3 outright winner bets:
Brazil 4/1
Argentina 11/2
France 6/1
Looking through all the stages I think the semi's come down to Brazil v Argentina & France v Belgium.
Difficult to call the winner between Argentina & Brazil, while I see France beating Belgium. Profit if one lands.
My outsider bet of the tournament would be Portugal @ 14/1
Group winners acca:
Netherlands (A)
Argentina (C)
France (D)
Belgium (F)
Brazil (G)
£10 returns £59.19 with Bet365
I purposefully avoided the Spain/Germany group as well as the England group. You'd think England have the quality to go out and win the group but Southgate has been prone to less attacking
football. I hope he proves me wrong and the boys come out guns blazing.
Teams not to qualify acca:
Qatar
Iran
Saudi Arabia
Tunisia
Japan
Morocco
Cameroon
Ghana
£10 acca returns £43.32
A bit of an untapped market in my opinion. Everyones looking at group winners, not at group losers.
Sky bet are offering Combined winner/bottom markets. If you can bet with Sky (I can't) feel free to combine the bets.
Japan group could be Costa Rica or Japan bottom.
Qatar depends on tonights game, Ecuador being better defensively makes me think Qatar bottom.
South Korea or Cameroon bottom of their group.
Play around, combine them into a few small accas.
Golden Boot:
Couple of speccy (speculative) plays on the golden boot
I'm not a huge fan as its a hard one to predict but if you dont try..
Cody Gakpo 50/1
Julian Alvarez 50/1
Messi 10/1
Richarlison 25/1
With Argentina and Brazil both set to go deep it should pay to side with players in their respective teams. Alvarez scored a few in the warm-up games as did Richarlison. Gakpo in good form for his team (9 in 14 games) and scored a few in the Nations League. Messi is as always inevitable. One other I considered is Ronaldo with all the talk of late he will be keen to shut everyone up and put himself on the market for anyone who can afford
him (and fancys the headache that comes with it), as his time at United is almost certainly up.
It's a market I don't like so keep stakes small.
Opening games acca: ❌
England (to beat Iran) ✅
Netherlands (to bt Senegal) ✅
Argentina (to bt Saudi)
France (to bt Australia)
Germany (to bt japan) - Potential banana skin
Spain (to bt Costa Rica)
Belgium (to bt Canada)
Uruguay (to bt S Korea)
Portugal (to bt Ghana)
Brazil (to bt serbia)
£10 acca returns £377 with bet365
Extending on the above bet: ❌
Netherlands (v Ecuador)
Poland (v Saudi)
Argentina (v Mexico)
Belgium (v Morocco)
Brazil (v Switzerland)
Netherlands (v Qatar)
France (v Tunisia)
Germany (v Costa Rica)
Portugal (v S KoreA)
Brazil (v Cameroon)
£10 on the 20 teams returns
£17,552
