Trends, they play a big part in football betting and there is a big one running in looking at your UEFA Champions League Top Goalscorer betting for the forthcoming season. The market is always a hot one with some big prices running ahead of the big kick off in the new season and there are the usual faces dominating the main positions at the head of the market. Of course, you’re going to be looking at a player who is likely to get to the final with their respective club, because the more games they play, the more chance of goals that they are going to have.
Of course though you also have special players who can run up big tallies through the group stage alone and you are generally thinking the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo for that. Something to consider as well is the quality of opposition that the big guns in the UEFA Champions League draw are going to be facing in the group stage. For example this season you have Real Madrid going up against Borussia Dortmund, but then have easy games against Legia Warsaw and Sporting. Bayern Munich will have a tough nut to crack in Atletico Madrid, but then should create plenty against competition debutants Rostov and PSV Eindhoven. Easier games can lead to more goals of course.
UEFA Champions League Top Goalscorer Odds
Cristiano Ronaldo 4/1, Luis Suárez 4/1, Lionel Messi 5/1, Robert Lewandowski 9/1, Sergio Aguero 16/1, Gonzalo Higuain 16/1, Thomas Muller 20/1, Neymar 14/1, Pierre aubameyang 20/1, Antoine Griezmann 20/1, Gareth Bale, Karim Benzema 33/1, 40/1 bar
Barcelona get to take on Manchester City, Celtic and Borussia Monchengladbach so should have plenty of chances to find the back of the net. Juventus have a good looking group which should boost the chances of summer signing Gonzalo Higuain as they take on Dinamo Zagreb, Sevilla and Lyon. So who is topping the market in UEFA Champions League Top Goalscorer betting? It is a certain Cristiano Ronaldo who is a 7/2 price with Bet365 to walk away with the title. He’s done it before of course, five times actually in his career he has finished the season as the top goalscorer in the UEFA Champions League.
He is the all time leading goalscorer in the history of the European Cup/UEFA Champions League and he has top scored for the last four seasons straight (although jointly with Neymar and Messi in the 2014/15 season). You can’t keep the man down and going back to the trend we were talking about at the start of the article, here it is. Each of the last eight top goalscorers in the UEFA Champions League have come from a Spanish club, alright, either Barcelona or Real Madrid. Going back over the last nine seasons of the competition Cristiano Ronaldo has top scored on five occasions, Lionel Messi five and Neymar once (again Neymar, Ronaldo and Messi tied in the 2014/15 season).
So is it worth looking beyond the big three of Ronaldo (7/2), Suarez (4/1) and Messi (5/1)? We would suggest so and we are not even going to bring Sergio Aguero, Gonzalo Higuain, Thomas Muller or Pierre Aubameyang into the picture. Nor Gareth Bale. Nor Neymar or Antoine Griezmann. As you can see there is tremendous depth in this market but it is going to take something very special to stop Ronaldo most likely, from walking away with the personal accolade, but with Bayern Munich’s Robert Lewandowski starting the market at an industry best price of 9/1 with Bet365, who can’t be tempted by that?
Lewandowski has scored 12 goals in each of his last two seasons in Europe with Bayern Munich. At the time of writing he had opened the new season with a seven goal haul in just four games. This is a man who netted 42 goals for Bayern last season across all competitions and he has to get himself in the picture. His work up top with Thomas Muller is spectacular and with the difference in style between the two players, it is so hard for defences to stop them. With the support that he can rely on from a powerful attacking side, he has to be worth a flutter and even as an each way punt at quarter odds. That would be our value punt in the Top Goalscorer market, but naturally Cristiano Ronaldo would remain our outright favourite. Momentum is with him, but the long value is on Lewandowksi.
UEFA Champions League Top Goalscorer and Goals total
2007–08 – Cristiano Ronaldo Manchester United – 8
2008–09 – Lionel Messi Barcelona – 9
2009–10 – Lionel Messi Barcelona – 8
2010–11 – Lionel Messi Barcelona – 12
2011–12 – Lionel Messi Barcelona – 14
2012–13 – Cristiano Ronaldo Real Madrid – 12
2013–14 – Cristiano Ronaldo Real Madrid – 17
2014–15 – Neymar Barcelona, Cristiano Ronaldo Real Madrid, Lionel Messi Barcelona – 10
2015–16 – Cristiano Ronaldo Real Madrid – 16
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