Unirea Urziceni is hosting Liverpool at Burcharest tonight. Liverpool is looking to improve on the narrow 1-0 lead after the first leg tie at Anfield last week. Ladbrokes has Liverpool at 4/6 odds to win.
Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez said the Romanians are tough to crack and his players will not be able to rest on their laurels to get through. Unirea is strong defensively and plays with discipline, but will need to generate more offense than in past showings to keep up with Liverpool. Ladbrokes has Unirea at 7/2 odds and the draw at 23/10. Unirea has given up just six goals in nine games at home. Liverpool has scored only two away goals in seven league matches.
Fernando Torres is returning from injury for Livepool but is unlikely to start. The goal-scoring threat should come off the bench in some pivotal times during the match. David Ngog will take Torres’ place, but Torres can still be backed at 7/2 odds of scoring the opening goal. Ngog has 6/1 odds for the first goal. Liverpool needs this game to boost morale in what has been a somewhat disappointing season. The draw is very tempting in this one. It could be a toss-up between Unirea winning 1-0 or drawing 0-0.
Unirea can be backed at 5/1 with William Hill and the draw is 13/5 at Bet365. SkyBet also has Unirea at 7/2 odds. Bet365 is refunding losing correct score bets if the game is 0-0, so back 1-0 with Bet365 and back 0-0 at 9/1 with SkyBet. Under 2.5 goals looks almost definite so check out those 8/13 odds with Bet365 and 888Sport.
Stan James has this match as one of its First Goalscorer Moneyback Offers. Wager on who will be the first goalscorer and, if you lose, the bookmaker will refund your wager with a free bet. Liverpool’s leading goal scorers are Torres at 12 and Dirk Kuyt at 10. Ngog scored the winner at Anfield in the 81st minute.