Bayern Munich V Besiktas Predictions & Betting Odds

Bayern Munich v Besiktas Betting Preview – UEFA Champions League 20th February 7.45pm

German giants Bayern Munich have a comfortable looking tie for the round of sixteen in the UEFA Champions League. They start at home in midweek and are favourites to progress through from this tie. However, Besiktas created a bit of history for themselves in the group stage, becoming the first ever side from Turkey to win a Champions League group. There’s a tall order for them to pull off a big night at the Allianz Arena though.

Bayern Munich News and Form

Bayern Munich couldn’t beat PSG to top spot in their group, but this didn’t end up being a bad draw for them. They have won each of their last six round of sixteen ties in the Champions league and overall at this stage hold a W10 L3 record. So they are strong and favoured in this one. In the round of sixteen last season, the German powerhouses destroyed Arsenal 10-2 on aggregate. In the group stage, this season Bayern rolled out three wins from three beating both Anderlecht and Celtic 3-0 before then earning some revenge over PSG with a 3-1 victory over the French side on match day six.

In the bet365 correct score market a 3-0 win for Bayern is at 6/1 odds* (betting odds taken at 4:26 pm on February 18th, 2018). So they have scored well. Last season in the quarter finals they lost at home against Real Madrid and that snapped a 16 match European home winning streak that they were on. Robert Lewandowski heads up the First Goalscorer and the Anytime Goalscorer markets which is no great surprise. He scored a late Bundesliga winner on the weekend for them as they made it 13 straight victories in all competitions in 2018. Bayern are W3 D1 L0 against Turkish sides.

Besiktas News and Form

Besiktas are going to have to pull out something tremendously special to get into this tie. They did well in the group stage, winning their group for the first time event and during that, they went to Germany to face RB Leipzig and took a good 2-1 win for themselves. That was their first win in Germany at the fifth time of asking (D1 L3). Besiktas scored just two goals in their first four visits to the country. Away from home in the Champions League this season Besiktas have taken 3-1 wins at Porto and 2-1 victories at Monaco and Porto. It has left them with wins in six of their last twelve European away games and even though they are underdogs here, both teams to score at bet365 does have some appeal. Their only previous encounter against a German side in a knockout tie was against Borussia Dortmund back in the 1989/90 European Cup Winners’ Cup and they lost that 3-1 on aggregate. They are likely to concede on Tuesday night as they have only three clean sheets away from home all season across all competitions in 15 games. Their talisman is Talisco who has seven goals in his last seven games for the club and they are yet to lose a game when he scores (W20 D5).

Bayern Munich v Besiktas Head to Head

Only once before have the two sides come up against one another. That was back in the 1997/98 group stage and Bayern Munich came out on top both legs of the tie with 2-0 wins.

Bayern Munich v Besiktas Betting Odds*

Bayern Munich 1/6, Draw 6/1, Besiktas 14/1* (Betting Odds taken on February 16th, 2018 at 5:41 p.m.)