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.
Odds on winning the Champions League 2009
What are the chances and odds on winning the Football Champions League 2009 ?
The first legs of the UEFA Champions League round of the last 16 are behind us, time to have a look at what the football bookmakers think about the chances of the remaining 16 teams to win the Champions League this year.
Let`s have a look at the results first. Aside from Germany`s Champion Bayern Munich`s 5:0 away win over Sporting Lisbon, all other 7 matches were pretty close. There were five draws and three 1:0 wins. So predicting who will join almost-certainly qualified Bayern Munich in the quarterfinals is not an easy task.
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Currently favored to win it all is Spain`s FC Barcelona at odds of around 11/4 (3.75 decimal odds – +275 USA odds) – Barcelona managed to draw 1:1 away with Olympique Lyon of France and is surely favored to gain entry into the next round at home.
Next in line is Manchester United with odds around 4/1 (5.00 or +400) to defend the title. ManU is facing Inter Milan at home, after drawing 0:0 in Italy. Currently ranked third is FC Chelsea with odds of around 7/1 (8.00 or +700). Chelsea won 1:0 at home against Juventus and has to defend that narrow lead in Italy now.
Moving onto favourites #4 and #5 now. These spots belong to FC Liverpool (9/1 – 10.00 – +900), which managed a strong 1:0 win in Spain against Real Madrid. The Reds should be able to hold onto that lead at home and join Bayern Munich, which currently offers odds of 10/1 (11.00 – +1000) to win Champions League title #5 for them. Next in line is Arsenal London after their 1:0 win at home against AS Rome, you can back Arsenal currently at around 13/1.
Other teams odds to win the Champions League this year:
Inter Milan: 14/1 – 15.00 – +1400
Juventus: around 25/1 – 26.00 – +2500
Real Madrid: 28/1 – 29.00 – +2800
AS Rome: 35/1 – 36.00 – +3500
FC Porto: up to 50/1 – 51.00 – +5000
Villareal CF: 50/1 – 51.00 – +5000
Atletico Madrid: up to 60/1 – 61.00 – +6000
Panathinaikos Athens: around 65/1 – 66.00 – +6500
Olympique Lyonnais: around 65/1 – 66.00 – +6500
Sporting Lisbon: Bet365 offers 10.000 to 1 (!)
The UEFA Champions League schedule:
Tuesday, March 10:
Liverpool against Real Madrid
Juventus against Chelsea
Bayern Munich vs. Sporting Lisbon
Panathinaikos Athens vs. Villareal CF
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Wednesday, March 11:
Manchester United vs. Inter Milan
Porto FC against Atletico Madrid
AS Roma versus Arsenal London
FC Barcelona vs. Olympique Lyon