Champions League Semis EARLY Best Bets and Score Predictions
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
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🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Our soccer experts Martin Green and Buckets give out their Champions League semifinals picks, predictions, and best bets for PSG vs. Bayern Munich and Atletico Madrid vs. Arsenal!
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| 0:00.0 | We're back on the early edge to talk some Champions League soccer with Martin Green and John |
| 0:09.5 | Buckets. Imer. We've got the semifinal leg one thoughts to discuss before we get to some of your |
| 0:15.0 | best bets, gentlemen. Let's start with our biggest storyline for PSG Byron. Buckets, you start. |
| 0:21.6 | Well, I'm going to make sure to keep my bias out of it |
| 0:23.8 | as best as I can. |
| 0:24.8 | Mia San Mia, Mia, let's go, boys. |
| 0:27.0 | My biggest takeaway your storyline for this |
| 0:28.7 | is that this should be the final. |
| 0:31.0 | We've got the best two teams and it's not even close. |
| 0:33.4 | Whoever wins this matchup is going to absolutely roll Arsenal or even more likely than that, |
| 0:39.0 | Atlago Madrid. This is just the two best offenses on the planet, the two best midfields on the |
| 0:43.8 | planet, maybe not the best defenses, but defense doesn't win championships. We've all heard that |
| 0:48.1 | famous quote before. Offense does baby. So expect a lot of goals in this matchup and Byron |
| 0:52.6 | Munich, hopefully to win. |
| 0:54.3 | No bias. |
| 0:55.3 | Martin, those were fighting words, if I've ever heard them. |
| 0:58.8 | Yeah, I'm going to respectfully disagree with everything that John just said that this |
| 1:05.4 | absolutely should not be the final because Arsenal finished top of the Champions League |
| 1:09.4 | group and they earned the right |
| 1:10.8 | to be on the opposite side of the bracket to Bayern Munich and I think they've got a much better |
| 1:15.6 | midfield than Bayern Munich as well so yeah disagreeing with that but my biggest storyline is |
| 1:22.2 | can Bayern Munich's defence cope with this elite PSG attack. We all know that Bayern are superb going forward. |
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