Market focus: best match goals bets for Wednesday’s Champions League games (with 17/1 acca)

Updated on 10:21am GMT 17 August 2021

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The Champions League takes centre stage again this week, and the competition famed for delivering goals and excitement by the bucketload promises to thrill supporters across the continent on Wednesday evening.

In this week’s Market Focus feature, we’re aiming to take advantage of the tournament’s net-shredding reputation, and we’ve picked out five Champions League clashes from Wednesday’s fixture programme that just ooze goal-scoring potential.

We’ve also combined our favourite match goals predictions into a tasty looking 17/1 accumulator that you can back using the banner further down the page.

As always, we’ll be covering all of the elite European football action with match previews and exclusive betting tips for each game over on our Champions League predictions page.

For more daily accumulator predictions take a look at our football betting tips today

Best match goals predictions

Ajax vs Atalanta

Ajax and Atalanta drew 2-2 in a pulsating encounter in Bergamo back in October.
Over 2.5 goals have rattled the net in seven of Atalanta’s last nine Champions League assignments.
Ajax’s home matches have averaged 4.0 goals per 90 minutes in all competitions this season.
Three of Ajax’s last four Champions League matches returned over 2.5 goals.

Betting Tip: Over 2.5 goals

Midtjylland vs Liverpool

Over 2.5 goals have hit the net in three of Midtjylland’s five Champions League group games this season.
A minimum of three goals have been scored in six of Liverpool’s last 11 Champions League away tests.
Midtjylland’s last six home matches in all competitions saw an average of 3.33 goals scored per 90 minutes.
Liverpool have scored two or more goals in 11 of their 18 competitive fixtures this season.

Betting Tip: Over 2.5 goals

Bayern Munich vs Lokomotiv Moscow

Bayern Munich have averaged over 3.0 goals per game in the Champions League this season.
Bayern have scored three or more goals in five of their last seven assignments.
Over 3.5 goals have been scored in five of Bayern Munich’s last seven fixtures.
Over 3.5 goals have been scored in eight of Bayern Munich’s last 12 Champions League tussles.

Betting Tip: Over 3.5 goals

RB Salzburg vs Atletico Madrid

RB Salzburg’s group games have averaged a whopping 5.0 goals per 90 minutes this season.
Only Ferencvaros (16) have conceded more goals in the group stage than RB Salzburg (15) this term.
Atletico Madrid beat RB Salzburg 3-2 when the teams faced off in the Spanish capital in October.
Over 3.5 goals have been hit in 10 of RB Salzburg’s last 13 Champions League encounters.

Betting Tip: Over 3.5 goals

Real Madrid vs Borussia Monchengladbach

Over 2.5 goals have been notched in 100% of Borussia Monchengladbach’s Champions League group games this season.
Real Madrid and Gladbach shared four goals in a 2-2 draw when they last met back in October.
100% of Gladbach’s eight away games in all competitions this season have seen over 2.5 goals scored.
Over 2.5 goals have been struck in nine of Real Madrid’s last 10 Champions League assignments.

Betting Tip: Over 2.5 goals

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