Champions League Midweek Betting Tips PT 1

We have four exciting Champions League clashes set to unfold this week as the knockout stages progress to their next week of action. While we are still in the first leg, this week’s schedule sees some really solid teams in action but no big City vs Barca-style fixtures. This week is mostly about big clubs playing medium-sized clubs with the exception of Zenit facing off against Borussia Dortmund which is pretty evenly matched in terms of club size. 

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You can expect all four of the matches to be interesting affairs aside from, possibly, the Real Madrid vs Schalke 04 match-up where the Galacticos go into the match as the biggest favourites of the week with a slim 1.45 price listed from most major European bookmakers. 

After Gareth Bale scored an absolute cracker at the weekend, you can expect a lot of Madrid’s best players to be coming into the fixture brimming with confidence and, even though Schalke are certainly not slouches, they are definitely the prohibitive favourites to get the big victory here. 

Schalke go into this match-up with a 7.0 listing and the draw trading at 4.5. They have the quality on offer required to get something resembling a result but they will need to produce their performance of the season if they are going to get anything out of the first leg. 

In regards to outright qualification, Real Madrid are considered to be an absolute sure thing by the bookmakers with a very slim 1.08 price tag. Schalke are a 7.5 shot to win the two-legged tie and those are some of the shortest odds that Real Madrid will trade at all-season for anything.