American sports fans would tell you right now that we are in a dull, meaningless period of sports. The gap between football and baseball is far from anyone’s favorite time of year. But if you look across the Atlantic, sports fandom is at its absolute peak.

The UEFA Champions League presents us with an unorthodox concept in which we see the best soccer teams from an entire continent competing with each other. This coming week in the Champions League will definitely not disappoint.

We will see German Giants in Bayern Munich take on the Merseyside Reds, Liverpool in what should be a high flying, offensive game with Anfield at its absolute best. Both teams have themselves in a dog fight of a title race in their domestic leagues. Last year’s finalist, Liverpool, is a much improved team since their run last year. Their achilles heel, Loris Karius, was replaced by Allison Becker on a whopping $66 million that, to be quite frank, has been absolutely worth it.

Bayern Munich is a team that looks like they are going back into their typical form. Bayern was not strong in the start of the season as they dropped as low as 7th in the table. Since then they have really come back into form and have cut the title race down to just three points behind pesky and youthful Borussia Dortmund, currently in 1st place. In this game, I think Bayern will be extremely disciplined and sound, but a team with world class strikers such as Mane, Firmino and Salah is too much for anyone. I predict Liverpool pulling out a 2-1 win that send the fans home happy and Bayern going back to Munich with an away goal.