Who will walk away with the World Cup 2018 golden boot? Who will be the leading light in the goalscoring charts for the tournament? There is something of a simple formula to consider for your selection in the Ladbrokes World Cup 2018 top goalscorer market. That is the more games the player is likely to get more chances he has to score.
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Whenever you can it is always worth looking at statistics to try and backup your options in markets such as this for example. Eight of the last 10 winners of the World Cup Golden Boot all played seven games exactly. From start to finish in the tournament to get seven games that means you are playing in the World Cup final itself. Honestly, the perfect thing is finding world-class perfect top goalscorer playing for a team who is a front-runner.
If you take a look at Ladbrokes World Cup 2018 top goalscorer odds that’s not actually a hard thing to find. Brazil who are the World Cup outright favourites have Neymar. Germany who are second favourites have Thomas Muller. Spain have Diego Costa. France have Antoine Griezmann and Argentina have Lionel Messi. While you will have your own opinions of how good each of those are in comparison to the others, but you will find that they all make solid options for a top goalscorer bet.
Messi and Neymar lead the way
Lionel Messi and Neymar are the joint 9/1 favourites* (betting odds taken on June 4th, 2018 at 11:44 p.m.) in the Ladbrokes World Cup 2018 top goalscorer market. That’s no real surprise as Neymar’s strike record for Brazil is stunning and he is the focal point of a very powerful team that will be churning out a challenge. Lionel Messi is one of the greatest players that the world has ever seen and even though Argentina are the least fancied of the big nations heading to the 2018 World Cup this summer he has the individual brilliance to carry the hopes of a nation on his shoulders.
Making up the list of main contenders in the top goal scorer market are France’s Antoine Griezmann, Cristiano Ronaldo, Harry Kane, Timo Werner, Romelu Lukaku and Gabriel. The list, of course, goes on and on but those are at the main options under 20/1 odds in the Ladbrokes World Cup 2018 top goalscorer market. If you can pair up a top goalscorer with a leading contender than you may be close to producing a winner. Of course, this such a wide open market that surprises like James Rodriguez top-scoring four years ago happens, whereas surprises in the World Cup outright winner market don’t so much.
Brazil and Germany Strong Favourites
So looking back at the Ladbrokes World Cup 2018 betting odds it is Brazil and Germany leading the way as 9/2 odds joint favourites* (betting odds taken on June 4th, 2018 at 11:44 p.m.). Both do look mightily powerful and if you look through their squad, not just their starting elevens, then is hard to find any chinks in their respective armour. That extra quality in depth is something that is needed especially in the latter stages of the tournament.
Ladbrokes World Cup Outright Winner Odds*
Brazil 9.2
Germany 9/2
Spain 6/1
France 6/1
Argentina 9/1
Belgium 10/1
England 14/1
Portugal 25/1
Uruguay 25/1
Croatia 33/1
Columbia 33/1
Russia 40/1
Poland 40/1
Denmark 80/1
Mexico 80/1
Sweden 80/1
Switzerland 100/1
Bar 150/1
* (betting odds taken on June 4th, 2018 at 11:44 p.m.)
World Cup 2018 Kick Off
The action at the 2018 World Cup starts on June 14 with host nation Russia facing up against big underdogs Saudi Arabia. Will the tournament get off to a routine start as expected with a win for the home side, or will there be a memorable upset just as there was at the 2002 World Cup when France who were the reigning world champions, lost their opening fixture against Senegal and crashed out group stage? That’s the kind of excitement that thrills neutrals and breaks hearts of patriots.
Don’t forget though that Ladbrokes World Cup 2018 odds goes broader and reaches far wider than just the tournament outright winner and the tournament top goalscorer markets. There will be 64 individual matches to bet on during the 2018 World Cup in just the space of a month. Take time to consider your multiple bets, accumulators and some forward planning as well as much as is possible. If you have the World Cup chart you can see the difficulty of the potential route to the final for your backed selections.
Plan it all out, look at statistics, look back at World Cup history as all this will help you make informed decisions in selecting your Ladbrokes World Cup 2018 betting odds. Of course, nothing is set in stone, it doesn’t have to be one of the big 5 to come through the field and win it. It doesn’t have to be one of the world superstars who wins the golden boot. It doesn’t have to be, but more likely than not at the end of the day it will be.
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