{"id":1756,"date":"2014-06-06T15:50:05","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T15:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getmoresports.com\/?p=1756"},"modified":"2014-06-06T15:50:05","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T15:50:05","slug":"world-cup-odds-2014-world-cup-begins-thursday-brazil-heavily-favored-croatia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmoresports.com\/world-cup-odds-2014-world-cup-begins-thursday-brazil-heavily-favored-croatia\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup Odds \u2013 The 2014 World Cup begins on Thursday with Brazil heavily favored against Croatia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>World Cup Odds<\/strong>:\u00a0 Brazil is favored against Croatia in the opening game of the 2014 World Cup on Thursday. The host country has a powerful team led by Neymar and they are expected to dominate Group A.\u00a0 Croatia is not a bad team but they are not expected to challenge Brazil in the opener.\u00a0 Brazil is listed as more than a 3-1 favorite on the three-way line.\u00a0 Here is a look at the game and World Cup picks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brazil<\/strong><strong> -330, Croatia +1100, Draw +425, total 2.5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you prefer to lay the goals instead of the money line you can lay the 1.5 goals on Brazil at even money.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brazil<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brazil is the overall favorite to win the 2014 World Cup. They are playing at home which is great for them but it also puts a lot of pressure on them to perform.\u00a0\u00a0 The team has a ton of talent but it is also very young talent so there could be some opening match nerves.\u00a0 They have some very good attacking options in Neymar and Oscar and they have enough defense to control the teams in Group A.\u00a0 The interesting part about the opener is that it could be their toughest game in Group A.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Croatia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The second spot in Group A is totally up for grabs and it could be Croatia that gets it.\u00a0 They don\u2019t figure to win this game against Brazil though.\u00a0 Croatia does have Mario Mandzukic who plays striker for Bayern Munich and they have midfielder Luka Modric who plays for Real Madrid.\u00a0 Those two players give them a chance to be competitive in Group A.<\/p>\n<p><strong>World Cup Picks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is actually a dangerous opener for Brazil. They are faced with a ton of expectations to win this opener and win it convincingly.\u00a0 I am not so sure that happens. Croatia is a good team and I think they can stay in this game. I will take a shot with Croatia on the goal line at +1.5 goals and I will also play the game under the total.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Cup Odds:\u00a0 Brazil is favored against Croatia in the opening game of the 2014 World Cup on Thursday. The host country has a powerful team led by Neymar and they are expected to dominate Group A.\u00a0 Croatia is not a bad team but they are not expected to challenge Brazil in the opener.\u00a0 Brazil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1756","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>World Cup Odds \u2013 The 2014 World Cup begins on Thursday with Brazil heavily favored against Croatia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The 2014 World Cup begins on Thursday with Brazil favored against Croatia. 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