World Cup

[Ted]

Japan seriously up against it, with Argies & Frogs in their group, but could win opening game against Ivory Coast (June 15) can get 3.00 ish.

Brazil & Argies have it between them, but prices short.
Fri June 13 Spain v Holland, might get 4.5 Holland, they haven't got to win, just score ist, & I'll green up, play on with the profit.

Top tournament goal scorer Messi only 9.00 ish, Aguero 17 ish, have the confidence & the team to drop in price.

It's all good fun...........IF WE'RE WINNING

[custard]

Japan will lose all three games. France have thrown away some of their Prima Donnas and have a real football team for the first time in years. Ivory Coast and Argentina are both possibly winners of the competition so - bye bye Japan !

[Ted]

World Cup recent form

Recent match results not good not bad


05 Mar 2014 France v Netherlands 2-0 19 Nov 2013 France v Ukraine 3-0 15 Nov 2013 Ukraine v France 2-0 15 Oct 2013 France v Finland 3-0 11 Oct 2013 France v Australia 6-0 10 Sep 2013 Belarus v France 2-4 06 Sep 2013 Georgia v France 0-0 14 Aug 2013 Belgium v France 0-0

[Ted]

Wouldn't like to try to put a value on any teams recent results, don't mean much.
What does mean a lot is where the tournament is held, overall south American teams should shine.

[Emkayracing]

Get on Chelsea's best striker....

Group H - Belgium 8/11 to win

Benteke not travelling, Lukaku in good form.

33/1 on the books to be tournament goalscorer. Only 28 on the exchange, but it will liven up in due course.

Should be goals v Algeria & South Korea. On paper Russia (middle fixture for Bel) is the crunch match.

Snap up some 33s and lay it back as the Lukaku goals go in....

[Ted]

Like the look of that, back at 34ish lay at 28ish....freebe

nice to see your still around, take it you had a good Chelt/liverpool !

[custard]

What odds for England failing to score a goal, please ?

[Emkayracing]

What odds for England failing to score a goal, please ?

Better not post a link, but SkyBet are going 50/1.

[custard]

It's going to be very hard for England to score against Italy and Uruguay, Two defeats will knock the stuffing out of them and, as I believe England play Costa Rica last, the South Americans may well be playing against a very demoralised English team.

I predict a Spain v France final ( assuming I have my fixtures worked out properly ) and both Germany and Brazil to perform poorly. This is based purely on what I have seen of these teams playing this year. Spain easily has the best players in the world.

The weather could make a nonsense of my predictions especially if some teams wilt in the heat.

[owlbow8bran]

Sir, it's winter in Brazil.

[Thomson]

Japan seriously up against it, with Argies & Frogs in their group, but could win opening game against Ivory Coast (June 15) can get 3.00 ish.



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A case for Japan.

Firstly this is group C....Colombia, Greece, Ivory Coast, Japan .
Not an Argie nor a frog in this one. Loads of markets on our favourite exchange so depending on your preferences where is the value back to lay bet.

Columbia are fav's for the group, which seems fair, here's how they play;

14 June 2014
Colombia v Greece, Estadio Mineirao, Belo Horizonte, 17:00 (BBC)
15 June 2014
Ivory Coast v Japan, Arena Pernambuco, Recife, 02:00 (ITV)
19 June 2014
Colombia v Ivory Coast, Estadio Nacional, Brasilia, 17:00 (BBC)
19 June 2014
Japan v Greece, Arena das Dunas, Natal, 23:00 (BBC)
24 June 2014
Japan v Colombia, Arena Pantanal, Cuiaba, 21:00 (BBC)
24 June 2014
Greece v Ivory Coast, Estadio Castelao, Fortaleza, 21:00 (BBC)

Japan TQ @ 2.22 looks OK... wins in the first two games should be doable.
However is there value in the Dual forecast mkt.

Dutch ….... Columbia / Ivory Coast 2.86
and..... Columbia / Japan 3.6

This is 1.59 combined and is an in-play market so it has opps to wiggle.

Food for thought.....

[doubleback]

What odds for England failing to score a goal, please ?

Me ol’ mucker Stevie might be able to give you a couple of pointers, he even uses a couple of charts in his latest press release ...

[custard]

Sir, it's winter in Brazil.

Yes, theoretically it is. Unfortunately it is one hell of a big country and has all sorts of climates at different times of the year. I am sure England will cope admirably with the 25 degrees and 90% humidity.

http://www.wunderground.com/weather-forecast/Brazil.html

[Ted]

Good pointer there, Cust, living in a tiny country like UK, tend to forget massive countries have massive temperature differences.

ie Could fit whole of UK into the state of Texas, 3 times

[Emkayracing]

Brazil 8.5 million km2

Europe 10.1 million km2

Currently 27 degrees in northernmost venue, Manaus.

Meanwhile, down south in Porto Alegre it is just 11 degrees.