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Manchester United are understandably favourites at [1.32] to qualify from their Champions League semi-final against Schalke but it's a brave man who backs them to win in Gelsenkirchen this evening at [2.32] given the number of statistics that read favourably for the overachieving hosts.
The Red Devils boast the enviable feat of having not conceded a single goal on their European travels so far this season, however that is unlikely to daunt the Bundesliga side, who have won all five of their continental encounters at the Veltins-Arena, scoring 13 goals in the process.
Ralf Rangnick's team will also take confidence for their visitors' dreadful Champions League record against German clubs, having suffered elimination on each of the four previous occasions that they have collided with one over two legs.
That alarming statistic isn't a result of frequently drawing Bayern Munich either as three different sides have taken care of the Premier League table-toppers, and the two that have knocked them out at this stage of the competition were the less fancied Borussia Dortmund and Bayer Leverkusen.
Schalke are a massive [3.65] to triumph despite having proven against reigning champions Inter, last year's semi-finalists Lyon and Manchester United troublers Valencia that there is no obstacle too daunting for them despite their domestic underperformance.
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Yet while last season's Bundesliga runners-up continue to deliver at home, they can't be depended on to complete clean sheets, leaking in eight of their last ten fixtures in front of their fans. It's an appealing [2.04] that both teams score.
Schalke v Manchester United
Kick-off: 7.45pm
Live on Sky Sports 2
Think the tie will be left wide open? The draw can be backed at [3.3]...
Published: 26 Apr 2011
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