Bundesliga Betting – New Season Kicks Off August 15
August 12th, 2008
Bundesliga Betting – Matchday 1 Preview & Odds (Aug 15-17)
Bayern Munich are hot favourites in the outright Bundesliga betting at leading online soccer sportsbook, PinnacleSports.com. The Bavarians are priced as short as 1.476* in the outright Bundesliga betting markets at Pinnacle, after being further strengthened by summer arrivals, including Tim Borowski. The German international, is however, one of several key players unlikely to play through injury in the season opener at home to Hamburg.
Klinsmann Putting His Stamp on Bundesliga Champions
After a limited amount of time spent with his new team in pre-season, Jurgen Klinsmann is yet to fully put his mark on defending Bundesliga champions, Bayern Munich. This is Klinsmann’s first club appointment, so may take time for the famous ex-pro to adjust to the rigours of the Bundesliga, but game one is only days away, and HSV Hamburg will provide an early test. Franck Ribery is still recovering from an ankle injury sustained at Euro 2008, while Luca Toni has developed a calf problem which makes him a doubt for the season opener, along with Willy Sagnol, and new signing, Tim Borowski.
Hamburg in common with Bayern Munich, their Bundesliga matchday one opponents, start the new season under different management. Martin Jol – formerly coach of Tottenham Hotpsurs – has taken charge, and his biggest challenge is filling the void left by Rafael Van der Vaart, who joined Real Madrid in the summer. Van de Vaart was HSV’s best player for the past three seasons, so the Dutchman’s departure will certainly be a big blow. These sides shared two 1-1 draws last term, and Bayern Munich haven’t beaten Hamburg at home for three season, but on their Bundesliga betting PinnacleSports.com have the home side favourites, going Bayern Munich 1.806 (-0.5 & -1)* with Hamburg 2.140 (+0.5 & +1)* – a market priced to less than 102%.
Bremen Handed Comfortable Opponents on Matchday 1
Werder Bremen are the closest challenges to Bayern Munich in the outright Bundesliga betting at PinnacleSports.com. Bremen are priced 7.500* on the strength of last season’s second place finish, ten points adrift of the runaway winners. If Thomas Schaaf is to entertain serious hope of winning the league in 2008/09, he cannot afford to give Bayern Munich the head-start they enjoyed last term. Werder should be able to get this campaign off to a positive start, visiting Arminia Bielefeld on matchday one, who finished last season one place above the relegation zone.
DSC have been busy in the off season, with seven new signings, and several players going in the opposite direction. Christopher Katongo joins from Brondby offering several options in forward positions, he replaces the outgoing Christian Eigler. Bielefeld were riding high in the early part of last season, sat in second position having taken 10 points from five games. Their form plummeted after that early burst, spending the remainder of the season struggling against the drop, and PinnacleSports.com make them under-dogs on their Bundesliga betting, for this opener despite home advantage, pricing Arminia Bielefeld 1.962 (+0.5)* and Werder Bremen 1.962 (-0.5)*.
To add even further value betting on the Bundesliga, PinnacleSports.com’s low margin pricing has also been applied to the new live soccer betting markets for the Bundesliga with 1.95/1.95 style live Asian Handicap pricing and in-running Total goals betting.
*All odds subject to change
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