{"id":4200,"date":"2018-06-29T15:50:17","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T14:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/?p=4200"},"modified":"2018-06-29T15:50:17","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T14:50:17","slug":"bookmakers-looking-at-brazil-v-spain-world-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/news-events\/press-release\/bookmakers-looking-at-brazil-v-spain-world-cup-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookmakers looking at Brazil v Spain World Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The knockout phase of the World Cup has been decided, and the Bookmakers believe things are shaping up towards a Brazil v Spain final.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil have been cut into 7\/2 favourites after advancing to the last 16, where they will face Mexico &#8211; and on the opposite side Spain, who are 4\/1 second favourites, are also through and will come up against hosts Russia.<\/p>\n<p>But the big movers in the markets have been Belgium, England and Croatia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Brazil and Spain is logically the final we are now faced with and those two, as you would expect, are seeing plenty of support,&#8221; said OddsMonkey spokesman Peter Watton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But away from that and the ones to watch according to the Bookies are Belgium, England and Croatia &#8211; those three were considered outsiders, but not anymore &#8211; Belgium and England are now joint third favourites at 7\/1 with Croatia down from a whopping 66\/1 into 11\/1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;England and Croatia particularly are being well backed as they are perceived to be on the &#8216;easy side&#8217; of the draw.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The likes of France and Argentina have drifted and they do look value, but the public are clearly not convinced.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Selected World Cup odds:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n7\/2 Brazil<br \/>\n4\/1 Spain<br \/>\n7\/1 Belgium<br \/>\n7\/1 England<br \/>\n9\/1 France<br \/>\n11\/1 Croatia<br \/>\n14\/1 Argentina<br \/>\n22\/1 Colombia<br \/>\n22\/1 Uruguay<br \/>\n25\/1 Portugal<br \/>\n40\/1 Switzerland<br \/>\n50\/1 Russia<br \/>\n50\/1 Sweden<br \/>\n66\/1 Mexico<br \/>\n80\/1 Denmark<br \/>\n200\/1 Japan<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2792\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/pressreleasebanner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"865\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/pressreleasebanner.jpg 865w, https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/pressreleasebanner-300x120.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/pressreleasebanner-768x306.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 865px) 100vw, 865px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The knockout phase of the World Cup has been decided, and the Bookmakers believe things are shaping up towards a Brazil v Spain final. Brazil have been cut into 7\/2 favourites after advancing to the last 16, where they will face Mexico &#8211; and on the opposite side Spain, who are 4\/1 second favourites, are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":4204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":""},"categories":[841,5046,74,1640],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[6171,2738,2931,2791,2704,3450,6165,6166,1611,2842,1535,6167,2036,2283,2740,6170,2337,2741,2732,2254],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4200"}],"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=4200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4205,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4200\/revisions\/4205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4200"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}