World Cup wagering at the sportsbook on Sunday in the round of 16 could easily be a semifinal or final but Germany and England faced off on Sunday with the loser being eliminated from the 2010 World Cup gambling and bets.

The World Cup wagering odds were about as close as you can get on this game with the English the slightest of favorites.

World Cup wagering has favored Germany and England in each of their group games and neither squad has been excessively outstanding. England did enough to get through as the 2nd place squad from Group C behind the u.s., though it was really unsatisfactory in their 3 group games. Germany at least got 2 victories in Group D, although they were not very outstanding either.

England could have more talent but to date in this World Cup they have not shown much of it. Wayne Rooney hasn’t won yet but at least in the last game versus Slovenia he looked better. He was the one player who could make a big difference on Sunday.

Germany and England have a history of playing fantastic World Cup games. England won 4-2 when they met back in the 1966 final at Wembley. In that final, Geoff Hurst won a hat trick for England. Four years later it was Germany upsetting England in the quarterfinals. The teams met in 1990 in the semifinals and the competition went to a penalty shootout that Germany concluded up winning 4-3.

And for the 2010 World Cup, Germany virtually bashed the English squad to a 4-1 win.

While it was believed that the similarly-matched teams may come down to penalty time in a close competition, that only wasn’t the situation. The English defense was sloppy and the Germans came out fast to a 2-0 lead before the English squad won their point.

At that time, England’s Frank Lampard landed a goal that could have brought the competition to a tie. Unfortunately for the English squad, the goal wasn’t spotted by the referee. The ball bounced a few feet behind the line at the goal, but without delay, the German goalkeeper basically picked it up and threw it back into play. The English squad was denied their point when that basically tricked the referee into believing the ball had not crossed the line.

Germany may think the determination compensates for for 1966, when the English squad was notoriously awarded a third goal even though Geoff Hurst’s shot appeared to bounce down on the line.

England’s coach Fabio Capello believed that goal would have been a turning point for the English squad, and they could have wound up winning the contest after that. However, a superior German squad basically ran away with the game in the 2nd half. Germany’s Thomas Muller won twice to take Germany to a 4-1 lead, giving England their biggest ever World Cup loss.

Germany, who have now attained at least the quarterfinals at every World Cup since 1954, will confront Argentina in the last eight on Saturday.


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