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Liverpool vs Atletico Madrid — Both Teams to Score — Liverpool have scored in nine consecutive competitive matches under new boss Andoni Iraola, including back-to-back 2-2 draws with Newcastle and Nottingham Forest that exposed the defensive fragilities he is still ironing out. Atletico Madrid were well beaten 3-0 at Athletic Bilbao on Saturday and have now conceded six second-half goals across their last three matches, but Simeone’s side rarely travel without a goal: they have failed to score in only two of their last 24 Champions League league-phase games and netted in last season’s corresponding Anfield fixture, a 3-2 classic decided by a 92nd-minute Van Dijk header. This repeat of last year’s matchday-one meeting has goals written all over it.

PSG vs Slovan Bratislava — Both Teams to Score — PSG are back-to-back European champions but have made a stuttering start to the new campaign, without a win in four and — crucially for this market — without a clean sheet in nine matches across all competitions. Slovan Bratislava are the Slovak champions and arrive at the Parc des Princes having come through qualifying against Mjallby and Celje, scoring first in six of their last eight games. Yaya Toure’s side will sit deep and look to Tigran Barseghyan on the counter, and with PSG’s attacking riches of Kvaratskhelia, Dembele and Doue expected to rack up goals at one end, the visitors grabbing at least one at the other at 2.37 looks a live runner — Football Whispers mark both teams to score as their probable tip in a predicted 2-1 home win.

Sporting CP vs Galatasaray — Sporting CP to Win — Sporting are unbeaten this season with four wins and a draw, have scored the opening goal in every game and have won their last five home matches at the Jose Alvalade. Galatasaray top the Turkish Super Lig after three straight wins, but they arrive in Lisbon without Victor Osimhen — their top scorer in each of the last two seasons, withdrawn injured on Friday — while Wilfried Singo and Mario Lemina are also missing. The Lions are winless in five meetings with Portuguese opposition and Sporting have lost just two of their ten against Turkish sides. With the early payout in play, back the hosts at 1.65 to start their European campaign in style.

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