December 6th results:
Streakhelp's Pick- Utah State: Win (63-54)
Streakhelper's record for month 1-0
Christian's Pick- Valencia W,D, Lose by 1: Loss (0-3)
Christian's record for the month 10-7
Ryan's record for the month- 8-1
Combined record for December- 19-8
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Christian's Picks
1. @ Manchester City: Win
This is going to be a great game! Here are the situations: City needs a win here at home and also, some help is needed by Villareal to take away some points from Napoli or else any win against Bayern Munchen will be pointless. Bayern Munchen will most likely not be starting their best club, seeing as how they have already advanced and have nothing to worry about. The risk of possible injury outweighs the want of winning this game to eliminate a dangerous opponent in Man City. If Bayern Munchen starts Neuer in goal, this will be a much more difficult match for Man City to pull out a win in. Manchester City is favored to win at 58.5% and this is seriously the first time I have ever seen arguably the best team in the world, Bayern Munchen, have the Draw option on SFTC. I still think that Man City will win and give themselves the best chance they have to advance and just hope for some sort of fix to be in place because according to the Napoli chairman, "I can feel strange things going on surrounding the Villarreal game - princes and sheikhs are getting agitated.". So Man City will win 3-1 with Aguero and Dzeko netting one each.
2. @ FC Basel: Win, Draw, Lose by 1
Manchester United needs a draw to advance past the group stages. Javier Hernandez and Dimitar Berbatov are out injured but Wayne "Wonder Goal" Rooney will be playing of course. FC Basel actually drew United 3-3 at Old Trafford which is impressive enough to draw, but throw in the fact that they scored three goals on them and it adds up to a pretty impressive result. This match is at home for FC Basel and United will be happy with a draw here, at most a one-goal win. FC Basel will definitely want to spoil United's chances just like the horrific accident in Portugal against Benfica six years ago where they were eliminated in group stages. Manchester United is only 57.8% to win by only one so this gives me confidence that FC Basel can cover -1.5.... This will end in a 2-2 Draw.
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