The Champions League returns for the sixth installment of its expanded group stage format with Liverpool top of the standings and in possession of the one remaining perfect record in this season’s competition.
Arne Slot’s side are expected to extend their winning streak even if their road defence is getting leakier, while Atalanta and Atletico Madrid are in too good form to be ignored.
Champions League Week 6 picks
Liverpool to beat Girona & both teams to score @ 9/5
Atalanta to beat Real Madrid (draw no bet) @ 1/1
Atletico Madrid (-3) to beat Slovan Bratislava @ 17/10
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Spaniards can find the net to boost Liverpool win odds
Liverpool are just 4/9 to extend their perfect record in this season’s UCL to six matches against Girona despite loosening up defensively away from home of late.
The Reds should have enough about them to emerge victorious against hosts that have lost four of their five games in this competition and failed to win any of their last four across all competitions.
However, Arne Slot’s side have now conceded twice or more in each of their last four matches. That brings Liverpool to win and both teams to score into play at a chunky 9/5.
The hosts hit four goals in both their La Liga home games prior the 0-3 loss to Real Madrid in their most recent outing at Estadi Montilivi and their task will be easier in the absence of the visitors’ defensive mainstay Ibrahima Konata – who has a knee injury.
Tip: Liverpool to beat Girona & both teams to score @ 9/5
Atalanta more than tough enough to add to Real Madrid woes
Four losses in the past eight games counts as a crisis for a club of Real Madrid’s stature and the perennial Champions League winners are iffy favourites to beat Atlanta at 7/5.
Real’s road form this season reads a relatively ropey P10, W4, D3, L3, including defeats in two of their last three away assignments in all competitions and both their Champions League outings on foreign soil.
Atalanta are 1/1 to beat Los Blancos with the draw-no-bet concession, which looks nothing short of fantastic value.
The Bergamo club sit top of Serie A, have won their last nine games and they’ve yet to lose in the UCL so far this term, conceding just once across their first five matches.
Tip: Atalanta to beat Real Madrid (draw no bet) @ 1/1
Rampaging Rojiblancos can deliver Bratislava beatdown
Atletico Madrid are 1/14 to beat Champions League punch bags Slovan Bratislava and they’re in just the kind of form to suggest they can do so in commanding fashion having won their last nine in all competitions.
The Slovak champions have conceded more goals than any other club across the first five games of the UCL’s new-format group stage (18) and they’ve already lost 5-1 to Celtic, 4-0 to Manchester City and 4-1 to Dinamo Zagreb.
Diego Simeone’s men are 17/10 to overcome the (-3) handicap, which feels achievable given they’ve hit totals of six, five, three and four across their last four games. The first of those tallies came away to Sparta Prague in Champions League match week five.
