Sporting – PSG

In Lisbon, both teams will score.

The specificity of the Champions League format with the group stage often creates situations where even a couple of points' difference between clubs leads to a substantial gap in the positions they occupy. This happened as well with the opponents in the seventh-round match in Lisbon. Sporting is performing at an average level in this edition of the Champions League. The Portuguese side scores quite a lot, but that was enough for victory only in about half of the matches played. Earlier Sporting beat Kairat, Marseille, and Brugge. What unites all the matches with the mentioned clubs is that they all came to Rui Borges' team at the José Alvalade Stadium. That should already be a wake-up call for PSG. Luis Enrique's team practically lives on international trips and a tight schedule. After the first part of the season in the Champions League, the Paris club managed to win the Intercontinental Cup, play a couple of Ligue 1 matches, be eliminated from the French Cup following the Paris derby, and snatch the French Super Cup from Marseille, which was played in Kuwait. In general, this could mean that if Luis Enrique's charges were fresh and convincing in Friday's match against Lille, this does not mean they will be able to fly around the pitch in Lisbon on Tuesday. The bookmakers have made the visitors favorites for the upcoming meeting, offering odds of 1.81 on their victory. Sporting's points are enough to firmly hold a place in the middle of the overall standings. The Lisbon club has scored in every match of the current edition, including away at Bayern Munich, Juventus, and Napoli. The key to Sporting's success also lies in attack domestically, where the team's average goals per game approaches three. In the Portuguese league, Porto is currently leading, but Sporting's second place ahead of the chasers looks very solid. PSG is currently alternating between convincing results and unconvincing ones. In the group stage, the Paris club sits third, aiming to finish in the top eight. In the domestic championship, there are more questions about Dembélé and his teammates, so Luis Enrique cannot properly rotate the squad with priority on the Champions League. Let's bet on both teams to score in the Lisbon clash.