2009 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE BETTING PREVIEW FROM PADDY POWER
Bookie can't split United and Barcelona in the betting. But punters are lumping on United - 70% of Paddy Power 90 minute match bets on United. Berbatov's odds cut for penalty shoot out miss. The Bulgarian bottler is 15/8 from 11/5 following his fears of an FA Cup semi-final repeat.
Vidic second most popular first scorer bet after Ronaldo. United 2-1 and 3-1 most popular 90 minutes scores (followed by that 4-4 scoreline!). Tyldesley's first cliché 10/1 to be "That night in Barcelona". Punters choose own Money-Back Special. Ronaldo 13/5 to miss again in penalty shootout.
Messi & Ronaldo are in a betting battle for world and CL final supremacy!
Late, Late Show
Paddy Power has declared its Money-Back Special for the Champions League Final between Manchester United and Barcelona after giving customers the unique power to decide the offer they wanted to run on the game. Amongst the six options available to vote in the paddypower.com poll the winning refund received 32% of the votes.
Darren Haines, spokesman for the bookie, said: "As punters know, there is nothing worse than sitting on a winning bet only for it to be snatched from your grasp by a last minute goal. It seems they have chosen this particular Money-Back as an insurance to ease any pain."
Terms & Conditions: Applies to 1st/last goalscorer and correct score singles placed before kick-off only. Max Refund €300/£200 per customer/bet. Paddy Power football rules apply.
Outright
17/10 Man Utd
11/5 Draw
17/10 Barcelona
To Lift The Cup
10/11 Man Utd
10/11 Barcelona
To Win in Extra Time
9/1 Man Utd
9/1 Barcelona
To Win On Penalties
17/2 Man Utd
17/2 Barcelona
PADDY POWER SPECIALS
11/5 Match to go to Extra-time
11/2 Match to go to penalty shooutout
Paddy Power's Commentary Clichés
Clive "Man Utd" Tyldesley may just have been waiting ten years for this. Having famously referred to "that night in Barcelona" ever since 1999, United now play the very team in this year's Champions League Final. But what will be Clive's first cliché from Paddy Power's famous betting list and will he be able to resist uttering his well worn 10/1 shot?
ITV's 1st Commentary Cliché during the match
6/1 Darren Fletcher
7/1 The defending champions
10/1 That night in Barcelona
12/1 Gladiators
14/1 What a goal!
12/1 100 goals
16/1 He's missed it!
14/1 He'll be disappointed with that
14/1 One of his stepovers
16/1 Nervous moments
16/1 There's danger here
16/1 United always score
16/1 End to end stuff
16/1 Fizzed just wide
16/1 Two footballing giants
16/1 The neutrals final
16/1 The greatest manager in the history of British football
20/1 He's gone down a little easily there
20/1 Stuff of dreams
20/1 The best player in the world
20/1 That night against Barcelona
20/1 Squeaky bum time
20/1 Emperor of Rome
25/1 Hero of the night
25/1 Villain of the piece
25/1 He is human after all
25/1 At the end of the day
25/1 First to retain the trophy in the Champions League era
25/1 Total football
28/1 Roman coliseum
33/1 A clumsy challenge by Scholes
40/1 Balmy, balmy night
40/1 Off their perch
50/1 Fergie's looking at his watch
66/1 There's Sir Bobby
66/1 Football, bloody hell
First Premier League Team mentioned by the ITV commentators during the match
2/1 Chelsea
2/1 Arsenal
7/2 Liverpool
4/1 Hull
7/1 ManchesterCity
18/1 Everton
18/1 Newcastle
18/1 Sunderland
18/1 Middlesbrough
Others on request
Ronaldo v Messi
World Player of the Year
1/3 Messi
4/1 Ronaldo
20/1 Iniesta
25/1 Rooney
66/1 Vidic
First to shoot on target
8/15 Ronaldo
11/8 Messi
First to score
4/5 Ronaldo
10/11 Messi
First to be fouled
5/6 Ronaldo
5/6 Messi
To be fouled the most
5/6 Ronaldo
5/6 Messi
He's gone down a little easily there - First player to receive physio's attention on the pitch
10/1 Messi
12/1 Iniesta
12/1 Xavi
14/1 Henry
16/1 Toure
16/1 Keita
16/1 Pique
16/1 Sylvinho
8/1 Ronaldo
16/1 Berbatov
16/1 Vidic
16/1 Ferdinand
16/1 Tevez
16/1 Scholes
16/1 Rooney
Others available
Penalty Shootouts - Hero or Villain?
Ronaldo and John Terry both missed their shootout penalties last year at 11/4 and 2/1, respectively. If it goes to penalties again, who will be the fall guy this time?
Barcelona
Score
Miss
Man Utd
Score
Miss
Messi
Ronaldo
Iniesta
Rooney
Xavi
Tevez
Henry
Park
Carrick
Toure
Giggs
Keita
Scholes
Pique
Berbatov
Puyol
Ferdinand
Others available
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE MATCH MARKETS
Correct Scores (90 mins)
UEFA Official Man of the Match
7/2 Messi
10/1 Iniesta
10/1 Xavi
10/1 Henry
25/1 Toure
25/1 Puyol
33/1 Pique
5/1 Ronaldo
15/2 Rooney
12/1 Berbatov
14/1 Tevez
14/1 Scholes
14/1 Giggs
20/1 Vidic
20/1 Ferdinand
20/1 Carrick
Others available
First Goalscorers
7/1 Messi
8/1 Henry
10/1 Bojan
12/1 Iniesta
16/1 Gudjohnsen
18/1 Xavi
25/1 Hleb
25/1 Keita
33/1 Busquets
40/1 Toure
40/1 Pique
66/1 Sylvinho
66/1 Puyol
15/2 No Scorer e/w odds 1/3 places 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
6/1 Ronaldo
15/2 Rooney
8/1 Berbatov
9/1 Tevez
12/1 Macheda
20/1 Giggs
20/1 Park
22/1 Scholes
25/1 Vidic
28/1 Carrick
33/1 Anderson
40/1 Ferdinand
50/1 Evans
66/1 Evra
Number of Team Goals
Barca
Man Utd
None
One
Two
Three
Four
HT Lead & Fail To Win
17/2 Barcelona
17/2 Man Utd
Clean Sheet
23/10 Barcelona
21/10 Man Utd
To Win To Nil
7/2 Barcelona
10/3 Man Utd
To Come From Behind
13/1 Barcelona to come from behind and win
11/2 Barcelona to come from behind and draw
11/1 Man Utd to come from behind and win
11/2 Man Utd to come from behind and draw