Monaco - Arsenal (Champions League)

Monaco welcomes Arsenal at the Stadium Louis II in a meeting rematch of the eighth-finals of the Champions League. Three weeks ago in the first game between the two teams, the French took a solid lead of 3:1, which will defend at home. The game is on Tuesday - March 17, 2015 and Chief Judge of the meeting will be the Norwegian Svein Oddvar Moen. The odds for the game offered by the leading bookmaker bet365 are as follows: 3.40 for a home win, with a draw at 3.60 and 2.20 for the victory of the guests.

Monaco recorded classical victory with 3:0 over Bastia in the French Ligue 1 last Friday. In this match, the coach Leonardo Jardim even managed to put on rest many of the key players before the clash with Arsenal. Monaco will defend its solid lead, but will have to decide pretty personnel problems before the game. Because of injuries match will miss Tiemoue Bakayoko, Andrea Raggi and Lacina Traore. Jeremy Toulalan, Geoffrey Kondogbia and Yannick Ferreira Carrasco have problems with injuries, but they will be raised up and will start the match with Arsenal. In the attack, Leonorado Jardim again will rely on the Bulgarian Dimitar Berbatov, who as in the first match will try to harass the clumsy English defense.

Arsenal continues with its "criminal" action in England and at the weekend won with 3:0 against West Ham, which was the fifth straight win for the team in the Premier League. Arsenal approached the leader Chelsea with only 7 points difference. In the second leg with Monaco, the boys of Arsene Wenger must make the impossible to delete a liability of 1:3 of the first game. Arsenal will be without the injured Abou Diaby, Mathieu Debuchy, Mikel Arteta, Jack Wilshere, Gabriel Paulista and Tomas Rosicky. Arsene Wenger will rely on an attacking game, as his team must score at least 3 goals to hopes for ranking in the tournament. In the attack, the French specialist will rely on Olivier Giroud as a battering ram, assisted by Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez on the wings.

This season, the team of Monaco proved that control the game in defense almost perfectly. The guests from Arsenal will attack, but will be very difficult at Stade Louis II, where fell only three goals in all matches of Monaco in the Champions League. In a view of this, our forecast according sure picks is for fewer goals and qualifying of Monaco to the quarterfinals in the most commercial tournament in the world.

Prediction: Under 2.5 goals @ 1.80 at bet365