United favourites for repeat success: football betting

After winning the third European title in their history in Moscow on Tuesday night, Manchester United are now 6/1 favourites to win next season's Champions League. United took the lead against Chelsea through Cristiano Ronaldo, whose header was his 42nd goal in 49 matches this season. Frank Lampard replied hortly before half-time to send the sides in level and despite a late Didier Droga effort hitting the post and then Lampard finding the crossbar in extra-time the teams stayed locked together and the match was decided by penalties. On Betfair, Chelsea traded at a low of 1.13 to lift the Champions League trophy during the penalty shoot-out. That price was matched after Chelsea went 4-3 up following Ronaldo's miss, and they were 1.18 when their captain John Terry stepped up with the chance to seal the trophy for the Stamford Bridge side. However he hit the post and United went onto claim the title after Nicolas Anelka's penalty was comfortably saved by Edwin Van der Sar. Sir Alex Ferguson, who becomes only the third ever British manager to win the European Cup more than once (alongside Brian Clough and Bob Paisley), revealed it was the first big penalty shoot-out that a side under his control had won "It is a fantastic achievement. That is the first shoot-out I've won in a big game," said the United boss. "I thought we were fantastic in the first half and should have been three or four up and they got a lucky break right on half-time. It gave them an impetus because I thought they were the better team in the second half, they had more power than us." The outcome may have ben different had Drogba not been sent off in extra-time for a petulant slap of a United player and the striker is now 4/7 to have played his last game for Chelsea and 5/4 that he will be at Stamford Bridge next season. The odds on Avram Grant still be ing in charge are even shorter as it is 2/5 that the Champions League was his last game as Chelsea boss and 7/4 that he'll start next season as manager. It's 10/11 that there will be a British winner of the Champions League again next season - and 11/2 that it will again be an all-British final.