October sees loads of sports action, including two Champions League and Europa League matchdays plus another international break with England playing two more Euro 2020 qualifiers.

The Champions League got under way last month and continues in October with Matchdays two and three.  Only Man City won out of the four English teams involved, so Liverpool, Tottenham and Chelsea will be hoping for better results in their next two games.

The groups for the English sides are as follows:

Group B - Bayern Munich, Red Star Belgrade, Olympiakos, Tottenham

Group C - Man City, Shakhtar, Dinamo Zagreb, Atalanta

Group E - Liverpool, Napoli, Red Bull Salzburg, Genk

Group H - Chelsea, Valencia, Ajax, Lille

The outright odds for this year's Champions League are as follows:

Man City are still the outright favourites at 10/3 with Barca drifting slightly as second favourites at 6/1 and last season's champions Liverpool still available at a fairly juicy 7/1 after their matchday 1 defeat in Napoli. With how well Liverpool have started their Premier League campaign, we believe this is still a big price and Liverpool usually turn it on in the later stages.  Last season's Semi Finalists Ajax have come in from a huge starting price of 80/1 and are now available at a more reasonable 50/1, but with the loss of some key players we feel they probably won't emulate last season's achievements.

PSG look quite interesting at 8/1 this year, they have invested further during the summer and would appear to have a squad good enough to mount a challenge, but they have flattered to deceive for a few years now.  Their win against Real Madrid on matchday 1 was impressive and suggests they may have turned a corner this season in their pursuit for the ultimate prize.

Man Utd and Arsenal are the joint outright favourites at 6/1 , showing the dominance of English football at the moment in the top European competitions.  However, United have had a mediocre start to the season and so we wouldn't recommend any bets at this stage.  Arsenal have the sort of attacking style that could see them go far again in the competition.

Porto have come down from their previous price of 50/1 after we recommended an outright bet on them last month, they are now available at 28/1 which still represents some value, but it's always worth remembering that 3rd placed Champions League sides enter this competition in the later stages, so there may well be some big entries at that stage.