This week marks the final matches of the UEFA Champions League Last 16 and we picked a few things to look out for.
With some of the top teams in world football potentially exiting Europe’s most prestigious competition, this week is set to be an exhilarating one.
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Liverpool to exit early?
In the first leg, the Reds took an early two goal lead after just 14 minutes played thanks to goals from Darwin Nunez and Mohamed Salah, with the Uruguayan pulling off an audacious back heel, and the Egyptian pouncing on a Thibaut Courtois mistake.
However, the Spanish giants really turned things around from there on in, after they got the score back to level at half time, and a dominant performance in the second half meant that the game finished 5-2 to Madrid.
Liverpool have shown recently that they can score goals, after they emphatically beat Manchester United 7-0 recently at Anfield, but a three goal deficit might be too much of a mountain to climb at the Bernabeu.
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City to push on?
Manchester City have had an impressive season so far and Pep Guardiola has made it very clear that his main priority is the Champions League, but it is all to play for in the second leg as the sides are currently level at 1-1.
Riyad Mahrez opened the scoring in the first leg in the 27th minute, but Josko Gvardiol got the equaliser in the second half, so it will be interesting to see which side comes out on top at the Eithad.
City are currently eight games unbeaten in all competition, so they are the favourites with odds of 1.36 (at time of writing) at Bet9ja.
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Porto to come back?
FC Porto come into the second leg against Inter Milan a goal down, but when the Portuguese side did concede the goal, they were playing with 10 men after Otavio was given a second yellow in the 78th minute.
Although Porto will be without a the Portuguese winger in the second leg, they will certainly feel like they have a great chance at progressing into the quarter-final, as they managed to keep the Italian side out before the dismissal. At time of writing, Porto are 2.97 to win in 90 minutes.
