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Germany beat the favored Argentina in a slight upset in their quarterfinals competition on Saturday in soccer betting. The final score of 4-0 was largely due to a really aggressive Argentina offense against a very patient German defense.

Argentina now follows the other highly favored South American squad at the online sportsbook, Brazil, from the contest. In the mean time, Germany will continue on to the semifinals to take on Spain, who moved on after beating Paraguay 1-0.

Germany has been a pleasant surprise for several World Cup wagering enthusiasts. This is a young team that had a fairly dull qualifying round in the run up to the World Cup odds contest in South Africa. It doesn’t boast any huge names like Ballack or Kahn as World Cup betting tournaments in the past. In reality, at least until it steps onto the soccer pitch, it is a fairly low key team that seems to fly under radar.

The German team sailed through the World Cup wagering group stage, losing a game to a remarkably great Serbian side, but getting 6 points and finally winning the group. And no soccer wagering lover will forget the clinic this squad put on vs the highly preferred English side in the World Cup betting round of 16.

Through 4 competitions in this year’s World Cup wagering, the issue that has stood out most is this team’s offensive ability. It has landed 9 goals, including two 4 goal outburst and granted only 2 goals for an outstanding differential of +7.

But in order to win vs a squad of Argentina’s caliber, it’s the defense that must shine, or at the very least the mid-field must have the ability to hold somewhat. And that doesn’t seem all that hard for Germany. Against a quite strong attacking English mid-field of Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard, the Germans basically shut them out though Lampard did unleash a few good shots from a distance.

The Argentine attack was much trickier to defend and much different in the World Cup betting quarterfinal matchup. It’s packed with quickness (Messi, Tevez, and Higuian) and there is not a defense that keeps pace with this trio man for man. But Germany was able to firmly refuse the attempts of those 3 attackers to keep them away and stop any goals. In the counterattack, Germany then had  lots of chances to get shots on the Argentine goal.

Germany has been an fantastic finishing squad so far in the World Cup wagering action. It concluded well again for its chance to advance to the semifinals in the World Cup.

Infamous Argentina coach Diego Maradona, for his part, was quite irritated and frustrated with the squad’s loss. Maradona expressed his aggravation at a few of Germany’s loyal buffs by getting angry and yelling at them until his daughter escorted him away. He once played for the same squad that he coaches now. He has even thinking about leaving the team as coach, clearly taking this defeat extremely hard. It’s sad to see such a devoted team coach so heartbroken, as much as he was entertaining in his antics during the World Cup.

To any person who picked Uruguay and Ghana to match up in the World Cup betting quarterfinals at the sportsbook, congratulations, considering there aren’t several of you who gamble on sports online and this quarterfinal competition has to be most shocking of them all.

Sure, the final eight squads of the 2010 World Cup probabilities competition were meant to include teams like Brazil, Spain, Argentina but Ghana?…Uruguay?…simply afterthoughts in the minds of most soccer odds makers minds and surely not meant to move forward to the World Cup wagering quarterfinals.

But here they’re and these two squads are every bit worthy of their place here amongst the greatest teams in the World Cup wagering contest. Nevertheless, it does seem odd that with all the big names left in this group, these 2 soccer wagering minnows should confront off so late in the World Cup odds contest.

Including the squad’s most recent Round of 16 victories over the US side, Ghana has played with a lot of heart, squeaking out draws and victories by the slimmest of margins. It will probably play in its last match on Friday vs Uruguay after it qualified for the quarterfinals by the slimmest of margins. Even vs the US squad this team was more than lucky to win and it took an awesome goal in overtime to beat the US.

The prospect of being the inaugural African country to advance to a World Cup semifinal has inspired the Black Stars. They will be lacking suspended competitors Jonathan Mensah and Andre Ayew. The health of Gyan, who hurt his ankle in training on Monday, may be the greater concern. He may not be at top form though he is not expected to miss Friday’s game.

Uruguay, alternatively, has been reliable from the 1st whistle of this year’s World Cup betting competition. Most sports wagering fans did not even give this team a chance to advance past the group stage, picking instead soccer betting heavyweights like France and Mexico. But Uruguay played the French to a 0-0 draw in the starter and made mincemeat of Mexico on its way to a 7 point haul in Group A.

Uruguay defender Diego Dodin is not anticipated to start due to injury. He could still play, but Coach Oscar Tabarez doesn’t think he’s ready for a full competition.

This squad’s defense has taken it through to the final 8 and it is allowed only 1 goal through four competitions and has an impressive +5 goal differential. But its finishing capability is arguably the most impressive thing about this team. No squad has done as much with as little as the Uruguayans in this year’s World Cup wagering action. Diego Forlan and Luis Suarez have been amazing in front and practically every goal this team has landed has been highlight reel quality.

Uruguay is a reliable favorite to beat Ghana on Friday. They’re -220 with the total at 2 under. The three-way line lists Uruguay at Even, Ghana at +285 and the Draw at +210.

Uruguay will win if they even get a peek at the goal versus Ghana.

On Tuesday as they started off with New Zealand, Slovakia was a huge favorite in 2010 World Cup sports betting.

It was the inaugural showing for Slovakia in the World Cup nonetheless they were given a chance to make it to the second round at the sportsbook. They were not expected to have much difficulty in World Cup wagering in their opener vs New Zealand.

There have been a couple of different lines available on this game. Slovakia is setting 1 goal at -155 whereas New Zealand is plus a goal at +115. The three-way soccer wagering line which features the draw had Slovakia at -290, New Zealand at +850 and the draw at +320. The total on the game was 2.5 over.

The likelihood of a team making it from the group stage are typically not very good when they are making their World Cup debut. Slovakia got a break though as Group F is actually not that challenging. Italy is the defending World Cup winners but they’re defeatable. Paraguay is a decent squad but not a world power while New Zealand is weak. It’s imaginable that Slovakia might make the 2nd round out of this group. They could not handle to slip up on Tuesday though vs a New Zealand squad that they should have defeated. Slovakia has some gifted players including Jan Durica, Martin Skrtel, Miroslav Karhan, Marek Sapara and, Stanislav Sestak and Marek Hamsík. They also have got some young competitors who may influence the outcome such as Vladimir Weiss Jr. and Miroslav Stoch.

This will be New Zealand’s second appearance at the World Cup. They had a much more challenging group than they do this time when they 1st appeared in 1982. New Zealand was led in qualifying by Shane Smeltz who won eight goals. He seemed to be the 1 player who might make a big difference for New Zealand in the World Cup. Ryan Nelsen is the captain and a strong defender but it’s Smeltz who will be making the goals. New Zealand probably does not have the scoring to contend with Slovakia but this will be the first-ever World Cup game for Slovakia so if New Zealand may get an early goal they might put some pressure on the preferred Slovakian team in this Tuesday game.

At 1st in this game Slovakia had the upper hand versus New Zealand. In their World Cup introduction as an independent nation, Slovakia had looked set to top the group ahead of world champions Italy and Paraguay who drew 1-1 in the group opener on Monday. About 5 minutes after half time with the 1st goal of the night, Robert Vittek had put Slovakia ahead.

The game itself appeared pretty dull, actually, until New Zealand defender Winston Reid gained his first international goal, and New Zealand’s first World Cup goal, at nearly the last minute in the competition. The game took a sudden turn at the very end when Reid ripped off his shirt and ran around excitedly, gaining himself the feared yellow card. Taking into consideration the team’s formerly dismal scoring ability, it was worth it.It was probably worth it taking into consideration the team’s formerly dismal scoring a

After a lackluster performance in their opening game of the World Cup wagering vs the Yanks, the English are mad, as well they ought to be. England qualified for the 2010 World Cup odds competition with plenty of ease wrecking its qualifying group competitors. It also climbed the FIFA world standings and prior to defender Rio Ferdinand followed only Spain (4:1) and Brazil (5:1) in the soccer betting probabilities at the sportsbooks. Its lineup is loaded with EPL stars and world class skill like Stevie Gerard, Frank Lampard and debatably the best striker in the world, Wayne Rooney.

Yet the best the English may muster was a 1-1 draw at the online sportsbook versus an substandard US squad. Worse, the US’ only goal came on a horrible gaffe by the English goaltender who granted the ball to slip through his hands on a regular save and watched as it dribbled into the goal.

But England needs to have bounced back from the comparable World Cup betting humiliation and save 3 points from Algeria. Algeria looked fairly weak during its 1st game, a 1-0 loss to Slovenia. Granted Algeria played most of the soccer wagering match down a man following its star striker was shown a red card in the first half, but it was clear that this squad was not of the same class as Ye Olde’ Englande.

In this sports wagering game, it was expected for the English to score early and often. Wayne Rooney should have been able to find much more space against a below average Algerian defense and manage to break free of his defenders considerably more easily than he did versus the US.

England knew how critical these 3 points are and it may not only let them get away. A tie puts them on the brink of elimination from the group, and the squad’s hopes of reaching the knockout stage of the World Cup odds contest would be all but snuffed out. They might find themselves in a 4 way battle only to advance from the group stage and this squad is simply too talented to find itself omitted of the Final 16 of the World Cup betting.

The only way to gamble this World Cup wagering competition was on England to win it (1/4), though the payout isn’t much.

Regrettably for England, which was a hugely favored squad going into the World Cup, Algeria held them to a tie. England’s continuously unimpressive performance in the World Cup 2010 is represented by the final score of 0-0. To date in this tournament, they basically have not been aggressive enough.

Coach Fabio Capello was horrified at the team’s performance. His remarks that “this isn’t the England I know” are most likely echoed by the countless fanatics. At the same time, he recognized that the strain of the World Cup may be affecting the team’s ability to score at their usual levels.

Even the Algerian coach, Rabah Saadane, was surprised at England’s weak effectiveness. He had suspected they would be better, and they just weren’t at their greatest throughout Friday’s match.