Big chance for CSKA Moscow to progress against Roma

With the second qualification spot still up for grabs in UEFA Champions League Group E, CSKA Moscow welcome AS Roma to Russia with both teams still in with a chance of making it to the knockout stages of the competition.

Currently sitting in third place in Group E, Russian club CSKA Moscow may even be surprised themselves that they go in to the remaining two games of the group stage still well in contention of qualifying from the group. This is because, despite having a total of only 4 points from four games played, the dominance of Bayern Munich has meant that this is good enough to find them tied on points with opponents Roma and a win in this game could potentially seal a place in the next round. With 1 win, 1 draw and 2 defeats to show from their 4 games to date, CSKA Moscow are 2/1 with boylesports to cause another upset in the group and defeat Roma.

Seydou Doumbia has made a welcome return the starting line-up for CSKA in recent weeks and has 3 goals from just two starts in the Champions League this season. A fantastic double against Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium in CSKA`s last Champions League match shows that Doumbia is capable of scoring against tough opposition and is 6/1 with bet365 to get the opening goal of the game. With Bribas Natkho likely to be missing through injury, the only other player to experience putting the ball in the back of the opposition net in the Champions League this season is Ahmed Musa. This goal came against Roma in the reverse fixture between these two teams and the Nigerian forward is 11/5 with BetVictor to score at any time during the game.

AS Roma come in to the game sitting in second place in the group, ahead of CSKA Moscow on the head-to-head ruling, having defeated the Russian`s 5-1 in Rome during the opening fixture of this group. Since that big win, Roma have picked up what could prove to be a vital point away at Manchester City but also suffered two defeats at the hands of Bayern Munich, one of which was a humiliating 7-1 destruction at the Stadio Olimpico. Despite those two recent defeats to Bayern, Roma are still favourites for this match with the bookmakers at 8/5 with Coral.

Playing away from home, it could be the pace of Gervinho on the counter-attack that provides Roma with their best chance of scoring in this game. The Ivory Coast international has 3 Champions League goals to his name this season, including 2 against CSKA earlier in the campaign. SkyBet offer 13/2 that Gervinho will open the scoring in this one.

CSKA Moscow have only won once in their last 7 home Champions League matches and that came against Viktoria Plzen back in October 2013. On only 2 occasions have they lost by more than 1 goal and BetVictor offer 10/3 for Roma to win the match by 1 goal. However, Roma have only won once in their last 7 away Champions League matches and have failed to keep a clean sheet in any of those 7 games. boylesports offer 10/11 for there to be over 2.5 goals scored in this game and considering there have been over 2.5 goals in 4 of CSKA Moscow`s last 5 home Champions League games, this looks a sound bet.

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