Clash Of Champions 2019 Betting Odds
Liverpool and Tottenham will battle it out in Madrid on Saturday night and we’ve asked our Bwin News editors for their expert Champions League final predictions.
Bwin is offering odds on a huge range of markets ahead of this clash and here’s three contrasting betting tips on how to cash in on the prices available.
WWE's Clash Of Champions event is returning for the first time since 2017. The Clash of Champions pay-per-view event takes place tonight in Charlotte, North Carolina at the Spectrum Center and will air on the WWE Network and some traditional pay-per-view outlets. Both Raw and SmackDown brands will be featured. Here are the betting odds, courtesy of WWE Leaks.
STUART WALKER – LIVERPOOL TO WIN AND BTTS @ 5/2
For Liverpool to end the season without silverware seems inconceivable given the fantastic football they have produced this term.
Despite just missing out on a first league title since 1990, Jurgen Klopp’s men can gain some solace by being crowned champions of Europe for a sixth time.
Both pulled off dramatic comebacks to reach only the second all-English European Cup final, with Tottenham appearing in their first one.
But Liverpool won both Premier League meetings with Tottenham this season and have lost to their English rivals just once in the last 14 meetings in all competitions.
There have been 15 goals shared between them in the last four encounters and these familiar foes can play their part in an open contest in Madrid.
ANDREW McDERMOTT – LIVERPOOL -1 GOAL @ 11/5
Tottenham have done so well to get this far and beating Manchester City over two legs in the quarter-finals was a huge achievement, but it’s hard not to think they have enjoyed some good fortune along the way.
They finished 26 points behind Liverpool in the Premier League, meaning they were as close to 14th-placed Bournemouth in terms of their points tally.
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Liverpool’s demolition of Barcelona in the second leg of their semi-final highlighted what they are capable of and last year’s run to the final will stand them in good stead to make up for that disappointment.
I think the Reds will be too strong for Spurs and I fancy Liverpool to win by more than one goal as the pick of the Champions League final predictions.
TONY KELSHAW – SADIO MANE TO SCORE FIRST @ 9/2
This season’s incredible Champions League matches have shown that anything can happen in football, but the Reds still have to be rated as a form pick to prevail at the magnificent Wanda Metropolitano.
Klopp’s side came out on top 2-1 in both Premier League encounters between these sides and there was a huge gap between them in the table.
Liverpool did enjoy a bit of good fortune via Toby Alderweireld’s own goal in stoppage time at Anfield, but that was one of nine straight domestic wins at the business end of the campaign.
Barcelona were crushed 4-0 on a magical night on Merseyside, despite Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino being absent.
Both should be fit to feature here and will feature in many first goalscorer picks, but siding with Sadio Mane makes more sense to me.
The Senegal international closed the Premier League campaign with a double strike against Wolves to earn a share of the Golden Boot honours and netted away to Porto and Bayern Munich in this competition.
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Clash Of The Champions could and should be brilliant. Or, troublingly, it could be really, really awful.
Consider this; WWE pay-per-views in 2019 have been (with odd rule-proving exceptions) an absolute f*cking hoot. A break from the at-times torturous churn of main roster television, the Sunday supershows have reflected the company operating at peak Sports Entertainment performance, with good-to-great action untarnished by sh*tty scripting, solid comedy and dream reconciliation from legend and experienced hands, with the odd banger even lingering around on one or two of them. In the case of Extreme Rules' Graveyard Dogs/Drew McIntyre & Shane McMahon belter, it had all of the above.
Some of the success has to be put down the aforementioned churn though - the dreaded beats and rhythms that made Raw in particular so hard to watch for so long. By virtue of how bad the weekly show was, the monthly provided a palette cleanser. But that's not been a fitting description of the flagship this month. Raw's been quality since just before SummerSlam.
WWE, for the first time in an ice age, have to maintain the heat from television rather than simply find it on a pay-per-view. Here's hoping, for a rare change, Clash Of Champions 2019 reflects a company that can do both.
12. Drew Gulak (c) Vs. Humberto Carrillo Vs. Lince Dorado
WWE's holding pattern with their Cruiserweight division doesn't not work, so it's understandable why they follow the dominant champion model so often, but the total lack of upward momentum for the league equally renders it all a little bit pointless. In the place of angles lasting longer than a month or title matches meaning anything a few seconds after the referee counts three, early-evening bangers are the last great preserve of the 205 fan.
Drew Gulak's triple threat defence potentially promises another. Lince Dorado, without hyperbole, should have already been a multi-time champion by now, had the division ever developed a true identity beyond 'missable'. Humberto Carrillo's modest success on NXT alongside Raul Mendoza never resulted in the pair of them moving into the TakeOver echelon of the brand, but this opportunity (even if bumped to the Kickoff) for Carrillo is overdue in light of his efforts on 205 Live.
It all ends with another win for Gulak of course, in spite of what the challengers can offer. Ahead of some potential instability, the division requires its rock to remain solid.
Winner - Drew Gulak