Tonight is Champions League Matchday 3 and two of the storylines I’ve been following all week collide.
Arsenal are at home to Lille at the Emirates after a 2-1 win over Leeds kept my Last Man Standing pick alive. They're also firm favorites tonight and with the current form it's difficult to see past them continuing to build momentum in Europe like they have domestically.
The flip side to this story is Bayern Munich. Their trip to Viking FK is a nite to reassert themselves after that stunning 2-2 draw away at Augsburg last weekend. The odds say they should cruise, but so did the odds against Augsburg, and that one didn’t go to plan.
Elsewhere Barcelona travel to Galatasaray in what is usually a fiery European nite in Istanbul and Atletico Madrid host a United side that has been frustratingly inconsistent so far this season.
I’m more interested in Bayern tonight than anything else. A big response would calm a lot of nerves — another slip and the questions from the weekend just get louder.
