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.
UEFA-Cup Odds for Aston Villa, Manchester City & Tottenham
UEFA-Cup round of the last 32 – Three english teams still in it to win it: Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester City & Aston Villa !
This coming Wednesday and Thursday, the UEFA-Cup will be in every football fans and bookmakers spotlight, not only in the UK. 3 sides from England are still in the tournament with Manchester City, high-flying Aston Villa and Tottenham Hotspur.
First up will be Aston Villa on Wednesday at 7pm UK-time, when they will take on CSKA Moscow from Russia at Villa Park in Birmingham. On Thursday then, Tottenham Hotspur will have to travel to Shaktar Donetsk and Manchester City will have to face Denmark`s København away in the first-leg.
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Aston Villa against CSKA Moscow:
Highest odds for an Aston Villa win at Unibet with 21/20 (UK) – 2.05 (decimal) – +105 (US odds)
The bookmaker “10Bet” offers the best odds for a draw: 23/10 – 3.33 – +233
The highest sportsbetting odds on a win for Moscow: Sportingbet UK – 3/1 – 4.00 – +300
Shaktar Donetsk against Tottenham Hotspur:
One of the highest bookie odds on a Tottenham victory over Donetzk is offered by “BetInternet” at 9/4 – 3.25 – +225, while a draw should be played with Bet365 at 23/10 – 3.30 – +230. The home win for Shaktar is best bet at PaddyPower (5/4 – 2.25 – +125).
FC Kopenhagen against Manchester City:
Kopenhagen to win against ManCity: 2/1 – 3.00 – +200 at Bet365 Sportsbetting
Any draw between the two teams: 9/4 – 3.25 – +225 at Victor Chandler`s VCBet
Manchester City odds to win the away game: 7/5 – 2.40 – +140 at Expekt International
What are the bookmakers football odds on any of the english teams to win the UEFA-Cup 2009, you ask ? Well, Aston Villa and Manchester City come in as second favourites behind AC Milan (4/1) at around 10/1, while Tottenham is currently offered around 12/1.
Complete UEFA-Cup schedule for Wednesday & Thursday:
Dynamo Kiev vs. FC Valencia
Zenit St. Petersburg vs. Stuttgart
Olympiakos vs. AS Saint Etienne
Aalborg vs. Deportivo La Coruna
Aston Villa vs. CSKA Moscow
Werder Bremen vs. AC Milan
Bordeaux vs. Galatasaray Istanbul
NEC Nijmegen vs. Hamburg
Paris SG vs. Wolfsburg
Sampdoria vs. FC Metalist Kharkiv
Braga vs. Standard Liege
Lech Poznan vs. Udinese
Shakhtar Donetsk vs. Tottenham Hotspur
FC Copenhagen vs. Manchester City
Fiorentina vs. Ajax Amsterdam
Marseille vs. FC Twente Enschede
Should Manchester City advance against Copenhagen, they will face either Aalborg BK from Denmark or RC Deportivo La Coruña of Spain. Tottenham would have to play against either Aston Villa FC or PFC CSKA Moskva in the round of the last 16, while Aston Villa will therefore face the winner of the FC Shakhtar Donetsk – Tottenham Hotspur FC game.