The second leg of UEFA Cup Round of 32 action gets underway on Thursday with Bayer Leverkusen, Atletico Madrid and Marseille looking to advance. Many of Europe’s top teams are trying to balance out resting players with important competitions looming or playing top players in the UEFA Cup and trying to advance. Soccer Betting at SBG Global .
Bayer Leverkusen drew 0-0 last week at Galatasaray and will look to win the second leg at home but will be without striker Dmitri Bulykin. Atletico must overcome a 1-0 deficit against Bolton and they will have to do it without winger Simao Sabrosa. Marseille is in good shape leading 3-0 but they will not have Benoit Cheyrou when they play the second leg at Spartak Moscow on Thursday.
The favorite to win the Soccer Betting UEFA Cup is Bayern Munich. They got a 2-2 draw against Aberdeen in the first leg and are heavily favored to win the return match. "If we got a result it would be historic," Aberdeen manager Jimmy Calderwood said. "We have to win the game or get a high-scoring draw, but we can always dream."
Tottenham won 2-1 in the first leg against Slavia Prague and will try and protect that lead. The question will be what players are rested since Tottenham has a huge game on Sunday in the League Cup as they play Chelsea in the final. Tottenham may rest captain Ledley King in the match against Slavia.
In other matches on Thursday in the UEFA Cup it is PSV Eindhoven at Helsingborg holding a 2-0 lead. Anderlecht leads 2-1 and is at Bordeaux, and Werder Bremen leads 3-0 at Braga. Other matches have Getafe vs. AEK Athens, Villarreal vs. Zenit, Bordeaux vs. Anderlecht, Everton vs. SK Brann, Hamburg vs. FC Zurich, Panathinaikos vs. Rangers, Helsingborg vs. PSV, FC Basel vs. Sporting Lisbon, Fiorentina vs. Rosenborg and Nuremberg vs. Benfica.
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