How to bet on the Champions League

They are closely followed by AC Milan with 7 editions, Liverpool and Bayern Munich with 6, then Barcelona (5), Ajax (4), Manchester United and Inter Milan (3), and a few others with one or two titles. Dominating in the Champions League is equivalent to dominating domestically, but the same cannot be said in reverse. This is well known by Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain, two teams that have been able to establish themselves in domestic football in recent years but struggle in Europe's top competition.
And Guardiola's City and the PSG of the trio Messi, Mbappé, Neymar are the favourites for this 2022-23 edition. Two teams that for years have been chasing a trophy that is missing from their trophy cabinet and that would mean confirmation for both. Indeed, it is no secret that the two properties have been investing astronomical sums for years to raise the cup to the sky. But despite the efforts and the arrival of great champions, the goal is never easy. The Champions League is a competition where we rarely see surprises. The forces on the field are really at the highest level, and it is a long competition to which only the best clubs can aspire, although a first time is there for everyone. Our advice is always to consult a sports betting guide such as that of scommesse777.com, which has been in the business for years.
To increase your chances of winning a match slip even more, you need to be fully aware of the different betting options, which we will see in a moment, but also follow the competition closely, as well as the teams' form and statistics (don't miss the Champions League rankings). The next matches scheduled for the Champions League round of 16 are: PSG-Bayern Munich, AC Milan-Tottenham, Club Brugge-Benfica, Borussia Dortmund-Chelsea, Liverpool-Real Madrid, Eintracht-Napoli, RB Leipzig-Manchester City and Inter-Porto.
The Parisians went through the round as runners-up, tied with Benfica, and in the league, they travel alone at the top of Ligue1 with only one defeat in 17 games. The attacking trio is perhaps the strongest in the world, with three Ballon d'Or candidates, two of whom (Messi and Mbappé) are fresh from the World Cup final. They will face Bayern Munich, certainly not the easiest opponent. The only team to have passed the group stage of the cup with full points, in a group composed of Inter Milan, Barcelona and Viktoria Plzeň, and a team that leads the Bundesliga with 34 points from the first 15 games. Easier, at least on paper, the Citizen's match. Guardiola's men will face Leipzig, runners-up in Group F along with Real Madrid, Shakhtar and Celtic, and third in the Bundesliga on matchday 15. Second-placed Manchester City, on the other hand, have lost ground to an Arsenal in terrific form.
Let us now come to the betting: as we have already mentioned, as far as the Antepost/Winner option is concerned, Manchester City is the favourite (quoted at 2.85) followed, less likely according to the bookmakers, by Bayern (7.50), PSG (8.00), Liverpool (10), Napoli and Real Madrid (12). Betting on the winner is probably the most common and most entertaining option at the start of the competition. Making a prediction at the start of the season has a whole different flavour and probability of success. Napoli, for example, which is now quoted at 12, had a completely different quote in August.
Another very frequent type of bet, which goes hand in hand with the first, is the one for the tournament's top scorer. It goes hand in hand because as a team progresses through the knockout stages, the possibility of its striker scoring more goals also increases. Currently, in line with this reasoning, we find Erling Haaland quoted at (2.25) even though, with his five goals, he is not currently leading the scorers' table. He is followed by Kylian Mbappe, current top scorer in the Champions League with 7 goals and fresh from the World Cup in Qatar. He is quoted at 3.25, as is Mohamed Salah, who is also first in the current goalscoring charts, tied with the Frenchman.
As for the classic bets on the individual matches: the 1x2 Final is, unlike the league matches, much more balanced, with fairly good odds and uncertain results; the case of Goal/NoGol is different, where practically all matches lean towards the Goal result, i.e. a goal for both teams; Under/Over depends very much on the teams facing each other, but in general seems to lean towards the Over 2.5 result.
The other bets, the ones favoured by the more experienced players, tend towards the Exact Result, which is very difficult to predict but certainly pays better, or the Exact Result Anytime, i.e., the occurrence, at any time during the match, of that precise result. This is a more easily predictable option that still pays well. Finally, as far as the "unconventional" bets are concerned, we can find the category Penalties (cards, penalties and ejections), Coach (cautioned or sent off), Goal Method (direct free kick, penalty, header, etc.) and Goal Margin.