Despite the fact that the World Cup in Qatar led to the fact that the group stage of the Champions League was compressed in time and ended before December, the tournament itself will continue as usual next year. And this means that it is not too late to bet on the most prestigious club football tournament.
If you know how to predict the results of football matches, you can try Mostbet uz kirish and bet on the Champions League at the Mostbet bookmaker, which pays special attention to the markets of Central Asia, including Uzbekistan – among the available languages it also has Uzbek.
However, in addition to football matches, bets can also be placed on the results of the Champions League. Bookmakers offer long-term bets, so it is possible to bet on the winner of the tournament even before the first round of the group stage is over. But betting on the winner is not the only long-term bet.
Since the Champions League, like any other tournament, has a scorer ranking, football fans can bet on the player who will score more than anyone else in the season. The top scorer is determined after the final of the tournament, so you can bet, for example, after the third round, and get a win in June 2023 if you bet on the one who will reach the final.
After the third round of the group stage, there are already several players who have scored more than once and are among the contenders for winning the Golden Boot:
- Erling Holland. The unstoppable Norwegian has already scored five goals in his first three Champions League matches at Manchester City, where he moved this summer. Danish side Copenhagen suffered from him twice in the first leg in England and may again fall victim to the already once top scorer of the tournament – in the 2020-21 season in the shirt of the German Borussia Dortmund – already at home.
- Leroy Sane. Holland’s main pursuer, playing for the German Bayern Munich, scored one goal less. Viktoria Plzen suffered from him in Germany twice as well and can prepare for even more damage from the former Manchester City player already in the Czech Republic. At the same time, Sane spent more time to score four goals than Holland spent on five of his goals: 222 minutes against 204.
- Robert Lewandowski, Kylian Mbappe, Jude Bellingham, Noah Okafor, Mohammed Kudus, Giacomo Raspadori and Piotr Zieliński. All seven scored three goals in the first three matches and in one match they can both catch up and overtake both Leroy Sane and Erling Holland. It may seem like Lewandowski and Mbappe have the best chance of being the top scorer, but in reality they are the favorites more because their teams are more likely to advance to the later stages of the tournament, so these players will get more opportunities to score.
The top scorer is determined primarily by the number of goals scored from the first round of the group stage to the final. If two or more players have scored the same number of goals, then the best among them is determined by the number of assists. If they are equally divided, then the minutes that the competitors spent on the field are counted: the advantage is given to the one who spent less time on the field.
At the end of the tournament, the top scorer receives the Golden Boot trophy. Last season it was earned by Real Madrid’s Karim Benzema, with whom he also won the Champions League itself and scored 15 goals. This season, he has not yet noted anything, so he is no longer considered one of the favorites for the award.
