Champions League / Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco / 29 September 2009 / Leave a comment

All the in-running prices from a cracking night of Champions League football....

Fiorentina were matched at [4.9] on Betfair before convincingly beating Liverpool this evening, which will give Rafael Benitez some early worries as regards their qualification to the Champions League knock-out stages. The 2-0 score line was matched as high as [34.0] and the defeat has caused Steven Gerrard and co to drift to odds of around 3 on them winning Group E, an odds-on shot not so long ago. They're still just [1.31] on the "to qualify" market but they are out to [16.5] to win the competition.

Better luck was enjoyed by Arsenal, who left it late to get on the score sheet at home to Olympiakos but came good in the end. By the time [6.2] chance to score first Robin Van Persie had opened his Champions League account for the year they had drifted to [2.26] but a second from Andrei Arshavin left Arsenal fans and indeed backers at ease. That score line was matched at [11.5].

In Bucharest, Stuttgart were guilty of letting a one goal lead slip against Unirea Urziceni which resulted in a disappointing draw for them. The German side, managed by former Liverpool star Markus Babbel, were matched at a low of [1.36]. Jose Mourinho's Inter Milan on the other hand, can consider themselves seriously lucky to have got anything from their trip to Rubin Kazan. Backed at a pre-match low of [1.69] , not only did they concede the first goal of the match but they also had to play with ten men for the last half-hour following the dismissal of Mario Balotelli.

But there were no slip-ups for pre-match favourites Barcelona, or indeed Lyon. The French side were matched at a high of [1.59] before putting four past Debrecen; four goals or more in the match touched [3.5] on Betfair. According to the Betfair market the Spanish duo of Barcelona [(4.4)] and Real Madrid [(6.0)] are the teams to beat in this year's edition. Real Madrid's star player Cristiano Ronaldo is the jolly to finish as this season's top scorer in the competition and trades at [5.0]. His nemesis, Lionel Messi, comes next in the betting at [6.0].

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