World Cup betting tips for group H

Group H consists of favorites Belgium and Russia with South Korea and Algeria being the outsiders. Here are the best available odds for each of these sides to emerge as group winner:

Algeria did not have a successful African Cup of Nations, but they edged out a needed 1-0 win in the two legged contest against Burkina Faso in the playoffs, and here they are. There are a decent chunk of players plying their trade in Europe. Sofiane Feghouli who plays for Valencia is probably the biggest name for them. He is a very decent attacking midfielder who will chip in with goals and key passes in the game.

South Korea sends a squad with a defense I am not too sure of. It has been good enough to see them narrowly edge past Uzbekistan (goal difference) but two points behind Iran in their world cup qualification group. However, they’ve been exposed in some recent friendlies. I really do not think they’re up for this tournament. Further forward on the pitch they got a bit better players, and it will be very interesting to see how a creative player like Son (Leverkusen) will fare for instance.

Belgium is the big favorite of the group. They had a terrific qualification and they got some very interesting players. However, there has been an ever so slight wind of negativity surrounding some of the squad members. Top names such as Alderwireld, Vertonghen, Vermaelen and Chadli haven’t played all that much this season! The central line of: Courtois, Kompany, Fellaini and Lukaku look very strong though. They should definitely qualify from this group, but the odds of 1.67 as group winner is not value in my opinion.

Russia looks set to send a squad filled with talent from the domestic league. In the provisional squad only one player not based in Russia was picked, namely Pavel Pogrebnyak. I think they’ll be out to revenge the Euro 2012 group stage exit. Many had high hopes for the highly capable Russian squad. After beating the Czech’s 4-1 it went downhill from there against Poland and the Greeks.

We’ll see a well set up team defensively as usual by old fox Fabio Capello. In qualification they only let in five goals in ten matches. I expect them to continue their fine defensive organization here. I will be extremely surprised if this side takes a beating in the group stages.

Going forward this side is perhaps lacking slightly given all the possession they seem to crave, but give them the chance to counter and you got big problems. I think Belgium will find this team tough to beat, and even if they got a squad that suits the eye on paper, I think Belgium is priced far too low and much rather go for the value play on Russia at 3.20 with Bet365. I think the gap between these two sides is much smaller than the odds indicates.

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To finish second in the group

I am going to go with Belgium here. This is based on the argumentation above. Also: I can’t see South Korea challenging. Algeria should not be able either. The odds for Belgium to finish second are 3.10 with Paddy Power. I think they’re worth a shot.

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To finish bottom of the group

I think Algeria has a better squad than South Korea. I feel the Koreans get a bit too much respect based on the strength of previous squads. In my opinion this is a weaker edition. BET365 offers 3 times my money on South Korea to finish bottom of Group H, and that I definitely like. Consider it taken!

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Match betting tips

So far Howtobet.net has put out the following betting predictions and betting tips for Group H:

Russia v South Korea

Belgium v Algeria