Tuesday's Champions League Betting Preview PT 1

The top quality football is coming nearly every day now it seems with a fascinating weekend of action behind us and a new slate of Champions League fixtures on the plate for today. We are now in the second round of the knockout stages and a few teams have plenty of obstacles to overcome thanks to relatively underwhelming performances in the first leg. 

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One fixture that definitely seems to be still on the table is the Atletico Madrid vs Bayer Leverkusen match-up that kicks off this evening. Atletico were widely tipped as a bit of a wise guy selection to win the Champions League this year and they will need to overturn a 1-0 deficit against the German side - who were considerable underdogs in their first leg match-up. There was lots to like about that performance and they will come in here with confidence despite the Vicente Calderon Stadium being a tough place to visit. 

Regardless, Atletico are favoured to get the result here with the bookmakers pricing them at a slim 4/5 price tag to get the outright victory over 90 minutes. Bayer Leverkusen can be backed at a 15/4 price while the draw is trading at a competitive 13/5 price. 

Interestingly enough, the bookmakers consider Bayer Leverkusen to be the favourites to progress to the next stage of the competition despite being the underdogs here and only being 1-0 up. They are trading at an 8/15 price tag to progress to the next round while punters will find the Spanish hosts priced out at around 11/8 right now to ensure qualification. 

Mario Mandzukic gets the edge for Atletico in the goalscorer markets with a 4/1 price tag to score first or last and a 5/4 price to grab an any time goal. Fernando Torres is just a notch behind him and is listed at 9/2 to score first or last and 8/5 to score any time.