Champions League Final Tips And Stats: Dortmund Vs Real Madrid Big Odds Bets

Dortmund Vs Real Madrid Big Bets Odds:

• Jude Bellingham to score 2+ goals at 10/1 with Bet365
• Toni Kroos to score first at 16/1 with BoyleSports
• First goal to be an own goal at 25/1 with Bet365

Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund meet at Wembley on Saturday in this season’s Champions League final.

If Real win, it will extend their record to 15, eight more than Milan who are second on the list with seven. Victory for the German side will be their second, and their first since 1997. 

The Spanish giants start as overwhelming favourites on the best betting sites, but in a one-off game, anything can happen. 

Saturday’s Wembley showdown will be the final game before the European Championship begins in Germany on June 14.

As you would expect for a game of this magnitude, there are plenty of markets available to bet on. 

We have studied every European Cup/Champions League final to bring you three bets that are long overdue to land in the final of UEFA’s elite club competition.

An Englishman To Score A Brace At Wembley?

There can be no better feeling in football than winning a major competition on home soil. And for three players that script is waiting to be written at Wembley on Saturday. 

Jude Bellingham is the sole Englishman in the Real Madrid squad, and after scoring 23 goals in a remarkable debut season for Los Blancos, La Liga's player of the season will be confident of scoring at the home of football. 

The 20-year-old midfielder is 10/1 with Bet365 to bag a brace for the fifth time this season.

Jaden Sancho’s football career had stalled after being frozen out at Manchester United, where he was forced to train on his own after being publicly criticised by manager Erik ten Hag. 

Things hadn’t worked out for the 24-year-old since joining from Dortmund ahead of the 2021/22 campaign for £73m.

When Dortmund offered Sancho an opportunity to return to the Signal Iduna Park in January to resurrect his career, the forward took the chance with both hands. 

Five months later, and he is about to start in the Champions League final. Sancho is 66/1 to score twice in Saturday's final.

Jamie Bynoe-Gittens (80/1) is another English player hoping to light up Wembley. The Reading-born teenager may have to settle for a place on the bench.

But having seen substitute Joselu score two late goals to secure Real Madrid’s place in the final, he knows he could be Saturday’s hero.

Nacho And Kroos Look To Sign Off In Style?

Saturday’s Champions League final will be Toni Kroos and Fernandez Nacho’s last games in Real Madrid’s famous white colours. It’s fair to say both players are due a goal, and where better to end their droughts than at Wembley.

Kroos’ last goal for Los Blancos came 40 games ago on September 24, when Madrid lost 3-1 at Atletico in La Liga. 

The German, who will retire at the end of this summer's European Championship, is 16/1 with BoyleSports to open the scoring at Wembley. 

It’s been over a year since Nacho last celebrated a goal, when he broke the deadlock in a 2-0 win at Cadiz in the league. 

Nacho has been included in Spain provisional squad for Euro 2024, and he will hope to arrive at the tournament a Champions League winner. The 34-year-old is 40/1 on betting apps to score the first goal of the 2023/24 final.

For Dortmund, Nico Schlottenbeck is the expected starter with the longest wait for a goal. 

It’s been 15 games since the defender last scored, when scoring his side’s second in a 3-2 defeat at home to Hoffenheim on February 25. The 24-year-old is 66/1 to be the first goalscorer at Wembley.

Saturday will also be Marco Reus' last game for Dortmund and the 34-year-old is also 16/1 to be the first goalscorer. 

Will Wembley See A Rare Own Goal?

Saturday’s final will be the 69th in the history of the competition known as the European Cup before being rebranded to the Champions League ahead of the 1992/93 season. 

In almost seven decades of the final, only one player has had the misfortune of scoring an own goal. 

Barcelona goalkeeper Antoni Ramallets has sole membership of that unwanted club ever since his error in 1961 gave Benfica a 2-1 lead immediately after Jose Aguas had cancelled out Sandor Kocsis' opener. 

You won't find bookmakers offering odds for a player to score an own goal in Saturday's final, but you will find it in the method of the first goal market.

Bet365 are offering odds of 25/1 for the first goal in this season's Champions League final to be an own goal.

And because football betting sites don't count own goals in the first goal market, any bet you have on a player to open the scoring rolls on. 

While it's been 63 years since an own goal in the biggest game in European club football, it's been almost as long for a hat-trick to be scored.

Only four hat-tricks have been bagged, and two of those were scored by Hungarian Ferenc Puskas in 1960 and 1962. Alfredo Di Stefano also scored a hat-trick in the 1960 decider for Real Madrid against Eintracht Frankfurt. 

Italian Pierino Prati remains the last hat-trick hero, after scoring three times in Milan’s 4-1 win over Ajax in 1969. 

Since switching to the Champions League, no player has taken home the match ball after a final. Could that change this year?