Liege2Ajax2 19 30 3 Dynamo Kiev 0AEK Athens 0907015 ChampionsLeaguesecond qualifying Roma but Ajax’s other young looksmuchbetterbalanced AEKAthens1DynamoKiev1 19 70 5 immediatelytoheadto keep aclean sheetinthose SturmGraz1Ajax3 39 40 9 Dutch A-listers were retained than previous editions, Europa League groupstage Segunda side Las Palmas and four fixtures, suggesting they Ajax 2Sturm Graz 0152012 Aus. Vienna 0AEK Athens 0904012 as ashowofambition with including theextremelyyoung AEKAthens2Rijeka2 8508 hid replacementMarinos aremissing centre-back AEKAthens0Milan0 90 30 9 centre-backMatthijs de Ligt bunchwho reached the Milan 0AEK Athens 0904014 Ouzounidis will be aiming to Ognjen ranjes, who leftfor and midfielder Frenkie de Europa League final in 1 . AEKAthens2Aus.Vienna2 28 40 14 replicate thedefensive Anderlecht. Rijeka 1AEK Athens 216509
RO E Lively Ajax arefull of vim bet3 5 BetBright BetfairBetfredBetwayBoyles Coral HillsLadbrokes PPowerSky Bet1 Bet Bayern Munich 1-7 1-7 1-9 1-6 1-5 1-8 1-6 1-7 1-6 1-9 2-9 1-8 VERDICT five attempts, but theAmsterdam lastseven matches. DaleyBlind Benfica 15-2 78715-2 9 878811-2 15-2 outfit have takenahefty financial and Dusan Tadic, twoexpensive Ajax 10 10 10 9910 8 10 8 10 89 plunge to trytoimprove on that summer arrivals, have made a AEK Athens 80 66 35 40 80 66 33 66 33 35 25 80 IT IS DIFFICULTtoargue against record as well as jump above PS major difference in both boxes Fixtures –tomorrow: Ajax vAEK Athens,BenficavBayern Munich; October2: Bayern Bayern Munich winning Group E Eindhoveninthe Eredivisie. and added experience to aside MunichvAjax, AEK AthensvBenfica, October23: AEK Athens vBayernMunich, Ajax v in easy fashion but bookmakers The biggest clue that it was sprinkled withthe potential of Benfica, November 7: Bayern Munich vAEK Athens,Benfica vAjax, November 27: AEK mayhaveitwrong by being so moneywell spent cameinthe last Dutch duo Frenkie de Jong and Athens vAjax, Bayern MunichvBenfica, December 12: Ajax vBayernMunich, Benfica v AEK Athens. sweetonBenfica to follow the qualifying round as Ajax beat Matthijs de Ligt plus Brazilian German giants through to thelast Dynamo Kiev -1 at home before winger David eres. 16. sealing thedealwithagoalless It wasasurprise to see Hakim season’s Champions League. Recommendation Ajax have notreached thelast draw in Ukraine. That goal iyechgiveAjax another year and AEK Athens should be Bayern Munich-Ajaxstraight 16 since 6, falling at the conceded against Kiev is theonly they can topple aBenfica side outclassed withBayernfinishing forecast 2pts 9-4 SkyBet a s aley lind group-stage hurdle on their last one they have shipped in their who finished pointlessinlast on top. Racing Post Tuesday, September 18, 2018 19 20 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SPECIAL Tuesday, September18, 2018 racingpost.com RO MARK AN DON S RO DE
Manager Manager MANCHESTERCITY -1 PepGuardiola SHA HTAR DONETS 500-1 PauloFonseca Squaddetails Squaddetails Pos App Gls R Citizens gunningfor title Pos App Gls R Last 16 maybethe limit 31 Ederson G5000 1Oleksiy Shevchenko G0000 32 Daniel Grimshaw G0000 30 Andriy Pyatov G8000 2KyleWalkerD4100 It’s difficult to be overly critical 55 Oleh Kudryk G0000 Shakhtar have never been 3DaniloD0000 Recent club record 2Bohdan ButkoD3(1) 000 Recent club record 4Vincent KompanyD 2(1) 010 of aside who smashed records 12-13 13-14 14-1515-1 1 -1 1 -1 4Sergiy Kryvtsov D0(1)0 00 further than theChampions 12-13 13-14 14-1515-1 1 -1 1 -1 5JohnStones D3000 galoreinlastseason’s Premier Europe Gr 16 16 SF 16 F 5Davit KhotcholavaD 8110 League quarter-finals and, Europe 16 32 16 SF 32 16 14 AymericLaporte D5100 League as thecenturions won Domestic 2nd1st 2nd4th 3rd1st 18 Ivan Ordets D0000 while they s houldbe Gr Gr ual 15 Eliaquim MangalaD 0000 Figures in bold signifyEuropa League 22 MykolaMatvyenkoD 2000 Domestic1st1st 2nd2nd 1st1st 22 BenjaminMendy D4000 thechampionship by 1 Previous twomeetings 31 IsmailyD6010 competitive, theUkrainian Figuresinbold signifyEuropaLeague 30 NicolasOtamendi D1000 points, but therewill still have 44Yaroslav RakitskiyD 7030 double winnersare unlikely 8IlkayGundoganM3(2) 000 Hoffenheim: No meetings 6Taras Stepanenko M7(1)2 30 Previous twomeetings 17 KevinDeBruyneM 0(1) 010 been some angstatManchester Lyon: No meetings 7TaisonM7(1) 100 to improveonlastseason’s Hoffenheim: No meetings 18 Fabian DelphM1000 City over theirChampions Shakhtar: Dec17(a) 1-2, Sep17(h) 2-0 9DentinhoM0(1) 000 last-16 berth. Lyon: No meetings 19 LeroySaneM1(3) 100 11 Marlos M8 500 League quarter-final loss to PepGuardiola reckoned Manchester City: Dec17(h) 2-1, Sep 17 20 Bernardo SilvaM4(1) 100 21 Alan Patrick M8 020 (a) 0-2 21 DavidSilva M4 210 Liverpool. 27 Maycon M1(7)0 00 Shakhtar were one of thebest 25 FernandinhoM5000 29 Andriy Totovytsky M0(3)0 00 26 RiyadMahrezM2(3) 000 A - first-leg loss at Anfield 50 Sergiy Bolbat M1(2)1 00 teams inEurope last term, 35 AZinchenko M0 000 putpaid to City’s hopeshopes andand 74 Viktor KovalenkoM 2(2) 100 claims whichenhanced the 47 Phil FodenM0(1) 000 questions will be asked that tryingtowin the 94 OlegDanchenko M6 010 reputation of their coach conntinue theLatin flavour 7RaheemSterlingF 4310 8Olarenwaju Kayode F0000 10 Sergio Aguero F5300 as to whether Pep ChampionsLeague 10 Moraes F8700 Paulo Fonseca, who but themain success 33 GabrielJesusF2(3) 100 Guardiola’s is hazardous and 23 Wellington NemF 4010 signed anew contract storyofthisseason has 28 MCiprianoF0(1) 000 Last season in Europe determinationto City’s Premier 99 Fernando F2(4)1 10 despiteinterestfrom been countryman 1st Bkgs Cnrs attackmakes his L eague Last season inEurope Evertonand West Junior Moraes, who ChampionsLeaguequarter-final teams vulnerable performances Ham. wassigned from ManCity1Liverpool2 26011 1st Bkgs Cnrs Liverpool3Man City 012508 in knockou t warrantthem ChampionsLeaguelast16 Fonseca held talks Dynamo Kiev and has ChampionsLeaguelast16 being considered Roma 1Shakhtar 052758 been banging in the ManCity1Basel 2720 5 ties. Shakhtar 2Roma1 41 30 17 withthe Hammers Basel0Man City 414409 He wonth e favouritesevenin Champions League groupstage beforecommitting ggoals from dayone. ChampionsLeaguegroup stage competition twwice an ulltra-competitive Shakhtar 2Man City 126308 himself, although keey FellowBrazilians Shakhtar 2Man City 126308 Napoli 3Shakhtar 0565011 ManCity1Feyenoord 0886010 withBarcelona, most heat. Shakhtar 3Feyenoord 1123012 players departedwith Fred MMarlos,l Taison and Ismaily Napoli 2Man City 4213010 recently in 11, but failed in Riyad Mahrez has joined an Feyenoord 1Shakhtar 2785 6 heading to ManchesterUnited, have stuckwithFonseca which ManCity2Napoli1 9509 ManCity2Shakhtar 048105 ManCity2Shakhtar 048105 threeattemptswithBayern already blessed attacking unit Shakhtar 2Napoli1 15 50 11 Bernardgoing to Evertonand makessilky-skilledShakhtar Feyenoord 0Man City 4250 10 Munichand is on atwo-year andleft-backBenjamin Ukraine’s leadinghitman apleasuretowatch,even losing runatCity. Mendy’s returnfromalong- Facundo Ferreyra leaving for though they did notkeepa However, thecriticismcould term injuryadds anew Benfica. cleansheet in lastseason’s be harsh–the simplefactis dimension to City’s play. Three Brazilians arrivedto Champions League.
Manager Manager LYON 300-1 Bruno Genesio HO ENHEIM 50-1 JulianNagelsmann Squad details PosApp Gls R Squad details 1Anthony LopesG3000 Defencelooks aproblem PosApp Gls R Boss is club’s prized asset 16 AnthonyRacioppiG 0000 1OliverBaumann G3000 30 MathieuGorgelinG 2000 36 Gregor KobelG0000 40 Dorian Grange G0000 In termsofthe women’s game 2JoshuaBrenetD0000 Whipper-snappercoaching 2Mapou Y-MbiwaD0000 Recent club record 3Pavel Kaderabek D3020 Recent club record 4RafaelD3(1) 010 Lyon arethe kings of Europe, 12-13 13-14 14-1515-1 1 -1 1 -1 4Ermin BicakcicD2000 prodigy Julian agelsmann 12-13 13-14 14-1515-1 1 -1 1 -1 5Jason Denayer D2000 winning eachofthe lastthree Europe 32 F PO Gr SF 1 15 KasimNuhuD2010 has already packedplentyinto Europe -- ---Gr 6Marcelo D5000 16 Nico Schulz D3010 14 LeoDubois D2000 Champions League PO Gr his career but thehighly-rated PO Domestic 3rd5th 2nd2nd 4th3rd 21 BenjaminHubnerD 0000 Domestic 16th 9th8th 15th 4th3rd 15 Jeremy MorelD3000 competitions. It has notbeen 24 Justin Hoogma D0000 1-year-old German will get 20 Fernando Marcal D0000 Figuresinboldsignify EuropaLeague. Figuresinboldsignify Europa League soeasy forthem in themen’s 25 KevinAkpoguma D0(2)0 00 his firstcrackofthe 22 FerlandMendy D5120 Previous twomeetings 38 Stefan PoschD1000 Previous twomeetings 23 KennyTeteD0000 tournament. Hoffenheim: No meetings ChampionsLeague afterbeing Lyon: No meetings 26 Oumar SoletD0000 6HavardNordtveit M1(2)0 00 34 Issiar DrameD0000 Lyon squeezed their wayin Manchester City: No meetings 8DennisGeiger M0 000 harshlydeniedaplatformon Manchester City: No meetings 10 KeremDemirbayM 0000 39 ZacharyBraultD0000 by finishingone point ahead Shakhtar: No meetings thebiggest stagelastseason. Shakhtar: No meetings 43 Melvin Bard D0000 11 Florian GrillitschM3 000 7MartinTerrier M2(3)1 00 of rivals Marseille in thirdin 13 LBittencourt M3 010 Hoffenheim went from 8Houssem AouarM3(2) 000 Ligue 1, thanksmainlytotheir 17 Steven ZuberM1(2) 000 relegation candidates to 12 Jordan FerriM0000 18 Nadiem AmiriM0000 24 Pape Cheikh M1(2)0 00 attackwho scored 22 KevinVogtM3000 Champions League 25 MaxenceCaqueretM 0000 goals, second pressure will be 32 VicenzoGrifo M1 000 qualifiersunder agelsmann did 28 Tanguy NDombele M5 000 9Reiss Nelson F0(1) 100 29 LucasTousart M5 000 onlytorunaway on newrecruit 19 IshakBelfodil F0(1) 010 a gelsmannbut superblytofinish 32 Innocent RodetM 0000 champions PSG. MoussaDembele 27 Andrej Kramaric F1(1)1 00 ahorrendous thirdwith 33 HamzaRafiaM0000 28 Adam Szalai F3310 9MoussaDembele F1000 It’s notquite from Celtic to 34 JoelintonF3000 playoffdrawagainst Hoffenheimlast 10 Bertrand Traore F5200 eymar,Edinson replacesome of Liverpool sawthee s eason despite 11 MemphisDepay F4(1) 100 Last season inEurope Cavani and Kylian those goals, club crash out at losing several key 17 LennyPintorF0000 1st Bkgs Cnrs 18 NabilFekirF2(1) 100 Mbappe but Lyon although World Europa League groupstage thefirst hurdle. men and it’s the 27 MaxwellCornetF0(4) 000 hadtheir ownfab Cup winner Hoffenheim1Ludogorets 125958 The Europa same again this Last season in Europe Braga 3Hoffenheim1 1135 10 Fekir remains IstanbulBuyuk 1Hoffenheim147 60 10 timewithtop scorer 1st Bkgs Cnrs four consisting of League campaign Europa League last 16 Memphis Depay, afteramove to Hoffenheim3IstanbulBuyuk 1526010 went poorly,althoughugh MMararkUth leaving for Lyon 2CSKAMoscow 339308 Ludogorets 2Hoffenheim1 27011 CSKA Moscow 0Lyon1 68 40 7 Bertrand Traore, abil Fekir Liverpool fell through. Hoffenheim1Braga 2243011 agelsmann remainsone of Schalke. Europa League last 32 and Mariano Diaz, who scored Lyon should scoregoals at ChampionsLeagueplayoff thehottest coaching prospects Arsenal winger Reiss elson Villarreal 0Lyon1 85 10512 Liverpool4Hoffenheim2 10 50 8 Lyon 3Villarreal 1464010 6 of Lyon’s goals between this level. Keeping them out, around andhehas already will be hoping to have asimilar Europa League groupstage Hoffenheim1Liverpool2 35 20 11 Atalanta 1Lyon0 10 20 7 them. however, is adifferent story agreed to join Leipzig fornext impactonloanasBayern Lyon 4ApLimassol 0294011 Penalty-boxpredator and signing defenderJason seasonafter Bayern Munich Munich’sformerGunner Serge Lyon 3Everton 068656 Everton 1Lyon 2630 13 Mariano rejoined his former DenayerfromManchesterCity decided he wasnot quiteready Gnabrybut Hoffenheim’s real Lyon 1Atalanta 1454011 Ap Limassol 1Lyon1 53 60 9 club Real Madrid, so the maynot be enough. forGermany’stop job. star is in thedugout.
RO Rivals should hassle Hoff bet3 5 BetBright BetfairBetfredBetwayBoyles Coral HillsLadbrokes PPowerSky Bet1 Bet Man City 2-11 2-11 1-8 1-5 2-11 2-11 1-5 1-6 1-5 1-8 1-5 2-11 VERDICT theEuropa LeagueasJulian they have beenunfortunatein Lyon 889789777911 8 agelsmann’steamfinished thedrawasManchester City Shakhtar 12 12 13 12 15 12 14 14 14 11 12 12 bottom of asection whichalso should take topspotwithLyon Hoffenheim 16 16 11 12 13 14 12 14 12 13 912 HOFFE HEIM arethe weakest included Braga, Ludogoretsand and Shakhtar contesting second. Fixtures –tomorrow: Shakhtar vHoffenheim, Man City vLyon; October2: Hoffenheim team in Group F, apoint which Istanbul Basaksehir. Shakhtar reached thelast16 vMan City,LyonvShakhtar; October23: Hoffenheim vLyon, Shakhtar vMan City; seems to have escaped thenotice Topgoalscorer MarkUth has of theChampions League last November 7: LyonvHoffenheim, Man City vShakhtar; November 27: Hoffenheim v of bookmakers. sinceleftfor Schalke and they are season and showedtheir ability Shakhtar,LyonvMan City; December 12: Shakhtar vLyon; Man City vHoffenheim. There wasnodisgrace in the asmall club still trying to work withvictories over City, apoli Lyon areanaiveteamwho to Hoffenheim’s in all Germans losing to Liverpool in out abalance between the and Roma.Fred, Bernardand should be doing better given their departments. lastseason’s Champions League Bundesliga, wheretheyfinished leading scorerFernandoFerreyra firepowerwhichincludes World playoffs–the Reds went on to be third, andEuropean competition. have departedbut they are Cup winner abil Fekir and the Recommendation runners-up –but their debut Hoffenheim were one of the accustomed to bringing in fresh inconsistent Memphis Depay, Hoffenheim to finishbottom 2pts 9-4 SkyBet ulian agelsmann European campaigngot worsein strongestclubs in potfour, yet SouthAmerican talent. although their squad is superior Racing Post Tuesday, September 18, 2018 21 RO MARK AN DON S RO DE
Manager Manager REAL MADRID 17- Julen Lopetegui ROMA 50-1 EusebioDiFrancesco Squaddetails Squad details Pos App Gls R PosApp Gls R 1Keylor Navas G2000 1Robin OlsenG4000 13 CasillaG0000 Four in arow is unlikely Wolves back in thepack 45 Matteo Cardinali G0000 25 Thibaut CourtoisG 2000 77 StefanoGreco G0000 30 Luca Zidane G0000 83 Antonio MiranteG 0000 2DanielCarvajalD4120 o team had ever successfully Roma fans areunhappy and 3JesusVallejo D0000 Recentclub record 2RickKarsdorpD1(1) 000 Recentclub record 3LucaPellegriniD0000 4Sergio RamosD4200 defendedthe European Cup 12-13 13-14 14-1515-1 1 -1 1 -1 they letthe club knowwitha 12-13 13-14 14-1515-1 1 -1 1 -1 5Raphael Varane D2(1) 000 in theChampions League era 5Juan JesusD1000 bannerinfront of thetraining 6Nacho D2000 Europe SF WSFWWW 11 Aleksandar KolarovD 4000 Europe --1 16 1 SF 12 MarceloD4010 untilthisReal Madridside Domestic 2nd3rd 2nd2nd 1st3rd 15 MarcanoD1000 ground whichread What Gr PO 19 Alvaro OdriozolaD 0000 wonthree in arow and the Figuresinboldsignify EuropaLeague 18 Davide Santon D0(1) 000 Domestic 6th2nd 2nd3rd 2nd3rd 23 Sergio Reguilon D0000 Previous twomeetings 20 Federico FazioD3110 Scudetto, what Champions Figuresinboldsignify Europa League 26 Adrian Adri D0000 competition had become so 44 Kostas ManolasD 4100 League Your trophies profits Previous twomeetings 31 Javier SanchezD0000 CSKAMoscow: Mar 12 (h)4-1, Feb12 51 Riccardo Cargnelutti D0000 32 Sergio LopezD0000 easy they decided things (a) 1-1 4Bryan CrisMtante 2(2) 110 and sales CSKAMoscow: Nov14(a) 1-1, Sep14 8ToniKroos M4 000 needed to be evened up this Roma: Mar 16 (h)2-0, Feb16(a) 2-0 7LorenzoPellegriniM 2000 Roma have entrustedtheir (h)5-1 10 Luka Modric M2(2)0 10 16 DanieleDeRossi M3(1) 020 time around. Viktoria Plzen: No meetings Real Madrid: Mar 16 (a) 0-2, Feb16(h) 14 Casemiro M2(2)0 00 17 Cengiz UnderM3000 faithinrenownedsporting 0-2 15 Federico Valverde M0 000 inedine idane, in charge 19 Ante CoricM0000 director Monchi, theultimate 17 Lucas VazquezM0(4) 020 22 Nicolo Zaniolo M0 000 Viktoria Plzen: Nov16(h) 4-1, Sep16 18 Marcos Llorente M0 000 forall threeofthose triumphs, 24 AlessandroFlorenzi M3 110 wheeler dealer in thetransfer (a) 1-1 20 MarcoAsensioM4000 quit beforeamuchmore 27 Javier PastoreM3100 market,and having done so 22 Isco M2(2)1 00 42 Steven Nzonzi M2(1)0 10 24 Dani Ceballos M2(1) 000 surprising move saw Benzema to replacehis 52 Andrea MarcucciM 0000 they were always hefty fees forageing 33 JaimeSeoaneM0000 Real cash in on enormoustallyof 53 AlessioRiccardiM 0000 midfieldersKevin 34 FranciscoFranchu M0 000 8Diego Perotti F0000 heading fora 7Mariano F0000 Cristiano Ronaldo, the goals. Strootman and 9Karim BenzemaF4410 9EdinDzekoF4110 Sevilla-like 11 Gareth Bale F4300 scorer of arecord1 ewboss Julen 14 Patrik Schick F1(2)0 00 Belgian Radja 34 Justin Kluivert F0(3)0 00 model wherethe 27 Cristo GonzalezF 0000 Champions League Lopetegui has no ainggolan. 28 Vinicius Junior F0000 54 ZanCelar F0000 philosophyisto goals of which 92 StephanElShaarawy F2(1)1 00 Last season in Europe great club pedigree buy players and Steven 1st Bkgs Cnrs have come during and his name is Last season in Europe sell them fora ’ onzi, Robin ChampionsLeaguefinal their European mud in parts of 1st Bkgs Cnrs Real Madrid 3Liverpool 1511014 ChampionsLeaguesemi-final profit. Olsenand Javier Champions League semi-final threepeat. Spainafter Roma 4Liverpool2 95010 So instead of Pastorehave Real Madrid 2BMunich2 34017 Liverpool5Roma2 35 50 11 BMunich 1RealMadrid2 28 30 13 Freeing up agreeing to the ChampionsLeaguequarter-final building on last replaced them, Champions League quarter-final -year-old Ronaldo’s Bernabeu switchon Roma 3Barcelona 0650 9 Real Madrid 1Juventus3 2115 10 Barcelona4Roma1 38 20 17 season’s Champions joining ayounger Juventus 0RealMadrid3 36511 colossalcontract and theeve of theWorld ChampionsLeaguelast16 League semi-final generation in Justin Champions League last 16 landingthe tastytransfer Cup, whichled to him Roma 1Shakhtar 052758 ParisSt-G. 1RealMadrid2 51 65 15 Shakhtar 2Roma1 41 30 17 appearancetheyhavesold Kluivert, AnteCoric andBryan Real Madrid 3Paris St-G.1 33 60 15 feefromJuventus made being sackedbyLaRoja. ChampionsLeaguegroup stage Champions League groupstage Alisson to Liverpool who beat Cristante, but thehigh Real Madrid 3BDortmund2 81012 financial sense forReal but Real’srecordmeans they Roma 1FKQarabag 0535014 AtlMadrid2Roma0 69 55 6 them in thelastfour in a turnoverofplayers is unlikely ApoelNicosia0RealMadrid6 23 10 9 thepressurewill increase on mustberespected, butit’stime Tottenham 3RealMadrid1 27 20 12 Roma 3Chelsea 0108 then-recorddealfor a to bringabout an instant Real Madrid 1Tottenham 1282017 GarethBale and Karim forachanging of theguard. Chelsea3Roma3 11 10 4 BDortmund1RealMadrid3 18 50 13 FK Qarabag1Roma2 73013 goalkeeper,aswellastaking improvement. Real Madrid 3ApoelNicosia0 12 40 10 Roma 0Atl Madrid 0901012
Manager Manager CS A MOSCO 500-1 Viktor Goncharenko VI TORIA L EN1,000-1 PavelVrba Squad details PosApp Gls R Squad details 1IlyaPomazun G0000 CSKA outoftheir depth PosApp Gls R TheCzechsare bouncing 22 GeorgiKyrnatsG0000 1Matus KozacikG8000 35 Igor Akinfeev G7000 16 Ales Hruska G0000 2Mario FernandesD 7000 CSKA Moscowhavenot 29 DominikSvacekG 0000 Fornearly1 years iktoria 3NikitaChernov D6(1)0 20 Recent club record 2LukasHejda D1(1) 000 Recent club record 5Viktor VasinD0000 reached theChampions 4Roman Hubnik D7021 Plzenbouncedaround thetop 14 Kirill Nababkin D5011 12-13 13-14 14-1515-1 1 -1 1 -1 12-13 13-14 14-1515-1 1 -1 1 -1 League knockout stages since Europe PO Gr Gr Gr Gr F 8David LimberskyD 8010 twoCzechleagues without Europe 1 1 ualGr Gr 1 23 Hordur MagnussonD7020 14 RadimReznikD8100 42 GeorgySchennikovD4000 1 and lastseason’s Europa Gr 21 Tomas HajekD0000 winning amajor trophy but all Gr ual PO ual 50 RodrigoBecao D7010 Domestic1st1st 2nd1st 2nd2nd 24 MilanHavel D0000 Domestic1st2nd 1st1st 2nd1st 17 ArnorSigurdssonM 0000 League quarter-finalists look Figuresinbold signifyEuropaLeague that changed withthe Figuresinboldsignify Europa League 44 LudekPernica D8000 10 Alan DzagoevM0(1) 000 ill-equipped to tackle Europe’s Previous twomeetings appointment of Pavel rba in Previous twomeetings 15 Dmitri EfremovM4(2) 010 6Roman ProchazkaM 2(3) 100 20 KonstantinKuchaevM 0000 elitecompetition. Real Madrid: Mar 12 (a) 1-4, Feb12(h) 7Tomas Horava M7(1) 110 . CSKAMoscow: Dec13(h) 2-1, Oct13(a) 25 KristijanBistrovic M5(1) 210 Theyalwaysknewthe time 1-1 9MartinZeman M3(2)0 10 rba, who had carvedout a 2-3 29 Jaka BijolM4(2) 010 Roma: Nov14(h) 1-1, Sep 14 (a) 1-5 10 JanKopic M6 021 Real Madrid: No meetings 31 AleksandrMakarovM 0000 would come to replacea 11 MilanPetrzelaM6(1) 010 reputation forhimselfasa 70 TimurPukhovM0000 veteran defence but it was Viktoria Plzen: Dec13(a) 1-2, Oct13 17 Patrik HrosovskyM8 100 coachofavibrant ilina side Roma: Nov16(a) 1-4, Sep16(h) 1-1 71 NayairTiknizyanM 0000 (h)3-2 19 JanKovarik M0(3)0 00 72 AGordyushenko M0(2)0 00 perhaps notsowise forall 20 PavelBucha M0 000 who wonthe Slovak league, 77 Ilzat ToglokovichM 3(3) 010 threeoftheir centre-backs - 25 Ales CermakM6(2) 000 transformed iktoria by 80 Khetag KhosonovM 1000 free transferstoGreek 26 Daniel KolarM0(1) 000 zone, at theclub 98 Ivan Oblyakov M1(1) 000 Sergei Ignashevichand 90 UbongMoses M1(3)0 00 winning theCzechCupp 19 Takuma NishimuraF 0000 theBerezutski twins clubs andstriker Ahmed 15 Michal Krmencik F8720 in 1 and their wherehebroke the 8NikolaVlasicF4000 withacombined age Musa, arevelation 18 Tomas ChoryF0(3) 000 firstchampionship Czechrecordfor 9Fedor Chalov F5(2)6 00 37 JakubReznicekF1(4) 200 11 Abel Hen rna dezF4(2) 200 of 11 –toretirein on his returntothe crownarrived the consecutive 75 TZhamaletdinov F3(3)2 00 Last season in Europe 81 Vitali ZhironkinF 0000 thesame summer. club withsix goals following year. matches in charge, 1st Bkgs Cnrs Last season in Europe CSKA,secondin in tenleague Europa League last 16 owthe Plzen and willbeas Russia lastterm, games, failedto Viktoria Plzen2Sporting1 6504 side cannotstop influential as ever 1st Bkgs Cnrs Sporting 2ViktoriaPlzen 045507 Europa League quarter-final also sawtheir best makealoan move Europa League last 32 winning. They with iktoria CSKA Moscow 2Arsenal2 39 10 8 Viktoria Plzen2Partizan0 67 20 13 Arsenal4CSKAMoscow 1960 7 player, midfielder permanent. Partizan 1ViktoriaPlzen 158458 celebrated afifth title irtual yunchanged Europa League last 16 Aleksandr Golovin, Seven of thenine Europa League groupstage lastseason under the from lastseason’s title Lyon 2CSKAMoscow 339308 HBeerSheva 0ViktoriaPlzen 2287013 CSKA Moscow 0Lyon1 68 40 7 enhance his reputation at arrivals are orunder Viktoria Plzen2Steaua0 49 30 12 returning rba,w whoho succsuccess. Europa League last 32 theWorld Cup and leave for and theother two–Hordur Viktoria Plzen4Lugano 1450 8 departedin 1 for the Robust international CSKA Moscow 1Red Star 045508 Lugano 3ViktoriaPlzen 263609 RedStar 0CSKAMoscow 0902015 Monaco. Magnusson and Abel Viktoria Plzen3HBeer Sheva 1293016 CzechRepublic national team strikerMichael Krmencik’s Champions League groupstage Hernandez –signed from Sky Steaua 3ViktoriaPlzen 0213012 lackofgrace mayhaveput off ManUtd 2CSKAMoscow 1452012 Topgoalscorer itinhowent Europa League playoff beforeboosting his bank CSKA Moscow 2Benfica0 13 50 10 backtoBrazil, experienced BetChampionship teams AEKLarnaca 0ViktoriaPlzen 09060- balancewithatrip to Russian potential suitorswhichis Basel1CSKAMoscow 232407 Viktoria Plzen3AEK Larnaca1 850- CSKA Moscow 0Basel 229104 pair Pontus Wernbloom and BristolCity and Hull Champions League thirdqualifying outfit Anzhi. further good news for rba CSKA Moscow 1Man Utd4 43010 Bibras atcho departedon respectively. Viktoria Plzen1Steaua4 27 115- rba is backinhis comfort and iktoria. Benfica 1CSKAMoscow 250507 Steaua 2ViktoriaPlzen 22370-
RO Championsset to prevail bet3 5 BetBright BetfairBetfredBetwayBoyles Coral HillsLadbrokes PPowerSky Bet1 Bet Real Madrid 1-6 2-11 2-9 1-5 1-5 1-6 2-9 2-9 2-9 2-9 2-9 1-6 VERDICT sweep in this section despite of keymen over thesummer. Roma 9-2 47-2 449-2 10-3 7-2 10-3 7-2 10-3 4 selling Cristiano Ronaldo. Roma arestill fancied to take CSKAMoscow 33 33 13 18 33 25 16 16 16 13 25 20 GarethBale, Isco and Karim thesecond qualifying berth Viktoria Plzen 40 40 60 40 50 50 50 80 50 60 40 50 REAL MADRID letdownacca Benzema have startedthe behind Real withCSKA Moscow Fixtures –tomorrow: Real Madrid vRoma,ViktoriaPlzen vCSKA; October2: CSKAv backers in last season’s campaignindecentnickand will and iktoria Plzen settobe RealMadrid, RomavViktoriaPlzen; October23: Roma vCSKA, RealMadridvViktoria Champions League groups as they be expected to fill their boots outclassed. Plzen; November 7: CSKAvRoma, ViktoriaPlzen vRealMadrid; November 27: CSKAv finished second to Tottenham, againstaRomaside who tend to Those lookingfor asecond bet ViktoriaPlzen, RomavRealMadrid; December 12: Real Madrid vCSKA; ViktoriaPlzen v Roma. but theholders shouldmake crumble on theroad. mayliketoconsiderCSKA amends to beat Roma to topspot. TheylostawaytoAtletico, Moscowtofinish bottom, as they The Bernabeu is afortress for Shakhtar,Barcelona and have done in five of their lastsix –bothsides wontheirrespective Recommendation Real, who have won oftheir homematches –and CSKA are Liverpool in lastseason’s runto Champions League attempts. Real Madrid-Roma straight last homematches in Europe, thesemi-finals and have started The teams faced eachother in weaker sinceastackof forecast 1pt4-5 general arim en ema and will be aiming foraclean Serie Apoorly following thesales the 1 -1 Champions League retirements. 22 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SPECIAL Tuesday, September18, 2018 racingpost.com RO H MARK AN DON S RO DE
Manager Manager JUVENTUS 7-1 MaxAllegri MANCHESTER UTD 30-1 Jose Mourinho Squad details Squad details Pos App Gls R Allornothing forJuveTPos App Gls R oo soon forRed Devils 1Wojciech SzczesnyG 4000 1David de GeaG5000 21 Carlo Pinsoglio G0000 13 LeeGrant G0000 22 Mattia PerinG0000 The Champions League has 22 Sergio Romero G0000 Forateam of Manchester 2MattiaDeSciglio D0000 Recent club record 2Victor Lindelof D4(1) 000 Recent club record 3Giorgio Chiellini D3000 become an obsession for 12-13 13-14 14-1515-1 1 -1 1 -1 3EricBailly D2(2)0 00 United’s statureithas been a 12-13 13-14 14-1515-1 1 -1 1 -1 4Mehdi Benatia D1000 Juventusastheybid to end Europe F SF F 16 F F 4PhilJones D1000 difficult period in the Europe 16 F - 1 W 16 12 Alex Sandro D4020 their long wait forEuropean Gr 12 ChrisSmallingD3100 Champions League. Gr 15 Andrea Barzagli D0000 Domestic1st1st 1st1st 1st1st 16 Marcos Rojo D0000 Domestic1st7th 4th5th 6th2nd 19 Leonardo BonucciD 4000 glory–theirlastsuccess in this Figuresinboldsignify EuropaLeague 18 Ashley YoungD2000 Lastseason’s last-16 exit to Figuresinboldsignify Europa League 20 Joao Cancelo D3010 competitioncame againstAjax 20 DiogoDalot D0000 Sevilla continued their recent 24 DanieleRugani D0000 Recent Europeanmeetings 23 Luke Shaw D4110 Recent Europeanmeetings 5Miralem Pjanic M3 110 in 1 6. with groupopponents 25 Antonio Valencia D3020 disappointments which with groupopponents 6Sami KhediraM4100 Juvehave been to thefinal Manchester Utd: Feb03(h) 0-3, Feb(a) 36 Matteo Darmian D1000 include agroup-stage Juventus: Feb03(a) 3-0, Feb(h) 2-1 11 DouglasCosta M1(3)0 21 1-2 6PaulPogba M5 200 14 Blaise MatuidiM3100 five times since and on every 8 Juan Mata M2 000 elimination in 1 -16. Their Young Boys: No meetings 16 Juan Cuadrado M2(1)0 10 occasion they were beaten, Young Boys: No meetings 14 Jesse Lingard M3(1) 000 last trip beyond thequarter- Valencia: Dec10(h) 1-1, Sep10(a) 1-0 23 Emre Can M1(3)0 10 Valencia: No meetings 15 AndreasPereira M2 010 30 RodrigoBentancur M0(2)0 00 while thepaincontinued in 17 Fred M3 010 finals wasunder Sir Alex 33 FBernardeschiM2(1) 110 lastseason’s 21 AnderHerrera M1(1) 010 Ferguson in 11. 7CristianoRonaldo F4200 Champions League Ronaldo is ,but 27 MarouaneFellainiM 2(3) 000 Manager Jose thegulf wasnearer 10 Paulo Dybala F2(1)0 00 31 NemanjaMatic M3 011 17 MarioMandzukicF3(1) 200 withalast-minute he takesimmense 39 ScottMcTominayM0(2)0 00 Mourinho has also withMourinho’s Last season in Europe quarter-final defeat at pride in his fitness 7AlexisSanchez F3(1) 010 been under fire men ranked andshould still have 9RomeluLukakuF4(1) 410 sixth-bestinthe 1st Bkgs Cnrs Real Madrid aftertheey 10 Marcus Rashford F1(2)0 01 foraslowPremier ChampionsLeaguequarter-final produced asuperb at leastacouple of 11 AnthonyMartialF 1(1) 010 League startand Premier League. Real Madrid 1Juventus3 2115 10 Juventus 0RealMadrid3 36511 comebackhaving lostthe campaignsleftatthe Last season in Europe miserablepre- They are, ChampionsLeaguelast16 firstleg - . highest level left, 1st Bkgs Cnrs seasonashe however, Tottenham 1Juventus2 39 70 7 wh ileJuvealso ChampionsLeaguelast16 capable of Juventus 2Tottenham 2250 10 Cristiano Ronaldo was ManUtd 1Sevilla 274508 complained of ChampionsLeaguegroup stage theman to break Old addressedtheirright- Sevilla0Man Utd0 90 20 16 missingout on winning elite Olympiakos 0Juventus2 15 40 9 Lady hearts at the backissues withthe ChampionsLeaguegroup stage desperatelyneeded matches after Juventus 0Barcelona 090505 ManUtd 2CSKAMoscow 1452012 Sporting 1Juventus1 20 50 10 Bernabeu, justlike he signing of Joao Cancelo Basel1Man Utd0 89 10 10 central-defensive postingvictories over the Juventus 2Sporting1 12 40 13 did in the 1 Cardiff and classy centre-back ManUtd 2Benfica0 45 50 10 reinforcements. rest of thePremier League’s Juventus 2Olympiakos 0690 14 Benfica 0Man Utd1 64 65 15 Barcelona3Juventus0 45 60 10 final, and Juventusds dececidideded LeonardoLeonardo Bonucci returning CSKA Moscow 1Man Utd4 43010 United finished second in big six lastseason. In Paul thebest chanceofbringing from Milan. ManUtd 3Basel 0355010 thePremier League last Pogba and David de Gea thetrophybacktoTurin was In poker termsJuventus season, 1 points behind United possess twoofthe to buy Mr Champions League have gone all-in forEuropean neighboursManchesterCity, world’stop talents, but it’s himself. supremacy. but on expected goal ratings unlikelytobeenough.
Manager Manager VALENCIA 150-1 Marcelino YOUNG BOYS 1,000-1 GerardoSeoane Squaddetails Squaddetails Pos App Gls R Bats aretrickycustomers Pos App Gls R Swiss likely to miss out 1Jaume G1000 1Marco Wolfli G0000 13 Neto G3000 26 DavidVBallmoos G6000 28 CristianRivero G0000 Gary eville was alencia’s 40 DarioMarzino G0000 Football’safunnyold game. 3Ruben Vezo D0000 Recentclub record 4Mohamed AliD1000 Recentclub record 4JeisonMurillo D0000 manager thelasttimethey 12-13 13-14 14-1515-1 1 -1 1 -1 5Steve von Bergen D5010 In May 1 Swiss Super 12-13 13-14 14-1515-1 1 -1 1 -1 5Gabriel PaulistaD4010 were involved in Champions Europe 16 SF - 1 - - 21 UlissesGarciaD1(2) 100 League CEOClaudius Schaef Europe Gr - 32 PO Gr Gr 12 MouctarDiakhabyD 3(1) 020 League actionand LosChe Gr 22 GregoryWuthrichD 6010 said he wascontemplating a ual PO PO 14 Jose Gaya D4000 Domestic 5th8th 4th12th 12th 4th 23 LorisBenitoD5010 Domestic 7th3rd 2nd2nd 2nd1st 15 Toni Lato D0000 have come along waysince Figuresinbold signifyEuropaLeague. 29 MvulaLotomba D0000 changeinformat to makethe Figuresinboldsignify Europa League 21 Cristiano PicciniD 4010 that - defeat to Lyon in 43 KevinMbabu D5(1) 020 league morecompetitiveafter 24 Ezequiel GarayD1010 RecentEuropeanmeetings 24 JanKronigD0000 RecentEuropeanmeetings 29 Javier JimenezD0000 December 1 . with groupopponents 54 Kreshnik HajriziD 0000 Basel bagged their eighth with groupopponents 32 Alex CentellesD0000 Whether they have come far Juventus: No meetings 6LeonardoBertoneM 2(1) 000 straight title, but less than 1 Juventus: No meetings 6Geoffrey Kondogbia M3 000 7Miralem SulejmaniM 4(1) 200 7Goncalo Guedes M0(1) 000 enough to reachthe knockout Man Utd: Dec10(a) 1-1, Sep10(h) 0-1 8 Djibril SowM4010 months later new champions Man Utd: No meetings 8 CarlosSoler M3 000 stages forthe firsttimesince Young Boys: No meetings 19 ThorstenSchickM1(3) 000 were crowned. Valencia: No meetings 10 Daniel Parejo M4 110 20 Michel AebischerM 1(1) 110 11 DenisCheryshev M2(1) 100 1 -1 is adifficultquestion 27 PedroTeixeiraM0000 Young Boys battered Basel 17 FrancisCoquelinM 0000 following this draw,but 30 Sandro Lauper M0(4)0 00 outofsight without the 18 Daniel Wass M3(1) 000 coachMarcelino was Anew president 35 SekouSanogoM5020 need foracontrived wasthe only 20 Ferran Torres M1(1) 020 13 Nicolas Ngamaleu F4(1)3 00 26 Uros RacicM0000 in bullish moodand withanew 16 ChristianFassnacht F6410 playoffsystemto significant 30 Alex Blanco M0 000 said I’m certain direction and the 17 RogerAssaleF4100 overcome the departure. 34 LeeKang-InM0000 18 Jean-PierreNsame F1(3)2 00 9Kevin GameiroF2(2) 000 Juventus and appointmentof 50 FelixMambimbi F0000 perennial Young Boys 19 RodrigoF4110 Manchester boss Marcelino 52 Yann Aime KasaiF 0000 championsand beat Croats 22 Santiago Mina F2(1) 010 brought alencia 99 Guillaume Hoarau F5(1) 400 Dinamo 23 MichyBatshuayi F0(4)0 10 United will claim their first 27 EscobarFernandez F0000 consider alencia backuptofourth This season in Europe title in agreb lastseasonand 1st Bkgs Cnrs in their Last season in Europe aminefield. ChampionsLeagueplayoff years. Didnot qualify alenciahavegot they have signed Din Zagreb 1Young Boys 2740 11 It waswidely Champions their mojo back influential loanees YoungBoys1Din Zagreb 1230 7 expected that League playoff, under thecanny Goncalo Guedes and Last season in Europe Young Boys would helped witha -1 Marcelino followinga Geoffrey Kondogbia on 1st Bkgs Cnrs see their squad broken home win at the Europa League groupstage shambolic spell of five permanent deals. YoungBoys2Skenderbeu1 51 80 7 up, particularly as highly-rated Wankdorfwhich hasan managersintheirtwo-year Denis Cheryshev and Michy Partizan 2Young Boys 112508 coachAdi Hutter departedfor advantageous artificial YoungBoys0DynamoKiev1 70 50 22 Champions League absence Batshuayi arethe latest loan Dynamo Kiev 2Young Boys 2175513 Frankfurttobereplaced by surface, although theSwiss whichbrought acouple of signings and alencia could Skenderbeu1Young Boys 165209 -year-old Gerardo Seoane, side areunlikelytogofar in YoungBoys1Partizan1 11 50 14 bottom-half La Ligafinishes. be awkwardopponents. but centre-backKasimAdams this group.
RO H LosChe athreattoJose bet3 5 BetBright BetfairBetfredBetwayBoyles Coral HillsLadbrokes PPowerSky Bet1 Bet uventus 1-2 1-2 8-11 4-7 4-7 8-15 8-15 8-13 8-15 8-11 1-2 8-15 VERDICT they have already conceded three dismiss alencia, who finished Man Utd 11-4 5-2 15-8 5-2 11-4 5-2 12-5 212-5 15-8 5-2 5-2 goals in eachoftheirdefeats to above SevillainLaLigalast Valencia 11-2 6455611-2 611-2 4 7 11-2 Tottenham and Brighton. season. That’s thesame Sevilla Young Boys 100 80 40 50 80 100 100 66 100 40 50 80 JOSEMOURI HO will be hoping Mostofthe post-drawtalk whoknocked United out of the Fixtures –tomorrow: Young Boys vMan Utd, ValenciavJuventus; October2: Juventus Champions League qualification surrounded thereturns of Paul Champions League at Old vYoung Boys,Man UtdvValencia; October23: YoungBoysvValencia,Man UtdvJuventus; is as simple as theodds predict Pogba and Cristiano Ronaldo to Trafford. November 7: Valencia vYoung Boys,JuventusvMan Utd; November27: Man UtdvYoung buthewillbeaware that facetheirformerclubs and the alenciadid muchoftheir Boys,JuventusvValencia; December 12: Young Boys vJuventus,ValenciavMan Utd. ManchesterUnited face atricky JuveversusUnitedmatches transfer business late, whichmay will be qualification contenders. Young Boys arebooked forlast test negotiating away past at least should be titanic tussles with explain their sluggish starttoLa Juve appear astronger side place. one of Juventus and alencia. bookmakerssuggestingthosetwo Liga–a1-1 drawwithAtletico than lastseason thankstothe United have improvedtheir outfits will progress to thelast still reads well –and once last arrivals of Leonardo Bonucci and Recommendation Premier League form recently, 16. season’s loanstarGoncalo Guedes Ronaldo, whichmakes United’s Juventus-Valenciadual forecast 1pt9-4 SkyBet alencia s oncalo uedes beating Burnleyand Watford, but However, it would be wrong to gets backuptofull speed Los Che chances look precarious. Racing Post Tuesday,September 18, 2018 2 24 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SPECIAL Tuesday, September18, 2018 racingpost.com
TON HT SRE EREES ASTST EASON S RO STAND N S GROUP A GROUP C GROUP E GROUP G CLUB BRUGGE vBDORTMUND Cuneyt Ca ir ill be in charge at PW DL FAPts PW DL FAPts PW DL FAPts PW DL FAPts DannyMakkelie Holland Roma ...... 63 21 9611 Liverpool...... 63 3023 612 Besiktas ...... 64 2011 514 n eldtonight Man Utdd...... 65 0112 315 Basel...... 64 0211 512 Chelsea ...... 63 2116 811 Sevilla...... 62 3112 12 9 Porto...... 63 1215 10 10 ChampionsLeague 201 -1 CSKAMoscow...... 63 03 8109 Atl Madrid ...... 61 41 547 Spartak Moscow..... 61 32 9136 RB Leipzig...... 62 1310 11 7 Date Match Bks Benfica...... 60 06 1140 FK arabag...... 60 24 2142 NK Maribor ...... 60 33 3163 Monaco...... 60 24 6162 Results eip i onaco orto esi tas Apr1 arcelona oma ...... 20 Results a n Utd asel enfica osc. Results oma tl a drid helsea ara- Results a ribor parta oscow i er- esi tas eip i onaco orto o- Mar1 anUtd e illa ...... 50 asel enfica osc. an Utd ba araba oma tl adrid helsea pool e illa e illa aribor parta araba tl a drid helsea oma naco esi tas eip i orto esi tas enfica a n Utd osc. asel an oscow i erpool parta oscow e- Dec1 helsea tl adrid ...... 20 oma helsea tl adrid araba tl ona co orto eip i esi tas orto Utd enficae asel osc. asel illa a ribor i erpool i erpool a drid oma araba helsea oma onaco eip i eip i esi tas Oct1 eltic unich ...... 0 a n Utd osc. enfica an Utd a ribor e illa parta oscow parta araba helsea tl adrid . oscow aribor e illa i erpool i - orto onaco . Sep1 i erpool e illa ...... 75 osc.o enfica asel . GROUP D erpool parta oscow aribor e illa . GROUP H MONACO vATLETICOMADRID GROUP B PW DL FAPts GROUP F PW DL FAPts WilliamCollum Scotland PW DL FAPts Barcelona...... 64 20 9114 PW DL FAPts Tottenham ...... 65 1015 416 Paris St--G...... 65 0125 415 uventus ...... 63 21 7511 Man City ...... 65 0114 515 Real Madrid ...... 64 1117 713 ChampionsLeague 201 -1 BDortmund...... 60 24 7132 BMunich...... 65 0113 615 Sporting...... 62 13 897 Shakhtar ...... 64 02 9912 Apoel Nicosia...... 60 24 2172 Date Match Bks Celtic...... 61 05 5183 Olympiakos...... 60 15 4131 Napoli...... 62 0411 11 6 Anderlecht ...... 61 05 2173 Results eal a drid poel icosia otten- Apr1 unich e illa ...... 65 Results arcelona u entus l mpia os Feyenoord...... 61 05 5143 ham ortmund poel icosia ottenham Feb1 ha htar oma ...... 30 Results unich nderlecht eltic aris t- portin u entus l mpia os portin Results ha htar apoli e enoord an ortmund eal a drid eal a drid arcelona u entus portin arcelona Nov1 parta oscow aribor .....40 . arisr t- . unich nderlecht eltic it an it ha htar apoli e enoord ottenham poel icosia ortmund unichn eltic nderlecht aris t- . l mpia os l mpia os arcelona portin an it apoli e enoord ha htar ortmund poel icosia ottenham eal Oct1 arcelona l mpia os ...... 65 aris t- . nderlecht eltic unich u entus u entus arcelona portin ha htar e enoord apoli an it a drid ortmund ottenham poel ico- Sep1 apoli e enoord ...... 50 aris t- . eltic nderlecht unich l mpia os arcelona portin l mpia os a n it e enoord apoli ha htar e - sia eal a drid ottenham poel icosia BARCELONAvPSV EINDHOVEN eltic nderlecht unich aris t- . . u entus . enoord apoli ha htar an it . eal a drid ortmund . Tasos Sidiropoulos Greece ASTST EASON S KNOCKO T RES TS ChampionsLeague201 -1 Last 16 firstlegs Last 16 second legs ParisSt-G...... (0) 1-2 (0).....Real Madrid Man City...... (1) 1-2 (0)...... Liverpool Date Match Bks REDSTARvNAPOLI Sevilla...... (0) 0-0 (0)...... Man Utd Barcelona...... (2) 3-0 (0)...... Chelsea Cavani 71 Ronaldo 51 Jesus2 Salah56, Firmino77 Nov1 aris t- . eltic ...... 20 Corners16, Bookings 20 Messi 3, 63 Casemiro80 Liverpoolwon 5-1onaggregate Nov1 ha htar e enoord ...... 30 Szymon Marciniak Poland Shakhtar...... (0) 2-1 (1)...... Roma Dembele 20 Real Madridwon 5-2 onaggregate Corners11, Bookings 60 Corners15, Bookings 65 Sep1 helsea araba ...... 10 ChampionsLeague 201 -1 Ferreyra 52, Fred 71 Under 41 Barcelonawon 4-1 onaggregate Roma ...... (1) 3-0 (0)...... Barcelona Corners17, Bookings 30 Corners10, Bookings 40 Quarter-final first legs Dzeko6,DeRossi pen58 INTERvTOTTENHAM Date Match Bks BMunich ...... (1) 5-0 (0)...... Besiktas Besiktas...... (0) 1-3 (1)...... BMunich Barcelona...... (1) 4-1 (0)...... Roma Manolas 82 ClementTurpin France Mar 1 ottenham u entus ...... 70 Muller 43, 66 Love 59 Alcantara18 De Rossiog 38Dzeko 80 Aggregatescore 4-4, Roma wononawaygoals Dec1 i erpool parta oscow ..30 Coman 52 Gonul og 46,Wagner 84 Manolas og 55 Corners9,Bookings50 Pique 59, Suarez 87 Semi-final first legs ChampionsLeague201 -1 Oct1 eal adrid ottenham ...... 20 Lewandowski79, 88 Bayern Munich win 8-1 on aggregate Date Match Bks Corners9,Bookings65 Corners8,Bookings50 Corners17, Bookings 20 BMunich ...... (1) 1-2 (1).....Real Madrid Sep1 e enoord an it ...... 50 Chelsea...... (0) 1-1 (0)...... Barcelona Man Utd...... (0) 1-2 (0)...... Sevilla Liverpool...... (3) 3-0 (0)...... Man City Kimmich 28 Marcelo 44,Asensio 57 Apr1 oma arcelona ...... 50 GALATASARAYvLOK. MOSCOW Willian 62 Messi 75 Lukaku84Yedder74, 78 Salah 12, Oxlade-C’lain 20 Corners13, Bookings 30 Feb1 e illa an Utd ...... 20 Mane 31 Liverpool...... (2) 5-2 (0)...... Roma Gianluca Rocchi Italy Corners7,Bookings50 Sevillawon 2-1 on aggregate Nov1 ortmund ottenham ...... 20 Porto...... (0) 0-5 (2)...... Liverpool Corners8,Bookings50 Corners8,Bookings50 Salah35, 45,Mane56Dzeko 81 Oct1 portin u entus ...... 50 ChampionsLeague201 -1 Mane 25,53, 85 Roma ...... (0) 1-0 (0)...... Shakhtar Juventus...... (0) 0-3 (1).....Real Madrid Firmino61, 68 Perottipen 85 Salah29, Firmino69 Dzeko52 Ronaldo 3, 64 Corners11, Bookings 50 Sep1 parta oscow i erpool ..30 Date Match Bks Corners7,Bookings0 Aggregatescore 2-2, Roma wononawaygoals Marcelo 72 Semi-final second legs LIVERPOOLvPSG Feb1 eal adrid aris t- . ...... 60 Real Madrid.... (1) 3-1 (1)...... ParisSt-G. Corners8,Bookings75 Corners11, Bookings 65 Roma ...... (1) 4-2 (2)...... Liverpool Cuneyt Cakir Turkey Dec1 anUtd osc. ...... 20 Ronaldo pen45, 83 Rabiot33 Man City...... (1) 1-2 (1)...... Basel Sevilla...... (1) 1-2 (1)...... BMunich Milner og 15, Dzeko52Mane 9 Oct1 parta oscow e illa ...... 40 Marcelo 86 Jesus7 Elyounoussi 17, Lang 71 Sarabia32Navas og 37, Thiago68 Nainggolan86, pen90Wijnaldum 25 ChampionsLeague201 -1 Corners15, Bookings 60 ManCitywon 5-2 on aggregate Corners9,Bookings50 Liverpoolwon 7-6onaggregate Sep1 ottenham ortmund ...... 65 Basel...... (0) 0-4 (3)...... Man City Corners5,Bookings20 Quarter-final secondlegs Corners10, Bookings 50 Date Match Bks SCHALKEvPORTO Gundogan14, 53 Tottenham...... (1) 1-2 (0)...... Juventus BMunich ...... (0) 0-0 (0)...... Sevilla Real Madrid.... (1) 2-2 (1)...... BMunich May1 eal adrid unich ...... 40 JesusGil Manzano Spain BSilva18 Heung-Min Son39Higuain 64 BMunichwon 2-1onaggregate Benzema 11, 46 Kimmich 3, Rodriguez63 Apr1 u entus eal adrid ...... 65 Aguero23 Dybala67 Corners10, Bookings 65 Real Madrid win 4-3 on aggregate Feb1 helsea arcelona ...... 50 ChampionsLeague201 -1 Corners9,Bookings40 Juventus won4-3 on aggregate Real Madrid.... (0) 1-3 (2)...... Juventus Corners17, Bookings 40 Juventus...... (2) 2-2 (1)...... Tottenham Corners7,Bookings70 Ronaldo pen90Mandzukic 2, 37 Final Dec1 unich aris t- . ...... 60 Date Match Bks Higuain 2, pen9 Kane 35 Liverpool...... (0) 0-0 (0)...... Porto Matuidi 60 Real Madrid.... (0) 3-1 (0)...... Liverpool Nov1 ottenham eal adrid ...... 20 Dec1 enfica asel ...... 40 Eriksen71 Liverpoolwon 5-0 on aggregate Real Madridwon 4-3 onaggregate Benzema 51, Bale 64,83Mane55 Sep1 tl adrid helsea ...... 30 Sep1 nderlecht eltic ...... 0 Corners10, Bookings 50 Corners4,Bookings30 Corners10, Bookings 115 Corners14, Bookings 10 Racing Post Tuesday, September 18, 2018 25 Parisianstotakenext step
Real Madrid,although their thecompetition –are suretoput DAN chances have been reduced by up astrong challenge. CHILDS Cristiano Ronaldo’sdeparture. PSG have experience of several The English challengelooks round of 16 and quarter-final PARIS ST-GERMAI have spent strong withManchesterCity and failures, but their attack– lavishlywithout coming close to Liverpool capable of beating the featuring Edinson Cavani, Kylian landingthe biggesttrophyin bestthatthe continent has to Mbappe and eymar –looks European football but they look offer. among thebest on theplanetand major contendersand arevalue Juventus, reinforced by can fire them to glory. to go all theways. Ronaldo, have obviousclaims and Recommendation Eight clubs arecontendersto Barcelona –the dominant team ParisSt-Germain 8-1 Betfred liftthe trophy, includingholders from thenationthathas bossed Beaten finalistsare stronger
onlytwo goals in five straight injurytoMohamed Salah and JAMES victories, and at thepricesthey Loris Karius’s horrificerrors. MILTON areatempting bettorule Europe. Having been drawn against TheReds beat ManchesterCity PSG and apoli,Liverpool may THERE wasplenty to like about -1 on aggregate in lastseason’s notmatch last season’s tallyof Liverpool’s runtolastseason’s Champions League, also ending goals in six group games but Champions League finaland their theCitizens’hopes of an unbeaten another bold bid lookslikelyfrom first11isundoubtedlyastronger league season. JurgenKlopp’s Reds. unit this time around. And punterscan arguablyput They have madeaperfect start aline through their final defeat Recommendation Liverpool 14-1 SkyBet in thePremierLeague, conceding to Real Madrid given theearly Don’twrite offBayernjustyet
seems to be in agreement that The spine of theteamisthe STEVE this competition is themostwide- envy of anyone’s, their defence DAVIES open foryears,yet feware making especiallystandsout and they’ve acasefor established Euro giants match-winnersthroughout the WHISPER it quietly, butthis is and multi-winnersBayern. rankswhen theopposition gets thecasefor Bayern Munichbeing Their pedigreeisobvious, the tougher next year. crowned ChampionsLeague dynamic iko Kovacisnow at the winnersof 1 -1 . helm and Bayern areoff to aflyer Recommendation Bayern Munich 10-1 bet365 It’s oddthatpunditafter pundit despitepicking up injuries. aris t ermain arepinning their hopes on theshouldersofrecord signing eymar 26 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SPECIAL Tuesday, September 18, 2018 racingpost.com ODDS O MGUIDE
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Today Tomorrow HOME BELGIUM AWAY HOME GERMANY AWAY Pl W D L F A W D L F A Pts Pl W D L F A W D L F A Pts GROUP A GROUP E 7 4 0 0 12 4 Club Brugge....2 1 0 7 3 19 3 2 0 0 6 2 B Munich...... 1 0 0 3 0 9 7 3 1 0 8 4 Genk...... 2 1 0 9 3 17 -5.00 CLUB BRUGGE v B DORTMUND -1.28 AJAX v AEK ATHENS 3 2 0 0 7 2 B Dortmund ....0 1 0 0 0 7 7 2 2 0 7 2 Royal Antwerp 2 1 0 3 1 15 3 1 1 0 4 3 olfsburg ...... 1 0 0 3 1 7 - Lokeren h 2-1 3-1 h E Frankfurt - - FC Gronin h 3-0 4-0 h Panionios - 7 2 1 0 8 3 Anderlecht ...... 2 0 2 7 5 13 - Waregem a 5-2 0-0 a Hannover F - Vitesse A a 4-0 1-0 a Asteras T. - 3 1 0 0 1 0 Hertha Berlin...1 1 0 4 2 7 6 2 1 0 7 3 Gent...... 2 0 1 8 5 13 3 2 0 0 4 1 Mgladbach...... 0 1 0 1 1 7 - Anderlecht h 2-1 4-1 h RB Leipzig F F Dynamo Kiev a 0-0 1-1 h MOL Vidi F 7 2 2 0 6 4 St Liege ...... 1 1 1 4 2 12 3 2 0 0 3 1 Mainz ...... 0 1 0 1 1 7 - R Antwerp a 1-1 1-1 a Greuther - - FC Emmen h 5-0 2-0 h Ioannina - 7 2 1 1 6 5 Oostende...... 1 0 2 4 7 10 - Kortrijk h 3-0 1-3 a Hoffenheim F Dynamo Kiev h 3-1 2-1 a MOL Vidi F 7 2 0 1 6 6 Cercle Bruges..0 3 1 1 2 9 3 0 2 0 2 2 Bremen ...... 1 0 0 2 1 5 - Mouscron-P a 1-0 1-2 h Mainz F - VVV Venlo a 1-0 2-1 h Celtic F 6 1 2 0 2 1 St. Truiden...... 0 2 1 5 6 7 3 0 1 0 1 1 Augsburg ...... 1 0 1 3 3 4 3 1 0 1 3 3 F Dusseldorf....0 1 0 1 1 4 -2.60 MONACO v ATL MADRID -2.84 7 1 0 3 4 6 Charleroi ...... 1 1 1 5 4 7 BENFICA v BAYERN MUNICH +0.80 3 1 1 0 4 3 RB Leipzig ...... 0 0 1 1 4 4 F Toulouse a 1-1 1-1 h Eibar F F 7 1 0 2 5 8 KAS Eupen ...... 1 1 2 3 9 7 - Rio Ave h 2-1 3-1 h Lev’kusen 3 1 0 0 3 1 Hoffenheim .....0 0 2 2 5 3 Marseille h 2-3 -2 a Celta Vigo F - Nacional a 4-0 3-0 a Stuttgart F 7 0 1 2 5 9 Kortrijk ...... 1 1 2 2 4 5 7 1 1 1 8 7 aregem...... 0 1 3 4 12 5 3 0 0 1 1 2 E Frankfurt ...... 1 0 1 3 3 3 F Bordeaux a 1-2 1-0 h R. Vallec F F PAOK a 4-1 3-1 h Hoffenheim F F Lille h 0-0 1-1 a Valencia F - Sporting h 1-1 1-0 a Drochtersen - 7 0 3 0 2 2 Beveren...... 0 1 3 5 10 4 3 0 1 0 0 0 Hannover ...... 0 1 1 3 4 2 7 1 0 2 1 7 Lokeren ...... 0 1 3 5 8 4 3 0 1 0 1 1 Nuremberg...... 0 1 1 1 2 2 F Nantes a 3-1 2-2 n Real Madrid F PAOK h 1-1 5-0 a E Frankfurt F 7 1 0 3 1 3 Mouscron-P.....0 0 3 2 7 3 - Paris St-G. n * -4 2-2 h Eibar F - Boavista a 2-0 1-3* h E Frankfurt F 3 0 1 1 3 5 Freiburg...... 0 0 1 1 3 1 GROUP B GROUP F HOME CZECH REPUBLIC (top) AWAY 3 0 0 1 0 3 Stuttgart...... 0 1 1 3 4 1 Pl W D L F A W D L F A Pts 3 0 0 1 0 2 Schalke...... 0 0 2 2 4 0 +0.81 BARCELONA v PSV EINDHOVEN -4.00 +0.30 MAN CITY v LYON -2.48 8 3 0 1 11 3 Slavia Prague..4 0 0 10 1 21 3 0 0 1 1 3 B Leverkusen...0 0 2 1 5 0 F Sociedad a 2-1 -0 a Den Haag - F Fulham h 3-0 2-2 a Caen F 8 4 0 0 9 1 Viktoria Plzen..3 0 1 5 5 21 HOME GREECE AWAY F Huesca h 8-2 6-1 h Willem II - F Newcastle h 2-1 -1 h Nice F 8 3 1 0 8 3 Zlin ...... 3 0 1 7 2 19 Pl W D L F A W D L F A Pts 7 3 1 0 7 2 Sparta Prague*.2 1 0 7 2 17 F Valladolid a 1-0 3-0 h BATE F F Wolves a 1-1 2-0 h Strasbourg F 3 2 0 0 6 0 AEK Athens .....1 0 0 1 0 9 F Alaves h 3-0 2-1 a PEC Zwolle - F H’field h 6-1 -1 a Reims F 7 3 0 0 6 0 Banik Ostrava*.2 1 1 6 3 16 8 3 1 1 11 6 Dukla Pribram.0 1 2 2 8 11 3 1 0 0 3 1 Panathinaikos .2 0 0 4 1 9 F Sevilla n 2-1 3-2 a BATE F F Arsenal a 2-0 2-0 h Amiens F 3 1 0 0 1 0 PAOK Salonika 2 0 0 4 1 9 F Sociedad h 1-0 2-1 a F. Sittard - F Chelsea n 2-0 3-2 h Nice F 8 1 1 2 3 4 B. 1 5...... 2 1 1 7 7 11 8 2 0 2 8 6 Jablonec...... 1 1 2 3 4 10 2 2 0 0 6 0 Olympiakos.....0 0 0 0 0 6 -2.42 INTER v TOTTENHAM +1.38 SHAKHTAR v HOFFENHEIM -1.39 ENGLAND 2 1 0 0 2 0 Aris Salonika* .1 0 0 3 0 6 F Parma h -1 1-2 h Liverpool - Oleksandria a 2-0 1-2 a Fortuna D F HOME AWAY 2 0 1 0 0 0 Atromitos...... 1 0 0 2 1 4 F Bologna a 3-0 1-2 a Watford F - Mariupol h 2-0 3-1 h Freiburg F Pl W D L F A W D L F A Pts 3 1 0 1 3 3 Panetolikos .....0 1 0 1 1 4 F Torino h 2-2 3-0 a Man Utd - O Donetsk a 5-2 1-3 a B Munich 5 3 0 0 9 3 Chelsea...... 2 0 0 5 1 15 2 1 0 0 1 0 Levadiakos* ....0 0 1 0 1 3 5 2 0 0 5 0 Liverpool...... 3 0 0 6 2 15 F Sassuolo a -1 3-1 h Fulham F - Lviv a 2-0 6-1 a Kaisersla - 3 0 0 1 1 3 Larissa...... 1 0 1 1 2 3 5 3 0 0 11 2 Man City...... 1 1 0 3 1 13 Lazio a 3-2 2-1 a Newcastle F - Vorskla P h 4-1 3-1 h B Dortmund F 3 0 0 0 0 0 Ioannina...... 1 0 2 2 8 3 F Sassuolo h 1-2 5-4 h Leicester F - Dynamo Kiev a -1 -2 a Stuttgart F 5 3 0 1 7 4 atford...... 1 0 0 3 1 12 5 2 1 0 8 4 Bournemouth..1 0 1 2 3 10 3 0 1 1 1 2 Xanthi...... 0 1 0 0 0 2 GROUP C GROUP G 5 1 0 1 4 3 Tottenham...... 2 0 1 6 3 9 3 0 0 1 1 3 OFI Crete ...... 0 1 1 3 4 1 5 1 0 1 3 3 Arsenal...... 2 0 1 7 6 9 3 0 1 1 2 3 Panionios ...... 0 0 1 0 4 1 +2.72 LIVERPOOL v PSG -0.34 -0.30 REAL MADRID v ROMA -1.89 5 1 0 1 2 4 Man Utd...... 2 0 1 6 4 9 2 0 0 1 0 1 Asteras T...... 0 0 1 0 1 0 F Tottenham a 2-1 4-0 h St-Etienne - F Ath Bilbao a 1-1 2-2 h Chievo F 5 1 2 0 4 3 olves ...... 1 0 1 1 2 8 3 0 0 2 1 3 Apollon S...... 0 0 1 0 1 0 F Leicester a 2-1 4-2 a Nimes F F Leganes h 4-1 1-2 a Milan 5 1 1 1 4 5 Everton...... 0 2 0 4 4 6 2 0 0 1 0 3 Lamia ...... 0 0 1 1 3 0 F Brighton h 1-0 3-1 h Angers F F Girona a 4-1 3-3 h Atalanta F 5 1 0 1 3 2 Leicester...... 1 0 2 5 7 6 HOME HOLLAND AWAY F C Palace a 2-0 3-1 a Guingamp F F Getafe h 2-0 1-0 a Torino F 5 0 0 2 0 4 C Palace...... 2 0 1 4 2 6 F West Ham h 4-0 3-0 h Caen F F Atl Madrid n 2-2 1-0 a Sassuolo F 4 0 1 1 1 2 Southampton* 1 0 1 3 2 4 Pl W D L F A W D L F A Pts Real Madrid a *1-3 4-0 n Monaco - F Liverpool h 3-1 0-0 h Juventus F 4 1 1 0 5 4 Brighton*...... 0 0 2 0 3 4 5 2 0 0 10 1 PSV Eindhoven3 0 0 11 2 15 RED STAR v NAPOLI +1.76 VIKTORIA PLZEN v CSKA MOSCOW 5 1 0 1 4 4 Fulham ...... 0 1 2 3 8 4 5 2 1 0 9 1 Ajax ...... 2 0 0 5 0 13 - Radnik S h 6-0 1-0 h Fiorentina F - Opava h 1-0 3-0 a FC Ufa - 5 0 0 2 1 3 est Ham...... 1 0 2 4 8 3 5 2 0 0 7 2 Feyenoord...... 1 1 1 6 6 10 - Vojvodina a 4-1 -3 a Sampdoria F - Slavia Prague a -4 4-0 h Ural Oblast - 5 0 1 1 2 3 Cardiff ...... 0 1 2 1 6 2 5 2 0 0 7 4 Heracles ...... 1 1 1 6 9 10 RB Salzburg a 2-2 3-2 h Milan F - M B’slav h 6-1 1-1 a Rubin - 5 0 1 2 0 4 Huddersfield ...0 1 1 2 7 2 5 1 2 0 6 1 AZ Alkmaar .....1 0 1 6 4 8 - Cukaricki h 2-1 2-1 a Lazio F - MFK Karvina a 1-0 3-0 h Arsenal Tula - 5 0 0 3 3 6 Newcastle ...... 0 1 1 1 2 1 5 1 0 1 5 5 Vitesse Arn...... 1 2 0 3 1 8 RB Salzburg h 0-0 2-1 h Crotone F - Zlin h 1-0 1-1 a Y. Krasnoyarsk - 5 0 0 2 1 5 Burnley...... 0 1 2 2 5 1 5 0 1 1 1 2 VVV Venlo ...... 2 1 0 4 2 8 F Spartak T a 1-1 2-0 a Sampdoria F - Sigma O. a 1-0 -1 h R. Rostov - HOME FRANCE AWAY 5 1 1 1 7 3 illem II...... 1 0 1 2 6 7 GROUP D GROUP H Pl W D L F A W D L F A Pts 5 0 1 1 2 5 FC Emmen...... 2 0 1 4 7 7 5 3 0 0 10 1 Paris St-G...... 2 0 0 7 3 15 5 1 0 2 4 10 Den Haag ...... 1 0 1 6 6 6 - GALATASARAY v LOKOMOTIV MOSCOW -4.00 VALENCIA v JUVENTUS +1.01 5 2 0 0 6 1 Lille...... 1 1 1 3 3 10 5 0 1 1 2 3 F. Sittard...... 1 1 1 5 6 5 - Kasimpasa h 4-1 1-1 h Din. Moscow - F Real Betis h 0-0 2-1 h Sassuolo F 5 2 1 0 4 2 Toulouse...... 1 0 1 2 5 10 5 0 1 2 7 11 Heerenveen.....1 1 0 4 3 5 - Trabzonspor a -4 1-2 a Krasnodar - F Levante a 2-2 2-1 a Parma F 5 1 0 2 3 5 Dijon...... 2 0 0 6 1 9 5 0 1 1 3 5 Excelsior...... 1 1 1 4 5 5 - Alanyaspor h 6-0 2-1 h Anzhi - F Espanyol a -2 2-0 h Lazio F 5 0 2 1 2 3 Montpellier .....2 0 0 3 1 8 5 1 1 1 4 3 FC Utrecht ...... 0 1 1 1 5 5 - Goztepe h 1-0 1-0 a Kryliya S - Atl Madrid h 1-1 3-2 a Chievo F 4 1 1 0 6 2 Marseille ...... 1 0 1 4 5 7 5 1 0 2 3 3 De Graafschap 0 1 1 1 4 4 - Ankaragucu a 3-1 -1 a Gazovik - F Deportivo h 2-1 2-1 h Verona F 5 2 0 1 4 1 Lyon...... 0 1 1 2 3 7 5 0 0 3 3 7 PEC Zwolle...... 1 0 1 1 2 3 - Akhisar B n 1-1 0-0 h Spartak - Girona a 1-0 0-0 a Roma 5 1 0 1 5 5 Nimes...... 1 1 1 7 7 7 5 1 0 2 5 5 NAC Breda...... 0 0 2 2 9 3 5 2 0 0 3 0 Rennes ...... 0 1 2 4 7 7 5 0 0 2 0 2 FC Groningen..1 0 2 2 8 3 -3.00 SCHALKE v PORTO YOUNG BOYS v MAN UTD +0.12 5 1 0 1 1 1 Reims ...... 1 1 1 2 4 7 Mgladbach a 1-2 1-1 h Chaves - - FC Schaf a 2-2 2-1 a Watford F 5 1 0 2 2 6 Nice ...... 1 1 0 2 1 7 F Hertha h -2 3-0 h Moreirense - - FC Sion a 3-0 2-0 a Burnley F 5 1 0 1 4 4 Angers...... 1 0 2 4 5 6 F Wolfsburg a 1-2 2-3 h V Guimaraes - Din Zagreb a 2-1 -3 h Tottenham F 5 0 2 0 3 3 Caen ...... 1 1 1 3 4 6 - Schweinfurt a 2-0 3-2 a Belenenses - - Neuc. Xamax h 5-2 2-3 a Brighton F 5 1 1 0 2 1 St-Etienne ...... 0 2 1 1 5 6 MARK LANGDON’S F E Frankfurt h 1-0 5-0 h Chaves - F Din Zagreb h 1-1 2-1 h Leicester F 5 0 1 1 2 3 Monaco ...... 1 1 1 5 4 5 F Augsburg a 2-1 1-0 a V Guimaraes - - Biel-Bienne a 3-2 -1* n Chelsea F 5 0 1 1 3 4 Strasbourg ...... 1 1 1 3 3 5 5 0 2 1 2 4 Nantes...... 1 0 1 3 4 5 GROUP GUIDE -minute score in cup tie. i ures ne tto team names show profit or loss - to le elsta eson all lea ue 5 1 0 2 7 6 Amiens ...... 0 1 1 0 2 4 Lionel Messi s arcelona start their campaign at home to at hesthis based o best pri ei a i g Post. F denotes that ateam was a ouritebased on best price in 5 1 1 1 5 6 Bordeaux...... 0 0 2 1 4 4 a i g Post a dash ea s o odds. Wi s are show i losses i red. es lts fro last seaso are i italics. 4 0 0 2 2 5 Guingamp ...... 0 0 2 1 5 0 PAGES 6-22 Racing Post Tuesday, September 18, 2018 27
*Played last night, result not included HOW THEY BET HOME ITALY AWAY HOME SPAIN AWAY Today Pl W D L F A W D L F A Pts Pl W D L F A W D L F A Pts 4 2 0 0 4 1 Juventus...... 2 0 0 5 3 12 4 2 0 0 11 2 Barcelona...... 2 0 0 3 1 12 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 4 2 0 0 4 2 Napoli...... 1 0 1 2 4 9 4 2 0 0 6 1 Real Madrid ....1 1 0 5 2 10 4 2 0 0 6 3 Sassuolo...... 0 1 1 3 4 7 3 1 1 0 3 1 Celta Vigo*...... 1 0 0 2 1 7 Bet365 BetBright Betfair Betfred Betway Boyle Coral Hills Lads P Power Sky Bet 188bet Best draw Bet365 BetBright Betfair Betfred Betway Boyle Coral Hills Lads P Power Sky Bet 188bet 3 1 0 0 3 0 Sampdoria...... 1 0 1 5 1 6 4 2 0 0 3 0 Espanyol ...... 0 1 1 2 3 7 15-4 10-3 18-5 7-2 7-2 10-3 13-4 16-5 13-4 7-2 10-3 16-5 ...... 5Club Brugge 16-5 B Dortmund (8)...... 8-11 8-11 3-4 4-5 3-4 3-4 3-4 3-4 3-4 8-11 3-4 10-13 3 2 0 0 7 1 Fiorentina...... 0 0 1 0 1 6 4 1 1 0 2 1 Alaves ...... 1 0 1 1 3 7 3 1 0 0 1 0 Spal*...... 1 0 1 1 1 6 3 1 2 0 5 4 Ath Bilbao ...... 0 0 0 0 0 5 19-4 4-1 4-1 9-2 9-2 4-1 4-1 19-5 4-1 4-1 4-1 50-13 ...... 4Monaco 13-5 Atl Madrid (8)...... 3-4 4-5 4-5 4-5 3-4 3-4 8-11 3-4 3-4 8-11 3-4 10-13 3 2 0 0 3 1 Genoa...... 0 0 1 3 5 6 4 1 1 0 2 1 Atl Madrid...... 0 1 1 1 3 5 4 1 0 1 2 2 Lazio...... 1 0 1 1 2 6 1-9 1-10 1-10 1-9 1-9 1-9 1-9 1-12 1-9 1-12 1-9 1-10 ...... 1Barcelona 11-1 PSV (5.55)...... 25-1 20-1 30-1 28-1 20-1 20-1 22-1 18-1 22-1 25-1 18-1 20-1 4 0 2 0 5 5 Roma...... 1 0 1 2 2 5 4 1 0 1 1 3 Real Betis ...... 0 2 0 0 0 5 4 1 0 1 1 1 Torino ...... 0 2 0 3 3 5 3 0 1 0 0 0 Sevilla...... 1 0 1 4 2 4 2-1 19-10 19-10 2-1 2-1 19-10 15-8 19-10 19-10 15-8 15-8 23-12 ...... 3Inter 23-10 Tottenham (5.55)..... 8-5 6-4 13-8 8-5 8-5 29-20 29-20 29-20 29-20 8-5 8-5 31-21 4 1 1 0 2 1 Udinese...... 0 1 1 2 3 5 4 0 1 1 3 4 Levante ...... 1 0 1 3 1 4 3 1 0 1 4 1 Atalanta*...... 0 1 0 3 3 4 3 1 1 0 2 0 Getafe ...... 0 0 1 0 2 4 13-10 5-4 5-4 5-4 13-10 6-5 6-5 5-4 6-5 11-10 13-10 19-16 ...... 2Liverpool 29-10 PSG (8) ...... 21-10 19-10 21-10 21-10 2-1 19-10 19-10 15-8 2-1 2-1 2-1 2-1 4 0 0 1 1 2 Sociedad ...... 1 1 1 5 5 4 4 0 1 1 2 3 Inter...... 1 0 1 3 1 4 3 4 1 0 1 2 1 Empoli...... 0 1 1 1 2 4 4 0 0 2 1 3 Villarreal...... 1 1 0 1 0 4 8-1 7-1 15-2 8-1 15-2 8-1 7-1 6-1 7-1 7-1 13-2 33-5 ...... Red Star 18-5 Napoli (8)...... 4-9 2-5 4-9 4-9 9-20 2-5 4-9 4-9 4-9 2-5 4-9 3-7 4 0 1 1 3 4 Parma...... 1 0 1 1 1 4 4 1 0 1 3 3 Eibar...... 0 1 1 1 3 4 19-20 10-11 10-11 10-11 10-11 20-23 20-23 10-11 20-23 5-6 19-20 11-12 ...... 5Galatasaray 5-2 Lok. Moscow (8)..... 7-2 16-5 18-5 7-2 7-2 10-3 13-4 3-1 13-4 7-2 3-1 16-5 3 0 1 0 2 2 Cagliari...... 1 0 1 1 2 4 3 0 1 1 1 4 Girona*...... 1 0 0 1 0 4 2 1 0 0 2 1 Milan...... 0 0 1 2 3 3 4 0 0 1 0 1 Huesca...... 1 1 1 6 11 4 8-5 6-4 13-8 13-8 8-5 8-5 31-20 8-5 31-20 8-5 6-4 8-5 ...... 5Schalke 12-5 Porto (8)...... 19-10 9-5 15-8 19-10 19-10 9-5 7-4 17-10 7-4 9-5 9-5 7-4 4 0 1 1 2 3 Chievo...... 0 1 1 3 8 2 4 0 2 0 1 1 Valencia...... 0 1 1 2 4 3 4 0 0 2 0 4 Bologna...... 0 1 1 0 1 1 3 0 0 1 1 4 R. Vallecano ....1 0 1 1 1 3 Tomorrow 4 0 1 1 0 5 Frosinone ...... 0 0 2 0 5 1 4 0 0 2 0 2 Valladolid...... 0 2 0 0 0 2 HOME PORTUGAL AWAY 4 0 1 1 2 3 Leganes...... 0 0 2 2 6 1 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Pl W D L F A W D L F A Pts HOME SWITZERLAND AWAY Bet365 BetBright Betfair Betfred Betway Boyle Coral Hills Lads P Power Sky Bet 188bet Best draw Bet365 BetBright Betfair Betfred Betway Boyle Coral Hills Lads P Power Sky Bet 188bet 4 1 1 0 4 3 Benfica ...... 2 0 0 6 0 10 Pl W D L F A W D L F A Pts 4 4 2 0 0 7 3 Braga...... 1 1 0 4 3 10 6 3 0 0 11 2 Young Boys .....3 0 0 8 2 18 2-5 4-11 4-11 2-5 2-5 2-5 4-11 2-5 2-5 1-3 2-5 2-5 ...... Ajax 4-1 AEK Athens (5.55) ... 8-1 7-1 8-1 8-1 7-1 7-1 15-2 13-2 15-2 15-2 7-1 34-5 4 2 0 0 3 1 Sporting ...... 1 1 0 4 2 10 6 1 0 2 5 7 St Gallen...... 2 1 0 5 3 10 4 2 0 1 10 3 Porto...... 1 0 0 3 2 9 13-2 11-2 6-1 6-1 11-2 11-2 11-2 24-5 11-2 11-2 5-1 26-5 ...... 5Benfica 4-1 B Munich (8) ...... 4-9 4-9 40-85 1-2 1-2 4-9 1-2 1-2 1-2 4-9 1-2 17-35 6 2 1 1 9 7 Basel...... 0 2 0 2 2 9 4 2 0 0 3 1 Maritimo ...... 1 0 1 2 3 9 3 4 1 1 0 3 1 Feirense...... 1 0 1 1 1 7 6 2 0 2 8 8 Lucerne...... 1 0 1 2 2 9 2-11 2-11 2-11 1-5 2-11 2-11 2-11 1-6 2-11 1-7 1-5 2-11 ...... Man City 15-2 Lyon (8)...... 16-1 12-1 15-1 16-1 12-1 12-1 16-1 12-1 16-1 14-1 12-1 13-1 6 1 1 0 3 2 Thun ...... 1 1 2 9 7 8 4 2 0 0 5 2 Rio Ave...... 0 1 1 1 3 7 Evs Evs 21-20 21-20 21-20 20-21 Evs Evs Evs Evs 19-20 19-20 ...... 1Shakhtar 29-10 Hoffenheim (5.55)... 14-5 13-5 11-4 11-4 5-2 13-5 5-2 12-5 5-2 13-5 13-5 28-11 4 1 0 1 1 1 V Guimaraes ...1 0 1 5 5 6 6 1 1 1 3 4 Lugano ...... 1 1 1 5 6 8 4 1 1 0 7 5 Santa Clara .....0 1 1 2 3 5 6 1 2 0 3 2 FC Zurich ...... 1 0 2 2 5 8 4-11 4-11 4-11 2-5 4-11 4-11 1-3 7-20 1-3 1-3 1-3 6-17 ...... 4Real Madrid 23-5 Roma (8) ...... 15-21 13-2 7-1 7-1 13-2 13-2 7-1 6-1 7-1 13-2 15-2 13-2 4 0 1 1 2 3 Belenenses...... 1 1 0 2 1 5 6 1 0 2 4 5 FC Sion ...... 1 0 2 7 7 6 4 1 0 1 3 2 Vitoria Setubal 0 1 1 1 2 4 6 1 0 1 2 3 Grasshoppers..0 1 3 5 10 4 11-8 13-10 7-5 29-20 11-8 13-110 13-10 11-8 27-20 13-10 13-10 13-10 ... 5Viktoria Plzen 9-4 CSKA Moscow (8)... 12-5 11-5 23-10 23-10 9-4 23-10 11-5 2-1 11-5 11-5 11-5 12-5 4 0 0 1 0 2 Boavista ...... 1 1 1 5 5 4 6 0 1 2 4 9 Neuc. Xamax...1 0 2 4 8 4 15-4 10-3 18-5 19-5 7-2 10-3 10-3 16-5 17-5 7-2 10-3 38-11 ...... 5Valencia 27-10 Juventus (8) ...... 17-20 5-6 20-23 17-20 17-20 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 4 0 1 1 2 4 Moreirense...... 1 0 1 2 4 4 HOME TURKEY AWAY 4 1 0 1 2 1 Chaves...... 0 0 2 1 7 3 2 (8) 4 0 0 2 1 6 Nacional...... 1 0 1 4 5 3 Pl W D L F A W D L F A Pts 4-1 15-4 15-4 4-1 15-4 15-4 18-5 18-5 15-4 7-2 18-5 7-2 ...... Young Boys 3-1 Man Utd ...... 8-11 8-11 3-4 3-4 3-4 8-11 7-10 8-11 8-11 8-11 8-11 3-4 4 0 1 1 1 2 Tondela ...... 0 1 1 2 3 2 5 3 0 0 11 1 Galatasaray.....1 0 1 3 5 12 4 0 1 1 2 3 Desp. Aves ...... 0 0 2 1 5 1 5 3 0 0 9 1 Istanbul Buyuk.1 0 1 2 2 12 vvUnderlined prices indicate firms that are best-priced aboutthe draw. 4 0 1 1 2 4 Portimonense..0 0 2 1 4 1 5 2 0 0 4 2 Kasimpasa...... 2 0 1 7 6 12 TV matches: 1 BT Sport 1; 2 BT Sport 2; 3 BT Sport 3; 4 BT Sport ESPN; 5 BT Sport Extra. 5 2 0 1 6 5 Besiktas...... 1 1 0 4 2 10 HOME RUSSIA AWAY 4 1 1 0 4 3 Konyaspor...... 1 1 0 4 3 8 Prices shown are those available to online/telephone customers. Some firms’ shop prices may differ. Selections in red are those advised by Racing Post Sport today. Pl W D L F A W D L F A Pts 5 1 1 0 2 0 Kayserispor.....1 1 1 3 4 8 7 2 1 0 5 1 Zenit...... 4 0 0 7 1 19 4 2 0 0 7 1 Trabzonspor*...0 1 1 2 4 7 7 3 0 1 5 3 Spartak...... 1 2 0 1 0 14 6 2 1 1 6 2 R. Rostov...... 2 0 0 2 0 13 5 1 0 1 1 1 Malatyaspor....1 1 1 4 3 7 TONIGHT’S CHAMPIONS LEAGUE ASIAN HANDICAPS Start given (-) or received (+) by away team 7 1 0 1 2 2 FK Krasnodar ..3 1 1 9 4 13 5 1 1 1 4 5 Ankaragucu.....1 0 1 3 2 7 7 2 0 1 7 1 CSKA Mosc...... 1 3 0 5 2 12 5 1 1 0 5 4 Antalyaspor ....1 0 2 3 8 7 bet365 188Bet bet365 188Bet bet365 188Bet bet365 188Bet 7 2 1 0 6 1 Din. Moscow...0 3 1 3 4 10 5 2 0 1 4 3 Goztepe...... 0 0 2 0 2 6 7 1 1 1 3 3 Orenburg...... 2 0 2 6 4 10 5 1 1 1 3 5 Sivasspor...... 0 1 1 2 4 5 Handicap -0.75 -0.75 Handicap +2.75 +2.5 Handicap +0.25 +0.25 Handicap +0.5 +0.5 7 2 1 1 4 3 Rubin...... 0 3 0 3 3 10 4 0 2 0 1 1 Bursaspor...... 0 1 1 2 3 3 7 2 1 0 4 2 Terek Grozny...1 0 3 4 7 10 4 1 0 1 4 4 Fenerbahce .....0 0 2 0 2 3 Club Brugge 1.92 1.9 Barcelona 2.11 1.89 Liverpool 1.99 1.99 Galatasaray 1.92 1.9 7 1 2 0 3 2 Lok. Moscow...1 1 2 2 3 9 4 1 0 1 1 2 Alanyaspor* ....0 0 2 0 7 3 7 2 1 1 7 2 Arsenal Tula ....0 1 2 0 4 8 4 0 1 1 2 3 Rizespor ...... 0 1 1 2 3 2 Borussia Dortmund 2.01 2 PSV Eindhoven 1.82 2.01 Paris St-Germain 1.94 1.91 Lokomotiv Moscow 2.01 2 7 1 1 2 1 4 Kryliya Sovetov1 0 2 1 5 7 5 0 0 2 1 4 E Belediyespor 0 2 1 4 5 2 Handicap -0.75 -0.75 Handicap 0 0 Handicap -1.25 -1.25 Handicap 0 0 7 1 2 1 2 3 Y Krasnoyarsk .0 0 3 0 6 5 5 0 2 0 2 2 Akhisar B...... 0 0 3 2 6 2 7 1 1 3 3 6 FC Ufa...... 0 0 2 1 5 4 UKRAINE 6 1 1 2 4 5 Ural S Oblast...0 0 2 1 8 4 HOME AWAY Monaco 1.91 1.91 Inter 2.125 2.11 Red Star Belgrade 1.88 1.87 Schalke 1.89 1.85 7 0 0 2 1 7 Anzhi ...... 1 0 4 2 7 3 Pl W D L F A W D L F A Pts 8 3 0 0 9 1 Shakhtar...... 4 0 1 11 3 21 Atletico Madrid 2.02 1.99 Tottenham 1.81 1.8 Napoli 2.05 2.03 Porto 2.04 2.05 HOME SERBIA (top) AWAY 8 3 0 1 4 2 Oleksandria.....2 1 1 6 3 16 Pl W D L F A W D L F A Pts 7 3 0 1 3 2 Dynamo Kiev ..1 2 0 3 2 14 7 5 0 0 16 1 Red Star ...... 2 0 0 6 2 21 8 1 3 1 4 5 Zorya...... 2 0 1 6 1 12 8 4 1 0 10 4 Radnicki Nis....1 1 1 5 4 17 7 1 1 0 1 0 Partizan...... 4 0 1 6 2 16 8 3 0 0 5 2 Vorskla Poltava1 0 4 2 8 12 8 2 0 1 4 3 Mladost Lucani2 3 0 7 3 15 8 1 1 3 3 7 Desna ...... 2 0 1 6 2 10 7 2 2 0 4 2 Cukaricki ...... 1 1 1 5 3 12 8 0 1 2 2 5 Lviv...... 2 2 1 6 4 9 7 1 2 0 2 1 Napredak ...... 1 2 1 5 5 10 8 1 1 2 5 9 O Donetsk ...... 1 2 1 4 4 9 7 1 1 1 4 5 Rad Beograd...2 0 2 3 3 10 8 1 1 4 4 8 Karpaty Lvov...1 1 0 4 2 8 8 1 1 2 2 5 Macva Sabac...2 0 2 3 3 10 7 0 1 1 3 6 Mariupol ...... 2 0 3 7 8 7 8 1 1 2 5 7 Vojvodina NS ..1 2 1 2 2 9 8 0 1 3 2 10 Arsenal Kiev....1 0 3 2 6 4 8 1 1 2 3 4 Proleter ...... 1 1 2 5 4 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 Poltava...... 0 0 0 0 0 0 28 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SPECIAL Tuesday, September 18, 2018 racingpost.com BEHIND ENEMY LINES Who will Which of Who Where is What’s your win the the market are the the best nap for Champions leaders may outsiders group-stage matchday League? disappoint? to watch? value? one?
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tletico adrid should win uventus look short enough. alencia look big. They are in alencia to uali rom Liverpool to beat PSG. I Nik Jenkins their group, are likely to be out Buffon has moved on, Chiellini a tough group but with likes of roup . They have some think Liverpool will have too Betfred the La Liga title race by the is another year older and Guedes, Gameiro, Mina and top-quality players and there much for them at Anfield, knockout stages and have the Ronaldo hasn’t set the world Batshuayi they could surprise are doubts over Juventus and Marco erratti’s suspension is motivation of a home final. on fire yet. people. Manchester United. a major blow for PSG.
have started well under anchester Cit could be oma reached the semi-finals chal e to in roup . chal e to beat Porto. Alan Alger Thomas Tuchel and seem to vulnerable in the latter stages. last season by edging high- have less pressure on their The value in uventus has scoring games and their Betway shoulders than in recent years. gone and their current price transfer business suggests they They make most appeal. seems more of a lay. are equipped to do that again.
uventus look well-equipped eal adrid’s failure to After a strong recruitment chal e loo value to in uventus look a big price Damien Conlon to mount a serious challenge. adequately replace Ronaldo drive this summer, Liverpool roup after last year’s against a alencia team who The addition of Cristiano could make a trophy defence now have a much stronger season of transition under have struggled so far this BoyleSports Ronaldo and the return of difficult this season under new squad to potentially go one Domenico Tedesco. season. Leonardo Bonucci may be key. manager Julen Lopetegui. step further this year.
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a ern unich. They Andres Iniesta will be a huge oma. Last season’s semi- nter to uali from Group l en at home to CSKA. Both Chris Pender should qualify with ease and loss to arcelona. They also finalists have all the attributes B. Luciano Spalletti invested are realistically playing for a the less competitive nature of look vulnerable defensively, to go well again. heavily over the summer and Europa League spot, and the Ladbrokes the Bundesliga should allow especially at right-back, and Inter should qualify at the Czech champions should have them to rest players. could be exposed. expense of Spurs or Barcelona. enough to see off the Russians.
Liverpool could prove a real could disappoint as their The best outsiders could be to e eliminated in onaco look a nice price to Jordan Hanley force following last year’s final squad doesn’t look as strong orussia ortmund. the group stage. beat Atletico Madrid. I also defeat. this term. fancy the alenica v Paddy Power uventus dra .
The double-figure prices have We are happy to take on . tletico adrid are worth There isn’t much between any Any quotes of evens or bigger Ivor Davies long gone but signing Ronaldo They are in a tough group with backing each-way. They have of the teams in Group D and so should be snapped up about Sky Bet was a massive coup for Liverpool and apoli. given so much to the a punt can be taken on alatasara at home to uventus, so it’s the Old Lady competition in recent years outsiders alatasara . Lokomotiv Moscow. for me. and retain plenty of ability.
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I still think the English teams eal adrid are much too Ajax seem to be all the rage orussia ortmund to alencia have been pretty Robin Miller will fall short. arcelona for short. They still look off the but I prefer en ica to qualify in roup . They have poor in La Liga. uventus once aren’t the favourites, but pace domestically and won’t from that section. From there started the season well and with Ronaldo should be able to Sporting Index they look the team to beat this have nearly enough to make it anything is possible. look value as Atletico and get the three points from the year. four in a row. Monaco haven’t impressed yet. Mestalla. Racing Post Tuesday,September 18,2018 29 MATCHDAY ONE Verdicts by Mark Langdon BARCELONA v CLUB BRUGGE GALATASARAY v PSV EINDHOVEN vBDORTMUND LOKO MOSCOW 5.55pm, liveonBTSport 1 8pm, liveonBTSport Extra 8pm, liveonBTSport Extra Best prices 1-9 Barcelona,30-1PSV,11-1 draw Best prices 15-4 Club Brugge,4-5 Dortmund, 16-5 draw Best prices 19-20 Galatasaray,18-5Lokomotiv,5-2 draw TEAM NE S TEAM NE S TEAM NE S vvMalcom has returned to vvKavehRezaei hasmissed vvMaicon has returned to training but maynot be risked. training and is amajor doubt. training but EmreAkbabaisa Denis Suarez and Arthur arefit. vvChristian Pulisic returns but major doubt withYounes vvRyan Thomas is along-term Paco Alcacer,Thomas Delaney, Belhanda on standby. absentee. YoungsterDanteRigo Omer Toprak and Raphael vvMaciej Rybus has nottravelled has nottravelled. Guerreiroare sidelined. but Brian Idowu returns.
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EAD N SCORERS EAD N SCORERS EAD N SCORERS Barcelona PSVEindhoven Club Brugge Borussia Dortmund Galatasaray Lokomotiv Moscow Shirt no. Goals First goal Shirt no. Goals First goal Shirt no. Goals First goal Shirt no. Goals First goal Shirt no. Goals First goal Shirtno. Goals First goal LMessi 10 41HLozano 11 42 JVossen 94 0 FAlcacer 91 0 EDerdiyok 93 1 MRybus 31 11 ODembele 11 31GPereiro 74 1 AGroeneveld 47 31ADiallo 41 1 GMendesRodrigues 72 0 GKrychowiak 71 1 LSuarez 93 0 SBergwijn 17 40 DBonaventure 42 21MDahoud 19 10 HOnyekuru 21 21AMiranchuk 11 10 IRakitic 41 0 LdeJong931 Wesley 72 1 MReus 11 10 SAziz420FSmolov 91 0 JAlba181 0 Viergever 42 0 HVanaken 20 10AWitsel 28 10 EAkbaba202 0 MFernandes 41 1 PSV could run out of legs Dortmund are on the up In-form Derdiyok to shine FA CYbacking abet at ashade look to keep Lionel Messiat THESEteams come into difference in theBundesliga LOKOMOTI MOSCOW’Sfirst replicatelastseason’sform. of odds-onwhich hascollected baybeforetiringdue to being matchday oneinshocking with Dortmund beating ChampionsLeague group- Loko areinthe bottom half in 1 of Barcelona’slast1 overworked. Champions League form – Leipzigand Eintracht stageclash in 1 yearscould with nine points from seven ChampionsLeaguehome Ernesto alverdecan between Club Brugge and Frankfurtand drawing - endindefeatatGalatasaray. league games, whileGalahave matches usuallycalluponexcellent Borussia Dortmund they have away to Hannover. Much hasbeenmadeofthe scored 1 goalsinfiveleague Well,thatiswhat’sonoffer optionsfromthe bench– gone 16 matchesinEurope’s Theclean sheet was intimidating atmosphere that outings andErenDerdiyokcan to those whogowiththe Philippe Coutinho andArturo premiercompetition without importantafter theshambles canbegenerated by Istanbul’s setthe hostsontheir way. second half to have more goals idalweresubstitutes for avictory. of thePeter Bosz eraand finest,althoughone victoryin Derdiyokhas three goals in than theopening period when Saturday’s comebacktriumph Somethingshouldgiveat Dortmund’s youngcentre- thelastnineEuropeanfixtures five league gamesthisseason PS EindhoventraveltoCamp at Real Sociedad –and it theJan Breydelstadion,with backscan rely on Axel Witsel suggests it is overplayed. andalsonotchedinthe Super ouonthe openingnight of shouldbetoo hotfor PS . Dortmund fanciedtobounce to offergood protection. However, Gala won’t get Kupa. TheSwiss strikeris Champions League action. TheDutch championswill back from last year’s Brugge have kept just two many greaterchances to land likely to startupfront on his It hasalsolandedineachof do well to keep it respectable. disappointingresults against shutoutsintheir last 1 games. maximumpointsinthe ownina - - -1formation. Barca’sfourLaLigamatches RealMadrid, Tottenhamand ChampionsLeague than avisit this seasonand most of their Recommendation Apoel icosia. Recommendation from surprise Russian Recommendation gamestendtofollow asimilar Second half to have more LucienFavre’s appointment BorussiaDortmund championsLokomotiv,who EDerdiyokfirstgoalscorer patternasinferior opponents goals 1pt19-20 Betway as coachisalready making a 1pt 4-5 Betfred aredesperatelystrugglingto 1pt6-1 Betway
MONACO v RED STAR SCHALKE ATLETICO MADRID vNAPOLI vPORTO 8pm, liveonBTSport ESPN 8pm, liveonBTSport 3 8pm, liveonBTSport Extra Best prices 19-4 Monaco, 4-5Atletico, 13-5 draw Best prices 8-1 RedStar,9-20 Napoli, 18-5 draw Best prices 13-8 Schalke,19-10 Porto, 12-5 draw TEAM NE S TEAM NE S TEAM NE S vvFirst-choice keeper Danijel vvEl FarduBen is aminor doubt vvBastian Oczipca and Benjamin Subasic is unlikelytoreturn. withasmall injuryafter not Stambouli aresidelined. vvLucas Hernandez returns but being risked at theweekend. vvFrancisco Soares and Chancel itolo, Stefan Savic and Santiago vvKeeper AlexMeret is recovering Mbemba arelong-term Arias have nottravelled. Borja from abrokenarm but has absentees. Injurydoubt Andre Garces is in thesquad. travelled to Belgrade. Pereira has travelled to Germany.
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Vecino 16 12 10 11 14 14 11 11 11 10 10 10 Inter-Inter 15-4 316-5 4 15-4 10-3 7-2 16-5 7-2 10-3 333-10 Valero 12 18 16 16 22 20 20 20 20 16 16 16 Inter-Draw 14 12 12 14 11 12 14 14 14 12 14 15 lastseason –ensuring areturnto built on astrong WorldCup with Wanyama 25 25 22 25 20 25 25 25 25 22 25 25 Inter-Spurs 28 25 22 33 25 25 33 28 33 30 33 35 theChampions League forthe twogoals in four matches. Recommendation Skriniar 33 25 18 20 25 28 22 22 22 18 18 18 Draw-Inter 11-2 556 5524-5 24-5 24-5 5553-10 firsttimeinsix years–was their Inter have good attacking Draw 1pt23-10 general Vrij 25 25 20 22 33 28 25 25 25 19 22 25 Draw-Draw 4 15-4 7-2 4 15-4 15-4 18-5 7-2 18-5 7-2 44 joint-highestsince 11. playersbut they maylackbelief Aurier 33 33 30 33 25 33 33 33 33 30 33 35 Spurs-Draw 14 12 11 14 12 12 14 14 14 11 14 15 Dier 28 28 22 33 25 33 33 33 33 25 33 35 Spurs-Inter 28 25 22 33 25 25 33 28 33 25 28 30 Winks 22 28 25 25 25 28 28 28 28 30 33 35 Draw-Spurs 5511-2 55555511-2 11-2 11-2 GOALSCORERS TEAM NEWS Dembele 25 28 25 33 25 28 28 28 28 30 33 35 Spurs-Spurs 310-3 7-2 10-3 37-2 15-4 17-5 15-4 7-2 10-3 7-2 Shirt Goals 1st Any Pens MPG Team’s last six games (latest on right) Inter: Lautaro Martinez (calf) has missed LMoura 27 3 12 0 300 --1 2-- the last two weeks and Sime Vrsaljko HKane 10 2 12 0 127 2-11 -- (knee) is adoubt. IPerisic 44 2 12 0 266 - - - 1 1- DAlli 20 1 01 0 268 -1--- Tottenham: Hugo Lloris and Dele Alli, ELamela 11 1 01 0 319 2- 1 Toby Aldeweireld and Kieran Trippier have ACandreva 87 1 01 0 418 -- 1- not travelled. MPG career minutes per goal. Season’s stats show league games only,team’s last six games include all BOTH TEAMS SCORE competitions. Red scored 1st, -did not score, blank did not play Inter 25% DOUBLE RESULTS Tottenham 80% PWWWDWLDWDDDLLWLDLLW1st W2nd W1&2 Gl1&2 BOTH TEAMS TO SCORE LAST 10 Inter 4010101001 11 00 Inter NYYNYYNYNN Tottenham 5200101001 22 11 Tottenham YNNNYYYNYY WW win/win DL draw/lose, etc. W1st win 1st half, W1&2 win both halves, Gl1&2 score in both halves WIN &BOTH SCORE LEAGUE TABLE Inter 0% Home Away Tottenham 40% PWDLFAWD LFAGDPts OVER 2.5 GOALS 6Tottenham5 101432016349 8Inter 4 011231013114 Inter 50% Showing Premier League for Tottenham, Serie Afor Inter Tottenham 100% WIN TO NIL PROBABLE TEAMS Inter 25% Tottenham 20% 1 SHandanovic INTER GOAL TIMES 4, 0, 0, 0, 0 Inter Tottenham Mins Conceded/scored Conceded/scored 6 SdeVrij 37 MSkriniar 0-15 0 | 11 | 1 4, 1, 1231,1,0 3, 0, 1979,0,0 16-30 1 | 00 | 1 31-45 0 | 11 | 1 33 DD’Ambrosio 18 KAsamoah 4, 0, 1122,1,0 3(1), 0, 1949, 0, 0 46-60 1 | 02 | 3 61-75 1 | 11 | 1 77 MBrozovic 5 RGagliardini 76-90 1 | 21 | 3 4, 0, 499, 1, 0 2, 0, 2669,1,0 BOOKINGS 16 MPolitano 14 RNainggolan 44 IPerisic Referee/Team Games Average 3(1), 0, 303, 0, 0 2, 1, 633, 0, 0 3(1), 2, 266, 0, 0 CTurpin 24020.0 Inter (15) 46015.0 9 MIcardi P Tottenham (15) 56012.0 2(1), 0, 147, 0, 0 Figure in brackets indicates indiscipline of teams in relation to the rest of their division
27 LMoura 10 HKane P PROBABLE 5, 3, 300, 1, 0 5, 2, 127, 2, 0 SUBSTITUTES
23 CEriksen Inter App GMPG 5, 0, 335, 0, 0 23 Miranda 101836 10 29 Dalbert 2(1) 0000 8 HWinks 19 MDembele 11 ELamela 8MVecino 2(1) 01087 10 1(3), 0, 2916, 0, 0 3(2), 0, 1180, 1, 0 0(2), 1, 319, 0, 0 15 JMario 00 684 00 20 BValero 001108 00 33 BDavies 24 SAurier 87 ACandreva 1(1) 1418 00 3(1), 0, 2958, 0, 0 1(1), 0, 1232, 0, 0 11 KBalde 2(1) 0268 00 5 JVertonghen 6 DSanchez Tottenham App GMPG 5, 1, 1210,0,0 3, 0, 1413,0,0 3DRose 2(1) 01688 10 16 KWalker-Peters 00 445 00 12 VWanyama 0(1) 0858 00 13 MVorm 15 EDier 401644 10 TOTTENHAM 2, 0, 0, 0, 0 40 LAmos 0(1) 0807 00 7H-M Son 0(2) 0214 00 Figures show league appearances (as sub), goals, MPG (career), yellow and red cards. P Possible pen taker 18 FLlorente 0(1) 0185 00 Racing Post Tuesday, September 18, 2018 31
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GOALSCORERS Shirt Goals 1st Any Pens MPG Team’s last six games (latest on right) arry ane eymar 10 4 24 1 139 - 1 111 has been o K MbappeM 7 4 03 0 140 211 Neymar canstrike theboil S ManeM 10 4 13 0 185 121- 1 - recently E CavaniC 9 3 13 1 120 1 11 M Salah 11 2 22 0 167 - 1 - 1 -- R FirminoF 9 2 02 0 246 ----11 MPPG career minutes per goal. Season’s stats show league games only,team’s last six games include all competitions.m Red scored 1st, -did not score, blank did not play in Anfield cracker BOTHO TEAMS SCORE GOAL TIMES Liverpoolv 40% Liverpool PSG By SteveDavies TEAM NEWS Kylian Mbappesat out the - win PSG60% Mins Conceded/scored Conceded/scored againstSt-Etienne so will be fresh BOTHO TEAMS TO SCORE LAST 10 0-15 0 | 10 | 2 THEChampions League is back Liverpool: Roberto Firmino is adoubt and ready to take on aLiverpool 16-30 0 | 22 | 1 with an eye injury picked up against Liverpool NYNNNNNNYY 31-45 0 | 40 | 3 with abangand one of theworld’s Tottenham. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, defence whichhas been PSGS NYYNNNYYYN mostexciting footballerscan light Adam Lallana, Divock Origi, Dominic strengthened no end by the 46-60 0 | 20 | 3 Solanke and Dejan Lovren are injured. WINW &BOTH SCORE 61-75 1 | 02 | 1 up Anfield withagoal. arrival of irgil van Dijk.But the eymar and Kylian Livverpool 40% 76-90 1 | 20 | 7 Group Cheavyweights Paris St-Germain: Reds can stillbeexposed out wide Mbappe, rested and suspended PSG60% Liverpool and ParisSt-Germain where Trent Alexander-Arnold LAST THREE WEEKS respectively on Friday, return. Full-backs OVERO 2.5 GOALS areprimedtolay on athriller Dani Alves and Layvin Kurzawa are injured, and Andrew Robertson aren’t the Liverpool PSG where eymar can continue his mostastutepositionally. Livverpool 60% Marco Verratti and Gianluigi Buffon are MTuWTh FSaSu MTuWTh FSaSu suspended. PSG100% outstanding starttothe season. It’s far easier to make acase for Liverpool, lastseason’sbeaten goals than againstthem, if only WIW NTONIL finalists, arefavourites against eachone.Immediatelyprior to because neither Klopp nor Tuchel Livverpool 60% thereigning French champions that they hadbattered Monaco willeverradicallyalter their PSG40% win draw loss next match whichisunderstandable given - to liftthe FrenchSuper Cup. approaches. LASTA THREE MATCHES that Jurgen Klopp’s menare Liverpool have firepowergalore Six of PSG’s eight Champions Septembere 15 Premier League September 14 Ligue 1 unbeaten on home soil in the in their famed front three, all of League ties last term –theywere Tottenham...... (0) 1-2(1)...... Liverpool PSG...... (1) 4-0(0)...... St-Etienne Premier League in 1 months and whom will getchances. beaten, like Liverpool, by Real POS%60/40 POS %64/36 SH O 3/10 SH O 9/2 unbeaten in front of their own But their Frenchopponentsare Madrid –produced four goals or SH OFF 5/5 SH OFF 5/6 fans in their last16European aserious forcethemselves, led by moreand over . is no bigger CR 5/4 CR 7/4 ODDSD H 2-1, D 27-10, A 7-5 SCORERS PSG Draxler22Cavani pen51 matches. EdinsonCavani though most than 6- . SCCORERS Tottenham Lamela 90 Di Maria76Diaby 84 Anfield has become afortress Liverpool attention will be paid Liverpool Wijnaldum 39 Firmino54 BOOKI GS H 1, A 1 but PSG will givethem aserious to eymar,who has scored in Recommendation Septembere 1Premier League September 1Ligue 1 examination. eachofthe four league games he Neymar to scoreatany time Leicester...... (0) 1-2(2)...... Liverpool Nimes...... (0) 2-4(2)...... PSG Expect goals – werescored has playedin. 1pt8-5 Coral, Ladbrokes POS%51/49 POS %39/61 SHO 5/4 SH O 6/5 by these clubs in lastseason’s He probablywould have made SH OFF 3/4 SH OFF 5/1 group stagealone –since both it five againstSt-Etienne on Friday CR 4/4 CR 3/4 ODDSD H 7-1, D 4-1, A 4-9 ODDS H 13-1,D 13-2,A 2-9 teams arealready firing. but washanded arestbyTuchel SCCORERS Leicester Ghezzal63 SCORERS Nimes Bobichon 63 Savanier pen Liverpool have wontheir having justreturned from BOOKINGS Liverpool Mane 10 Firmino45 71 PSG eymar 36 Di Maria40Mbappe77 opening five league games, internationalduty where he BOOOKI GS H 3, A 2 Cavani 90 scoring 11 times. Thomas Tuchel’s found thenet in both his games Referee/Team Games Average Augustu 25 Premier League BOOKI GS H 1 1, A 3 1 CCakir 3100 33.3 side have wontheir firstfive, forBrazil. LAST THREE MATCHES LiLiverpool...... (1)1-0 (0)...... Brighton August 25 Ligue 1 Liverpool (17) 55010.0 netting 1 withatleastthree in eymarand thesuspended PSG ( 7) 58121.0 September 15 Serie A POS %70/30 PSG...... (1) 3-1(1)...... Angers SH O 8/2 POS %60/40 Figure in brackets indicates indiscipline of teams in Inter ...... (0) 0-1(0)...... Parma SH OFF 7/2 SH O 5/6 RECENTFORM relation to the rest of their division POS %73/27 CR 8/5 SH OFF 5/3 SH O 8/5 ODDS H 1-6, D 38-5,A 22-1 CR 9/1 Liverpool last ten home (latest on right) W D WWWW d WWW CORNERS SH OFF 14/2 SCORERS Liverpool Salah23 ODDS H 1-11,D 12-1,A 40-1 PSG last ten away (latest on right) WWWWD W DDWW CR 10/1 BOOKI GS H 1, A 1 SCORERS PSG Cavani 12 Mbappe51 eymar66 Liverpool All Games At home ODDS H 2-7, D 5-1, A 12-1 Angers Mangani pen21 DOUBLE RESULTS Avg corners for 5.6 6.5 SCORERS Parma Dimarco 79 BOOKI GS H 2 Avg corners against 4.8 4.5 BOOKI GS H 2, A 2 PWWWDWLDWDDDLLWLDLLW1st W2nd W1&2 Gl1&2 September 1Serie A KEY STAT Liverpool’ssix home games in theChampions League Liverpool 5500000000 52 23 PSG All Games Away PSG 5300100100 34 24 Avg corners for 6.6 5.5 Bologna...... (0) 0-3(0)...... Inter last season produced 24 goals WW win/win DL draw/lose, etc. W1st win 1st half, W1&2 win both halves, Gl1&2 score in both halves Avg corners against 3.0 3.5 POS %27/73 SH O 1/3 SH OFF 7/7 CR 3/7 PROBABLE TEAMS ODDS H 6-1, D 3-1, A 10-17 MARKETS SCORERS Inter ainggolan66Candreva82 Match betting bet365 BBright Betfair Betfred Betway Boyles Coral Hills Lads Power Sky Bet 188Bet 13 Alisson LIVERPOOL Perisic 84 VanDijk 28 33 35 40 22 40 40 40 40 35 40 40 5, 0, 0, 0, 0 BOOKI GS H 1, A 1 bet365 BBright Betfair Betfred Betway Boyles Coral Hills Lads Power Sky Bet 188Bet Moreno 33 40 40 40 25 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 Liverpool 13-10 5-4 5-4 5-4 13-10 6-5 5-4 5-4 6-5 11-10 5-4 19-16 August 26 Serie A Robertson 33 40 45 40 28 40 40 40 40 45 40 50 PSG 21-10 19-10 21-10 21-10 219-10 215-8 19-10 222 Silva 50 40 35 40 28 50 40 40 40 35 40 40 Inter ...... (2)2-2 (0)...... Torino Draw 14-5 13-5 29-10 29-10 14-5 13-5 11-4 27-10 11-4 11-4 14-5 14-5 Mar uinhos 50 40 35 40 28 50 40 40 40 35 40 - POS %54/46 Diarra 25 40 45 50 28 40 50 50 50 45 50 50 12 JGomez 4 Vvan Dijk SH O 5/6 Match result &both teams to score SH OFF 4/4 Matip 40 40 50 50 28 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 5, 0, 0, 0, 0 5, 0, 908, 1, 0 bet365 BBright Betfair Betfred Betway Boyles Coral Hills Lads Power Sky Bet 188Bet Gomez 40 40 50 50 28 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 CR 5/4 Liverpool 12-5 23-10 23-10 12-5 12-5 23-10 12-5 9-4 12-5 23-10 9-4 23-10 66 TAle ander-Arnold 26 ARobertson ODDS H 11-20, D 17-5,A 11-2 Clyne 33 40 50 50 28 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 5, 0, 1275, 3, 0 5, 0, 1430,0,0 PSG 7-2 10-3 7-2 10-3 7-2 10-3 17-5 10-3 17-5 7-2 333-10 No goalscorer20 18 14 18 14 16 16 14 16 14 16 - SCORERS Inter Perisic 6deVrij32 Draw 33310-3 16-5 16-5 16-5 316-5 3358-19 14 JHenderson Torino Belotti55Meite 68 Win only (bet365 &Sky Bet 1/3 on unlimited scorers; Betfair &Power 1/3 1,2,3,4,5). Others on 1(4), 0, 1087, 0, 0 BOOKI GS H 1, A 2 Total goals request. Own goals do not count as the first goal. If the first goal is an own goal and your player scores 7 JMilner P 5 GWijnaldum bet365 BBright Betfair Betfred Betway Boyles Coral Hills Lads Power Sky Bet 188Bet the second goal, you win. 5, 1, 666, 1, 0 5, 1, 309, 0, 0 September 15 Premier League Under 1.5 5 9-2 5 9-2 9-2 5 19-4 419-4 9-2 4- Tottenham...... (0) 1-2(1)...... Liverpool Over 1.5 1-8 1-7 2-13 1-7 1-7 1-8 1-7 1-7 1-7 1-8 1-7 - Correct score POS %60/40 Under 2.5 17-10 17-10 15-8 7-4 17-10 9-5 33-20 13-8 33-20 7-4 13-8 - bet365 BBright Betfair Betfred Betway Boyles Coral Hills Lads Power Sky Bet 188Bet 11 MSalah 9 R irmino 10 SMane SH O 3/10 Over 2.5 4-9 4-9 7-15 4-9 9-20 4-9 4-9 4-9 4-9 2-5 4-9 - L’pool 1-0 12 12 12 12 10 12 12 11 12 11 12 12 5, 2, 167, 0, 0 5, 2, 246, 0, 0 5, 4, 185, 0, 0 SH OFF 5/5 L’pool 2-0 14 14 12 14 11 14 14 12 14 12 14 29-2 CR 5/4 Under 3.5 4-6 4-6 3-4 4-6 7-10 3-4 7-10 8-13 7-10 4-6 4-6 - L’pool 2-1 888815-2 888815-2 9 42-5 ODDS H 2-1, D 27-10, A 7-5 Over 3.5 11-10 11-10 6-5 6-5 11-10 21-20 23-20 6-5 23-20 11-10 11-10 - L’pool 3-0 20 20 17 22 18 22 22 20 22 20 22 25 SCORERS Tottenham Lamela 90 9 ECavani P L’pool 3-1 14 14 12 14 11 12 14 14 14 13 14 15 Liverpool Wijnaldum 39 Firmino54 Both teams to score 3, 3, 120, 0, 0 L’pool 3-2 18 16 14 16 14 14 16 18 16 14 20 35-2 bet365 BBright Betfair Betfred Betway Boyles Coral Hills Lads Power Sky Bet 188Bet September 2Premier League L’pool 4-0 40 40 45 50 33 40 50 40 50 45 50 60 Yes 2-5 2-5 4-9 2-5 2-5 4-11 2-5 2-5 2-5 2-5 4-11 7-17 L’pool 4-1 28 25 22 28 22 25 33 28 33 25 33 35 11 ADiMaria 10 Ne mar P 7 KMbappe Watford...... (0) 2-1(0)...... Tottenham No 7-4 9-5 2 15-8 17-10 2 15-8 7-4 15-8 15-8 2 31-16 POS %34/66 PSG 1-0 14 14 14 14 11 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 5, 2, 292, 0, 0 4, 4, 139, 1, 0 2(1), 4, 140, 1, 1 SH O 3/2 First goalscorer PSG 2-0 18 18 16 20 16 18 20 16 20 18 20 20 SH OFF 3/7 PSG 2-1 10 10 10 10 9 10 10 9 10 9 10 10 25 ARabiot 5 Mar uinhos CR 3/10 bet365 BBright Betfair Betfred Betway Boyles Coral Hills Lads Power Sky Bet 188Bet PSG 3-0 33 33 30 33 28 33 40 28 40 30 33 40 ODDS H 19-4,D 16-5, A 4-6 Salah 37-2 7-2 3 15-4 7-2 10-3 10-3 10-3 7-2 7-2 7-2 PSG 3-1 20 20 16 20 18 18 20 18 20 18 20 20 5, 1, 669, 2, 0 4, 0, 1443, 0, 0 Cavani 7-2 57-2 5 11-2 11-2 11-2 11-2 11-2 7-2 55 SCORERS Watford Deeney 69 Cathcart 76 PSG 3-2 20 20 17 20 18 18 20 20 20 18 22 20 14 JBernat 12 TMeunier Tottenham Doucoure og 53 Neymar 7-2 54511-2 11-2 11-2 11-2 11-2 49-2 5 PSG 4-0 50 66 75 80 66 66 90 60 90 80 80 90 1, 0, 1607,0,0 4, 0, 635, 1, 0 BOOKI GS H 2, A 1 Sturridge 11-2 6 5 6 11-2 6 11-2 11-2 11-2 511-2 5 PSG 4-1 40 40 45 50 40 40 50 40 50 45 50 55 3 PKimpembe 2 TSilva Mbappe 11-2 611-2 11-2 6 13-2 66611-2 611-2 Draw 0-0 20 18 14 18 18 16 20 18 20 16 20 20 August 27 Premier League Firmino 6 13-2 5613-2 13-2 666513-2 13-2 3, 0, 0, 0, 0 5, 0, 1406,0,0 ManUtd...... (0) 0-3(0)...... Tottenham Draw 1-1 7713-2 713-2 776713-2 7 15-2 Mane 13-2 13-2 9-2 6 7 13-2 13-2 13-2 13-2 9-2 13-2 7 Draw 2-2 10 9910 8910 91017-2 10 21-2 POS %57/43 Sha iri 715-2 6 888777678 SH O 5/5 Weah 13-2 8 15-2 88888815-2 8 15-2 Draw no bet SH OFF 12/2 16 AAreola Di Maria 8 10 9 10 9 10 10 10 10 9 10 10 CR 5/2 bet365 BBright Betfair Betfred Betway Boyles Coral Hills Lads Power Sky Bet 188Bet PSG 3, 0, 0, 0, 0 ODDS H 13-8,D 23-10,A 2-1 C-Moting 8 11 10 -10 11 11 11 11 10 11 10 Liverpool 8-13 8-13 4-7 4-6 8-13 8-13 4-6 8-13 4-6 4-7 4-6 - SCORERS Tottenham Kane 50 Moura 52, 84 Diaby 10 11 10 12 10 11 11 11 11 10 11 11 PSG 6-5 6-5 5-4 6-5 6-5 6-5 11-10 6-5 11-10 5-4 11-10 - Figures show league appearances (as sub), goals, MPG (career), yellow and red cards. P Possible pen taker BOOKI GS H 2, A 3 Nkunku 91110 12 10 12 11 11 11 10 11 11 Keita 11 12 12 12 12 14 12 12 12 12 12 12 Double result PROBABLE SUBSTITUTES Draxler 10 14 13 12 12 14 14 14 14 13 14 14 bet365 BBright Betfair Betfred Betway Boyles Coral Hills Lads Power Sky Bet 188Bet Milner 11 16 16 16 14 16 16 16 16 16 16 18 PSG-PSG 7-2 7-2 4415-4 447-2 447-2 62-17 CORNERS Liverpool App GMPG Paris St-Germain App GMPG Wijnaldum 18 18 17 18 14 20 18 18 18 17 18 18 PSG-Draw 12 12 11 12 11 12 12 14 12 11 12 14 Inter All Games At home Fabinho 18 20 20 22 18 22 22 22 22 20 22 25 PSG-L’pool 20 18 14 22 18 18 20 20 20 18 25 25 2 Clyne 003849 00 4TKehrer 1(2) 01116 10 Avg corners for 6.5 7.5 Rabiot 16 22 22 20 20 25 25 25 25 22 25 25 Draw-PSG 13-2 613-2 7 6666613-2 13-2 67-10 18 AMoreno 002534 00 31 CDagba 20 000 Avg corners against 3.0 2.5 Bernede 14 25 20 25 18 25 25 25 25 20 25 25 Draw-Draw11-2 11-2 5 6 11-2 11-2 11-2 11-2 11-2 511-2 29-5 32 JMatip 0(3) 01131 00 19 LDiarra 203592 00 Alex-Arnold 28 28 25 28 20 33 28 28 28 25 28 30 L’pool-Draw 12 11 11 12 11 11 12 12 12 11 12 14 3Fabinho 00 749 00 23 JDraxler 1(3) 1388 00 Tottenham All Games Away Meunier 25 28 18 33 22 28 33 33 33 18 33 35 L’pool-PSG 22 22 19 25 22 22 25 22 25 22 25 30 8 Keita 4(1) 0301 00 24 C kunku 2(3) 0314 00 Avg corners for 5.6 5.6 Henderson 22 25 35 28 20 28 28 28 28 35 28 35 Draw-L’pool 559-2 519-4 9-2 19-4 519-4 5526-5 15 DSturridge 0(4) 1155 00 21 TWeah 1(1) 1239 10 Avg corners against 3.6 3.6 Bernat 16 33 35 40 28 33 40 40 40 35 40 40 L’pool-L’pool5-2 23-10 12-5 5-2 23-10 5-2 13-5 23-10 13-5 12-5 9-4 27-11 23 Shaqiri 0(2) 0331 00 27 MDiaby 0(3) 1150 00 32 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SPECIAL Tuesday,September18, 2018 racingpost.com
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