Back Bayern Munich to grind it out in Athens

BT Sport 1, 5.55pm Tuesday

Bayern Munich ended a worrying four-match winless run with a 3-1 victory at Wolfsburg, despite a red card for Arjen Robben, and they are hot favourites to follow up with a Champions League win at AEK Athens.

They let down plenty of accas last time out in Group E, drawing 1-1 at home to Ajax, but AEK are bottom of the section after a 3-0 defeat in Amsterdam and a 3-2 home loss to Benfica, who played half the game with ten men.

The Greeks have won five of their first seven league games but look out of their depth in Europe’s top competition and may seek to do a spoiling job against a Bayern side who look far from fluent under new boss Niko Kovac.

Bayern pocketed the points in Portugal with a 2-0 victory over Benfica on matchday one and Kovac’s men should also grind it out in Greece.

Recommendation
Bayern Munich to win & under 3.5 goals
1pt 6-5 Betway, BoyleSports

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Team news
AEK
Christos Albanis is injured and Helder Lopes and Marko Livaja are suspended.

Bayern Munich
Rafinha and Jerome Boateng are back but Franck Ribery is out.

Key stat
Robert Lewandowski has scored ten goals for Bayern this season – nine away from the Allianz Arena.

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