World Cup 2018 Germany Betting – Chances, Odds & Group Fixtures

Die Mannschaft with a chance of title defence

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Germany’s chances at the World Cup 2018

Germany will be heading to Russia in the summer to defend their World Cup title. Four years ago out in Brazil, Germany got the better of Argentina in the Final to win the title for the fourth time in their history. As usual, Germany will be going to the World Cup as one of the front-runners to lift aloft of the famous trophy once again. The reigning champions are 9/2 odds* (Betting Odds taken at 8:45 p.m. on May 16th, 2018) as second favourites to win the 2018 World Cup behind only Brazil.

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Can Germany match Brazil’s total of five World Cup successes by taking the win in Russia this summer? If they can then it would also mean that they join Brazil and Italy in being only one of three nations to have successfully defended a World Cup title.

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Germany World Cup 2018 Fixtures – Group Stage

Germany will not be unhappy with the draw that they have received for the 2018 World Cup. They have been placed alongside Mexico, Sweden and South Korea. Not too surprisingly Germany are favourites to win Group F at the World Cup at 4/9 odds with bet365* (Betting Odds taken at 8:45 p.m. on May 16th, 2018).

Their campaign will open against Mexico on Sunday, June 17 and they have faced the Mexicans just three times before in their history with only one of them coming at a previous World Cup. That lone World Cup meeting between Germany and Mexico was in 1988 with the Germans taking a 2-1 win in the match. After a Confederations Cup win for Germany in 2005 the most recent meeting was just last summer in the 2017 Confederations Cup. Germany strolled to a 4-1 success and the Germans were playing with the second string at the tournament as well.

It may well be the second group stage match which is the one that is going to cause them the most problems as they take on fellow Europeans Sweden. The Swedish were pretty good through the World Cup qualification campaign and could quietly be set for a pretty decent tournament for themselves. They do appear to be the strongest challengers to Germany in Group F and this will be the first meeting between the two countries since they were together in 2014 World Cup qualifying. In that qualifying campaign, Germany and Sweden played out a thrilling 4-4 draw where the Swedes fought back from a 4-0 down in the second half, and then Germany took a 5-3 win out in Sweden in the reverse game.

Let’s hope for more high-scoring thrills and spills when they meet on Saturday, June 23 2018. So Germany have to get the toughest two games of the group out of the way first but the benefit then is if they can get through them successfully, they will get a chance to rest some players in the final group stage match when they take on South Korea.

Germany Stage of Elimination

How far can Germany go at the 2018 World Cup? Most punters will be thinking ‘pretty deep’. The Germans went unbeaten in the World Cup 2018 qualification campaign and after they were knocked out of Euro 2016 they went unbeaten right through until they clashed with Brazil in a friendly in March 2018 (which Germany lost 1-0). So Germany carry the usual threats, they have tremendous pace, they have fantastic organisation at the back and they will get so much pressure on opposing teams. It’s tough to imagine that they won’t get out of the group stage and then in doing so in the round of 16, they would meet someone from Group E which contains Brazil, Switzerland, Costa Rica and Serbia.

Meeting Switzerland or Serbia would be a tricky test for the Germans but they are so experienced at tournament football you would still have to back them to get through. Germany are 7/2 odds at bet365* (Betting Odds taken at 8:45 p.m. on May 16th, 2018) to get knocked out in the last 16 and that is the shortest price option in the stage of elimination betting. The quarter-finals would see Germany having to take on someone like Belgium, England or Poland so again more potential tricky European opponents for them. There is then the potential of the meeting Spain in the final four. Even though Germany could face a battle here and there, we can project them into the semi-finals where they are 9/2 odds* (Betting Odds taken at 8:45 p.m. on May 16th, 2018) to be stopped.

Germany Top Goalscorer

Germany are packing a serious goalscoring punch, more so than they did four years ago at the World Cup and more so than they did two years ago at Euro 2016. Bayern Munich’s Thomas Muller is right up there at the head of the market as 7/2 joint-favourite* (Betting Odds taken at 8:45 p.m. on May 16th, 2018) alongside Timo Werner to be Germany’s top goalscorer at the World Cup 2018. Muller still carries such a threat for Germany but Werner, who is consistently bright and energetic and who always seems to be in the right place at the right time, is not a bad option to back to beat his more established strike partner in the goalscoring stakes. The other main contenders to finish as Germany’s top goalscorer are Sandro Wagner and Manchester City’s Leroy Sane.

Outright Odds* for the World Cup 2018

Brazil 4/1, Germany 9/2, Spain 6/1, France 13/2, Argentina 9/1, Belgium 11/1, England 18/1, Portugal 25/1, Uruguay 33/1, Croatia 33/1, bar 40/1* (Betting Odds taken at 5:27 p.m. on May 16th, 2018)

Predictions

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When you’re looking at your World Cup 2018 betting it’s going to be hard not to see the appeal in Germany getting close to successfully making it back-to-back title wins in the tournament. They continue to be powerful, strong and this time around they are even carrying more of an attacking goal scoring threat. That should make opposition quake in their boots. Still nobody is going want to face Germany at any point during this tournament.

It’s interesting that they could face tricky matches against fellow European sides to run to their success, but still, you would have to back them to come out on top. Anything less than a final four finish for Germany would be a surprise and they are stacked with the potential just go all the way and win the tournament outright once more.