Bayern Munich vs Benfica Prediction: BTTS and away corners form 2/1 Bet Builder

Bayern Munich entertain Benfica in the Champions League on Wednesday night (20:00, live on TNT Sports 2) and Jamie Pacheco has previewed the clash at the Allianz Arena.

His Bayern Munich vs Benfica prediction is a Bet Builder that comes out at over 2/1.

Bayern are on course to wrestle back the Bundesliga title they surrendered to Bayer Leverkusen last season. They’re top with 23 points from nine matches and unbeaten, drawing two of those nine.

Across their last three matches on German soil (two in the league, one in the Cup), they won 5-0, 4-0 and 3-0 so are flying at the moment on the domestic front.

But there’s plenty of work to do in this competition. After a remarkable 9-2 win over Dinamo Zagreb first up, they lost away to Aston Villa and Barcelona, and another slip-up here would put them under pressure.

Two early wins in the competition have Benfica in a good position, but this is as tough a test as they’re likely to face in the group stage.

Bayern Munich vs Benfica Odds

Bayern are heavy favourites at 2/7 - an implied probability of 78%. It’s 5/1 about the draw (16.7%) and 8/1 about an away win (11%).

Benfica should be good for a goal here which brings us to that man Arturkoglu, who has been a real cash cow for us all season. He has 10 from 13 matches this season and has scored in all of his three Champions League matches so.

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, 100/30 about him is a lot more attractive than the 12/5 on Vangelis Pavlidis, but there’s nothing wrong with splitting your stakes between those two as they’re certainly the likeliest scorers for the Eagles.

Harry Kane is 11/4 to score first, 8/13 anytime and 11/4 to bag a brace - and it's 12/1 he nets a hat-trick.

Team News

The hosts are missing Sacha Boey, Tarek Buchmann, Hiroki Ito, Aleksandar Pavlovic and Josip Stanisic for this European encounter.

Benfica travel to Germany without Alexander Bah, Leandro Barreiro, Tiago Gouveia and Gianluca Prestianni.

1pt Bet Builder - Both Teams to Score & Over 2.5 Benfica Corners @ 2.62/1

Despite losing that match to Feyenoord, by scoring once, Benfica maintained their 100% record of scoring in every match since Lage took over, including netting seven in three Champions League matches. Bayern have conceded in all three of their matches so far in this competition, a total of seven goals.

Sure, Bayern kept three clean sheets in a row on the domestic front, but those teams were a couple of notches below Benfica in terms of quality. This Benfica side doesn’t have it in their DNA to play for 0-0 and Lage knows that it will be almost impossible to stop the hosts from scoring so will need at least one goal, and maybe two, to get something from the game.

With all that in mind, 4/7 on both teams to score looks fair and makes up the first part of our Bet Builder.

Here’s Benfica’s corner count for their matches since Lage took over: 5, 1, 5, 11, 4, 6, 8 and 8. That 1 was against Red Star. But they managed three or more in all of the other games and though this is arguably the biggest test they’ve faced all season where they’re likely to have less of the ball than in any other match, Benfica should still at least be good for three or more corners at 4/6.

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