World-Cup Betting: Spain & Brazil rank as the early favourites !

Football betting experts go with Brazil and Spain as the early favourites to win the Football World Cup 2010 in Southafrica !

The World-Cup qualification phase is behind us and all the usual suspects capable of winning this mega event, made it to South Africa. Also, all the former World Champions will compete; Uruguay held off a scare from Costa Rica and France eliminated a very unfortunate Irish team due to an incredible hand play by Thierry Henry.

The international football bookmakers rank reigning European Champ Spain together with 5-time winner Brazil as the top of the list with odds around 5.50 (9/2). These two are followed by England (7.50 or 13/2), Argentina (10.00 or 9/1) and Germany at 13.00 (12/1).

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The football bookmakers would currently pay out 14.00 (13/1) for the Netherlands and an always very dangerous Italy. The Top 10 list is completed by France and Portugal with odds around 17.00 (16/1) and the Ivory Coast at 25.00 (24/1).

Behind these 10 top contenders, matters quickly become kind of improbable. While Chile, Serbia, Ghana and Paraguay with sportsbetting odds of around 40.00-60.00 (39/1 – 59/1) might have a very slim chance to win this event, behind these four, there are no less than nine more teams coming it at odds of around 100-to-1, these are: USA, Cameroon, Denmark, Mexico, Nigeria, Australia, Greece, Uruguay and host nation South Africa.

Anyone of these teams winning the FIFA Football World-Cup 2010 would certainly be a major sensation by itself, but if any of “the rest” actually wins it all, then that would rank as one of the most stunning “Cinderella”-victories in sports history for all time. Here the “candidates”:

Switzerland: around 150-to-1
Japan and Slovenia: up to 250-to-1
South Korea, Slovakia and Algeria: 300-to-1
New Zealand, Honduras and North Korea: up to 2000-to-1 (!!)

The FIFA World Cup Final Draw will be held on December 4 in Cape Town (19.00 local time/18.00 CET). Once the draw is complete, some teams winning odds might either go up or down, of course, depending on the group opponents. Especially at World-Cups in the past, there were rather “easy-breezy” groups for the favourites, but also groups containing 4 really strong contenders.

Inter vs. Chelsea – Champions League Bookmaker Odds

League leaders of Italy and England clash at Giuseppe Meazza on Wednesday: Inter vs. Chelsea – Bet365 100€ or 100£ signup bonus !

For the first time ever in any competition, Inter Milan and FC Chelsea meet in an official match. This should get interesting, given that Inter`s Coach Jose Mourinho and Chelsea counterpart Carlo Ancelotti cannot really be called friends. The odds offered by best football bookmakers like Ladbrokes, Bet365 or Victor Chandler can`t really agree on a favourite here:

Bet365 Odds on Inter – Chelsea: 2.70 (17/10) – 3.10 (21/10) – 2.75 (7/4)
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Inter drew the last 3 (!) matches in the Italian Serie A, most recently with a 0:0 at home against Sampdoria. Chelsea beat the Wolverhampton Wanderers 2:0 in the Premiership after eliminating Cardiff City 4:1 from the FA-Cup.

Most likely lignups:

Inter: Julio Cesar – Maicon – Lucio – Samuel – Zanetti – Cambiasso – Muntari – Thiago Motta – Sneijder – Eto’o – Milito

Chelsea: Cech – Belletti – Terry – Carvalho – Ivanovic – Mikel – Ballack – Cole – Lampard – Drogba – Anelka

Champions League last 16 Knockout Round:

Milan vs. Manchester United, first leg 2:3
Olympique Lyon vs. Real Madrid, first leg 1:0
Porto vs. Arsenal, first leg 2:1
Bayern Munich vs. Fiorentina, first leg 2:1

VfB Stuttgart vs. FC Barcelona
Olympiacos vs. Girondins Bordeaux
CSKA Moscow vs. FC Sevilla
Inter Milan vs. Chelsea

Current odds by Bet365 to win this years Champions League favour Barcelona at 11/4, followed by Chelsea at 9/2, ManU (5/1), Real Madrid (11/2) and Arsenal, Inter & Bayern Munich (all at 12/1). Biggest longshot to win it all is Stuttgart at 150/1.