World Cup Betting Odds: Chile is a big favorite to defeat Australia in Group B play on Friday. Chile is considered a darkhorse in Group B and a win on Friday would put them in a solid position especially if Spain and the Netherlands play to a draw. Based on the odds, Chile is not expected to have much difficulty against Australia. Here is a look at the game and World Cup picks.
Chile -205, Australia +700, Draw +315, total 2.5 under
The goal line has Chile laying one goal at -120.
Chile
Chile has shown in the past year they can play with the big boys as they played to draws with Brazil and Spain and they beat England. The team has some exciting players like Alexis Sanchez and Arturo Vidal so if they can play a little bit of defense they could surprise Spain and the Netherlands in Group B. The team scored a lot of goals in qualifying but they allowed almost as many as they scored.
Australia
It is hard to see how Australia gets even a single point in this group. The team is old and simply doesn’t have enough talent to compete with the other three teams in this group. The team does have a couple of recognizable players in Tim Cahill and Mile Jedinak but overall the team simply doesn’t have many big names. The team actually finished with four points in the 2010 World Cup and they had some success in 2006 but were eliminated by Italy. They are not likely to have any success this time around. The only chance that they would have in the opener is if Chile completely looks past them and ahead to big matches against Spain and Netherlands.
World Cup Picks
It would be a total shock if Chile lost this match so I will lay the price on the three-way World Cup betting odds. I also have to take a shot with the game going over simply because Chile has been playing high scoring matches on a regular basis in recent months.
