WC 2014 17:00  Costa Rica VS England

Yes as every match of England in this WC, people (i think mostly in UK) at Betfair back them to win. 2,1M€! On their victory today! Previous two rounds, other bettors laying them should have been very happy. Will they again? At the total opposite, Asian bookmakers also offered early, the Costa Rica +1.25 AH are now only offering +0.75. It is due to their solid results in their two first games beating Uruguay 3-1 and Italy 1-0 when England simply out.

Costa Rica did pretty well and defense has been quite solid finally when we thought it could have been hard. Uruguay was leading them 1-0 but finally exploded, Italy was outplayed by them and without a real idea how to break their defense, Italians couldn’t find the way to nets..

The value was clearly on Costa Rica +1.25 to me even if both team...

WC 2014 21:00 Cameroon VS Brazil

Biggest money today at Betfair is on Brazil to win. 1,9M€ on their victory. Seems logical yes but at such low price and with the really unpredictable face they showed in their matches until now, it will really depend on their today motivation and efficiency who seems to be the key factor for them (for many teams but they got so many chances vs Mexico that this crazy superman gk saved…)

Cameroon showed nothing and hard to see the coach not to put a list of bench guys there after that started humiliated him and his work. Awful games, fight among players from the same team on the pitch (at the tv then!) and nothing appearing to be professional approach. The coach for sure is now fired up and then we should see a mixed squad but with probably a bit more desire than previous 2 games.

Brazil will win and be...

WC 2014 17:00  Belgium VS Russia 

Belgium got a lot of stakes on them today (the most staked team in Betfair today)with around 1,3M€ on them to win.  Asian bookmakers moved biggggg against them in recent hours and we have the feeling that it is far too much to be able to catch almost 2.20 on Belgium!

Belgium disappointed vs Algeria but Algeria did it very compact in the backline first and punished them on their first chance of the game and then in the end it likely helped Belgium who could get the ball control and attack, attack and finally turn around a 0-1 deficit into 2-1 win in the end.

Russia was really uninspired and poor vs a very weak Korean generation and proved once again they are nothing anymore.

Here the move against Belgium and the idea that Belgium could face a less defensive team who is somehow quite limited...

WC 2014 17:00  Argentina VS Iran

Almost 2,3M€ on Argentina to win here. Priced 1.16 around it seems an eventual combo material rather than single for many but well a value is a value and which bank would give you 16% ;-)

Argentina did the job (by taking 3 pts vs Bosnia) but not the job by how fans expected them to do it… Bosnia showed some good tries and Argies will try here to punish as early as possible this very limited Iran team who has the stupid idea to play a sleepy game vs Nigeria. A really bad result in the end because it was clearly a 6 pts match between the two smallest teams of this group. And it seems that both was too limited to try to take a win and keep thin hopes to create a miracle in one of their two other game… Now we have Iran who will try to resist to an early goal when Messi and co will go for it..

Only...

WC 2014 17:00  Italy VS Costa Rica          

Biggest today stakes at Betfair and it is on Italy to win. 1,6M€ on them. Seems a lot but yes I see them wining by a short margin maybe but still take it. Now mostly +1 value on Costa Rica as odds moved already too much but Italy to win… So maybe better to see live how it goes.. What was interesting is the move from -1.50 to now -1 or even -0.75 on Italy… Hard to don’t see few value in Italy live if they tart slowly this game with a cautious focus to get good odds after 5-10 mins.

Italy did serious as often vs England in the first game to win it 2-1. They are with a nice mix of old foxes as always young Pirlo or crazy but talented Balotelli and the probable next Pirlo: Veratti for ex. They will take this one seriously and will not rush...

WC 2014 20:00 Uruguay VS England

Biggest stakes at Betfair today are once again on England With 1,6M€ on their victory over Uruguay (once again as England trusted at Betfair for each their games, probably due to the big amount of Uk guys among Betfair customers). In European bookmakers it is also moving down but a more shy size as it is about 0.06 pts down only.  The interesting trend is how England was settled earlier when odds opened before WC and especially before their 1^st match and the 1^st game of Uruguay. England was +0.25 AH now -0.50!

This after a quite interesting game where they lost to Italy 1-2 but showed much more than we could think from them despite Rooney being still goalless… In other hand, Uruguay disappointed so big in their opening game by losing from 1-0 lead to 1-3 in the end vs Costa Rica. They...