On Tuesday, two unbeaten teams square off at the José Alvalade Stadium. The hosts will soon be saying goodbye to Ruben Amorim as manager, the visitors need to return to winning ways after a defeat to Bournemouth on Saturday.

Both outfits have seven points to their name in the newly extended Champions League table, a tally good enough to see both sit in the top eight. Tuesday’s hosts have only conceded a single goal in European competition this season, but they are yet to face a truly elite side having played PSV, Lille and Sturm Graz so far.

Their impressive display has been trumped by City, who have kept three successive clean sheets in this season’s competition. In addition to that, Pep Guardiola’s men are averaging 3 goals per game, which includes their matchday one bore draw at home to Inter.

When City score in European games this season, the average increases to 4.50 goals per game and although we are not expecting a rout by a depleted City side, expect them to earn a third successive Champions League win.

After suffering a shock defeat at the hands of Lille, it looked like a second successive European defeat was on the cards at home to Borussia Dortmund – 2-0 down at the interval and an unhappy Santiago Bernabeu to go with it.

Despair that turned into joy at the final whistle thanks to their sensational comeback which saw them score five unanswered goals in the second half, Carlo Ancelotti’s men have picked up two wins from their first three Champions League outings.

One more than Tuesday’s visitors AC Milan, after successive Champions League defeats, they opened their account with a matchday three win over Club Brugge as Paulo Fonseca’s men won 3-1 at the San Siro.

Milan were in league action on Saturday and ground out a narrow 1-0 win at Monza, whereas Real Madrid saw their trip to Valencia postponed due to the recent Spanish floods. The enforced rest should help Los Blancos make it three European wins from four, it’s hard to see Milan stopping Real Madrid’s attacking threat here.

For all of their dominance both at home and abroad last season, Xabi Alonso’s Bayer Leverkusen are failing to hit the same high notes this time around. The defending Bundesliga champions may have only lost one of their first nine league outings, but they already find themselves seven points off the pace.

While Leverkusen were winning games last season, they are now stuttering towards draws, which was the case when they were held by Stuttgart on Friday night.

Tuesday sees Alonso make a return to Anfield and although he has overseen an unbeaten start to this season’s Champions League, it has come at a cost of two dropped points after Leverkusen could only manage a 1-1 draw at Brest. They face a step up in opposition here, following previous wins against Feyenoord and Milan.

Liverpool have made a perfect start to proceedings, with just one goal conceded across their first three wins, they are also averaging 2.0 goals per game.

Arne Slot’s team sit top of the Premier League following their weekend comeback win against Brighton, demonstrating their ability to win games when not being at their best. Liverpool have won 13 of their 15 matches in all competitions so far this season, including 5 home wins on the bounce.

We are backing the Reds to make best use of the Anfield factor and notch another win here.

You cannot accuse Celtic’s Champions League campaign of lacking entertainment. With the Glasgow giants having beaten Slovan Bratislava 5-1 on home soil, their resounding matchday one win was soon followed by an emphatic 7-1 defeat at the hands of Dortmund.

The result at the Signal Iduna Park was a result that brought Brendan Rodgers’ men back to down Earth, the Hoops have scored six goals and conceded eight in this season’s Champions League.

With an average of 2.0 goals for and 2.66 goals per game against before the visit of Leipzig on Tuesday, and 6 also netted against Aberdeen in the Scottish League Cup semi-final on Saturday, Celtic once again highlighted how dominant they can be in attack.

They will look to show their dominance against Leipzig. With the Bundesliga outfit having lost all of their first three Champions League matches while conceding an average of 2.0 goals per game. The German’s are in need of a victory here and have no option but to attack, this could be a game in which both defences are put under a considerable amount of stress.

Of the surprise results that we have seen in this season’s Champions League, Lille’s stunning victory at home to Real Madrid has to be the pick of the bunch and after beating Los Blancos 1-0 on home soil on matchday two.

Victories against Real and Atletico Madrid have been recorded in quick succession by the Ligue 1 outfit and they have come at a cost of just one goal conceded across the two games – that being Julian Alvarez’s opener at the Wanda Metropolitano.

Now Bruno Genesio and his Lille players welcome one of Italian football’s meanest defences. With Juventus having conceded seven league goals this season, that does not tell the full story of the Turin-based outfit.

Seven conceded, but Thiago Motta’s men have kept eight clean sheets to date and six of those goals came in back-to-back draws against Inter (4-4) and Parma (2-2). This Juventus side is incredibly tough to crack and away from home they’ll be looking to keep things tight at the back and grab a goal, a maximum of two goals is our expectation in France.