Napoli v Real Madrid Betting Tips

Yet at the weekend, Napoli bounced back with an impressive away win at second placed Roma.

(Only AC Milan v Barcelona in a 2012 Champions League quarter-final tie tops this game).

Napoli coach Maurizio Sarri, a former bank officer who did not play professionally, has moulded the likes of Marek Hamsik, Dries Mertens, Jose Callejon and Lorenzo Insigne into the most entertaining side in Italy’s top flight.

Meanwhile, Madrid have won 19 of their 25 matches when the “BBC” have not all played together, at a much greater win percentage of 76%, drawing four and losing two.

Madrid’s last away defeat in Champions League play occurred in last year’s competition, when they lost to Wolfsburg in the first leg of their quarterfinal tie. “I’m sure the San Paolo stadium will be an inferno and if we score early, even more so”.

“You have to be careful, and watch them all the way because you don’t know until the last moment where the ball is going to go”, the Spaniard said. “They are the world and European champions”. Remember they face a team which has won 14 and drawn two of their last 16 games.

“I don’t think fans screaming will cause Madrid real problems”. However it goes it will be a party. In tonight’s tie, for Real Madrid – Cristiano Ronaldo heads the first goalscorer betting at (4.68). Whether we are drawing, or even three or two or one goals up, it can not change our attitude. Gareth Bale, 27, sat out the La Liga game due to a 2-game suspension after earning a red card for kicking and pushing Jonathan Viera, 27, in a match against Las Palmas.

Both were absent from Saturday’s 4-1 victory at Eibar in which Karim Benzema and James Rodriguez were outstanding. “In simple terms, we have about a three per cent chance of success, but it’s better than nothing”.

“When a team is as strong as Real, there’s little to say or to do”, Sarri said.

But Sarri warned: “With the physical power and technical ability they have it’s going to be hard”.