The Champions League is nearing the end of the group stage, and we are getting ever closer to finding out who will make it through to the knockout stage and still be in with a chance of earning the right to call themselves the best team in Europe. In the following article, we are going to take a look at the odds of winning for the main contenders.
Betting Odds Champions League Winner: Who Are the Favourites to Win?
Manchester City are the favourites to win the Champions League with some of the biggest bookmakers such as Betway, 888sport, and William Hill having them at odds of 7/2 to go on to win the title. They made it to their first Champions League final last season but ended up losing to Premier League rivals Chelsea in a closely fought match. Their chances of winning were definitely increased when they bought Jack Grealish from Aston Villa for £100 million. He is one of the most talented footballers in the world at the moment, and is only going to get better. When you throw the likes of de Bruyne, Ruben Dias, Ederson, Bernado Silva, and Ilkay Gundogan, and Rodri into the mix, it is easy to see why the bookies have them as the favourites.
Bayern Munich are the second favourites to win, and this should not come as much of a surprise to anyone who has been watching them in the Champions League this season. They are in a group with Barcelona, Benfica, and Dynamo Kiev and they have destroyed all of them – they beat Barcelona 3-0, Dynamo Kyiv 5-0, and Benfica 4-0 and 5-2. In Robert Lewandowski, they have the competition’s top scorer. One thing is for sure and that is that nobody will want to face them in the knockout stage of the tournament. When it comes to Champions League betting, most of the best bookies, such as those found at mybettingsite.uk/football/champions-league/ have them at 3/1 to win the title.
PSG and Liverpool are the next favourites to lift the title at odds of 5/1 with the majority of bookies. The French giants are pretty much unstoppable in French domestic football, but they are yet to win the Champions League, which is the main trophy that they are after. They came close to winning in 2019/20, but were beaten by Bayern Munich in the final. With the likes of Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappe, Neymar, Marco Verrati, and Gianluigi Donnaruma, they will have a very good chance of finally getting their hand on the trophy. Liverpool have won this trophy six times, with their last victory coming in 2019, and will be confident of making it seven this year. They were drawn in the hardest group alongside AC Milan, Atletico Madrid, and Porto and have already qualified for the knockout stages quite convincingly. In the form of Mohammad Salah, Sadio Mane, and Diogo Jota, they have an attack that will give opposition defences nightmares.
Chelsea come in as fifth favourites to defend their title with many bookies offering Champions League odds of 15/2. The Blues have all but qualified for the knockout stages, but they will be looking to overtake Juventus at the top of the table so that they have a more favourable draw in the knockout stages. They will be looking to their summer signing of Romelu Lukaku to keep banging in the goals, and that is something that we definitely would not bet against. When he is on form, there are not many defenders who can live with him.
Champions League Betting Odds Winner: A Look at the Outsiders
Manchester United have odds of 15/1 to go on to win the trophy, but after draws against Atalanta and a defeat to Young Boys, they still have a bit of work to do to ensure that they qualify for the knockout stages. They are currently joint top with Villareal with seven points, while Atalanta are just two points behind them. Ronaldo is no stranger to lifting the Champions League trophy, and he will be hoping to help guide Manchester United to their biggest trophy in years after having failed to do so at Juventus.
The majority of bookmakers have Real Madrid at odds of 19/1, but you would be foolish to completely rule them out of the running. If there is one thing that Real Madrid know how to win it is the Champions League. They might have lost 2-1 to new boys Sheriff Tiraspol (a team that many had probably not even heard of before this Champions League campaign), but we think this was just a blip. If you were to ask another team who they want to face in the knockout stage of the tournament, we highly doubt that any of them will say Real Madrid.
The bookmakers have Atletico Madrid at odds of 32/1 to win, but if Luis Suarez and Antoine Griezemann start clicking and if they can get over their injury issues that hampered them in their last match against Liverpool, then there is no reason why they cannot go far in this competition, especially since they will not let many goals in – their coach, Diego Simeone, is known for his tight defence.
Who Do We Think Will Win the Title?
We have taken a look at who the bookmakers have as their favourites and outsiders to go on to lift the trophy, so we would like to end this article by giving you our opinion on who we think will win the 2021/2022 Champions League.
We have watched all of this season’s Champions League to date, and the one team that has stood out for us is Bayern Munich. They are currently scoring goals for fun, especially Lewandowski, and are very tight at the back. However, they are far from a one-man team. They have a team of superstars in the shape of David Alaba, Joshua Kimmich, Thomas Müller, Serge Gnabry, Alphonso Davies, and Kingsley Coman. In addition to their class players, they have a very able coach in the form of Julian Nagelsmann. So, yeah, if we were to put our money on any team, it would have to be the German giants.
