Liverpool and Monaco were left stunned in Europe.
Never back the early kick off.
Well, that’s how the well-known saying goes and it was no truer than in the Champions League fixtures today.
Liverpool visited Red Star Belgrade in Serbia whilst Monaco hosted Belgian champions Club Brugge, and both sides were made favourite by the bookies.
Despite Belgrade being a notoriously difficult and hostile place to go, Liverpool were still made shoo-ins and were as short as 1/5 to win the match. Red Star Belgrade weren’t given much respect by bookmakers and were available at 17/1.
Thierry Henry is yet to win a game as Monaco boss yet the French side were 6/5 to get the 3 points. Club Brugge were 5/2 underdogs.
Liverpool and Monaco were in for a shock in the opening 45 minutes, and they walked down the tunnels 2-0 and 3-0 down respectively. The best price on these scores was 100/1 and 110/1, meaning you could have got 11,210/1 on the half time score double.
Neither side went on to make a comeback, the matches going on to finish Red Star 2-0 Liverpool and Monaco 0-4 Club Brugge. The top price of these correct scores were both 110/1 and both available with the same bookmaker, meaning the double on these would have paid even more than the half time double.
£10 on both correct scores would have banked you a mammoth £123,200!
Half time scores in the Champions League:
Red Star 2-0 Liverpool
Monaco 0-3 Clubb Brugge
£10 on the double would return:
Best price: £112,110
Worst price: £18,860
