Champions league odds from bwin
This week it is time for the”second half” to play their fist matches in the knock out stage in Champions League. A new adjustment for this years tourney is that UEFA has chosen to split the knockout stage games into two weeks witch means less matches every day but more matches for us who love too see football on TV.
Last week we had four matches played and one of these matches ended pretty surprisingly according to me and the odds that the betting-company’s predictions. The result I am talking about is Lyon vs. Real Madrid 1 – 0. The odds for a home win in that match was over 3.50 and even though I gave Lyon good chances to manage a draw I could not see them winning. This also means that Real Madrid has to win with a two goal margin in the re-match in Santiago Bernabeu if they want to go trough.
The other results where more predictable; AC Milan vs. Manchester United 2 – 3, Porto vs. Arsenal 2 – 1 and B Munchen vs. Fiorentina 2 – 1. Compared to the odds all the three winners, besides Lyon, where favourites.
This week it will be played two matches on Tuesday and two matches on Wednesday just as last week. In this text I will focus on Tuesday’s matches. As usual I will present the the odds for these matches and give you my best bettingtips. the odds are picked from bwin-champions-league-betting.
Olympiakos Pireus 2.75 X 3.05 Girondins de Bordeaux 2.55
VfB Stuttgart 5.00 X 3.90 FC Barcelona 1.60
And here is my bettingtips for these two matches and odds:
VfB Stuttgart vs. FC Barcelona, away win @ 1.60 in odds
The German side Stuttgart will not repeat last year’s success in the German league, Bundesliga. At the moment they are placed ninth in the league and are not close to be involved in the top. Stuttgart has whole 18 points up to Bayer Leverkusen and Bayern Munchen at the top of the table.
One of the reasons why they are that far behind the league top might bee that they dropped many points earlier and their squad is not good enough to combine Champions League and at the same time perform well enough in the league.
They have better results lately, but to be honest they have had a pretty easy schedule in these games. Their home stats will not frighten Barcelona since they only have won four matches at home in twelve games. Even compared to earlier results in Champions League I think that they have been lucky. As I see it Stuttgart was drawn into an easy group with Sevilla, Unirea and Glasgow. Still they just managed to go trough in the last round and where close being knock out already in the group phase.
For example Sevilla won easy against Stuttgart away with 1 – 3. And Barcelona is way better then Sevilla as I see it.
Barcelona is in the top of Primera division that’s impressive since Real Madrid bought some of the best players in the world before this season. In their last league match they even rested some of their key players just to spare them to this game. Barcelona impressed very much on me in their group stage and has a way better team then Stuttgart. Barcelona has every key player available for this game and I am pretty sure that their manager Pep Guardiola will play with his best team. With players like Valdes in goal, Dani Alves, Piqué, Márquez, Puyol, Maxwell, Milito as defenders, Xavi, Iniesta, Busquets, Yaya Touré on the midfield and Zlatan, Messi, Henry, Bojan, Pedro on the attacking line I keep Barcelona as big favourites in this game.
Even though many teams might feel satisfied with a draw away in a first knock out match I don’t see that Barcelona will play for a draw here. And without underestimation Barcelona should win this game. So my first bettingtips goes to Barcelona today and 1.60 is an okay odds on that bet. Even the bet on half time / full time 2 / 2 feels good to better odds.
Olympiakos vs. Bordeaux, bettingtips: draw @ 3.05 in odds
I expect a tight game here and with not too many goals. Bordeaux is the better team but it is always tough to play away in Greece. All the Greek teams have fanatic crowds and that puts high pressure on the referee.
Bordeaux as one of the teams that impressed much on me in the group stage and they managed to win their group before top clubs like B Munchen and Milan. They didn’t only win the group but even played well in all the games. For example they beat B Munchen away and played 0 – 0 against Juventus away.
The odds in this game is pretty even and the betting company’s (bwin in this case) that they think this is a hard game to predict the outcome of. I agree with that and think that if any team will win this game it will be with an odd goal. But my best bettingtips in this game is that Bordeaux will play for a draw. So I bet draw here for an odds just over 3 times the investment.
Good Luck with your champions league betting
/Amrish
