Champions League Semi Final Betting Tips PT 2
- By A.J. Ryder on May 12, 2015 15:38 GMT
There will certainly be a hint of pride at stake here for Pep Guardiola and you reckon that he’ll come out with a few tricks up his team’s sleeve. If they can grab an early goal then it’s truly game on here.
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Right now, the bookmakers have Barcelona priced as short as 1/50 to progress to the next stage via any means. That’s a pretty significant gulf when you think that their overall price to win this match remains at 13/8. The value is entirely on Bayern Munich and you can back the German side at a very solid 12/1 price that would probably drop to 4/1 if they can grab a goal in the first 20 minutes of the match.
It’s obviously worth remembering that Bayern lost their opening leg match 3-1 against lowly Porto and then stormed back with an awe-inspiring 6-1 rout in the second leg and that goal from Porto came when they were already well-beaten.
Taking a look at the correct score market, you’ll see that the bookmakers fancy a 1-1 draw, which trades at a 7/1 price while a 2-1 result to Barcelona is a 9/1 shout. The much-needed 3-0 for Bayern, which would see us through to extra time and potentially penalties, is a 28/1 shot. A 4-0 rout would put Bayern and the punters on cloud nine since it pays out at an impressive 66/1.
No players in the match are odds-on to score but you’ll find Robert Lewandowski as the favoured Bayern Munich player with a solid 7/5 price tag while Thomas Muller can be backed any time at a straight 6/4 price tag. Lionel Messi will always be a popular option and he’s trading at a 23/20 price tag with his counterpart Luis Suarez priced just behind him at 17/10.
The key to this fixture seems to be understanding whether Bayern will simply win a tepid match and not progress or whether this will be a truly swashbuckling fixture with all the excitement we could expect from, arguably, Europe’s top two teams at the exact moment?
