Champions League Matchday 5 Preview: Bayern Can Deliver Winning Return

The fifth round of matches in the opening phase of the 2024/25 Champions League offer punters plenty of chances to hit the bookmakers.

Numerous football betting sites could be forced into making sizeable payouts as there appears to be several banker bets among the latest batch of games.

Read on as we look at some of the top Champions League fixtures to highlight the key betting angles to consider on Matchday 5.

AC Milan and Inter Milan are strongly fancied to win their respective games on Tuesday and can lay the foundations for a tempting five-fold accumulator.

Atalanta, Barcelona and Bayer Leverkusen are also banker bets to pick up three points and round off what could a be productive multiple wager for punters.

Combined odds of 3.30 on several betting apps are perhaps on the skinny side, but should deliver the goods to bettors who are willing to take the plunge.

Bayern Munich have been inconsistent during the early stages of the competition, but are fancied to step things up during the remainder of the league phase.

They look a good bet to win each of their remaining four matches, which makes them an enticing proposition in the ‘top Bundesliga team in the league stage’ market.

Their fixtures look easier than rivals Borussia Dortmund and Bayer Leverkusen, and odds of 2.50 on new betting sites look well worth taking before Matchday 5 gets underway.

Several fixtures on Wednesday look primed to have plenty of goals in midweek and can be exploited with an over 2.5 goals treble.

The games at PSV Eindhoven, Monaco and Celtic are fancied to surpass that mark and can deliver a decent return at odds of 4.04 on UK betting sites.

Adding the fixture at Red Star Belgrade ramps up the odds to 6.43, although it often pays not to be too ambitious with the number of selections in multiple bets.

Champions League Matchday 5 Odds (via NetBet)