Champions League: New odds after Man City & Arsenal exits
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Ladbrokes looks at the latest Champions League odds, with a new favourite after Man City and Arsenal were eliminated from the tournament.
Arsenal and Man City, who went into the quarter-finals as the two favourites, were both eliminated from the Champions League this month. Instead Bayern Munich and Real Madrid respectively progressed to the semi-finals, knocking out the two Premier League sides in the process.
Now they're out, and we've only got four teams left in the competition, we look at the latest Championship League betting odds, starting with the new favourites Real Madrid.
Champions League winning odds
Real Madrid
The record 14-time European champions won all their group games to finish six points ahead of runners-up Napoli and their odds were moved to 11/2 after they were pitted with RB Leipzig.
Real Madrid put themselves in a great position to win La Liga last month by beating second-placed Girona 4-0, thanks to goals from Rodrygo, Vinicius Jr and Jude Bellingham. However, the Spaniards won’t have taken Leipzig for granted, losing 3-2 to the Germans during last season’s group stage, having scored in the last 10 minutes to win 2-0 in the reverse fixture.
Leipzig pushed Manchester City all the way in both games during the group stage and they drew 2-2 with Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga this season, so they might have proved a tough test. However, Madrid ended up winning 2-1 on aggregate after a 1-1 draw in Spain, putting themselves into the quarter-finals. They were been given arguably the toughest draw, having to play two legs against Man City, but after getting through that they’ll be confident about their chances of winning the entire competition.
Madrid hosted the English giants in the first leg and drew 3-3, and they ended up beating the reigning champions on penalties to progress to the next round, where they're now the favourites to win the entire competition, at 11/8.
Paris Saint-Germain
PSG’s owners are desperate to win the Champions League and the Ligue 1 champions’ odds were slashed from 18/1 to 12/1 after being paired with Real Sociedad in the first knockout round.
The French side scraped through the group of death to reach the knockout stage, benefitting from a highly controversial penalty to draw 1-1 at home to Newcastle in their penultimate game.
They were looking down and out when the Magpies took the lead against Milan, and Luis Enrique’s side fell behind to Dortmund, but eventually they went through on a superior goal difference over the Italians.
PSG will have been incredibly happy with their performance in the first knockout round though, beating the Spanish side 4-1 on aggregate to progress to the next round, where they were drawn against face Barcelona, who they managed to knock out of the competition.
Now, the French giants face Dortmund in the semi-final, with Mbappe looking like he's going to be playing in the Champions League final come June 2024.
Bayern Munich
The Bundesliga champions qualified for the knockout stage with two games to spare in a campaign which saw their 17-game winning run in the group phase end with a goalless draw at home to Copenhagen.
Harry Kane’s spectacular debut season hit a snag during Bayern’s 3-0 loss to league leaders Bayer Leverkusen on last month. Despite that, the Englishman has scored 40 goals in 41 games in all competitions since leaving Tottenham, and will be eyeing up the Champions League as the perfect opportunity to win his first trophy in club football.
However, their odds INCREASED from 4/1 to 7/1 after a 1-0 loss in the first-leg against Lazio. The German giants dropped from second-favourites to fourth-favourites, and faced the real possibility of being knocked out of the competition.
Despite their poor form, Bayern were able to overturn their disadvantage and win 3-0 in Germany, with Harry Kane scoring two goals, as the Englishman dragged his side into the next round. He also helped them knock Arsenal out at the quarter-final stage, a result that would have been particularly pleasing for him, and they're now at 10/3 ahead of their semi-final with Bayern Munich.
Dortmund
No one expected Dortmund to be in the semi-finals of the Champions League, but that's the spot they find themselves in.
After impressive wins over PSV and Atletico Madrid, the latter of which came as a bit of a surprise, the 2013 runners-up are in the final four, and they'll face PSG in the next round.
The two sides met in the group stage, with Dortmund losing the away leg and drawing the home one. If they're to progress to the final and win the entire tournament, they'll have to be at their very best.
Stranger things have happened though, and Dortmund are now at 5/1 to win the Champions League come the end of the season.
Champions League winner odds: 5/1
Champions League Winning Odds
- Real Madrid – 11/10
- PSG – 3/1
- Bayern Munich – 10/3
- Borussia Dortmund – 5/1
All odds and markets correct as of date of publication
