Atletico Madrid 1.32 v Galatasaray 14.00; The Draw 5.70
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The 2013/14 finalists have yet to confirm their participation in the knockout rounds for a third straight season owing to a 2-1 home defeat to Benfica in September, but a point when hosting Galatasaray will see them through and should prove a formality in their current defensive form.
Diego Simeone's men have kept clean sheets in ten of their 16 games in 2015/16, including the reverse fixture at Turk Telekom Arena, and are now at the peak of their resiliency, shutting out five of their last seven opponents. Even one of the two goals that they conceded in that period was a penalty.
Recommended Bet: Back Atletico Madrid to keep a clean sheet @ 1.75
Malmo FF 14.00 v Paris St-Germain 1.29; The Draw 6.40
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What has Malmo FF's Champions League home "Both Teams to Score? No" run got in common with the lyrics to The Thrills' long-forgotten - and in many quarters not known in the first place - 2005 single "The Irish Keep Gate-crashing"? It goes on and on and on and on and on...
That's right - while Malmo FF v Paris St-Germain is about Zlatan Ibrahimovic's homecoming to most, for this writer, it is the bi-monthly opportunity to bang the drum of the Champions League's greatest streak. Sorry if it is repetitive, but it would be foolish to stop for as long as it continues to deliver.
The Swedish club's dozen Swedbank Stadion showdowns in the Champions League over the past three years and three months have all featured at least one clean sheet, as indeed have their last six 2015 matches across all competitions and stadiums.
In fact, all eight Group A encounters to date have paid out on "Both Teams to Score? No", so it is extraordinary that odds as tasty as 1.75 are available on it happening again.
Recommended Bet: Back both teams to score? No @ 1.75
Shakhtar 4.10 v Real Madrid 1.96; The Draw 3.95
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Shakhtar might have judged their slim chances of Champions League progress to have been boosted by Real Madrid securing qualification nice and early, and therefore having less at stake in this clash. Not any more though, as a 4-0 humiliation against Barcelona at the Bernabeu requires a response.
Terrifyingly for the Ukrainian champions, Rafael Benitez's men scored a combined 17 goals in the game that followed their three previous Clasico losses. Real fired four times past them in Madrid, while Paris St-Germain struck three times in Lviv. Combining the away victory with over 2.5 goals consequently seems shrewd.
Recommended Bet: Back Real Madrid to win and over 2.5 goals @ 2.70
