Soccer Betting News

Real Madrid once again failed the second round of the Champions League when they draw 1-1 with Lyon (leg: 0-1), on Wednesday at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in the Spanish capital.

Real Madrid paid more than EUR 250 million to sign Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka and many others, but eventually fell for the sixth consecutive time in the second round of the Champions.

In addition, the blow stings more this year since the end of the 2009-2010 edition of the maximum continental club competition will be held on May 22 at the Bernabeu.

And yet everything seemed perfect for fans of Real Madrid Florentino Perez, the last president who won a Champions League Odds (2002) returned to the club head blank with two of the last Golden Balls in the pocket, Kaka (2007 ) and Cristiano Ronaldo (2008), able to lead Real to the final in their stadium in 2010 to win his 10th European Cup.

However, after the Juventus of Turin (2005), Arsenal (2006), Bayern Munich (2007), Roma (2008) and Liverpool (2009), has now touched the turn of Lyon prematurely destroy the dreams of victory and Real Madrid make history in this competition.

During three seasons in charge of Chelsea FC, José Mourinho failed to win the UEFA Champions League, and now, as coach of FC Internazionale Milano, expected to end his former team hopes to realize his dream.

• The tie also be emotional for the counterpart of Mourinho's Chelsea in the dock, Carlo Ancelotti, who returns to the city and the stadium where he trained for eight years to rival Inter, AC Milan.

Chelsea is 7/4 at Bet365.

Previous clashes
• Although this is the first time the two clubs meet in European competition, drew each other in a pre-season friendly last summer in the United States. Chelsea won 2-0 thanks to goals from Didier Drogba and Frank Lampard's penalty.

Retrospective of the Game

VfB Stuttgart coach, Christian Gross, hopes not to repeat the same score with which he paid off his latest clash with FC Barcelona when the Spanish team trip to Germany to play the first leg of the knockout stages of the UEFA Champions League Odds.

Gross saw the Stuttgart drew its ticket to the knockout stage round with a 3-1 victory against FC Unirea Urziceni in his first game in December, but to move his team against Barcelona will offer its best version. It is a challenge facing the Swiss technical with not so good after leaving hopes defeated by 0-5 to the Spanish team just guided FC Basel 1893 last soccer betting season.

The entire Stuttgart go into the match full of motivation, including midfielder Aleksandr Hleb, on loan from Barcelona, but faces the tie with the victim role. The winner of Group F, Barcelona, has nine games unbeaten at home in the Champions League betting . It has also avoided defeat in their last six visits to Germany Stuttgart therefore shall break the forecasts into the quarter-finals of European club competition, something not achieved since 1998.

FC Barcelona is 1.5 goal favorite at Bodog Sportsbook.