World Cup betting - SkyBet fancy Spain v Holland final
With the first semi-final of the World Cup getting underway tomorrow, SkyBet are offering 5/4 for Spain and Holland to meet in the 2010 World Cup final on Sunday, July 11.
In-form Germany are 13/8 to meet Holland in Johannesburg on Sunday.
Holland take on the surprise package in this years World Cup Uruguay in the first of the semi-finals and it’s 4/6 for Bert van Marwijk’s side to win in 90 minutes (9/2 Uruguay and 13/5 Draw). It’s 2/7 for the Dutch to qualify with the South Americans 5/2 to progress into the final.
Wednesday sees the 15/8 favourites to lift the World Cup Spain take on Germany for a place in the final. It’s 13/8 for Spain to overcome Germany in 90minutes (7/4 Germany and 11/5 Draw) and 4/5 for Vicente del Bosque’s men to qualify (evens Germany qualify through to the final).
It’s 4/5 for both semi-finals to be decided in normal time and 33/1 that both matches go to a penalty shoot-out.
Having already scored a total of five goals already, the current World Cup top scorer David Villa is the 4/9 favourite to claim the Golden Boot. The Spanish striker is also the 5/2 favourite to be the World Cup Golden Ball winner (player of the tournament).
Wesley Sneijder, who has been instrumental in Holland’s World Cup campaign, is the 3/1 second favourite to be named Player of the Tournament while Germany’s Bastian Schweinsteiger is 4/1 and his captain Philipp Lahm is 6/1.
SkyBet’s football betting spokesman Tim Reynolds said: “On paper you would expect Holland to ease through to the final but as this World Cup has already shown, nothing is guaranteed. We laid Spain in the outright in the lead up to the World Cup so we’ll be hoping that Germany can stop another big gun in their tracks having already eliminated both England and Argentina.”