Europa League Final Betting Tips & Predictions

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Football Betting Tips

5 August, 2024

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Chelsea v Arsenal, one of the standout fixtures in the Premier League season but on Wednesday 29 May the teams will abandon their usual battle for points and go toe-to-toe to decide the destination of this year’s Europa League trophy. Here are our top Europa League Final betting tips.

One half of an all-English European football final double-header, with Liverpool and Tottenham meeting a few days later in the Champions League final. This match won’t upstage the main event, of course, but it will serve as a delightful starter and the Olympic Stadium in Baku will be backed to capacity.

British football fans will flock to Azerbaijan’s largest city for one of the biggest football matches of the season. Those who can’t make it to the venue to soak up the atmosphere can do the next best thing and follow the play live on BT Sport from 8.00pm.

Critics Have Been Harsh on Sarri

There’s talk in the British media regarding the future of Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri and many betting firms have the Italian as one of the favourites to be next sacked by a Premier League club and that’s something that strikes us as very strange indeed. The gaffer hasn’t had the best first season in English football but by no means has he had a bad one. A top four finish in the Premier League – finishing third behind Man City and Liverpool, ahead of Tottenham – and a place in the Europa League final and League Cup final is no mean feat.

Perhaps the reason many fans and critics have been harsh on Sarri is the results haven’t been as strong as they perhaps should’ve. Chelsea finished the 2018/19 season with 21 wins and nine draws against eight defeats. They also managed just one win in their last five league starts and that made them very lucky to sneak through the back door and finish in the top four, thankful for the poor finishes of Tottenham, Arsenal and Man Utd. Doubters remain but Sarri and his coaching staff would go some way to silencing them by lifting European football’s second most important trophy.

That’s just what bookmakers expect The Blues to do and the money men at all major firms have priced Chelsea as favourites to win the match in 90 minutes. Agree? You’ll get 27/20 at William Hill and that’s one of the more generous offers made, some of the competition happy to keep their cards close to their chest in a match that really could go either way. Chelsea to lift the trophy is 4/6 at Ladbrokes and that covers backers against the risk of extra-time and penalties.