Lionel Messi dragged Argentina into next year’s World Cup finals almost single-handed against Ecuador but the best 9/1 with Betbright for the South American country to win the 2018 tournament in Russia looks poor value.
Argentina have been at every World Cup finals since 1970 and have twice won the tournament but knew that anything other than victory in Ecuador would have meant elimination. Yet that looked a serious possibility when Ecuador took a shock lead inside 40 seconds at the Estadio Olimpico Atahualpa.
Argentina hadn’t scored in open play for 450 minutes but the Barcelona maestro came to his country’s rescue by scoring a hat-trick and almost certainly saved coach Jorge Sampaoli’s job in the process. But while there was joy in Buenos Aires, there was despair in Santiago as South American champions Chile slipped to defeat in Brazil and failed to qualify for the World Cup finals. Peru’s draw with Colombia has earned them a play-off against New Zealand but they are 500/1 to win the 2018 World Cup – the Kiwis are a massive 2500/1.
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Europe’s qualification process has also been completed with the group winners confirmed and eight countries, including Northern Ireland and Republic Of Ireland, having booked their play-off place. Neither of the Irish teams will be seeded in the play-offs, which puts them at a disadvantage, but they still at least retain an interest which is not the case with the Netherlands, Ukraine, Turkey, Austria, Chile, Cameroon or Ghana.
