It’s Champions League football or bust for 3 clubs playing Thursday night football and all of them face a struggle to realize it.
Tottenham’s season has been an absolute disaster with Sunday’s 5-1 thrashing at Anfield as Liverpool celebrated winning the Premier League title their nineteenth defeat in a wretched top-flight campaign.
The saving grace has been strong performances in cup competitions and their Europa League semi-final, first leg at home to Bodo/Glimt carries huge importance because the Norwegians will probably be a tricky nut to crack on their artificial pitch within the arctic circle within the return game.
That is definitely no gimme as Bodo/Glimt beat Lazio within the last eight while Ange Postecoglou’s side have dropped 4 points to Leicester and were beaten at home by Ipswich amongst other inept efforts.
The Scandinavians, nevertheless, visit N17 with a side decimated by injuries and suspensions and Tottenham can take a good lead into the second leg next week although they give the impression of being more likely to concede as they’ve kept only one clean sheet of their last 13 matches, which was the 1-0 away win within the quarter-final against Frankfurt.
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Tottenham to win and each teams to attain is 17/10 with Betway and BoyleSports while a 3-1 home triumph is 9/1 with the identical two firms plus bet365 and William Hill. Spurs need their best players to provide big games and James Maddison is 11/4 to attain with Paddy Power and Betfair.
Manchester United undertake a treacherous trip to an Athletic Bilbao side desperate to achieve the ultimate which will probably be played on home soil. They’re unbeaten in front of their very own fans in ten matches in all competitions and may extend that streak by beating United at 21/20 with William Hill who price a 2-0 victory at 8/1.
Nottingham Forest, meanwhile, must brush themselves down from their FA Cup semi-final defeat to Manchester City on Sunday after they bid for 3 Premier League points against Brentford on the City Ground.
Fifth in the ultimate table will probably be enough to book them a spot within the Champions League they usually can climb to 3rd by swatting aside the Bees.
A house win with each teams scoring is 3/1 with bet365, Paddy Power and Betfair, 2/1 is 9/1 with the previous firm and Chris Wood to attain is 7/5 with the latter, who go 13/5 Yoane Wissa finds the web for the visitors.
• Chelsea are 20/21 with BoyleSports and StarSports to steer HT/FT after they travel to Sweden to face Djurgarden in the primary leg of their Europa Conference League semi-final. The Blues are 10/1 with William Hill to win 3-1 and Nicolas Jackson is 13/8 to rejoice a goal all through the sport.
• Shadow of Light, who won each the Dewhurst and Middle Park Stakes at Newmarket towards the tip of last 12 months, is 9/1 with Unibet to triumph within the 2000 Guineas on Saturday as flat racing holds its first Classic of 2025. Trainer Charlie Appleby can return to the winner’s enclosure on Sunday when his unbeaten filly Desert Flower wins the 1000 Guineas at evens with William Hill and Unibet.
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