Venue: Johannesburg – JEP, South Africa
Group B are back in action for their second round of group stage games on the 17th of June. Argentina meet South Korea at the Johannesburg JSC stadium, kicking off at 13:30 local time.
Argentina are, as you would probably expect, the favourites by far to win this game. South Korea are a good enough team, but with the strength of the Argentina squad this looks like a fixture they will really struggle to get any points from. Betfred will offer you the best odds on an Argentina win, but even then it is only 4/11.
If you like to champion the underdog or think South Korea might pull some dark horse stuff out of the bag like they did in 2002, then you can get some pretty long odds on them winning this game. Bodog (US Friendly) or Victor Chandler will both give you 9/1 on this eventuality.
The draw here fetches 15/4 with Victor Chandler who offer the best price.
As there isn’t a lot of money to be made backing Argentina, if you think they will win you may want to take a look at the correct score or first goal scorer markets.
2-0 to Argentina has the shortest odds of any score prediction, with Bodog and Victor Chandler among others offering 5/1 on this. 1-0 to Argentina is 6/1 with Bet365.
If you fancy Korea to score you can get Argentina 2-1 for 11/1 and 3-1 for 12/1, in both cases these are the best prices at the time of writing and are offered by Bet365.
For first goal scorer, the name that comes up as the favourite will come as no surprise – Lionel Messi is 11/4 with William Hill. You can also back Milito, Tevez, Aguero or Higuain at 3/1. For South Korea, you can take Manchester United’s Ji-Sung Park at 14/1, though the favourite South Korean player is Dong-Gook Lee who is 8/1.
Prediction
It is hard to see Argentina failing to win this match, and with the number of strong potential goalscorers on their side they should win by a reasonable margin. For this reason the prediction for this match is 3-0 to Argentina, which will fetch you 7/1 with most of our favourite bookmakers.
