Tuesday Champions League Betting Preview Pt 2

The Manchester United vs Bayern Munich fixture is likely to be the more talked about match of the day with many people likely to tune in out of a perverse feeling that United really could get smashed by last year’s Champions League winners. There isn’t too much hope to cling too if you’re David Moyes and the tone he has used with the media has been of the “just happy to be here” variety, which certainly doesn’t sound like the Manchester United of the Sir Alex Ferguson era when he would have been declaring that the side had every intention of actually winning the contest itself. How times have changed. 

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You’ll find Bayern Munich trading at a 1.50 price tag to get the result at Old Trafford in the opening leg of the contest. United have seldom traded at prices of 6.0, especially at home in Europe, but they will find themselves there today with the draw weighing in at a 4.5 margin and looking like something United would take before the match kicked off, that’s for sure. 

When examining the odds for outright qualification you will really get an idea of just how heavily-favoured the German side really are. They trade at a 1.11 margin while Manchester United are a full 6.0 to progress through to the semi finals of the 2013/14 Champions League. 

You can lock in a titanic 23.0 price on United to come from behind in the match and win - something that would certainly be worth the price as stranger things have happened in the Champions League. However, it really does go to show you how up against it United really is. You reckon that if they had Robin Van Persie fit and in-form for this match-up that they would stand a much better chance as he would be able to hit them on the break and potentially sneak a quickfire strike. 

It looks like the task will fall to Wayne Rooney once again as the England man goes through another one of his purple patches. Capped off by his stellar strike against West Ham from the halfway line, he has shown that United won’t finish the season as poorly as they started and that they may remain a force to be reckoned with in European competition. 

Wayne Rooney is priced at an enticing 3.0 to grab a goal at any point in the match and he’s the most favoured United player to score - behind four or five Bayern Munich players in the anytime market. WIth Arjen Robben declaring that United are not the easy opponents that the media are making them out to be, you get the feeling that there may still be a few twists and turns in this big fixture.