Champions league semi-final second leg, 7.45pm, ITV1, bet here
[Editor’s note: chickendinner sends out a free daily email every Monday to Friday packed with winning tips. Yesterday, for example, the Daily Wager tipped Adebayor to get a hat-trick against Derby at 16/1. Click here to sign up.]“Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose,” was the opinion of Kris Kristofferson in 1969, the year he wrote Me and Bobby McGee. Barcelona find themselves tonight meditating on how to best describe the sensation of being down to the felt, and freedom is probably not how they would put it. “Beyond depressing” might be a closer fit. Their season has been so abysmal that their best player has given up on the football in order to better focus on getting more out of his nightlife, and the club seems to have covered his tracks for him. It is as if Cristiano Ronaldo had taken a six-month sabbatical to work on his orgying with Ferguson’s blessing. Still, “nothing left to lose” sounds like a much more attractive recipe for success than “stretched tighter than a snare drum”, which is where United seem to be mentally. What state of mind do you have to be in to pick a fight with a group of security guards armed with lawn mowers? Whatever United have left to lose, it feels like they are already losing it. Barcelona to go through.The statistics* Manchester Utd have now gone five games in a row without beating Barcelona, and the Spaniards are unbeaten in their last seven Champions League away games.* Manchester Utd haven’t kept a clean








