FC Basel v Bayern Munich Champions League Betting Odds, Tips and Preview

Bayern wary of Man Utd's European conquerors

Champions League Betting

FC Basel v Bayern Munich Champions League betting sets up an interesting reunion with Bayern Munich for FC Basel coach Heiko Vogel. Vogel was once under the employment of Bayern Munich, and with the two sides coming together in the group stage of last season’s Champions League, there is a nice story surrounding this match. Things didn’t go too well for FC Basel when they met the Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich in last year’s competition, as the Swiss side lost both home and away matches in the group stage. However, Basel have been one of the highlights of this year’s edition of the tournament, as they scored a momentous 2-1 victory on Match Day 6 against last year’s defeated finalists Manchester United at St Jakob-Park. Goals from Marco Streller and Alexander Frei gave brilliant Basel a precious 2-1 win, which sent them through to the knockout stage of the Champions League, at the expense of the Red Devils, for only the second time in the Swiss side’s history. It wasn’t just the great win at home over United either, it was the fact that they staged an incredible come back at Old Trafford from 2-0 down, to find themselves winning 3-2, only for United to nab a late equaliser. There was also the fact that they held the attacking powerhouse of creativity, Benfica to a draw in Portugal as well. So don’t think for one moment that FC Basel were a one hit wonder in that Match Day six triumph. That was the culmination of a lot of hard work setting themselves up for that position. That was just the cherry on top for the Swiss side. FC Basel are the major force in Swiss domestic football at the moment, and are six points clear at the top of the league with a game in hand over Young Boys. FC Basel have great attacking experience with ex Borussia-Dortmund man Alexander Frei, who can really trouble defences, and the support from Marco Stellar has been impressive. FC Basel are on an unbeaten run of 14 matches in the league now and will be confident of giving European giants Bayern Munich a run for their money. However, Basel’s home form against German sides reads as four loses from five matches.

Last season, a late goal from Bayern’s Bastien Schweinsteiger completed a turnaround for the Bundesliga club, after an opening goal by Alexander Frei for FC Basel at the St Jakob-Park. While Bayern narrowly escaped Switzerland with a win there, it was much more comfortable going for them back in Germany, as they triumphed 3-0 in Munich, sending FC Basel out of the competition. That was the first time that the two sides had met in UEFA competition, and while Bayern Munich will be strong favourites to progress through to the quarter finals after this tie, they will have seen what FC Basel did to Manchester United and have a certain air of caution. Bayern topped their group ahead of Napoli and Manchester City, playing some powerful, clinical football along the way. They won four of their six matches, suffering just one defeat against Manchester City, when they had already secured top spot anyway. Bayern are in decent away form in Europe as well, winning six of their last nine matches on the road, so you can definitely see where the balance of power is in FC Basel v Bayern Munich Champions League betting. Bayern are still in the hunt for the Bundesliga title, in a fierce contest there, and they go into the match against FC Basel on the back of a draw on the weekend away at Freiburg. Still, the four times European Cup winners are the ones with all of the experience in this match, the ones with the stars, and Bastien Schweinsteiger, has scored now on his last three visits to St Jakob-Park (on one occasion for Bayern, and on two occasions for Germany) so he could be well worth looking at in your FC Basel v Bayern Munich Champions League First Goalscorer betting. The bookies are expecting the attacking power of Bayern Munich to power through this game, but FC Basel will battle to the end, but keeping Bayern off the score sheet is going to be tough.

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