{"id":2817,"date":"2017-12-01T18:22:07","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T18:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/?p=2817"},"modified":"2017-12-15T14:25:04","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T14:25:04","slug":"england-odds-cut-favourable-world-cup-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/news-events\/england-odds-cut-favourable-world-cup-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"England odds cut after favourable World Cup draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bookmakers across the board have cut England\u2019s odds on World Cup glory after the draw for the finals was completed in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>England were drawn into Group G with Roberto Martinez\u2019s Belgium &#8211; who were the seeded team &#8211; Tunisia and World Cup debutants Panama.<\/p>\n<p>Bookmakers are already reporting some support for England following the draw and they have generally been cut across the board.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe draw looks like a good one, but we have heard that before when it comes to England,\u201d said OddsMonkey spokesman Ricky Pedley.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, Bookmakers have been prompted to slash the odds straightaway and they are into 16\/1 from 20s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGenerally the head of the market &#8211; where you find Germany, Brazil and France &#8211; they have stayed steady but Spain and Portugal have drifted slightly after being drawn together and Argentina \u2013 who many believe have the toughest group, have drifted too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut looking at England, value wise \u2013 you can get 7\/5 on the group win \u2013 but there are plenty of pessimists out there, and so if you think a repeat of 2014 is on he cards and The Three Lions fail to get out of the groups, then you can get 6\/1 on them failing to qualify and 12\/1 to again finish bottom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Selected England odds:<\/strong><br \/>\nEngland To qualify from Group G &#8211; 1\/4<br \/>\nEngland Not to qualify from Group G &#8211; 6\/1<br \/>\nEngland To finish bottom of Group G &#8211;&nbsp; 12\/1<\/p>\n<p><strong>Overall World Cup odds:<\/strong><br \/>\nGermany 5\/1<br \/>\nBrazil 5\/1<br \/>\nFrance 5\/1<br \/>\nArgentina 15\/2<br \/>\nSpain 15\/2<br \/>\nBelgium 12\/1<br \/>\nEngland 16\/1<br \/>\nPortugal 18\/1<br \/>\nUruguay 28\/1<br \/>\nRussia 33\/1<br \/>\nColumbia 33\/1<br \/>\nCroatia 33\/1<br \/>\nPoland 40\/1<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bookmakers across the board have cut England\u2019s odds on World Cup glory after the draw for the finals was completed in Russia. England were drawn into Group G with Roberto Martinez\u2019s Belgium &#8211; who were the seeded team &#8211; Tunisia and World Cup debutants Panama. Bookmakers are already reporting some support for England following the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":""},"categories":[841,74,1640],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[2930,2813,2699,2742,2744,2704,3133,115,1611,2733,2830,3453,2740,2857,2739,2746,1000,3449,2732,2254],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2817"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2888,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817\/revisions\/2888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2817"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}