Manchester United travel to Bayern Munich for their opening Champions League match
Manchester United travel to Bayern Munich for their opening Champions League match
Manchester United travel to the Allianz Arena in search of three Champions League points on Wednesday evening and as such, why not pay a visit to any of our featured UK betting sites and be sure of the very best Manchester United odds and offers ahead of their midweek European outing.
European heavyweights Manchester United and Bayern Munich go head-to-head for their opening Group A games on Wednesday evening and envisage goals galore at the Allianz Arena.
Kick-off: 8pm UK Time, Wednesday 20th September 2023
Nine European crowns
With a grand total of nine European crowns between the sides, Manchester United and Bayern Munich last went head-to-head in a competitive match in 2014 when the Bundesliga outfit ran out 3-1 victors in the second leg of the quarter-finals in this competition, while their last group stage meeting was back in 2001.
Excellent start
Bayern have enjoyed an excellent start to their Bundesliga campaign although their three-game winning run came to an end when they were forced to share the spoils with Bayer Leverkusen following a 2-2 draw at home last time out. Harry Kane opened the scoring for Bayern with his 300th career goal, however this was cancelled out by Alex Grimaldo later in the first half. Leon Goretzka believed that he had snatched the winner when he struck the back of the net in the 86th minute but the visitors had other ideas with Exequiel Palacios scoring from the spot in the fourth minute of stoppage time.
Group stage experts
Bayern have never before lost at home to Manchester United with three wins and two draws, therefore they will be confident of getting their European campaign off to a flying start on Wednesday evening. They are undoubted group stage experts with 34 games unbeaten at this phase of the tournament and they are favourites to make it fourteen group stage home wins on the bounce in this midweek meeting.
Not in crisis
Manchester United boss Erik ten Hag was a hugely disappointed man at the weekend when his Red Devils went down to a hugely disappointing 3-1 defeat at home to Brighton & Hove Albion. United were booed off the pitch at the final whistle and the side now sit in 13th position in the Premier League table after five games. The Red Devils boss maintains that the side are not in crisis right now and he will be doing his utmost to turn things around this week.
Formidable
Nevertheless, it seems a somewhat tall order for United to turn around their current predicament, especially when one considers Bayern’s formidable front line. The hosts have several paces attackers at their disposal while Kane is a proven clinical goalscorer who will be looking to get onto the scoresheet once again on Wednesday evening. The Red Devils may well add to the scoreline but we envisage Bayern taking advantage of the visitors’ leaky backline and claiming the spoils here.
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