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Football Betting Tipsby Ben, last updated 2010-06-18 01:09:33
The first round of World Cup games were disappointing to say the least. Not many goals and overall quite dull football being played. The exceptions of course being Argentina. On another day that could have been 6-1, 7-1. The Germany result looked good but that was mainly due to the shocking Australia defence and star player Tim Cahill getting sent off. The Brazilians were disappointing and pre-tournament favourites Spain lost to Switzerland.
Round 2 is looking a lot better. Teams are getting used to the ball and realising that they must win the games to progress. I think the mentality was to not lose the opening game. Round 2 already has produced more over 2.5 goal results did than the whole of round 1. Punts on over 2.5 goals could be a goldmine.
Group C games. ![]()
Slovenia (4) Draw (3.4) USA (2.15)
Slovenia were dull as expected against Algeria. Game ended 1-0 to Slovenia after Algeria were reduced to 10 men over what must be stupid yellow card of the tournament and the Algeria keeper having a nightmare. Quite frankly, if it wasn't for that goal keeping error they could still be playing now and it'd still be 0-0. The Algeria keeper must have been trying to make Rob Green feel better.
The USA did its jobs against England. A goal keeping error allowed them to equalise but overall they kept the England quiet with some good offensive play of their own. As odds on second favourite to qualify, this is a game they must be expected to win. From what I saw of Slovenia they will do or it'll be a 0-0. William Hill have gone top price on the USA win, its 2.15.
England (1.29) Draw (6) Algeria (15)
What can I say about England? They are infuriating to watch. The have some good players but as a team they don't hold on to the ball enough. They can make pretty triangle passes in their own half but then they just lump it up field. Rooney and Heskey were disappointing. I can't think of a single thing that Rooney did that was remarkable. Green got a lot of stick for letting the USA equalise via his error but what about the 1 on 1 Heskey had? I am pretty sure England are the only side that picks a striker who they don't expect to score goals. You just knew he'd miss. If it was anyone else in the team practically they'd have put that chance away and the Green blunder would have been a side show. But now its all talk of who is going to start in goal.
As I said earlier, Algeria/ Slovenia was dull. Neither team looked like scoring. I am sure that if it was 11 vs 11 that game would have been 0-0. Just looking at the stats and Algeria had 2 shots on target whereas Slovenia had 3. Barring another massive blunder I can't see Algeria scoring here.
England are just 1.29 to win this. I think they will but its not a great price. I'd much rather be going for the 1.8 at bluesquare
for England to win to nil. Almost 3 times better odds for something which I think is just as likely.
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