AC Milan vs Celtic Prediction and Champions League Betting Tips

Wednesday evening sees the UEFA Champions League return for AC Milan and Scottish champions Celtic. After a sluggish start for Milan domestically, they will be hoping for better success in match day 1 of the European competition.

With a late effort against Torino at the weekend, Milan were fortunate to salvage a draw in a game that they never really had a grasp on and didn’t really deserve the point. They cannot afford to start slowly against a Celtic side who have won 4 and drawn 1 of their opening league fixtures albeit in a less competitive division. Confidence will be high in the Celtic dressing room and on away nights like these they have nothing to lose, coming in as the underdogs. AC Milan are the 8/15 favourites to win the match with Bet Victor, the draw is 7/2 and Celtic are 7/1 to pick up another faous Champions League win. Celtic may even prefer being the underdogs as there will be less pressure on them as all eyes will be on the AC Milan team who have superstars such as Mario Ballotelli and Robinho and favourites such as Kaka and El Shaarawy who have both been ruled out with injuries. Kaka’s guile and creativity along with the ability to make the killer pass will be sorely missed against a side that will surely play with a lot of men behind the ball so I don’t think this will be a high scoring game. The responsibility of the goals will be laid upon Mario Ballotelli for AC Milan who, when in form, is very, very difficult to stop. Celtic have a selection of goalscorers in their team such as Kris Commons and Anthony Stokes, who have both started the SPL season brightly scoring 4 goals each. The game plan for Celtic, I believe, will be looking for breaks on the counter attack so if they can get the ball up to Commons and/or Stokes effectively, then both strikers have the composure in front of goal to cause Milan some problems. However that may be difficult to break quickly with the injury of Scotland winger James Forrest who has had a very promising start to the season. Personally, I fancy a draw in this game as I think Celtic will be hard to break down and AC Milan haven’t lit up Serie A so far this season. Time will tell how AC Milan approach the game with the attacking talent they have at their disposal. AC Milan vs Celtic Betting Tips Under 2.5 goals - 10/11 Match draw - 7/2