Champions League Matchday 3: Best Outright Winners, Odds, & More

Ashley Anthony
22/16/2024

It’s Matchday 3 of Europe's revamped, top club competition, the Champions League.

Only seven teams are looking to continue their unbeaten run in the new format, while the rest will have to work hard to get into the top eight for automatic qualifications or attempt to stay in the safe zone, which is 9th to 24th place.

In today’s preview of this week’s matches, we’ll look at the best options for outright winner picks, where to place bets on ‘over’ and ‘unders’, and more.

Table of Contents:

• UCL Matchday 3 Outright Winner Selections

• Best Punts for Over & Under Betting Markets for UCL MD3
• Possible Champions League Matchday 3 Goalscorers

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UCL Matchday 3 Outright Winner Selections

Now, back to business. Our best Outright Winners punts consist of, where they’re playing, current form, and past results in the Champions League.

Let’s see what teams are in the league of decent punts worth taking:

• Tues, 18:45: AC Milan vs Club Brugge (AC to win odds: 1.37)
• Tues, 21:00: Arsenal vs Shakhtar Donetsk (Arsenal to win odds: 1.09)
• Tues, 21:00: Juventus vs VfB Stuttgart (Juve’s winning odds: 1.97)
• Tues, 21:00: PSG vs PSV (Paris Saint-Germain to win at odds of 1.97)
• Tues, 21:00: Aston Villa vs Bologna (Odds of 1.57 for the Villans to win)
• Wed, 21:00: Man City vs Sparta Praha (Pep’s City to win at home with odds of 1.04)
• Wed, 21:00 Benfica vs Feyenoord (After two straight CL wins, Benfica to win with odds of 1.56)
• Wed, 21:00: Atlético Madrid vs LOSC Lille (Simeone’s men to bounce back at home with odds of 1.49 to win)
• Wed, 21:00 Young Boys vs Inter (After winning on the road the last time, Inter to win at odds of 1.38)

Should you choose to build an ACCA on these fixtures together, you could see your odds increase to an appealing 20.72.

Best Punts for Over & Under Betting Markets for UCL MD3

In this section, we list the best games for games to end with goals over or under 2.5.

Starting with the fixtures that could end over 2.5:

• Tues 21:00 Juventus vs VfB Stuttgart (Over 2.5 Odds: 1.83).
• Tues 21:00 Real Madrid vs Dortmund (Over 3.5 at odds of 2.08).
• Wed, 18:45 Atalanta vs Celtic (Over 3.5 at odds of 2.30).
• Wed, 18:45 Brest vs Leverkusen (Over 2.5 with odds of 1.57).
• Wed, 21:00 RB Leipzig vs Liverpool (Over 3.5 at odds of 2.30).
• Wed, 21:00 Man City vs Sparta Prague (Over 3.5 with odds of 1.87).
• Wed, 21:00 Barcelona vs Bayern Munich (Over 3.5 at odds of 2.30).
• Wed, 21:00 Atlético Madrid vs LOSC (Over 2.5 with odds of 1.93).
• Wed, 21:00 Benfica vs Feyenoord (Over 2.5 with odds of 1.58).
• Wed, 21:00 Young Boys vs Inter (Over 2.5 at odds of 1.54).

Building a betslip on the above matches that we have predicted to end over 2.5 or 3.5 will increase your odds by a staggering 631.9.

Games that could end with the goals under 2.5:

• Tues 18:45 AC Milan vs Club Brugge (Odds for under 3.5 are  1.57).
• Tues 18:45 Monaco vs Crvena Zvezda (Odds for under 3.5 are 1.62).
• Tues 21:00 PSG vs PSV (Odds for under are 1.88).
• Tues 21:00 Aston Villa vs Bologna (Odds for the match to finish under 2.5 goals scored are 2.04).
• Tues 21:00 Arsenal vs Shakhtar Donetsk (Odds for goals under 3.5 goals are 1.75).
• Tues 21:00 SK Sturm Graz vs Sporting (Odds for the game to finish under 1.65).

Placing these wagers together would increase the odds by 30.96 when building an ACCA.

Possible Champions League Matchday 3 Goalscorers

Here we’ll give you the top selections for possible goal scorers on this coming Tuesday and Wednesday night.

Let’s see who to put your money for a goal or more:

• Kylian Mbappe (Odds: 1.84)
• Vinicius Junior (Odds: 2.55)
• Jude Bellingham (Odds: 3.15)
• Serhou Guirassy (Odds: 3.30)
• Abdallah Sima (Odds: 5.40)
• Dusan Vlahovic (Odds: 2.55)
• Erling Haaland (Odds: 1.65)
• Mohamed Salah (Odds: 2.95)
• Cody Gakpo (Odds: 3.30)
• Vangelis Pavlidis (Odds 2.25)
• Angel Di Maria (Odds 3.15)
• Victor Boniface (Odds: 2.17)
• Florian Witz (Odds: 2.95) 
• Robert Lewandowski (Odds: 2.17)
• Yamal Lamine (Odds: 3.30)
• Harry Kane (Odds: 2.33)
• Morgan Rogers (Odds 3.95)
• Ollie Watkins (Odds 2.30)

These players have been hot in front of the goals since the start of the season. The chances of them putting the ball into the back of the net in this week’s fixtures are looking good! 

As always, happy betting, and don’t forget to check out all of Sunbet’s Champions League betting markets and Place Your Bets Now! Get More With Every Moment! Remember, Odds are subject to change.