5 Tips for Tuesday’s Champions League Qualifiers - 2/8/22

On Tuesday night, Benfica hosts FC Midtjylland at the Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica in the Champions League qualifiers with the Liga NOS side coming in as favourites.

A player to look out for here could be Ukrainian striker Roman Yarremchuk who found his feat in European competitions last season, as he scored three times in the Champions League against Dynamo Kyiv, Ajax and Liverpool. The Ukrainian forward will be looking to get off the mark this season following a disappointing first campaign in Portugal.

Next up sees FC Sheriff and Viktoria Plzen go head to head in what could be an entertaining encounter.

Sheriff managed to scrape through by two 1-0 aggregate scorelines against Zrinjski and Maribor, whilst Plzen have been free-scoring at the start of their campaign, hammering Helsinki 7-1 on aggregate and drawing 2-2 with Teplice in the Czech Liga last time out.

AS Monaco versus PSV is arguably the tie of the round as far as Champions League qualifiers go, with both teams expecting to make it through to the group stage draw.

Wissam Ben Yedder will be looking to carry on the superb goalscoring form that saw him find the back of the net 25 times in 37 Ligue 1 fixtures last season.

On the other hand, Guus Til managed a superb hat-trick for Ruud van Nistelrooy’s side at the weekend as they beat Ajax 5-3 in the Johan Cruijff Shield. The former Feyenoord man will be looking to build on the 21 goals he managed for the De Kuip side last season.

Last season’s runners-up in the Belgian Pro League and Scottish Premiership face off on Tuesday night in what could be a fascinating encounter.

The home side have picked up four points from their opening two league matches following a 1-1 draw with Sint-Truiden and a 1-0 victory against Sporting Charleroi, whilst Rangers beat Livingston 2-1 thanks to goals by Scott Arfield and James Tavernier.

Gers right-back Tavernier managed to score 18 times in 58 matches and is priced at 5/1 to score when his side travels to Belgium.

The final tip on this list comes from Ludogorets against Dinamo Zagreb which could be an entertaining tie to say the least.

Ludogorets managed to see off Shamrock Rovers 4-2 on aggregate in the last round, whilst Zagreb beat Shkupi 3-2 on aggregate, meaning that there could potentially be plenty of goals here.

The Bulgarian outfit had 11 corners and received eight yellow cards across two matches with Shamrock, whilst Zagreb had 14 corners and six yellow cards against Shkupi across the two legs.