Our prediction for this Champions League match:
Borussia Dortmund
Match Time & Date:
03/10/2018
03:00 PM
Prediction: 2-1
Monaco
Despite failing to impress in their Champions League opener against Club Brugge, Borussia Dortmund eventually won the match. The Millionaires were more than fortunate to pick up all three points from the Club Brugge game, but that surely gave them a confidence boost. The Bundesliga side aim to move one step closer to booking their place in the Champions League knockout stages and we predict that they are going to adopt an attack-minded approach in Wednesday’s football match against Monaco. Seeing that Borussia Dortmund hammered Nurnberg 7-0 in their last home game in the German top flight, we believe that there is a big value in betting on the hosts. Monaco made a very slow start to the season and seeing that the club chiefs were force to sell several first-team regulars in the summer transfer window, we believe that the Ligue 1 side are going to return home empty-handed.
Highlighted Player (Mario Gotze):
Mario Gotze is a German midfielder, who played for Ronsberg and Eintrach Hombruch during his youth career before joining Borussia Dortmund in 2001. He made a great progress during his spell at the Borussia Dortmund’s youth academy and on 21 November, 2009 he made his Bundesliga debut for the Millionaires.
Gotze scored 22 goals in 83 league appearances for the club between 2009 and 2013 and he joined Borussia Dortmund’s bitterest rivals Bayern Munich on April, 2013. The German midfielder, who is capable of playing as a striker as well, failed to impress in the 2015/2016 Bundesliga campaign, but it has to be noted that he was struggling with injury at the start of the season.
Gotze won three Bundesliga trophies with Bayern Munich, but at the end of the 2015/2016 season he returned to Borussia Dortmund. In 2014 he represented Germany at the FIFA World Cup in Brazil and he scored the winner in the final against Argentina. Mario Gotze was born in Memmingen on 3 June, 1992.
Highlighted Team (Monaco):
Though based in Monaco, Les Rouges et Blances – as they are commonly referred to – play their games in the French football league system. Members of the top tier Ligue 1, Monaco play their home matches at the Stade Louis II in Fontvieille in front of 18,500 people. The Principality club boasts a turbulent history, which saw Monaco reach the highest heights of both domestic and international scene, but also get relegated to the amateur leagues at the very beginnings and to Ligue 2 in 2010-11 season.
The following year AS Monaco were acquired by the Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, whose heavy investments turned the Principality club into one of the biggest spenders in Europe in 2013 and reestablishing its place among Europe’s top clubs.
AS Monaco have had notable European results in the modern football era having been runners-up in the UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup in 1992 and the UEFA Champions League in 2004. One of the most successful clubs in France AS Monaco have so far won seven league titles and five Coupe de France trophies.
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