UEFA Champions League Football Betting 2009-2010
As massive fans of the UEFA Champions League here at Free Betting Online we have thoroughly enjoyed the 2009-2010 campaign despite the demise of the English teams. Along with Barclays Premiership Football betting and the FA Cup Betting, the 2009-2010 UEFA Champions League attracts internet football betting fans from far and wide as the competition as usual throws up a mesmerizing selection of odds compilations on a gamut of potential match/group/knock-out/eventual winner outcomes for the punter to address the likelihood of. There's no doubting that UEFA Champions League football betting 2009-2010 offers something for every punter throughout the exciting season in progress.
Masterful Mourinho
29/04/2010
Inter Milan and Jose Mourinho completed the previously thought impossible and stopped Barcelona from playing their typical expansive brand of jaw-dropping football. And their reward? A place in this season’s Champions League Final where they are the Champions League Betting favourites to beat Bayern Munich and claim their first European triumph since 1965.
Mourinho claimed this victory over his previous employers as the greatest achievement of his career, and it is difficult to argue otherwise, but it will have all been in vain if they do not go on to lift the trophy on May 22.
Oli Oli Olic!
28/04/2010
A hat-trick from Ivica Olic has catapulted Bayern Munich into their first Champions League final since 2001, at the expense of Lyon. The tie was evenly poised going into the second leg, but the French side never really showed the guile and skill that had took them to their first ever semi-final ,and when Olic got his first midway through the first half the tie was pretty much over as a contest.
Bayern will now face either Barcelona or Inter Milan in the final where they are certain to be underdogs in the Champions League Betting.
Ribery Red, Robben Rampant
22/04/2010
Arjen Robben continued his rich vein of form with a goal to put Bayern Munich in poll position of their semi-final tie against Lyon. The German side were forced to play a portion of the game outnumbered by their opponents as Frack Ribery was sent to the stands for a dangerous studs-up lunge, but when Jeremy Toulalan’s red card evened things up the Bundesliga leaders seized the initiative.
Munich are now short odds on to qualify for their first Champions League final since 2001 where they look set to meet Inter Milan.
Jose’s Revenge
21/04/2010
Jose Mourinho showed just why he is considered to be one of the best managers in Europe by not only beating Barcelona but putting Inter Milan in the driving seat of the tie with a commanding 3-1 victory over the Catalan giants. Lionel Messi was largely innocuous as Barca couldn’t find a way to pass around the tight and disciplined Italian side who are now favourites for Champions League glory.
Inter are now around the 8/11 mark to qualify for the final and odds of 13/8 in the UEFA Champions League Betting markets.
What? No English Teams?
08/04/2010
English football fans are facing the unfamiliar prospect of watching Europe’s most prestigious club competition draw to a close without a single representative from the Premier League. Manchester United crashed out of the competition when Arjen Robben’s sweetly timed volley found the bottom corner of Endwin van der Sar’s goal and put Bayern Munich ahead on away goals.
Lyon progressed in the all-French tie of the quarter-finals and will now meet the Germans in the semis. But the eventual winner and bearer of the title Europe’s best is most likely to come from the other semi-final between Barcelona and Inter Milan. Barcelona are the UEFA Champions League betting favourites and Inter Milan share joint-second favouritism with Munich.
Messi 4 – 1 Arsenal
07/04/2010
Football so pure and beautiful to watch has rarely been seen in such abundance as that produced by Barcelona over the past seven days. At the Emirates, many onlookers claimed that to be the best display of football that they have ever seen then last night, at the Camp Nou, few would argue that they witnessed the performance of a genius at work. Lionel Messi showed just how our beautiful game should be played with one of the best Champions League performances we have ever seen and moved Barcelona to odds on favouritism in the outright UEFA Champions League Betting 2009-2010.
In the other quarter-final tie of the night Inter Milan recorded a 1-0 victory to secure their place in the last four where they have the daunting task of taking on the Catalan giants.
UEFA Champions League Round of 16 Betting 2009-2010
As we enter the round of 16 in this year’s Champions League with only two big name casualties to date – Liverpool and Juventus – the race for Europe’s most coveted prize is still wide open. And there are some juicy ties to get our teeth stuck into in this first knock-out round of the competition proper, none more so than those pitting AC Milan against Manchester United and Inter against Chelsea.
Three years since his departure from Stamford Bridge, Jose Mourniho makes his first return to west London and it could be one of the most keenly contested battles of the round. Chelsea have the edge with the bookmakers and are priced at 8/15 to make it through to the quarter-final, but I’d suggest that their favouritism is enhanced by the fact that they have the second leg at home.
Then the other Anglo-Italian tie of the round brings David Beckham back to Old Trafford for the first time since his slightly acrimonious departure for Real Madrid in a clash of two European heavyweights. Of the last seven Champions League finals, one of either AC Milan or Manchester United have been involved in five of them and won three. The UEFA Champions League Football betting 2009-2010 again suggests that the English side are the most likely to progress and can be backed at 1/2 to do so, yet you have to feel that Wayne Rooney would have to be on top of his game to make that a good value bet.
In the other tie involving an English side, Arsene Wenger’s side must find a way past the 2003-04 champions Porto if they are to keep their hopes of landing their first ever Champions League title alive. Again they are rewarded for topping their group by having the second-leg of the tie on their home patch and are favourites to qualify at 1/3 with the bookmakers.
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2009-2010 Champions League – Last 16 Draw Results
With the UEFA Champions League football betting 2009-2010 winter break already ushered in, there's a two month gap in play before European football club hostilities resume again in earnest in February 2010. However before all that could happen, there's the small matter of a draw to be staged to determine which of the 16 remaining teams would face each other in the next, knock-out stages of the most prestigious club competition in the world. Looking ahead to the draw, all the big names you'd have expected made it though to be guaranteed a place in the draw, with the notable exception of five times outright winners of the trophy, Liverpool. Which meant once again – Rafa Benitez' under-performing troops aside - England had strong representation going down to the Champions League wire, courtesy of Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal; all group winners in their own right having their names entered into the hat. A UEFA Champions League football betting 2009-2010 exciting hat in which they'd be joined by the cream of the continents soccer exponents, including the Spanish giants of Barcelona and Real Madrid, Italian heavyweights, Inter and AC Milan, German contenders, Bayern Munich and Stuttgart and surprise French packages, Bordeaux and Lyon.
Barcelona, Chelsea And Real Madrid Favoured By Online Football Betting Champions League Bookies After Draw For Last 16
Naturally enough, this next phase of the Champions League prizes open a whole new box of UEFA Champions League football betting 2009-2010 market tricks for the online football betting punter to delve inside. Casting a furtive eye around – and overlooking the obvious Outright Win prices for the time being – and UEFA Champions League football betting 2009-2010 Top Goalscorer charts haven't changed that much in terms of personnel, yet the odds have witnessed a shake-up based on what materialised through the group stages. Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo, Barcelona's Lionel Messi and Chelsea's Didier Drogba predictably still lead that particular market, whilst some other new and interesting pages have emerged now we've reached this pivotal Champions League crossroads. Not least UEFA Champions League football betting 2009-2010 Winning Nationality, the promise of an All English Final, Repeat Final (of last year's that is), whether or not there'll be a First Time Winner and the Origin Of Winner (meaning from which group did they progress from), alongside a host of others.
UEFA Champions League football betting 2009-2010 fans could just as easily be swayed to match their predictions with hard cash (or slightly more compromising plastic) on the internet football betting potential of just some of these probable outcomes fronted by the web's leading football betting bookies championing their own bespoke pages. Like the English Team To Progress Furthest, Italian Team To Progress Furthest and the Spanish Team To Progress Furthest. The UEFA Champions League football betting 2009-2010 market specials take some beating too, and summarising cover, Arsenal Specials, Barcelona Specials, Chelsea Specials, Man Utd Specials and Real Madrid Specials; all of which pretty much centre around specific Stage Of Elimination odds. Having made it to the last 16, SkyBet, Betfred, Blue Square, 888sport and Coral amongst other football betting bookies promote particular team prices for reaching the 2009-2010 Champions League Quarter-Final, Semi-Final and Final itself.
Mourinho's Return To Chelsea With Inter Milan Highly Anticipated Champions League Betting Market
For those online football betting types who like to keep their UEFA Champions League football betting 2009-2010 wagers simple though, there's really no substitute for the Outright Win markets. And thankfully all the big name sports betting bookies are weighing in with a healthy spread of odds and prices in this prime sector. From the post draw favourites Barcelona, Chelsea, Real Madrid and Manchester United through to the perceived minnows who might well deserve to be here but frankly won't get a look in; such as Lyon, Olympiakos, CSKA Moscow and Stuttgart.
As far as footballing friends being reunited is concerned, the prospect of the ex-Chelsea manager who was instrumental in arguably their most successful recent spell – Jose Mourinho – bringing his current charges – Inter Milan – to Stamford Bridge to face what is largely the nucleus of the side that he built, is a big one. However, whilst the self-styled special one's evocative return to his former stomping ground – and with a welcoming committee comprising his favourite Stamford Bridge sons, Lampard, Terry and Drogba - will be 'emotional' for all parties involved, there'll be an equally moving old boy reunion taking place a couple of hundred miles north, as David Beckham leads the 'other' Milanese club out at his spiritual footballing home, Old Trafford in the second leg of the two-legged ties scheduled to take place in February and March 2010.
Manchester United Prepare To Welcome Back Old Boy Beckham In New AC Milan Colours For Champions League Encounter
In fact the latter couldn't have been better scripted, as only recently when interviewed by certain sectors of the sports media here in the UK, the AC Milan loan star mused that he's never once returned to Manchester United in the playing colours of another team since leaving for Real Madrid in 2002; in the supposed aftermath of a dressing room tussle with his former mentor, Sir Alex Ferguson. Despite regularly participating in the Champions League, firstly for Real, and only last year, for AC Milan, Beckham never came up against his old club, yet you could tell it remained one of the few remaining ambitions of sorts within the game that he'd like to experience before finally hanging up his boots for good. Whenever that finally is.
The format of the draw for the knock-out stages of this season's Champions League is pretty much straight forward, in as much as it sees individual winners of the now completed group stages of the competition paired with runners-up from other groups in theory. And on paper. And therefore the balls when deployed from UEFA's tombola would tally appropriately and spare the blushes of those in suits here at European football's governing body here in Nyon, Switzerland. The only other proviso which had to be adhered to was that no two clubs from the same country and/or previous group stage could meet as a result of this draw. Just for those late comers to this year's UEFA Champions League club football competition, the eventual group winners were as follows;
Bordeaux (France), Manchester United (England), Real Madrid (Spain), Chelsea (England), Fiorentina (Italy), Barcelona (Spain), Sevilla (Spain) and Arsenal (England). Group runners-up were; Bayern Munich (Germany), CSKA Moscow (Russia), AC Milan (Italy), FC Porto (Portugal), Lyon (France) Inter Milan (Italy), Stuttgart (Germany) and Olympiakos (Greece).
UEFA Champions League 2009-2010 Group Stage - Final Tables
Group A
BORDEAUX - winners
BAYERN MUNICH - runners-up
Juventus - drop into UEFA Europa League
Maccabi Haifa - eliminated
Group B
MANCHESTER UNITED - winners
CSKA MOSCOW - runners-up
Wolfsburg - drop into UEFA Europa League
Besiktas - eliminated
Group C
REAL MADRID - winners
AC MILAN - runners-up
Marseille - drop into UEFA Europa League
FC Zurich - eliminated
Group D
CHELSEA - winners
FC PORTO - runners-up
Apoel Nicosia - drop into UEFA Europa League
Athletico Madrid - eliminated
Group E
FIORENTINA - winners
LYON - runners-up
Liverpool - drop into UEFA Europa League
Debrecen - eliminated
Group F
BARCELONA - winners
INTER MILAN - runners-up
Rubin Kazan - drop into UEFA Europa League
Dynamo Kiev - eliminated
Group G
SEVILLA - winners
STUTTGART - runners-up
Unirea Urziceni - drop into UEFA Europa League
Rangers - eliminated
Group H
ARSENAL - winners
OLYMPIAKOS - runners-up
Standard Liege - drop into UEFA Europa League
AZ Alkmaar - eliminated