Champions League Matchday 6 Betting Tips

What a couple of evenings UEFA have in store for football fans. Europe's premier club competition reaches its first crescendo on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings as some of the continent's top teams aim to scrape in to the last 16. Barcelona, Manchester Utd, Arsenal, Porto, Roma and Benfica stand on the threshold of elimination and face the embarrassment of dropping down a tier and entering the UEFA Cup. In an attempt to avoid being the first holders of the Champions League to be knocked out in the group stages, Barcelona play host to Werder Bremen at the Nou Camp and nothing less than a victory is required for the champions. With so many key names out injured, Barcelona will once again look to the magic of Ronaldinho, who despite being off form with only the single goal in this year's competition, is fresh from scoring what is in many people's eyes the goal of the season ten days ago. The great Brazilian is an appetising 9/2 to score the last goal - one recollects compatriot Rivaldo's spectacular last minute overhead kick for Barca to ensure qualification to the qualifying stages in 2001, certainly comparable to Ronaldinho's effort against Villarreal - you can certainly envisage him being Rijkaard's saviour this time around. The most interesting betting movement in the Champions League has seen the draw in the Porto v Arsenal tie shrink to a miserable 7/10 in places, with a best price of 4/5 with VCbet. Punters are working on the conspiracy notion that both sides need only a point to qualify. Action on Betfair seems to confirm as much. On the plus side if you've missed this, it also means you can get top value on a Porto or an Arsenal win. Porto are on fire at present, with a 2-0 win over rivals Boavista on Saturday, grab hold of the 33/10 available with PaddyPower. Elsewhere look for Cristiano Ronaldo to be heavily involved against the team that probably dislikes him the most (he's an ex-Sporting Lisbon player up against rivals Benfica!) Bet 365 have some interesting prices on the Portuguese winger and I would get fully involved with these as they're not only fun, but also pretty sharp odds. He is 9/1 to win a penalty, 8/1 to score from a free kick and 7/1 to be booked for diving at Bet 365 - the first two he's been doing plenty of, of recent and the latter he perhaps should have been doing more of! 05 Dec 19:45 Barcelona v Werder Bremen 2/5 10/3 13/2 05 Dec 19:45 Bayern Munich v Inter Milan 13/10 21/10 21/10 05 Dec 19:45 Chelsea v Levski Sofia 1/12 8/1 28/1 05 Dec 19:45 Galatasaray v Liverpool 13/10 9/4 2/1 05 Dec 19:45 Olympiakos v Shakhtar Donetsk 1/1 12/5 5/2 05 Dec 19:45 PSV v Bordeaux 4/6 5/2 4/1 05 Dec 19:45 Roma v Valencia 4/7 12/5 6/1 05 Dec 19:45 Sporting v Spartak Moscow 4/6 13/5 4/1 06 Dec 19:45 AC Milan v Lille 11/8 11/5 19/10 06 Dec 19:45 Anderlecht v AEK Athens 7/5 5/2 13/8 06 Dec 19:45 Dynamo Kiev v Real Madrid 17/10 9/4 6/4 06 Dec 19:45 FC Copenhagen v Celtic 13/8 12/5 6/4 06 Dec 19:45 FC Porto v Arsenal 11/4 8/11 10/3 06 Dec 19:45 Hamburg v CSKA Moscow 9/5 5/2 13/10 06 Dec 19:45 Lyon v Steaua Bucharest 4/11 7/2 7/1 06 Dec 19:45 Man Utd v Benfica 2/5 10/3 13/2 (odds from Bet365) #1 Betfair Bonus £25 Free Bet.#2 Ladbrokes £25 Free Bet.#3 Paddypower Bonus £20 Free Bet.