World Cup Odds

Argentina’s Outright Odds Cut Again

A powerful and fluid display from Maradona’s men has seen Argentina’s price outright for the World Cup slashed once again.

As long as 10/1 before the tournament kicked off, they’re now in to 5/1. Although some might argue that South Korea are not of a high enough standard to test the better teams in the competition, many big hitters have found the opposite to be true so far - just ask Spain, France, England and Brazil, who all struggled to avoid embarrassment in their first games. (more…)

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World Cup Top Goalscorer Daily Preview

Trying to pick where the goals might come from in Sunday’s World Cup action is about as easy as finding a politician with a clean expense account….

Sunday opens with England’s Group C opponents Algeria and Slovenia meeting on Polokwane. Algeria’s form in 2010 is as unpredictable as Lady GaGa’s wardrobe with wins over Uruguay and the Ivory Coast interspersed with heavy defeats to the Republic of Ireland, Malawi and Serbia.

The Desert Foxes’ entire strike force scored just 14 goals last season, and their second highest international goalscorer is defender Antar Yahia with five goals. If you combine that with the fact that opponents Slovenia only conceded four goals in ten European qualifying matches, I’d think more than twice before backing an Algerian goalscorer in this one. (more…)

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Sunday 13 June - WC Day 3

There are some mouthwatering matches on Sunday with our first chance to see two of England’s Group C opponents, before two of the Three Lions oldest sporting foes go head to head….

Slovenia v Algeria

Any Slovenian fan who watched Algeria’s catastrophic 3-0 defeat to lowly Malawi at the African Cup of Nations would have marked this down as the easiest three points the central European minnows would ever earn in international football. (more…)

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World Cup Top Goalscorer Daily Preview

Saturday is a terrific day for fans of the great strikers as we get to see three of the top eight men fancied to win the Golden Boot.

Diego Maradona looks likely to pair the La Liga duo of Gonzalo Higuain and Lionel Messi up front for Argentina’s opener against Nigeria. With support from the flanks in the form of the supremely talented Angel di Maria and the Newcastle winger Jonas Gutierrez, there may well be goals for the strikers in this one. (more…)

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Spain v Switzerland - Wednesday 16th June

European Champions should Roll Over Swiss

Spain, so often the ‘nearly’ men of European football, finally came good at Euro 2008 and have hardly put a foot wrong since. Though surprisingly beaten by the USA in last year’s Confederations Cup, Vicente Del Bosque’s side strolled through qualification for the World Cup with an unblemished record and their form in recent warm-up games suggests they have every chance of justifying favouritism in South Africa. Let’s face it, any team that can afford to leave the likes of Cesc Fabregas on the bench has to be pretty special, though the want-away Arsenal skipper may get a rare start alongside Xavi in Spain’s engine room against Switzerland if the latter’s Barcelona team-mate Andres Iniesta fails to recover from a muscle strain picked up in the Spaniards’ 6-0 demolition of Poland last week. (more…)

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