Venue: Johannesburg – JEP, South Africa
Group C come back out for their second round of group stage play on the 18th of June, when the USA take on Slovenia. This match will be help at the Johannesburg JEP stadium, and kicks off at 16:00 local time.
Bob Bradley’s USA team are the favourites to take three points away from this fixture. The odds on a USA victory are, best price, 5/4. You can get that price from Betfred, or from Bodog who support USA based gamblers. The best price if you want to back Slovenia is 12/5 which you can get from Victor Chandler or Sportsbook.com (US Friendly).
The draw is offered at 9/4 by Bodog and Bet365.
The favourite scoreline in the correct score market is, surprisingly, given there is a favourite to win the match, 1-1. This can be backed at 11/2 with SportsInteraction (US Friendly) who offer the best price. They also offer the best price on a USA 1-0 win, at 6/1, and on a Slovenia 1-0 win at 15/2.
For a goalless draw, the price is 17/2 with William Hill. This seems quite a good price to me for that outcome.
For long shots, you can get 200/1 on the USA winning 5-0 and the same for 5/2, or 300/1 for Slovenia winning 5-0.
In the first goal scorer market, Herculez Gomez is the favourite at 5/1, followed by Edson Buddle and Milivoje Novakovic at 11/2.
Prediction
The USA should be strong enough to win this game, and they have some players who are more than capable of putting in the goals. For this reason I am predicting that the USA will win this game 3-0, which will fetch odds of 20/1 with most of our favourite bookmakers.
