Liverpool face daunting trip to play Real Madrid

The last thing Liverpool probably need right now is a trip to Spain to play Real Madrid, who are bang in form at the moment and looking to seal qualification for the knock-out stages of this season`s UEFA Champions League.

After a somewhat sluggish start to the season, including a shock 4-2 defeat at Real Sociedad having been 2-0 up in the game, Carlo Ancelotti`s Real Madrid have turned a corner in recent weeks and are beginning to look a sum of their of parts. Following the comfortable 3-0 win against Liverpool at Anfield on match day 3, Real Madrid defeated Barcelona at the Bernabeu in the first El Clasico of the season and defeated Granada away 4-0 in their most recent game. It`s no coincidence then that Real Madrid find themselves as favourites for this one at 1/4 with paddypower.

Since that 3-0 defeat to Real Madrid at Anfield, Liverpool have failed to make any real progress, despite knocking Swansea out of the Capital One Cup. Brendan Rodger`s team were fortunate to come away with a late victory in that cup match and have also had poor Premier League results and performances. Firstly, Liverpool followed up their defeat to Real Madrid with a home 0-0 draw against Hull City and suffered defeat away to Newcastle United in their most recent match by one goal to nil. All this stacks up to an unlikely win at the Bernabeu against Real Madrid, available at 12/1 with bet365.

Having found the back of the net twice at Anfield, Karim Benzema is Real Madrid`s top goal scorer in the Champions League with 4 to his name so far and can be backed at 9/2 with ladbrokes to open the scoring against Liverpool in this game. James Rodriguez doubled his La Liga goals total at the weekend with his 2 goals against Granada and will be looking to add to his solitary strike so far in this season`s Champions League. betfred offer 2/1 for the Colombian to score at any time during the game.

With Daniel Sturridge still sidelined with injury, Liverpool are looking desperately short in attack and will again be relying on Mario Balotelli to get their goals but the fact that he is available at 4/1 with SkyBet to score at any time highlights his poor form so far in a Liverpool shirt. Raheem Sterling may provide Liverpool`s biggest attacking threat on the counter attack and the English midfielder is 6/1 with stanjames to score at any time.

Since the start of October Real Madrid have scored 24 goals in 7 games, averaging over 3 goals per game and with Liverpool`s defence looking vulnerable, the 31/40 offered by BetVictor for there to be over 3.5 goals in the match is very tempting. Cristiano Ronaldo has the opportunity to become the all time leading goal scorer in Champions League history if the Portuguese can score in this match and paddypower offer 1/2 for Ronaldo to score and Real Madrid to win. As stated earlier, Karim Benzema is also in excellent scoring form, with 7 goals in his last 4 games for Real Madrid and is available at 5/1 with Coral to repeat what he did at Anfield two weeks ago and score 2 or more goals in the match.

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