Prolific Paco Alcacer could pile more misery on Monaco

Champions League Group A
BT Sport Extra, 8pm Tuesday

This is a difficult match for punters with Monaco and Borussia Dortmund both having more important matters at hand than this virtual dead rubber.

Having lost control of who finishes first, Dortmund seem to have decided that Saturday's home league game against Werder Bremen is more important to them, which is fair enough given Lucien Favre's side are top of the Bundesliga.

• Champions League Group A standings

Jadon Sancho and Marco Reus are among those who are being saved for domestic matters, while injury-hit Monaco are fresh after their game was called off at the weekend but Thierry Henry would be wise to concentrate all of their efforts on the Ligue 1 fixture with Lyon.

Monaco, who have lost six of their last eight home games in all competitions, are in a desperate relegation battle and scored just four goals in their last seven outings.

Dortmund super-sub Paco Alcacer is averaging a goal every 36 minutes in the Bundesliga and can notch first.

Recommendation
P Alcacer first goalscorer
1pt 5-1 bet365

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Team news
Monaco
Nacer Chadli is a doubt and Jean-Eudes Aholou, Stevan Jovetic, Rony Lopes, Pietro Pellegri, Djibril Sidibe, Danijel Subasic, Almamy Toure and Adama Traore have been ruled out.

Borussia Dortmund
Marcel Schmelzer returns. Marco Reus, Thomas Delaney, Lukasz Piszczek, Jacob Bruun Larsen, Jadon Sancho and Axel Witsel have not travelled.

Key stat
Monaco have not won any of their last 13 Champions League matches.

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