Football Bet of the Day: Full speed ahead for Yellow Submarine

Villarreal v Viktoria Plzen
Thursday 20:05 (Live on BT Sport Extra)

In the end, Benfica rolled all over the Mattress Makers last night, coming from behind to win 2-1 at the Vicente Calderon.

Perhaps Villarreal, who also just happened to beat Atletico Madrid as recently as last weekend, are more reliable. The Yellow Submarine have risen to the top of La Liga with five wins and a draw so far this season, but Marcelino's men lost their first Europa League outing of the season in Austria. So they could use a victory tonight and, having won 27/34 Uefa Cup/Europa League home games since 2003, we'd expect them to grab all three points.

The more interesting price is on Over 2.5 Goals, however. Since late 2010, 11/11 European nights at El Madrigal have delivered at least three match goals.

Viktoria Plzen can do their bit to help another one over the line tonight: the Czech champs have scored on 19/21 European away trips since late 2011 - or 11/13 if you'd rather exclude qualifiers.

With Villarreal conceding at least once in 17/24 European home games, we make it Plzen to score, but the hosts to win. Which means there must be at least another three goals tonight.

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