World Cup Betting Report And Results From Day 2 - 06-11-06
June 11 - The World Cup odds for the three games on Day Two proved very accurate indeed as the betting favorites won all three games. Most impressive of all was clearly the Netherlands, but Mexico and Portugal will be delighted with their results as well.
Holland could well be serious contenders for the World Cup in 2006. The men in orange have been tipped to win their Group by soccer's top handicappers at Mycapper.com, which is giving away daily premium picks for the World Cup. They showed that the pick was pretty shrewd (at least so far), when they easily despatched a resilient Serbia & Montenegro team.
The biggest online sportsbooks like Bet365.com had the Netherlands installed as 9/10 favorites to record the victory and what generous World Cup odds those were.
In the second game of the day an emotional Mexico team outplayed Iran in the crucial final ten minutes, scoring two late goals to clinch a 3-1 win. Mexico were heavily favored in the betting but actually drifted from an opening call that was even more prohibitive, so we wonder if the result was really that bad for the bookies.
Portugal beat Angola 1-0 in the last game on Sunday but might have expected more. Still, they didn't want to drop points like Sweden did against a weak team so Portugal definitely "took care of business".
Tomorrow's games include a humdinger between USA and Czech Republic and Mycapper.com had a featured top pick for this one, so don't miss out on their expert advice.
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