There’s a stellar field at this weeks Quail Hollow Championship in North Carolina on the PGA Tour. Tiger’s back in action after his final round fireworks at the Masters three weeks ago plus another six of the world’s top-ten lining up alongside him.

As per usual, Tiger’s a short priced favourite at 11/4 with totesport. I’m not convinced he’s back to his imperious best with his game still appearing understandably rusty despite his win at Bay Hill and i wouldn’t be a backer at this short price.

The beauty of a field including Woods is that there’s some value on offer further down the betting. Phil Mickelson is the next best at 9/1 and is arguably in much better nick than the favourite, we’re then looking at 22/1 bar the rest of the field.

So where’s the value? Well, Anthony Kim has a great chance here but I don’t think there’s value backing him at 22/1. Sure, he won this tournament last year and finished placed the year before, but he’s not been in the same league as fellow 22/1 shot Geoff Ogilvy so far in 2009, himself with three top twenty-five finishes in the last three years here.

Further down the betting I like the look of Rory Sabbatini at 33/1. The fiery South African had spent some time in the golfing wilderness but seems to have rediscovered his touch finishing in the top ten in his last two appearances. Add to this some course form when finishing second here two years ago he’s worth an each-way squeak at a good price.

American Charles Howell is another player coming here in good form after finishing second last week in New Orleans, the third top ten finish in 2009. Some steady golf here in the last three years shows he can handle the track and with some luck on the greens could go well at 50/1.

A couple of players bang out of form but with the class to come good any time are available at big prices this week. Vijay Singh and Adam Scott are available at 35/1 and 50/1 respectively with totesport and both have the game to make a mockery of those prices. Singh in fact has shown glimpses of his old self since an early season knee operation finishing 30th last time out. He does have the course form though having won here in 2005 and finishing second two years earlier in 2003. He also finished 7th here two years ago so don’t be surprised for him to get back into winning ways here at a juicy 35/1. Scott on the other hand hasn’t shown any sign of form since January having missed the last few cuts on tour. The Australian does have two top ten finishes to his name here though in the last three years so if he does re-discover some form this week he certainly knows his way around the course.

Finally, he’s been playing just under the radar in the Sates this season but last years European Tour winner Robert Karlsson looks a big price at 66/1 with totesport. The Swede has kept his workload to a minimum so far in 2009, but an encouraging tied 14th at the Shell Houston a few weeks ago sends out the right messages and he has a 24th place finish to his name on this course in his previous visit two years ago. The 66/1 available doesn’t equate to his 11th in the world status and could embarrass some compilers if he gets that hot flat-stick going this week.

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Some horrendous golfing conditions in Korea over the weekend put paid to any real entertainment at the Ballantines Championship on the European Tour, so it’s kind of nice to see the tour returning to it’s traditional home in this weeks Open De Espana.

Spaniard Gonzalez Fernando-Castano heads the betting with totesport and is in a fine run of form finishing second in his last three tournaments. Add to that another three top twenty-five finishes in 2009 and he comes here in terrific form. There could be a question mark over mental and physical fatigue what with being in contention and traveling all over the world the past month but he should have a few home comforts here in Madrid. You can back the Spaniard at 14/1 with totesport.

Another Spaniard who’s been playing his golf away from home at late is Alvaro Quiros. The 25/1 shot looks a very big price in this field having already racked up a victory on the European Tour this season at the Qatar masters. Quiros has been playing on the PGA Tour of late but has missed the cut on his last two appearances, including his debut at the Masters. This recent form could be the reason for the rather generous odds on offer but providing he returns to Spain better for the experience (it wasn’t a complete wash-out having finished tied 13th in the WGC-CA) he looks a good bet here.

Elsewhere at the top of the betting there’s plenty with a chance in what looks like an open betting heat. 16/1 second favourite Soren Kjeldsen comes here fresh from winning in Seville last month (tipped up by us no less!), 18/1 shot Francesco Molinari looks to build on two third place finishes in his last two starts on tour whilst two Ryder Cup players Soren Hansen and Miguel-Angel Jimenez will go close if they find form (both 20/1 with totesport).

Further down the betting, we’ve picked out a trio who finished in the top ten last time the tournament was played at the PGA Golf de Catalunya. Colin Montgomerie, Gary Orr and Niclas Fasth finished 5th, 6th and 7th back in 2000 and line up again here almost a decade later. It’s arguable that both Monty and Fasth were a different proposition back then and although consistently making the top forty in tournaments neither have done little to trouble the leaders for some time now. You can back Montgomerie at 50/1 and Fasth at 70/1 with totesport but it’s Orr who catches the eye out of the trio at 125/1. There’s little reason to back the Scot based on 2009 form but he played well in this part of the the world at the end of the 2008 season and could be worth an each-way shot at a big price here.

For some more recent course form the final qualifying stage of the Tour School took place here last November, so we’ve picked out some of the fore-runners from there. The top five then all start this week. Oskar Henningson (100/1) was a four shot winner back in November but it would appear he’s had the quietest time on tour in 2009 making only one cut, albeit last week. Wade Ormsby and Carlos Del Moral tied second at Tour School and are priced 250/1 and 66/1 respectively this week with totesport. The English pair of Danny Willett and Chris Wood finished fourth and fifth respectively and can be backed at 33/1 and 66/1 this week.

It is the Spaniard Del Moral that catches the eye at those prices, along with Michael Hoey who finished 8th at Tour School. Del Moral had three top twenty finishes on tour before missing the cut last week and will be pumped up for this on home soil. Hoey on the other hand already has a tour win to his name this season when winning the Estoril Open de Portugal. At 66/1 and 40/1 respectively these two young players represent some value with there course form.

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A two over par final round of 74 put paid to our man Davis Love III last weekend at the Verizon Championship when challenging for a place at the start of the day. However, it’s upwards and onwards this week as the US Tour reaches New Orleans, for the
Zurich Classic.

The betting is pretty open as Kenny Perry, fresh from his Masters let down has been installed as 12/1 favourite with totesport. It is second favourite at 14/1 Nick Watney that catches the eye though. Youngster Watney has had a really impressive start to 2009, winning the Buick back in February and finishing second in the WGC-CA to Phil Mickelson. Add to that another top-ten finish and the fact he won this tournament on this course two years ago he really comes here with a fine chance.

We’ve been tipping up Englishmen on the US Tour week in, week out without much success, but with Paul Casey winning the Shell Houston Open a few weeks ago and Luke Donald’s second place finish at the weekend at the Verizon we reckon Justin Rose looks a good bet at 35/1 to continue this trend. Rose has been solid if not spectacular and has a couple of top twenty finishes in the States in ultra competitive fields (Masters and WGC-CA). Add to this a fine second place finish in the Dubai Desert Classic, a bit of luck with the flat stick could see him in the shake up on Sunday.

We tipped up Boo Weekely last week to win a third Verizon in a row but unfortunately old Boo left himself too much to do and despite a final round flourish of 68 that catapulted him thirteen places up the leaderboard on Sunday he still finished out of the places. However, with that birdie blitz very much in mind the 45/1 about Boo’s chances here with totesport could represent some value. Egged on by a partisan ‘deep south’ crowd Weekley’s a good putting week away from a top five finish.

Further down the betting we’ve picked out a couple of players not without a squeak if all goes well. Ken Duke is nothing more than a solid tour pro but his second here to Watney two years ago shows he likes the track and at 50/1 might be worth a bet each-way. Jeff Maggert might be close to plying his trade on the Senior’s Tour but with two top twenty-five finishes to his name so far in 2009 and an 11th/23rd place finish here in the past two years he has form and course experience over the other competitors around him in the betting at 125/1 and represents some value with totesport.

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The Race to Dubai this week travels to South Korea for the Ballantine’s Championship at the Pinx Golf Club.

The €2.1m purse has attracted some of world golf’s big names and three of them head the betting. Henrik Stenson is the 11/1 favourite with totesport as he comes here fresh from a week off after the Masters. Stenson is the top ranked player in the field and has had three top ten finishes this season across both tours. If he brings his ‘A’ game he’s sure to be in contention in what looks like will turn out to be a birdie blitz, 24 under being the winning score last year.

Another two big names of World Golf are next in the betting with Ernie Els and Lee Westwood both 15/1 with totesport. They both however look a little skinny in the betting to me with neither having won on the European Tour since 2007. We tipped up Westwood to place at the Masters but he blew up badly in the final round to slip down the field. The Englishman’s getting a reputation for final day failings and for that reason we couldn’t back him, or the out of form Els at these prices this week.

Last years winner Graeme McDowell deserves respect, not least for his course form but he was also the highest finishing European player at the Masters a fortnight ago and his form this season has been pretty solid. McDowell won in a play-off with Jeev Milka Singh twelve months ago and the pair finished seven ahead of the rest of the field. With Singh missing this week, the course form for ‘G-Mac’ cannot be ignored at 16/1.

With course form in mind, Paul McGinley’s an interesting runner at 50/1. He’s been suffering on the greens over the last twelve months, none more so than the first couple of days last week in China but he still managed to scrape together a top-ten finish and was a distant third here last year.

There’s a handful of entries this week who’ve already won in that part of the world on the Asian Tour this season. Johan Edfors and Thongchai Jaidee are both available at 25/1 but disappointed last week in China. Chapchai Nirat, also a 25/1 shot played some decent stuff last week and could go well here.

However, of the Asian Tour winners this term it’s Indian Jyoti Randhawa and American Anthony Kang that catch the eye. Randhawa (33/1) won the Thailand Open in March and has also has two top ten finishes in Malaysia and Indonesia to his name in 2009. Kang currently heads the Asian Tour after winning the Malaysian Open in February and finshed 24th here last year. At 80/1 he looks a value bet for a top five finish.

Keeping the Asian Tour form in mind, there’s a couple of interesting runners at bigger prices that might be a decent each-way bet. Rhys Davies and Simon Griffiths are currently 10th and 12th respectively on the Asian Tour in 2009. Davies (50/1) finished second in the Thailand Open earlier in the year and followed that up with a top ten finish on the European Tour in Andalucia a few weeks ago. Griffiths form in Europe isn’t so good hence the 200/1 about him with totesport but he’s a decent record in Asia with four top 30 finishes including a tied 7th in Indonesia.

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After the spectacular Masters finish last week, the US Tour resumes this week with the Verizon Heritage at the Harbour Town Links course in South Carolina.

There’s a trio of players at the head of the betting who have all come here straight from Augusta. Jim Furyk has had a second and fourth place finish here in the last three years but blew up on the back nine at the Masters last week when in a good position, eventually finishing tenth. Paul Casey followed up his win at the Shell Houston Open a fortnight ago with a respectable 20th place finish at Augusta. Rory McIlroy completes the trio at the head of the market on the back of a tremendous debut in the Masters. McIlroy tied twentieth which means he’s finished in the top twenty on all four starts in the States this season. These three are all available at 16/1 with totesport but we’ve tried to steer away from the Masters as a form guide for this week’s tournament.

Boo Weekley did play in the Masters but missed the cut. He does have a top ten finish to his name this year way back in January in the Sony Open in Hawaii, but deserves respect here after winning this tournament the last two years. At 33/1 he might be a good each-way bet on a course he clearly likes.

Talking of horses for courses, Davis Love III has won this event five times, the last time in 2003 and his Dad was the teaching pro at the club before his untimely death in a plane crash. At 25/1 Love is another value each-way bet, especially seeing as he’s had a week off after missing the Masters.

A couple of bigger priced fancies who also had last week off are Charles Howell and John Rollins at 40/1 and 80/1 respectively with totesport. Howell has had two top ten finishes to his name in 2009, including a second at the Transitions Championship in March. Rollins has also played some good stuff in 2009, with two second places to his name at the Honda Classic and Buick Invitational. Both men have course form as well finishing 12th and 14th here last year respectively and could go well at big prices.

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It’s business as usual for the field in this weeks Race to Dubai tournament as none of the 156 played in last weeks Masters in Augusta. They have however had to up sticks from Europe to make the trip to the latest installment on tour, the Volvo China Open.

Thongchai Jaidee heads the betting with totesport at a skinny looking 10/1. The thirty-nine year old player from Thailand has already won the Indonesian Open this year but hasn’t been seen on tour since and didn’t play in this event last year. The 10/1 doesn’t look the value bet to me so we’ve selected some others for you.

There are a couple of Tour winners both priced at 14/1 this week with recent form to back up their claims. Spaniard Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano comes into this tournament off the back of a second place finish in the Portuguese Open last time out and a top fifteen finish in Seville the week before. Johan Edfors on the other hand hasn’t played in the last six weeks but did win the Black Mountain masters in Thailand at the beginning of March last time he was in this part of the world. Both have a good shout at those prices.

Further down the betting, Damian McGrane cannot be ignored. The Irishman was a runaway winner of this tournament last year in horrendous final day conditions, romping home by nine shots. If we can expect the same kind of conditions at some point this week you’d want McGrane on your side and at 22/1 he’s worth an each-way bet.

A couple of other players to look out for are Chapchai Nirat and Miles Tunnicliff. Nirat, another Thai, was the runaway winner of the recent SAIL Open on the Asian Tour in March and the course should suit his big hitting style. Tunnicliff on the other hand has been solid if not spectacular. The Englishman does have a recent second place finish in the Malaysian Open back in February and is one of very few players who come here with both course form (20th last year) and solid performances in the last two tournaments (21st and 43rd finishes). Nirat is a 20/1 shot and Tunnicliff a 50/1 chance, both with totesport.

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The
Premier League is really hotting up as we head towards the last half dozen or so fixtures and there’s plenty of betting interest in this week’s matches.

Fist off Liverpool look to bounce back from their midweek defeat to Chelsea in the Champions League as they take on Blackburn at Anfield. Despite the defeat on Wednesday, Liverpool have won their last four in the league in fine style and are unbeaten at home all season. Blackburn however are still flirting with the relegation zone and have not won at Anfield since an FA Cup tie there back in 2000. Rovers last match away from Ewood Park resulted in a 4-0 hammering at Arsenal and we see Saturday’s match as just a difficult chance. So do totesport as they go 1/4 the home team, 4/1 the draw and a massive 8/1 Blackburn. Totesport will be betting live in-running on this match.

Chelsea will have a spring in their step after their fine win at Anfield on Wednesday and will relish the opportunity to put away a Bolton side at Stamford Bridge who haven’t won away in the League since the end of November. Chelsea have taken fifteeen points from a possible eighteen in their last six games, with just that away defeat to Spurs blotting their recent copybook form. Chelsea are a 1/4 shot for this one with totesport, witht he draw and away win 4/1 and 8/1 respectively.

It’s a six-pointer at the Riverside as Boro take on Hull City on Saturday afternoon. Hull are seven points ahead of Middlesbrough but are three games without a win. Boro are in desperate trouble and anything but a win here will probably send them down in the long run. Boro are unbeaten in five at home but four of the games were draws, with goalscoring being the crux of the problem. Hull have been in free-fall since Christmas but have only lost five times on the road so they won’t be pushovers. Boro have been priced up evens favourites with totesport, Hull are a 10/3 shot and the draw is 9/4.

Pompey are still to secure their safety for another season but they’ve got a great chance to put three more points between them and the other strugglers on Saturday as they play West Brom at Fratton Park. Pompey are unbeaten in three and four points clear of the relegation zone. West Brom are a whopping eight points from safety now and with only one win to their name all season. A home win will pay 8/11 with totesport. The draw and an unlikely West Brom victory are 9/4 and 10/3 respectively.

Manchester United travel to the north-east to face a Sunderland side without a win in six matches. United have most definitely gone off the boil after escaping with an injury time winner against Villa last weekend and slipping to a 2-2 draw at home to Porto in Tuesday’s Champions League clash. They face going into the match in second place for the second weekend running with Liverpool kicking off early on Saturday and it’s just a question of whether the pressure is getting to them. It’s business as usual as far as the bookies are concerned though with totesport going 4/11 an away win. Sunderland are a 13/2 chance with the draw a juicy looking 3/1.

Spurs play West Ham in this London derby. Spurs are unbeaten at home since the end of November whilst West Ham are unbeaten in their last four matches. West Ham may consider Spurs to be one of their bogey sides though having only winning six of the last twenty-two meetings between the two teams. Spurs are an 8/11 chance to repeat the win they got at Upton park earlier in the season whilst West Ham are 10/3. The draw is 9/4.

Wigan play Arsenal at the JJB Stadium having only secured one win at home in their last four attempts. Arsenal on the other hand are in very good form, having not lost away in their last eight matches. Arsenal have also not lost to Wigan in the Premier League and are 4/6 to continue that run on Saturday with a win. If you fancy Wigan they’re a 7/2 chance with totesport and the draw is 12/5.

Probably the match of the weekend sees Stoke play Newcastle at the Brittania. It’s Stoke’s home form that’s keeping them in this position and a win here against a Newcastle side six points behind them in eighteenth could just see them do enough to secure another season int he top flight. It didn’t pan out the way Alan Shearer would have liked last week at home to Chelsea and it’s crisis time for the Geordies here. With only two away wins all season and six without a win the form doesn’t look good for Newcastle and they’re a 15/8 chance here. Stoke are 6/5 and the draw 11/5, all with totesport. Totesport will be betting live in-running on this match.

At the other end of the table Aston Villa play Everton at home. Villa are without a win in six matches, including four at home which means Everton are now just one point behind their rivals in sixth place. However, Everton have no win away from Goodison in five attempts and have only won win at Villa Park since 1997. Totesport make Villa 11/10 favourites for this one, with Everton a 2/1 chance and the draw 9/4. Totesport will be betting live in-running on this match.

Finally, Man City play Fulham at Eastlands. This should be easy to predict, with City unbeaten at home in 2009 and Fulham with only one win away all season, albeit their last match on the road. City are an 8/11 chance and Fulham 10/3. The draw is 9/4. Totesport will be betting live in-running on this match.

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Tonight is undoubtedly the more attractive half of the quarter final draw in the Champions League as Liverpool play Chelsea at Anfield and Barcelona welcome Bayern Munich to the Nou Camp.

Two score draws were played out in the first two quarter-finals last night which arguably puts Arsenal and Porto in the box seat for the return ties in a fortnight’s time.

Tonight however, we’re treated to another episode in the Liverpool v Chelsea show as the two teams meet in the knockout stages for the third time in four seasons. This stat is made even more remarkable considering that the remaining year they met each other in the group stages!

Liverpool lead the ties two wins to one (two goalless draws were played out in the 2005-2006 group stages), winning once on penalties. So what’s in store for us this time? Well Chelsea will treat playing at home in the second leg as a bonus and they’ll be confident of going through. Liverpool on the other hand have been on fire in recent weeks, with demolition jobs on Real Madrid, Man United and Aston Villa in the past month.

Looking at the head to head, Chelsea have a pretty good record against Liverpool, winning thirteen of their last 25 meeting (4 were draws) in the Premier League. Liverpool just edge their Champions League head to head record based on that Penalty shoot-out win in the 2007 semi-final. Liverpool have however won both matches versus the Blues this season and this tie won’t hold any fear for them.

Liverpool are 13/10 to win tonight’s match with totesport with Chelsea a 12/5 chance and 2/1 the draw. Chelsea are slightly favoured by the bookies in the to qualify market though as they’re a 10/11 shot opposed to Liverpool’s 4/5.

In tonight’s other quarter final Barcelona host a Bayern Munich side smarting from a 5-1 away defeat to Wolfsburg at the weekend. Bayern have cruised through to the quarter finals stage but are struggling domestically in what is turning out to be a really competitive Bundesliga title race.

Barcelona on the other hand are cruising at the top of La Liga, having scored 52 goals at home in the league so far equating to an average of 3.42 goals per game. The bookies make Barca favourites here, despite Bayern’s demolition 12-1 aggregate win over Sporting Lisbon in the previous round. Barca are 4/7 to win the tie tonight and 2/7 to progress into the semi-finals. If you fancy the Germans they’re 5/2 to qualify and a huge 7/1 to win tonight. The draw is a 3/1 chance.

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We’ve been tipping up winners and returns all year on this site, including a 100-1 place in the Portuguese Open last week, but now the serious business starts as the first major of the season tees off at Augusta on Thursday.

It’s no surprise that Tiger Woods heads the field in the betting for this years Masters. Not only has he won the tournament four times, he’s also finished in the top three on the last three occasions. Despite his recent comeback win at the Bay Hill he represents no value at all at the 13/8 on offer by totesport and there’s plenty of other players in with a decent shout.

Phil Mickelson and Padraig Harrington make up the next two in the betting at 13/2 and 12/1 respectively. Mickelson missed last week’s cut in Houston but has two wins to his name already this year, including a fine performance winning the WGC-CA last month. He has of course won the masters twice before but it’s actually Harrington who we’d prefer to be on if they were coming down the back nine on Sunday at the head of the field.

Padraig Harrington is a grafter, he may not be as stylish as Mickelson or as explosive as Woods, but with three wins to his name in the last five major tournaments he shouldn’t be underestimated. The Irishman has been playing some solid if not spectacular golf in the Sates this year but add his ruthless major form to some very solid Masters form (top ten finish last year) he’d be our pick at the top end of the betting at 12/1 with totesport.

Further down the betting we’ve picked out golfers with good Masters form, after all there really isn’t any other course like it on tour. A few months back we wouldn’t have backed Retief Goosen with your money but he seems to have come into some good form and has an excellent record at Augusta. Goosen had been struggling for a couple of years before finishing third in the AT&T at Pebble Beach in February and winning the Transitions Championship last month. He comes to Augusta having finished second, third and third in his last three visits and at 22/1 looks a good each-way bet to finish in the frame again in 2009.

With a strong European contingent, the prices of Paul Casey and Rory McIlroy look a little stingy to me. Casey’s been clipped into 25/1 with totesport after his win in Houston last week but this seems like an over-reaction to his chances here. McIlroy plays his first Masters this week and however well he’s played in 2009 we couldn’t back him at 28/1.

So where is the value? Well we tipped up Lee Westwood at a big price last week in Houston and had he shot a level par round on day four he’d have finished in the places. Westwood will be setting out his whole season around the majors this year and he comes here in good nick and finished 11th last year. There’s been question marks over his putting in the past and rightly so, but the super fast greens will help him due to the reduced backlift he needs to get the ball moving and at 60/1 he looks a very big price.

Finally in the Masters outright market you might want to have a small each-way bet on 100/1 South African Tim Clark. Clark has been a consistent performer on the US Tour over the past few seasons and has two top ten finishes to his name this year. Add to this a very good Masters form and there are worst 100/1 shots. Clark has finished in the top twenty three times in the last five years, including a second spot finish in 2006 and looks the best of the outsiders.

Totesport have plenty of other markets on offer this week, including group and match betting and some Tiger specials. A couple of bets have caught our eyes in particular. Justin Rose is an 11/2 shot in the Top Englishman market. Rose is returning to form in 2009 and finished fifth here a couple of years ago. If he can bring his a-game he’s definitely worth an each-way bet to nothing in this market.

The same could be said of Stuart Appleby in the Top Australian market. Appleby is a 5/1 shot with only Adam Scott and Geoff Ogilvy ahead of him in the betting. Appleby’s actually a 66/1 chance in the outright opposed to Scott’s 80/1 and with the latter well out of form Appleby could challenge Ogilvy in this market. Add to this a top ten finish last year and it might also be worth doubling up on the Top Rest of the World market as well where he’s 20/1.

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When you’re analysing the Champions League form over the past few seasons there’s one resounding trend that you’ll keep coming beck to - bet on the English team.

All four of the Champions League qualifiers have made it to the last eight of the competition for the second consecutive year and you have to go all the way back to 1996 to find a Champions League quarter final that didn’t involve any English clubs at all.

Tonight, this season’s quarter-finals kick off in Manchester and Villareal, with the holders welcoming Porto to Old Trafford.

Fresh from Frederico Macheda’s heroics at home to Villa at the weekend Manchester United can welcome back Messrs Vidic and Rooney, which should go some way to bolster up a wobbly looking United in recent weeks. United are however unbeaten at home in Europe in nineteen consecutive matches and it will be a shock if Porto can pull off a win here tonight.

Porto do actually have the better head to head record between the two clubs in Europe, with two wins against United’s one, but the 15/2 about their chances tonight with totesport say it all. United are a 2/5 shot with the draw 10/3.

Tonight’s other quarter-final sees a repeat of the 2006 semi final as Arsenal travel to Spain to face Villareal. Arsenal won that tie 1-0 on aggregate after taking a narrow lead to Spain for the second leg and heroics from Jens Lehman, saving a last minute penalty from Argentine play-maker Juan Roman Riquelme at the El Stadio Madrigan.

Of course, Lehman went on to be the villain in the final after being sent off for a professional foul early in the match against Barcelona. The sacrificial lamb on that night was Robert Pires who was substituted for reserve goalkeeper Manuel Almunia and he lines up for Villareal tonight to face his old team.

Villareal are currently fourth in La Liga and have already played out two goalless draws with Man United in the group stages of this years competition. In fact, in all of the Spanish sides matches with English opposition, there have been only nine goals. The nine matches include four goalless draws with United, a 0-1 loss against Arsenal, two 2-1 wins over Everton and a 2-0 victory over Middlesbrough.

Goals may well be at a premium again tonight as Arsenal hit-man Robin Van Persie sits this one out with injury. In the betting, totesport cannot split the teams as they go e13/8 each a two with the draw a 9/4 shot.

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