England look set to be the only home nation going to next summer’s World Cup finals in Russia, according to odds specialists OddsMonkey.<\/p>\n
With only a couple of games remaining in the qualifiers England have all but wrapped up their place at the World Cup – but the path is not looking as easy for the rest.<\/p>\n
As Scotland are in the same group as England, they can at best finish second – but odds are against them to do that.<\/p>\n
Northern Ireland are in Group C which has all but been won by Germany, but they have wrapped up second place – which will mean a play-off to make it to Russia. The runners-up from 8 of the 9 groups face-off with the worst ranked team not even getting the chance.<\/p>\n
Wales and Republic of Ireland are battling it out in Group D – but again second is as good as either can hope for.<\/p>\n
Having looked at the odds, OddsMonkey believes that the Three Lions could be the only British side making the trip to Russia.<\/p>\n
“England are all but there, 1\/33 to win the Group,” said OddsMonkey spokesman Peter Watton.<\/p>\n
“But after that the rest look like they have a tough task on their hands. Northern Ireland are there, and Wales are 2\/5 to join them – but look at who they could be playing against. Looking at the markets, you will be seeing Italy, Sweden, Bosnia, Iceland and even European champions Portugal.<\/p>\n
“It is not looking good for British football fans, they could very well only have Gareth Southgate’s England to cheer on in Russia come next summer.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
England look set to be the only home nation going to next summer’s World Cup finals in Russia, according to odds specialists OddsMonkey. With only a couple of games remaining in the qualifiers England have all but wrapped up their place at the World Cup – but the path is not looking as easy for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[841,74,1640],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","category-news-events","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n