Thursday Football Tips: Back a 9/2 Bayer Bet Builder

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Xabi Alonso has led Bayer Leverkusen to an unbeaten start to the season

Paul Higham is backing a comfortable Bayer Leverkusen victory in Molde on Thursday as part of his [9/2] Europa League Bet Builder...


Molde have lost just one of 14 Europa League games at home but are huge outsiders against a very much in-form Bayer Leverkusen.

Xabi Alonso's side are unbeaten this season, winning eight out of nine, and are 4/111.36 to claim another victory in Norway on Thursday.

Losing at Qarabag in Azaerbaijan was a bad start for the Norwegians in a group they will have fancied having half a chance of getting out of.

Leverkusen are the stand-out side here though and Molde will just be hoping to catch them on an off night to stand a chance of pinching something.

Leg 1: Leverkusen -1 handicap

Bayer have scored 32 goals this season with Alonso getting them into some serious form that includes having a real cutting edge up front.

Six of their eight wins have come by more than a goal - with the other two being games against RB Leipzig and Bayern Munich.

Molde are by no means those two top Bundesliga sides and Alonso seems in no mood to take this competition lightly.

Given how often they've won by a clear margin, 11/102.11 on Leverkusen ay -1 on the handicap isn't too bad at all.

Leg 2: Victor Boniface to score

Victor Boniface is becoming the talk of Europe with his all season goal spree, which has so far seen him score eight goals in eight games.

He's scored in five of those eight games and although he's scored two more than one in a game we'll just take the 5/61.84 on Boniface to score anytime here.

Boniface also has some personal motivation for this one as a former Bodo'Glimt player who actually scored his first senior goal against Molde.

Leg 3: Over 5.5 Leverkusen corners

Bayer only got one corner in their last game, but they usually get a few more and I think over 5.5 corners here is wirth a play at 6/101.60.

It's landed in two of the last three and considering the opposition they should have plenty of the ball to operate with.

They got eight corners against Bracken in their opening Europa League game and while they maynot get that many this time, six is plenty.

Back Leverkusen -1 against Molde, over 5.5 Leverkusen corners & Boniface to score 9/25.50

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Back Leverkusen -1 against Molde, over 5.5 Leverkusen corners & Boniface to score 9/25.50

COLUMN P/L 2023/24

Staked: 59pts
Returned: 68.36pts
P/L: +9.36pts 2022/23 P/L: +68.69pts

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