{"id":4228,"date":"2018-07-03T22:37:12","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T21:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/?p=4228"},"modified":"2018-07-03T22:39:23","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T21:39:23","slug":"england-into-second-favourites-and-on-course-for-the-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/matched-betting\/football\/england-into-second-favourites-and-on-course-for-the-final\/","title":{"rendered":"England into second favourites and on course for the final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England are now second favourites behind Brazil to win the World Cup, with the Bookmakers backing them to face the Samba superstars in the final.<\/p>\n<p>The Three Lions came through a nerve jangling penalty shoot-out win to overcome Colombia, and now their route to the final is firmly set out.<\/p>\n<p>Gareth Southgate&#8217;s men take on Sweden on Saturday, and victory there would set-up a semi-final against either Croatia or hosts Russia.<\/p>\n<p>England are now 4\/1, joint with France and only behind Brazil at 11\/4.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Bookmakers now feel England are on course for the final, they are the shortest price of any nation on that side of the draw,&#8221; said OddsMonkey spokesman Peter Watton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Having started the tournament around 16\/1, they are now a quarter of that price and are the lowest price for a World Cup finals win since they won it in 1966.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And no matter what, England are on course for a trophy with Harry Kane now standing on six goals and 1\/4 favourite to take the Golden Boot &#8211; a feat not achieved by an Englishman since Gary Lineker in Mexico 1986.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Selected World Cup odds:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>World Cup outright<br \/>\n<\/strong>Brazil 11\/4<br \/>\nEngland 4\/1<br \/>\nFrance 4\/1<br \/>\nCroatia 11\/2<br \/>\nBelgium 11\/2<br \/>\nUruguay 14\/1<br \/>\nRussia 18\/1<br \/>\nSweden 25\/1<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top goalscorer<br \/>\n<\/strong>Harry Kane 1\/4<br \/>\nRomelu Lukaku 11\/1<br \/>\nKylian Mbappe 11\/1<br \/>\nNeymar 18\/1<\/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>England are now second favourites behind Brazil to win the World Cup, with the Bookmakers backing them to face the Samba superstars in the final. The Three Lions came through a nerve jangling penalty shoot-out win to overcome Colombia, and now their route to the final is firmly set out. Gareth Southgate&#8217;s men take on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":4229,"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":[4591,2910,5214,4518,2811,115,1611,2733,1535,2283,2740,2570,2569,2681,2688,2337,2846,2685,2732,2254],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4228"}],"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=4228"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4233,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4228\/revisions\/4233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4228"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}