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World Cup Final Betting Preview Italy - France
-> Betting previews World Cup Final in Germany picks on Sunday 9 of July. -> Released by sportbetting guru ecobika. -> Betting World Cup soccer. Italy and France, after beating out Germany and Portugal. No doubt, Italy had much harder task defeating host nation Germany. Sincerely, Portugal was a big surprise, but every lucky streak ends once, and France had much more easier game defeating Portugal. Italy's squad consists of fantastic players, the skills and talent are superb (del Piero, Totti, Pirlo, Gattuso, Zambrotta, Giraldino, and last but not least Buffon), they play the football and can adopt the play to any opponent. Italy has one more extra day to rest, but comparing the overtime victory and France's relatively easy victory: no advantage from this viewpoint. Interestingly enough France's advance in the World Cup is almost the same story, as Italy's story. France squad had been in a must win situation in the group stage already. They had to win with 2 goals difference against those Togo, which was packed with players from Ligue1 and Ligue2, therefore it was a prestige game for Togo. France's players played like a lion - instead of going to early vacation a beach -, which showed: they are very motivated. Add to this that Zidane had said well before the World Cup, that he had come back to be World Champion, not being a clown. And sincerely, that match against Togo changed ecobika's attitude in case of France. Of course, the big deal was beating out Brazil, without a goal conceded.
So we have two teams with superb defense. Maybe Italy is better, if we compare the players head-to-head, especially the quality of the goalkeepers could be crucial. Both teams success depended on the team spirit so far (especially against Germany and Brazil respectively), so the gamefixing scandal in Italy has no effect on the players. What could be crucial? Italy's team is used to extra times, more experienced in this kind of situations, and maybe they want to avoid penalty shootout, because they have bad memories about penalty shootouts. As one mistake can decide the World Cup Final, the goalkeepers' performances are crucial! Buffon is without any mistake so far, Barthez had some mistakes in critical saves. A lucky goal? Yes, maybe. Italy won in 1982, in 1994 and 12 years again...How to bet this final? It looks an under 2.5 goals affair almost sure. If the question is who wins the World Cup, certainly it is an emotional bet. But in this case a win-win, or lose-lose situation! Ecobika’s betting, Ecobika's betting advice: -> Italy to win World Cup. |