Second round of matches from this season’s Champions League group stage take place this week with Arsene Wenger’s men expected to triumph in Belgrade.
Monday 27th September 2010
The second group stage matches of this season’s UEFA Champions League take place this week with one of the ties seeing a highly favoured Arsenal side travelling east to face Serbian champion Partizan Belgrade.
Arsenal kicked off its most recent Champions League campaign at home two weeks ago by scoring six unanswered goals against Portuguese side Braga with 888Sport.com, SportingBet.com, Bodog.com, BlueSq.com, Bwin.com, Coral.co.uk, BoyleSports.com, PaddyPower.com and bet365.com showing odds of 1/2 on a similar result in Serbia for ‘The Gunners’ on Tuesday evening.
Slightly longer, VictorChandler.com, StanJames.com and WilliamHill.com show Arsene Wenger’s side at odds of 8/15 to triumph followed by BetDaq.com with 5/9 and Betfair.com offering 4/7.
Partizan Belgrade has won its domestic league for the past three seasons but got its most recent Champions League campaign off to a bad start after losing by a single goal at Ukrainian side Shakhtar Donetsk.
WilliamHill.com and Coral.co.uk are offering the home side at odds of 9/2 to triumph against English opposition on Tuesday night while punters can get 5/1 at SportingBet.com and StanJames.com.
With only two out of the four teams in each group set to progress to the next stage of the Champions League, Partizan needs to begin picking up points soon while Bwin.com is offering the Serbs at odds of 26/5 to win followed by bet365.com, 888Sport.com, Bodog.com, BoyleSports.com, BlueSq.com, VictorChandler.com and PaddyPower.com listing 11/2.
At the far end of the spectrum is BetDaq.com showing odds of 29/5 on a home win for Partizan on Tuesday evening while Betfair.com is going with 6/1.
A draw would not be a bad result for either side at this early stage of the campaign and WilliamHill.com is offering odds of 5/2 on this eventuality followed by Coral.co.uk and bet365.com with 13/5.
For their part, BoyleSports.com, VictorChandler.com, SportingBet.com, PaddyPower.com, StanJames.com and Bodog.com show odds of 11/4 on a draw while bettors can get 14/5 at 888Sport.com, BlueSq.com and Betfair.com and 29/10 with BetDaq.com and Bwin.com.
