Lethal Lionel odds-on for Champions League Boot
MANCHESTER CITY have been eased from 10-1 to 12-1 to win the Champions League after their chastening 4-0 loss to Barcelona at Camp Nou on Wednesday.
The defeat leaves City just a point above Borussia Monchengladbach in the battle for a place in the last 16 but Barca will be missing injured defenders Gerard Pique and Jordi Alba for the reverse fixture at the Etihad on November 1.
Lionel Messi did the damage with a hat-trick for the hosts and bet365 are betting on how many goals he scores in Manchester.
The firm go 10-11 that he fails to register and 20-1 that the Barca star bags three or more goals.
City are 2-11 to reach the last 16 while Barcelona are 3-1 favourites to lift the trophy.
Messi’s heroics against City doubled his season’s tally in the competition to six, two more than PSG striker Edinson Cavani, his closest rival in the scoring chart.
Messi has been slashed from 7-2 to 3-4 to finish as the top Champions League goalscorer while Cristiano Ronaldo is the 7-1 second favourite after failing to find the net in Real Madrid’s 5-1 home win over Legia Warsaw on Tuesday.
Arsenal have one foot in the knockout stage after Mesut Ozil’s hat-trick helped them to a 6-0 success at home to Bulgarian champions Ludogorets.
The Gunners have lost in the last 16 of the Champions League in the last six seasons but bet365 make them 4-5 to break that sequence by reaching the last eight. They are evens for the Londoners to fall short.
Coral offer 11-10 that Arsenal win a major trophy this season and 4-6 they don’t.