World Cup Wagering Odds Lines Spain against Paraguay
Spain was the heavily preferred team to win this match on Saturday in the betting lines, but only hardly gained their victory with a final score of 1-0. Spain will now be moving on to the semifinals, where it will stand before Germany. In a final score of 4-0, Germany won their quarterfinals game versus Argentina.
David Villa obtained the winning goal in the 83rd minute, also landing his 5th goal of the World Cup. Now, in a reprisal of the Euro 2008 final where Spain routed Germany 1-0, they will be facing Germany again. Villa, for his part, is positive that Germany is not going to be happy to find them in the World Cup online betting semifinals.
With Brazil, Argentina and now Paraguay being eliminated from the contest, the World Cup’s only leftover South American squad is now Uruguay. Uruguay removed the last of the African squads when they beat Ghana in a heartbreaking penalty shootout.
The issue regarding the World Cup betting when it reaches the knockout stage is that there are generally no easy squads left in the competition. But this year it’s been a insane tournament and there is definitely a pecking order of the teams outstanding in the World Cup probabilities competition. At 1 end of the competition you have the greatly liked teams like Spain (3/1) and on the other end you have World Cup wagering afterthoughts like Paraguay (55/1).
And funnily enough these two teams squared off on Saturday in the World Cup betting quarterfinals. Clearly Spain was the huge favorite, as it should have been, in the World Cup odds proceeding into this match.
Paraguay had a penalty shoot out win against mid-level squad Japan and scarcely qualified for the quarterfinal game. And it primarily got into the Round of 16 competition after taking a bad Group F which was 1 of the poorest in the World Cup betting action.
Spain on the flip side has been very outstanding in spite of a shocking starting competition loss to tiny Switzerland in its 1st game of the 2010 World Cup wagering event. It continued to win two must win games –one of them versus a very great Chilean team. In the Round of 16 it played the hardest adversary of the tie, Portugal, and dispatched its Iberian neighbor and World #3 with little trouble.
Now it looks as if it’s got its ticket punched into the World Cup betting semifinal event as well. The World Cup sports books had made Spain a 13/25 fave to defeat its South American challenger. The 2nd closest soccer wagering line in the World Cup betting quarterfinal event is a far away 49/50.
The crazy thing about Spain is that it hasn’t even played up to its potential yet. Fans have been waiting for the perfect game from this Spanish side, or at least a top notch performance, and this squad has not come close to producing it. Conceivably enthusiasts will finally get to see what this squad is capable of against the German side in the upcoming World Cup semifinals betting.