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Monaco come into this match with a strong upper-hand in the head-to-head. They have lost only 1 of their last 11 matches against Rennes, in all competitions.
Rennes will still be on a high following their French cup final victory over PSG. They came from 2-0 down to tie the game. Kylian Mbappé, of PSG, then lost his head, in extra time, with a high and dangerous tackle to receive a red card. In the shoot-out, it was Ismaila Sarr who slammed in the winning penalty to give Rennes their first trophy in almost fifty years.
However, Les Rouges et Noirs` league form hasn`t been so hot. They have gone 6 games without a win, in Ligue 1. 
Monaco`s away form is little better, having won just 1 of their last 8 matches on their travels.

Missing players:

Stade Rennais: Jordan Siebatcheu (Thigh Problems), Ludovic Baal (Hamstring Injury), Romain Danzé (Knee Surgery), Rafik Guitane (Cruciate Ligament Rupture)
Monaco: Willem Geubbels (Hamstring Injury), Georges-Kevin N’Koudou (Hamstring Injury), Stevan Jovetic (Ruptured cruciate ligament)

In their last five matchups, both teams have scored.

 

When these two teams meet high scoring affair, always in store. Pieno zvaigzdes are second worst defensive team in the league, they are allowing 87.3 points per game, they have 7 games losing streak coming into this match. Over that 7 games losing streak, on the defensive side of the ball, they're allowing 90.4 points per game, while their offensive stats fallen apart just scoring 75,3 points, while their avarage is 82.3 ppg. Home team Lietkabelis, have balanced offensive and defense, on offense they are avaraging 82.6 points, on defense they are allowing 78.9 points. These teams have met this season 5 times, and this over was hit 3 of those times. The last two matchup were very high scoring (104:79 and 104:99). All season Pieno Zvaigzdes is offensive minded team, their defensive didn't improve at all, they shoot a lot of threes, running a lot on a fast break, so it's easy choice for me, GOOD LUCK.

Reilly Opelka looked good in his first round win over Pedro Sousa. I thought the more experienced player would win, but Opelka showed that he can compete on this surface. He’ll now face fan favorite Gael Monfils, who was having one of the best seasons in his career before getting hurt. Monfils has learned not to rush back from injury at this stage in his career, so I don’t think he’ll be playing hurt. Monfils might be a step slow in the beginning, but he should win here.
Opelka has certainly got a chance with that serve, but Monfils is no slouch on the service line either, and the clay court somewhat evens them out in that department. Add to that the other qualities Monfils bring to the table- athleticism and shot-making especially- and he heads into this one as a clear favourite. The biggest worry would be rustiness, as he has not played in over a month, but if he can shake off the early cobwebs, he should be too good for Opelka.

Team news:

Tottenham

Son Heung-min is a major loss as he sits this game out due to suspension, with Serge Aurier, Harry Winks, Erik Lamela, and Harry Kane all ruled out due to injury. Moussa Sissoko faces a late fitness test.

Ajax:

Noussair Mazraoui should be fit to play after recovering from the ankle injury he sustained in the second leg against Juventus, leaving reserve players Hassane Bande and Carel Eiting as the only absentees.


Tottenham i believe will score home goal it’s easy to call that, they are playing good football at home. Although Spurs have been strong and stingy at home, Ajax have scored 160 goals in all competitions this season and have bagged in ten straight Champions League games so if any team can register then it is the Dutch side. They're built perfectly to play in these away legs and are hugely dangerous in counter-attacking situations, so even though there's less urgency than in second leg away ties in the previous rounds they only play one way and that's to attack.
 

This match will be officiated by spanish referee A.M.Lahoz. He offiaciated fives games in the Champions League, his avaraged fouls call per game is 18,6. It’s worth to mention, that he worked in some games, where match winner was clear favorites to win the match (Tottenham-Dortmund; Liverpool-Porto; Zvezda-Liverpool), so there was not much to call fouls.  This match is very important for both clubs, I believe this would be defensive and not very pretty game to watch, with a lot of fouls. Tottenham this season is commiting 13,5 fouls per game, and they draw 9,2 fouls per game. Ajax this season are commiting 13,7 fouls per game, and they draw 13,3 fouls per game. Looking to these stats I think fouls over is a very decent pick, so good luck.

Frances Tiafoe is looking to pick up his first clay win of 2019 after losing in the first round of the Barcelona Open to Jaume Munar. Tiafoe has done well on clay in the past including a finals appearance last year in Estoril. Kukushkin is typically a tough opponent to face, but I like the American’s chances to advance to the second round. They met once on hard court at Australian open Tiafoe winned that match 3:1.

Molleker is 18-years-old and he is 157th in the ATP Ranking. He has been playing mainly at Challengers lately. His record on clay this year is 7:4. Rudolf Molleker has been awarded a main draw wildcard by ATP Munich, which will allow the teenager to make his main draw debut in this tournament as well as to play his first main draw match in an ATP World Tour event this year. So he is young and inexpierenced player. 
On the other hand we have M.Copil he is 79th in the ATP Ranking. He started his clay court season last week at Barcelona, and where he put in a strong fight against a solid clay-courter in Leonardo Mayer before going down in three sets, 3-6 7-6 5-7. M.Copil is in a poor form right now, is yet to win back-to-back matches so far in 2019, has been far from his convincing in the recent weeks and is currently winless in six matches on the main tour. 

Rudolf Molleker is a solid player on clay and has got the ability to take advantage of the Romanian's recent poor form. I'm backing in this match M.Copil to win this match, because he is more experienced player, played much more matches at ATP level, than his young opponent.