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Manchester City will host Bayern Munich in the first leg of their UEFA Champions League quarter-final.

Man City and Bayern Munich meet for a seventh time in European competition, in this UEFA Champions League fixture at the Etihad Stadium on Tuesday night. The spoils have been shared across the previous six encounters, with three wins apiece – all in the UCL.

Guardiola has won 54% of his games in the knockout stages of the UEFA Champions League (39/72). Among those with 30+ games in the KO stages (including finals), he has the best win percentage of any manager and is the only one to have won more than half of his games. Can he lead Man City to victory again in this game? Manchester City come into this match on an eight-game winning run in all competitions, while they are unbeaten in each of their last 12 games (W10 D2) since losing 1-0 away at Tottenham in the Premier League on 5 February. They have scored 31 goals across those eight wins, averaging 3.88 goals per game on this run. Erling Haaland comes into this match in ridiculous form. His last four competitive appearances have seen him score 11 goals – one versus Crystal Palace in the Premier League, five against RB Leipzig in his last UCL appearance, a hat-trick versus Burnley in the FA Cup just four days later and then a brace in Man City’s Premier League win over Southampton at the weekend.

Following the sacking of Julian Nagelsmann last month, Thomas Tuchel will take charge of Bayern in this game and come up against Guardiola for the 11th time as manager. Bayern Munich are a bit unstable now as even Tuchel himself don't know his best team at the moment and I believe Man City and Guadiorla came too early for them. They have alternated between a win and a defeat in their last five matches (W3 D0 L2), losing 2-1 to Bayer Leverkusen in the Bundesliga and at home to Freiburg in the DFB Pokal last midweek. They did avenge that defeat on Saturday, however, beating Freiburg 1-0 away from home in the league thanks to a second half Matthijs de Ligt goal.

Best Tip for Manchester City - Bayern Munich in the UEFA Champions League in my opinion is Home teams to win.

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Man City versus RB Leipzig into the second leg of their round of 16 clash, following their 1-1 draw last month.

Manchester City are unbeaten across their 23 home matches in the competition, winning 21 of them, and it sounds like a recipe for disaster. But City have won just one of their last four matches (D2 L1) against German opponents in the competition, having won nine consecutively previously. And the first leg only added to those recent woes. Manchester City this year has conceded more goals at home than away. And it has been seen how against fast and talented teams on the counter they receive a lot of damage.

The Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola will be grateful to have no fitness worries at all coming into this match owing to a fully injury-free squad ready to go.

In our view, The Citizens look set to make use of the 3-2-4-1 formation for this game and select Ederson Moraes, Kyle Walker, Manuel Akanji, Ruben Dias, Rodri, Bernardo Silva, Riyad Mahrez, Kevin De Bruyne, Ilkay Gundogan, Jack Grealish and Erling Haaland.

Leipzig had a convincing 3-0 victory against Gladbach at home on the weekend. In that game, RB Leipzig had 66% possession and 14 shots at goal with 9 of them on target. For RB Leipzig, goals were scored by Timo Werner (58'), Emil Forsberg (71') and Joško Gvardiol (80'). For their opponents, Borussia Mönchengladbach got 7 shots at goal with 3 on target. In as many as 5 out of the previous 6 games involving RB Leipzig, at least three goals have been struck.

RB Leipzig manager Marco Rose has some current player fitness concerns. Xaver Schlager (Syndesmotic ligament tear), Timo Schlieck (Meniscal Injury), Abdou Diallo (Knee Problems), Péter Gulácsi (Cruciate Ligament Rupture) and Christopher Nkunku (Torn Muscle Fibre) miss out here.

We’re of the thinking that Leipzig could decide to elect for a 4-2-3-1 lineup by sending out Janis Blaswich, Benjamin Henrichs, Willi Orban, Josko Gvardiol, David Raum, Amadou Haidara, Kevin Kampl, Dominik Szoboszlai, Emil Forsberg, Timo Werner and Andre Silva.

The Bookmakers give Pep Guardiola's team a very favorite and surely it is, but the German team is not exactly a minor rival.
It must be remembered that these 2 teams have met 3 times with goals scored by both teams in all of them, and the last precedent was in 2021, where the game ended 6-3 for City, where Nkunku scored a Hat-trick. This time he won't play. Despite these, I still think both teams will score.

Best Tip for Manchester City - RB Leipzig in the UEFA Champions League in my opinion is Both teams to score.

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Chelsea host Dortmund in their return leg, and they will look to erase a one-goal deficit from the first leg of the UEFA Champions League round of 16 matches.

Chelsea has had a complicated season as they have had poor performances since sacking Tuchel but can't afford to sack Graham Potter, as it will signal indecision from the new owner and damage his reputation. Just to remind you of how difficult it has been for Graham Potter's side to score goals in recent weeks, the goal which secured the victory was only their second in their last seven games in all competitions.

Dortmund is really really doing well, way beyond expectations, especially on the defensive part of things. In previous seasons they hardly keep clean sheets or defend under intense pressure, but they have displayed incredible defensive improvements this season.They will go into this game full of confidence, having won all of their ten games across all competitions in 2023. Despite heading into the game with one of the best form in Europe's top five leagues at the moment, the visitors would be a bit worried ahead of this game as they have lost each of their last five clashes with English sides on the road.

Chelsea are currently struggling with their form, they rarely fail to impress in home games in the Champions League. All the last four games of Dortmund in this competition ended with less than 2.5 goals, so we aren’t expecting Tuesday’s game to be different.

Best Tip for Chelsea - Dortmund in the UEFA Champions League in my opinion is Under 2.5 goals.

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FIFA World Cup Quarter-Finals – Netherlands vs Argentina on 09/12/2022

The last time these two nations met was 8 years ago in Brazil when both countries competed in the semi-finals. The Netherlands remembered their pain when they lost on a penalty shoot-out by (4-2) after a tight 0-0 draw in regular time. Argentina then went into the final and lost to Germany in Brazil, this season could well be the last attempt for Lionel Messi who is desperate to win the World Cup.

Netherlands were not losing in the result in any of their games in this World Cup but this time they face one of the main candidates for the trophy. The Netherlands’s top scorer Cody Gakpo scored one goal in each of the matches in Group A and could be a new rising star for the Oranje in the near future. With the Netherlands having won 8 matches from their last 10 games that could end today against Argentina, the concern is on their defense as they conceded 8 goals needlessly. They should have no injury worries, with Depay and Gakpo most likely leading their attack.

Argentina had won 8 in their last 9 games and scored 26 goals with only just 3 goals conceded look pretty solid in defense. However, the Albicelestes conceded against Saudi Arabia and Australia shows up where the Netherlands could exploit their slow reaction at their defensive back four. Messi, Alvarez and Gomez will most likely lead their attack in a version of a 4-3-3 formation. Papu Gomez did sprained his ankle, but has time to recover. Angel Di Maria missed the game against Poland, but should be back for this game.

Both teams have the quality of players in their arsenal to find the back of the net so I am going with the option of both teams to score goals.

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Spain and Germany's Group E matchup today evening will cause the Al Bayt Stadium.

What a match to end this week! Germany lost to Japan in what was a bit of an unlucky one. They did defend horrendously on the second half and Flick was absolutely lost with his gameplan after Japan made some tactical changes. While losing to Japan 2-1, Hansi Flick's team did not perform well. Given that the Germans are anxious to salvage something from their second group game and that they will approach Sunday's match with an attack-minded strategy, the both teams to score betting option should be taken into account.

The Spaniards couldn't imagine a better start of the World Cup tournament, as they appeared brilliantly against minors from Costa Rica and hammered them with a convincing 7:0 victory. Spain is definitely entering this clash with their morale skyrocketing after their latest perfect appearance, and judging by what they have shown last time, it is almost impossible to see them failing to score.

Both teams have the quality of players in their arsenal to find the back of the net so I am going with the option of both teams to score goals.

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Serbia will play against Brazil in the first round of WC in group G.

Brazil's attack is just too strong. Neymar looks so, so strong this year - 11 goals and 9 assists in 14 games in Ligue 1. Add to that the talent of Richarlison, Raphinha, and Paqueta. They are without title on WC for twenty years and they are certainly the main favorite to win this group and probably the WC.

Serbia have Dusan Vlahovic, Mitrovic, Tadic, Kostic, and Milinkovic-Saviz who are great in attack - Serbia's playstyle under Stojkovic is also more attacking, which has been proven in WC qualifications and UEFA Nation league, where they finished in front of teams like Portugal and Norway. Brazil have two veterans in defense Alves and Silva and I think that Serbia should be able to exploit that and at least score one goal.

Brazil have scored at least 3 goals in 6 out of last 7 games - likes of Tunisia, Ghana, Korea, Paraguay, Chile, and Bolivia have all been destroyed this year. Serbia meanwhile have scored 18 goals in last 6 games. Brazil and Serbia played each other in the 2018 World Cup, and it ended 2-0 to Brazil - I think 3-0, 2-1 and 2-0 are the most likely results, so I'm playing the conservative line here. I struggle to see a game where Brazil doesn't score 2 goals.

Given their strong offensive capabilities, over 2.5 goals and both team to score should be good prediction for this match .

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It's finally here the FIFA World Cup in Qatar and we have an opening match between Qatar and Ecuador. Onto the opening game here and the odds looks to be on the wrong side and there are plenty of clues here to suggest why. Firstly the hosts are at an astonishing 3.30 to win the match with Ecuador who have no real international pedigree priced up as favourite at 2.25.

Of course the big clue is that Qatar are hosts and will have home advantage, and form of both teams leading up to this tournament and its evident to see this should be either a home win or more likely a draw. Qatar come into this on the back of 4 straight wins and unbeaten in 5 which included 4 South American teams.

Ecuador come into this game as serial draw experts with 7 draws in their last 10 games. Their last warm up game before the World Cup was another tedious 0-0 with Iraq and based on that evidence its simply not going to be enough against a Qatar team who will have the whole nation behind them.

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