Spain Proves the Online Wagering World Cup Experts Correct. It sure didn’t look like after the team lost its opening game of the 2010 World Cup betting action to tiny Switzerland. But the Spanish national soccer team lived up to all the online wagering hype and on Sunday secured the country’s first World Cup odds title ever.
By beating the Dutch national team 1-0 the Spanish imposed their style of play on the Clock Work Orange just as they had done to every other opponent in the World Cup betting action to that point and became just the eighth team in the World Cup odds history to win the tournament.
Online wagering experts had picked the Spanish side as the favorite to win the 2010 World Cup betting since nearly the moment the team won the Euro Cup in 2008. However, it was a risky proposition as almost anyone that has visited an online wagering companies’ web site knows that Spain has a history of underachieving when the online wagering stakes are high.
And stakes could not be any higher than the World Cup betting finals. Yet heading into the last game the online wagering companies’ still had the Spanish side listed as 4/7 favorites to win the World Cup competition. And Spain’s convincing win on Sunday vindicated the online wagering gurus who made the betting lines.
The game had plenty of exciting moments and despite the low score was one of the more exciting World Cup betting finals in recent memory. Just as it had done in the previous rounds of the World Cup betting action, the Spanish side dominated possession of the ball despite Holland’s best efforts to literally knock the Spanish off the ball. But Spain played very patiently, passed well and just waited for its moment.
It was a physical game with plenty of great scoring chances and some great work in the goal by two of the best keepers in soccer betting. But in the end Spain was simply too good and when Iniesta had a clear shot on goal with just a handful of minutes left in the second extra time, he didn’t miss and marked the only goal in the game.
With that one goal he gave Spain its online wagering World Cup victory ever and set off a fiesta in Spain that’s not likely to end for several days.