Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Olympics football picks

Just a short note to post my picks for the Olympics football tournament. Again it will be a tournament of 16 teams, split into 4 groups. There are two strong favourites in Argentina and Brazil who seem to be taking this competition much more seriously than the rest of the teams taking part. Should these two nations top their respective groups, they will probably meet in the semi-finals. For these reasons, both Argentina and Brazil will be two of my picks to win the gold medal.

My third pick will be the exciting Netherlands team who won the Under-21 European Championship playing very nice football. They have a bit tougher group to top, as compared to Italy, but should they manage to come out of the group first, I can see them making it to the final.

It's much more difficult making predictions for the Olympics football tournament because of the squad selection limitations. A total outlay of 10 units (odds from William Hill) is split into:
  • Stake 4.92 units on Argentina at 2.62
  • Stake 3.79 units on Brazil at 3.40
  • Stake 1.29 units on the Netherlands at 10.00
The summary statistics on the left have been updated. Let the Games begin!

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