The biggest game in European club football kicks off on Saturday with Serie A champions Juventus taking on La Liga winners Real Madridfor the UEFA Champions’ League title.
Zinedine Zidane, himself a veteran of both Juventus and Real Madrid, will hope to lead the Spanish side to consecutive Champions’ League victories. Whether you think that will happen or not, you can join the action at Bet365.
The two titans of southern Europe will be duking it out at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium on Saturday, 3 June.
Champions’ League 2017 betting
Hundreds of millions is likely to be wagered on the outcome of club football’s biggest spectacle, with a worldwide audience of billions.
Signing up with Bet365’s bonus code for their online casino will still allow you to access their wealth of sports betting markets, and you can also claim a £200 bonus there.
A plethora of markets and bets is available on the Champions’ League and other games to give fans of both single bets and accumulators the best bang for their buck.
Match win markets
If you want to back one of the teams to win inside of 90 minutes then you’ll find Real Madrid the favourites; currently they can be had for 8/5 at Bet365.
Juventus are the longer bet at 19/10, but bets on a draw after 90 minutes are worth considering at 11/5.
To lift the trophy
It’s a close one to call here, as Juventus are even money but Real Madrid are a shade shorter at 5/6.
The road to the final: Real Madrid
Real Madrid faced Sporting Lisbon, Borussia Dortmund and Legia Warzaw in the group stage.
They bested their Portuguese rivals 4-2 across two legs, destroyed Legia Warzaw 5-1 in Spain before being held to a 3-3 draw in Poland for an 8-4 aggregate score and saw both games with the Germans result in a 2-2 stalemate.
This put them through to face Napoli in the round of 16, who they beat 3-1 both home and away for an aggregate score of 6-2 to send them up against Bayern Munich. The Germans were defeated in both legs for an aggregate score of 6-3.
Madrid then faced their long-time rivals Atletico Madrid in the semi-finals, smashing the first match 3-0 with a hat-trick from Cristiano Ronaldo. Atletico won the next game 2-1 but it wasn’t enough to overcome the deficit, and Real Madrid made their third Champions’ League final of the last four years.
The road to the final: Juventus
Juventus began with a group stage consisting of themselves, Sevilla, Dinamo Zagreb and Lyon. They made an inauspicious start to the tournament with a 0-0 draw at home against the Spanish side before despatching the Croatians in a 4-0 whitewash away, then defeating Lyon in a one-goal match on French soil.
Lyon held Juventus to a draw in Italy, but the Italians beat both Sevilla and Zagreb in their follow-up matches to face FC Porto in the round of 16, beating them 2-0 and 1-0 in each leg.
This set them up for a quarter-final match against Barcelona, which they won 3-0 on home soil before holding the Catalan side to a draw in Camp Nou to face Monaco in the semi-final. A swift 2-0 away victory followed by a 2-1 win in Italy sent them through to the final.
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