Real Madrid v Liverpool Cheat Sheet
Real Madrid v Liverpool
Home team Real Madrid hold a commanding position coming into this Champions League round of 16 second leg given their 5-2 victory at Anfield in February, but Liverpool and the travelling Kop will not have given up as they arrive at the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu. The game will kick off at 8pm GMT and will be broadcast live on BT Sport in the United Kingdom.
Since that meeting, the Spanish side have been far from convincing, drawing against Atlético Madrid and Real Betis either side of a home defeat to Barcelona and needing to come back from behind to beat mid-table Espanyol on Saturday. That means that even Jurgen Klopp’s most inconsistent Liverpool can hold out some hope of battling into this tie.
As Chelsea found out last season, it is possible to travel to the Bernabéu with a multiple-goal deficit and give Real Madrid a scare, but you’ll probably end up exiting the tournament anyway. The Blues had lost their first leg 3-1 at Stamford Bridge, before going ahead in the tie in Madrid but then ultimately winning just 3-1 on the night, and going out in extra time.
The lesson we can learn from that tie is that betting on the result in 90 minutes for this Wednesday’s second leg is a complicated task, but that a much simpler bet would be to back both teams to score.
Real Madrid matches this season have been producing 2.76 goals on average and both teams have scored in 60% of them, while Liverpool matches this season have been producing 2.92 goals on average and both teams have scored in 46% of them. Those stats show that these are two teams who score a lot and who concede a lot in normal circumstances, so it’s even more likely that we’ll see both teams on the scoresheet in a second leg such as this, with a situation where Liverpool need to push for goals from minute one and where they’ll have to leave space against one of the most clinical counter-attacking sides in the world.
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