Early Payout Offer sees Aston Villa and Bayern backers paid out before pair relinquished leads

Thanks to our '2 Goals Ahead Early Payout Offer', backers of Aston Villa and Bayern Munich were paid out as winners despite both dropping points in dramatic fashion.

Unai Emery's Aston Villa will have been left extremely disappointed not to have picked up three points in their quest for Champions League qualification after throwing away a two-goal lead at home to Brentford, with the spoils eventually shared in a 3-3 draw at Villa Park.

Villa raced into a 2-0 lead courtesy of goals from Ollie Watkins and Morgan Rogers, before Thomas Frank's valiant Bees hit three goals in the space of nine second half minutes to put themselves 3-2 in front.

Mathias Jorgensen, Bryan Mbeumo and Yoane Wissa were on the scoresheet as struggling Brentford threatened to pick up their first win in nine Premier League outings, but Ollie Watkins was able to able to grab an equaliser in the 80th minute with his second goal of the match.

bet365's '2 Goals Ahead Early Payout Offer' meant all backers of an Aston Villa home win were paid out at 2-0, regardless of Brentford's spirited fightback.

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Backers of Bayern Munich will also have been left thankful for bet365's '2 Goals Ahead Early Payout Offer' today, with the Bavarians throwing away a two-goal lead away to succumb 3-2 away to Heidenheim.

Bayern's second consecutive league defeat sees them 16 points behind high-flying Bayer Leverkusen in the table, with Xabi Alonso's side now able to win their first ever Bundesliga title should they prevail at home to Werder Bremen next week.

Bayern backers were paid out at 2-0 after Harry Kane and Serge Gnabry found the net for the six-time Champions League winners, only for Thomas Tuchel's side to conspire to concede three second half goals to mid-table Heidenheim and return to Munich empty handed.

It's been a season to forget for Bayern, with a trip to face Arsenal in the first-leg of the Champions League quarter-finals in London next up for the Germans.

James Wilson

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