Manchester United v Bayer Leverkusen – Match Preview and Betting Tip

Betting Tips | Article posted on September 14th, 2025

After an unconvincing start to their Premier League campaign, Manchester United will look to kickstart their campaign with a Champions League win against relatively difficult tricky opponents. Nonetheless, overall United cannot complain too much about the draw for their qualifying group, which should see the Old Trafford club progress to the knockout stages, barring an unlikely series of events. However, United fans will remember bitterly Basel eliminating United from the Champions League just a couple of seasons ago, and will want to get points on the board as soon as possible.

Bayer Leverkusen are not perennial Champions League qualifiers and will be relishing this trip to one of Europe’s premier clubs and stadiums. Whether they can do any damage will depend at least partly upon how they deal with the occasion and venue.

Winner

Unsurprisingly, Manchester United are odds on favourites to win this one. Once upon a time, this would have been considered a completely routine win for United, but given the fact that the club is still acclimatising to life without Sir Alex Ferguson, and also that this will be new manager David Moyes’ first ever Champions League tie, at least at this stage of the competition, then some uncertainty surrounds it. Leverkusen are capable of springing a surprise, but I expect United to win quite easily, I think they will have too much forward power for the German side to deal with. United are odds on with every bookmaker, the best odds you can get on them is 3/4 with BetVictor.

Correct Score

United seem to be adopting a more cautious style of play under David Moyes than was the case in Sir Alex Ferguson’s days at the club, so consequently it’s easier to predict nowadays that their games might not be as high scoring as they once were. Thus, I think United will edge this one, perhaps not playing as free flowing football as one associated with them in the past. I think the final score will be Manchester United 2 – 0 Bayer Leverkusen. Best odds available are 9/1 with BetVictor.

Under / Over 2.5 Goals

The under 2.5 goals bet in this market can be had at best odds of 4/5 with Bet365.

Winning Margin

Manchester United to win by a single goal can be backed at best odds of 27/10 with Ladbrokes.

First Goalscorer

I’m ruling all of the Leverkusen players out of this particular market. Certainly Robin van Persie is always a good bet to score first nowadays for Manchester United, and despite some other good options, I can tip against the Dutchman. Best odds available for van Persie to open the scoring are 7/2 with Ladbrokes.

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