Champions League betting: Spurs second most backed to win competition ahead of group stage draw
TOTTENHAM are the second most-backed side to win this season’s Champions League – only just behind Manchester City in first.
Bookmakers Betfair report nearly one in every six bets placed on the outright winner of the competition have come for Antonio Conte’s men ahead of the group stage draw.
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Europe’s top teams will find out tonight who they will face in the lucrative group stages.
The 32 teams will all have their eyes on a top two spot in the group to advance to the knockout stages.
It’s no surprise to see Man City as the team most-backed by punters to win the competition.
The pre-tournament favourites will be going all out to finally get their hands on the trophy and splashed the cash on Erling Haaland to help do so.
In total, 21% of all bets at Betfair have come for Pep Guardiola’s side to win it.
Maybe surprisingly it’s Spurs who are the next best-backed with 16.4% of all bets – despite them coming from Pot 2.
Antonio Conte guided Spurs to a fourth-placed finish last season on the final day and they too have spent heavily to ensure they have a good crack at it.
Liverpool are second favourites to go one better than last year and like Spurs will be drawn from Pot 2 later.
In total, 15.4% of punters believe they will make amends for last year’s final defeat.
Champions League outright betting
Betfair
- Man City 11/4
- Liverpool 5/1
- PSG 11/2
- Bayern Munich 7/1
- Barcelona 12/1
- Real Madrid 12/1
- Chelsea 14/1
- Tottenham 16/1
- Juventus 33/1
- Inter Milan 33/1
- Atletico Madrid 40/1
- AC Milan 40/1
- Celtic 250/1
- Rangers 250/1
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PSG (8.9%), current holders Real Madrid (7.8%), Barcelona (7.69%) and Bayern Munich (6.5%) are amongst those usually really well-backed to win the tournament.
Chelsea are as big as 14/1 to be champions of Europe again and 5% of punters believe they can do it.
Atletico Madrid (2.8%) and Juventus (2.2%) are next, while the Milan pair of Inter and AC can’t be split at 1.77%.
Celtic have attracted the support of 0.5% at a huge 250/1, while the remainder have been scattered across the remaining participants.
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