Champions League Betting Preview

There’s plenty to like about today’s upcoming fixture between Liverpool and Barcelona even though it looks as though the Catalan club were able to put the tie to rest during the first leg of the contest last week. They come into this match-up with a 3-0 margin and appear to have the tie virtually locked up after a stellar performance from Lionel Messi.

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The bookmakers consider Barcelona to be a virtual certainty to move through to the next stage of the competition but for tonight’s contest on a stand-alone basis there appears to be little to separate the two sides.

As it currently stands, punters will find that the majority of major European bookmakers appear to be favouring the likes of Liverpool to pick up a victory in tonights fixture. Barcelona could ship two goals and still be comfortably set for an appearance in the final.

To face the facts though, we all know that if there is any team that could overturn this deficit it would probably be Liverpool.

They have a pretty lengthy track record of pulling off epic comebacks in Europe and this would be a massive feather in the cap of a club who are pushing all the way to the Champions League and have the English Premier League going down to the final day - even though they are still favoured to mathematically finish trophyless this season.

You’ll find that Liverpool tend to trade around a 6/4 or 13/8 price tag with a number of major bookmakers while Barcelona tend to trade at a fairly similar price. The draw is available around a 29/10 margin and that would obviously be an ideal result for Barcelona.