Sixteen UEFA Champions League matches to bet on this week

The story in the Chelsea-Marseille faceoff will be who *isn’t* playing for the home side: Didier Drogba is suspended for the match, while Frank Lampard, Salomon Kalou and Yossi Benayoun are sidelined with injuries. Chelsea is still a huge -335 favorite at BetOnline, and the Blues are giving a 1.5-goal handicap.

Is Zlatan Ibrahimovic really “the best striker in the world”? His coach at Ajax Amsterdam (17/10) thinks so, and Ladbrokes says that he’s a 5/1 shot to score the first goal against AC Milan (8/5) – but they like Luis Suarez to be first goal scorer just as much.

Inter Milan suffered a 1-0 defeat to Roma on Sunday, so they’ll be looking to bounce back against Bremen. BetOnline says Inter’s a -160 favorite. Finally, the big guns meet when Man United goes to Valencia’s house: How tight will this one be? Man U has a line of +155 while Valencia has +150.

The entire schedule looks like so:

• Spartak Moscow vs. Zilina
• Basel vs. Bayern Munchen
• Roma vs. CFR Cluj
• Chelsea vs. Marseille
• Auxerre vs. Real Madrid
• Ajax vs. AC Milan
• Partizan Belgrade vs. Arsenal
• Braga vs. Shakhtar Donetsk
• Tottenham Spur vs. Twente
• Inter Milan vs. Bremen
• Hapoel Tel Aviv vs. Lyon
• Schalke vs. Benfica
• Valencia vs. Manchester United
• Rangers vs. Bursaspor
• Rubin vs. FC Barcelona
• Panathinaikos vs. Kobenhavn