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Capables du meilleur comme du pire, les Gones surprennent et décontenancent plus d'un observateur... Ce mercredi les Gones devront être dans un bon jour pour pouvoir valider le ticket pour les huitièmes de finale de la Ligue des Champions. Le plus dur étant déjà fait, on ne voit pas comment les Lyonnais pourrait gâcher l'occasion de renouer avec la phase finale de la plus prestigieuse des compétitions, compétition au cours de laquelle les Lyonnais ont si souvent brillé par le passé. Pour renouer avec ces beaux souvenirs et s'en forger de nouveau, l'OL doit pouvoir être en mesure de récolter au minimum un point au cours de cette rencontre, délocalisée à Kiev, contre le Shakhtar.

Save for who tops the pile, this group has already been settled, with Ajax and Bayern set to advance to the second round. Two points separate them, with Bayern at the top on 13 points and only need a draw, to get the psychological edge of meeting a ‘weaker’ team in the second round.
Bayern have scored two or more goals in each of their last six matches and in 10 of their last 11. Ajax on the other hand, have been in great form both domestically and in Europe. They head to this game on five straight wins and unbeaten in 15 matches, where they have won 13 games.
At home, in the Champions League, Ajax are unbeaten in eight and have won each of the last five. Ajax have scored two or more goals in four of their last five Champions League home matches and they have clean sheets in four of the last five at home. They have scored 12 and conceded once in the last five Champions League home matches.
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The final matchday in Group F brings a qualifying showdown, as Ligue 1 side Lyon head for Ukraine. They’re looking to secure a top-two finish with a result at Shakhtar Donetsk, with the pair just two points apart. The visitors have put themselves onto seven points after a good campaign, which hasn’t quite been enough to match Manchester City. Despite that, Lyon still have a chance to join the Premier League champions in the next round, as long as they can see off the job here.

For Shakhtar, the task is pretty simple. They need a win in this trip, or else they’re heading for the Europa League. It’s certainly been entertaining for the Ukrainian Premier League leaders so far, who have seen their fair share of goals. They needed a dramatic 3-2 win at Hoffenheim last time out to stay in the race for the last 16, and they’ll be hoping that spirit can take them to success over Lyon in Wednesday’s big finale.

The visitors are unbeaten to date, and if they can keep that up then second spot is theirs. The visitors know they’ve blown so many chances to make the next round, given their high number of draws. They conceded late goals in their last three games, with equalisers in added time (twice) and one in the 83rd minute costing them. Just one of those games could have pushed them through to the next round had they held on, but Lyon have come up short.

However, it was the Ligue 1 outfit who had the fightback when these two went head to head. In the meeting between Lyon and Shakhtar on MD2 this season, the French club came from 0-2 down to secure a draw, thanks to goals from Moussa Dembele and Léo Dubois that came just one minute and 59 seconds apart. That quick fightback kept their unbeaten record, and set them on the path to the last 16. To slip up now would be a real blow, but it wouldn’t be a surprise in which a high scoring group.

So far, Lyon’s least exciting game was a 2-1 win at Man City. Since then, they’ve had three 2-2 draws and a 3-3 away to Hoffenheim. The same goes for the hosts, who shipped nine goals in their two clashes with City. In two home games, Shakhtar have let in five goals. With Lyon in high scoring form (57% of their away Ligue 1 games have seen at least four goals) we’re going for another great game. I am backing BTTS here and another 2-2.

Viktoria Plzen’s first win of the campaign came in their last match, against CSKA Moscow.
Roma on the other hand, have nine points, three behind group leaders Real Madrid and having slipped to eighth place in the Serie A, they will want to save their best players for the more demanding league action with the clash against Juventus in the horizon. Roma are winless in their last four matches, including a 0 – 2 home loss to Real Madrid in their last Champions League game. They have conceded twice in each of the last three matches and have no clean sheet in eight matches.
Roma looks beatable in Plzen.

Who knows what team Unai Emery will play but it's important to keep this unbeaten run going. He may well play Alexandre Lacazette just to give him a game and Granit Xhaka might come back in.
I'd like him to play young Eddie Nketiah again and all the young boys should really play and be given a chance - they played last time and I think Emery will play the kids - and the kids will win this.

Source: Sky Sports