Football Bet of the Day: Feyenoord set fair for another failure

Feyenoord v Shakhtar Donetsk
Tuesday 19:45 (Live on BT Sport Extra)

Bursaspor 3 Osmanlispor 1 in Turkey last night. A good evening's work for the Green Crocodiles, and we won't be shedding any tears for the visitors either.

In rather good spirits, in fact, we're off to the Netherlands for the other Champions League game from Manchester City's Group F.

To start their first Champions League group-stage campaign for 15 years, Giovanni van Bronckhorst's Feyenoord have conceded seven times in losing their first two games to City and Napoli. They've failed to score in either of their two Eredivisie home games since the start of last month and look very vulnerable this evening.

In stark contrast, visiting Shakhtar are in fine form - both domestically and in Europe. Paulo Fonseca's men are W20-D3-L0 on the road in Ukraine's Premier League since May last year. City beat the Miners at the Etihad recently but, travelling around the continent for last season's Europa League, they won 5/5.

Feyenoord, we believe, are more Europa than Champions League, and so we're backing the visitors to leave Rotterdam with all three points.

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Back Shakhtar Donetsk @ 2.206/5 to beat Feyenoord