Venue: Johannesburg – JEP, South Africa
In the last game of the second set of group stage matches, favourites Spain take on outsiders Honduras in Johannesburg at the Ellis Park Stadium. It is a 20:30 local time kick off at Ellis Park, and Honduras will be looking to do some giant slaying while Spain will be looking to take away as many goals as possible, what with Villa and Torres both eyeing the Golden Boot this summer.
Spain are of course the favourites to win this match – they are the favourites to win everything at the time of writing. The odds on them winning this game are some of the shortest on any team in any match in the group stage. 1/6 is the best price which you can get from Sportsbook or William Hill.
For a Honduras win here, and a big surprise, we are seeing odds as long as 22/1. This is the offering for Victor Chandler, who are evidently even more sure than the others that Spain will take away three points here. They are offering the best price on the draw here too at 13/2.
There are no surprises in the first goal scorer market either. Torres and Villa are the joint favourites at 13/5. They are followed by Negredo and Mata at 18/5, but with so many potential goal scorers in the Spain squad you may feel spoilt for choice; Iniesta is at 17/2, Fabregas is 10/1 and Silva is 15/2.
Prediction
Spain should not only win this but win it by a big margin. They will be looking to show against Honduras exactly how good they are and anything less than a high scoring win would suggest they aren’t going to live up to the hype. I predict 4-0 to Spain, which is offered at 8/1 with Bodog (US Friendly).
