UEFA Champions League predictions: Best player props for Wednesdayâs games
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Matchday four of six in the UEFA Champions League group stage comes to a close on Wednesday with numerous top stars on show. From Bayern Munich scoring sensation Harry Kane to the best young footballer in the world Jude Bellingham to Inter Milan’s World Cup winner Lautaro Martínez, we’ve got a range of potentially profitable player prop bets for you to peruse.
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UEFA Champions League Wednesday odds preview
Bayern, Real Madrid, and Inter are just three of Europe’s top teams in action on Wednesday in a full slate that also includes the likes of Manchester United, Arsenal, Napoli, and Benfica.
All three are unbeaten so far in this year’s competition after three games, and another win would go a long way to booking their expected places in the knockout stage. Bayern and Real are two of four teams to have a 100% winning record after the first three weeks of group-stage action, sitting pretty on nine points at the top of Group A and Group C, respectively.
The perpetual German champions are five points clear in their group already and have a chance to effectively seal their place in the round of 16 against second-placed Galatasaray on Wednesday. They won 3-1 in Istanbul in the fearsome and fiery atmosphere of Ali Sami Yen Stadium last time out; on home turf, they’ll be expected to dispatch the Turkish giants without too much trouble.
Real Madrid hasn’t been at the top of its game thus far but still has an unblemished record, winning all three of their group games to date by a single goal. Los Blancos take on Portuguese side Braga this week and, like Bayern, they have home advantage to spur them on.
Serie A leaders and last season’s Champions League runner-up Inter, meanwhile, is joint-top of Group D alongside Spanish side Real Sociedad. The Nerazzurri faces a testing trip to Austria to battle Red Bull Salzburg.
Here’s the full slate of Wednesday UCL games on offer:
- Real Sociedad vs. Benfica, 12:45 p.m. ET
- Napoli vs. Union Berlin, 12:45 p.m. ET
- FC Copenhagen vs. Manchester United, 3 p.m. ET
- Red Bull Salzburg vs. Inter, 3 p.m. ET
- Bayern Munich vs. Galatasaray, 3 p.m. ET
- Arsenal vs. Sevilla, 3 p.m. ET
- PSV Eindhoven vs. Lens, 3 p.m. ET
- Real Madrid vs. Braga, 3 p.m. ET
Below, we highlight three player prop picks from the action that we think are most likely to come in this week.
UEFA Champions League player prop: Harry Kane to score 2+ goals (+150 or better)
Any questions that soccer fans may have had about how well England captain Kane would adapt to life at Germany’s biggest club have been laughed out of the room since his arrival. The most expensive signing in German soccer history has scored 17 goals in his first 14 games for the Bavarian club, including a record-breaking 15 in his first 10 Bundesliga games and two in three in the UCL.
At home to Galatasaray, Bayern is a -450 favorite and Kane comes into the game after back-to-back hat-tricks in his last two appearances. He’ll start again as the focal point in the Germans’ attack and is close to nailed-on to score. Consider taking him at 2+ goals in the game because it wouldn’t be remotely surprising if it happens. At the time of writing, FanDuel’s +220 were the best odds available, far ahead of some other sportsbooks.
UEFA Champions League player prop: Jude Bellingham anytime goalscorer (-120 or better)
The sight of Bellingham standing tall with arms aloft might be the most iconic celebration in world football right now, with all due respect to Cristiano Ronaldo’s “siu” stance.
The 20-year-old, who won the Kopa Trophy awarded to the best young player in the world last week, has scored 13 goals in his first 14 games for the Spanish capital club, including once in every one of Los Blancos’ Champions League games so far this season. That’s despite the fact he plays in midfield, not in attack.
With Real -400 favorites to win on Wednesday, there aren’t many better bets around this week than Bellingham to score anytime.
UEFA Champions League player prop: Lautaro Martínez last goalscorer (+300 or better)
Inter have scored 31 goals so far this season and Martínez has netted 13 of them.
Even so, this one’s risky, as he tends to score in fits and starts, but no Italian team has scored more goals this season than the Nerazzurri and the Argentinian is likely to be at the center of anything his team does in Salzburg’s penalty area.
An interesting quirk is that of the eight games in which the 26-year-old has found the net this season, he’s scored the final goal of the match five times, whereas he’s struck first only twice. It’s worth a punt.
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