The Uefa Champions League gets underway on Tuesday with six matches on the coupon including big guns Manchester City and Real Madrid
The format remains the same as last season with the League Phase comprising of 8 rounds of matches. The top 8 go through to the knockout rounds automatically, teams from 9th to 24th contest the play offs and teams from 25th to 36th are eliminated.
PSG have won this competition for each of the last two seasons and they are 5/1 favourites with Hollywoodbets to make it 3 in a row. Arsenal, runners up last season are 6/1 with Bayern and Barcelona, Man City are 9/1, Liverpool 12/1 and Man United 20/1.
We have another 6 fixtures taking place on Wednesday and then again on Thursday, watch out for those previews. Let’s get on to Tuesday’s coupon.
AEK Athens vs LASK Linz
AK Athens host Austrian side LASK in one of the early kick offs, both sides having successfully come through qualifying last month on the back of winning their respective home legs by wide margins. They have both made solid starts to the league campaigns as well, scoring an average of more than goals per game whilst keeping it tight defensively.
Club Brugge vs Aston Villa
Club Brugge are in decent nick have won four of their last five domestic matches, although the strength of the opposition has to be taken into account. Meanwhile Villa have found it tough going in the EPL, failing to score in all 3 matches, 2 defeats and Saturday’s 0-0 draw at Hull
Borussia Dortmund vs Villarreal
Dortmund beat Villarreal 4-0 in this competition last season and they have won their first 2 Bundesliga matches this season 2-0 at home to Hamburg and 3-2 at Hoffenheim. Villarreal have yet to win in La Liga having played out draws away to Santander and Atletico (both 2-2) followed by defeats at Alavez (1-0) and at home to Deportivo (3-2)
Porto vs Manchester City
Porto have made an excellent start domestically, winning all five competitive matches and conceding only once. City have also been in winning form in the EPL with minimum margin victories over Bournemouth and Coventry in Manchester and a thrashing of Crystal Palace in London.
Lille vs Real Betis
Lille have collected seven points from their opening three Lila gue 1 matches, including a 2-2 draw at home to PSG. Betis have won 3 of their 4 La Liga matches by a 1-0 scoreline, most recently beating Real Madrid but they did crash 5-2 away to Levante.
Real Madrid vs Inter
The standout fixture of Tuesday's coupon and Real won their first 3 La Liga matches before that 1-0 defeat by Real Betis at the weekend. In their two home games they thrashed Real Sociedad (4-1) and Malaga (4-0). Inter have won 3 from 3 in Serie A, at home to Monza (4-1) and most recently Napoli (3-2) and away to Cagliari (1-0).
Tuesday treble
My first selection is AEK Athens where I believe home advantage will be the most crucial factor.
Next up, Dortmund would be a form choice to beat a Villarreal side who have badly out of sorts.
To round things off I’m going with Man City, a little tentative after they struggled a bit against Coventry at the weekend but I still think they will have too much for Porto.
Treble AEK / Dortmund / Man City at 41/10 with Hollywoodbets
Note, prices are subject to change