Greece travel to Ukraine tonight in the final stage of qualification for next year’s World Cup in South Africa. This match is the second leg of the play-off for a place in the finals after the first leg in Athens was drawn 0-0. Greece have been poor away recently, failing to win in visits to Switzerland and Moldova, while Ukraine have been excellent at home, winning four in a row including a 1-0 win over third-favourites England.
The hosts are favourites for the game at 17/20 (bet $200 to win $170 profit), leaving Greece as underdogs at 4/1. Another draw is priced at 5/2. The first leg was dominated by Ukraine, who did most of the attacking, and with home advantage and Greece’s poor away form it is easy to see why the home side are odds-on.
A 1-0 win for Ukraine is the favourite result for tonight’s game, priced at 5/1, just ahead of a 1-1 draw, which would see Greece through on away goals, at 6/1. Next most likely is 0-0 at 13/2 and a 2-0 home win is 7/1. 1-0 to the visitors is at 10/1 and would see celebrations throughout Greece, who won the 2004 European Championships.
Former AC Milan and Chelsea striker Andriy Shevchenko is favourite to open the scoring tonight at 11/2, ahead of team-mates Milevskiy and Seleznyov, both at 13/2. Greece’s best hope to score the first goal of the match is Theofanis Gekas of Bayer Leverkusen at 9/1.
Unkraine are 11/5 to be winning at both half-time and full-time and 7/2 to win the match after drawing at half-time. Both halves to end in a draw is priced at 4/1 and Greece are 17/2 to be leading at the interval and the final whistle. Draw/Greece is 11/1 and Greece/Ukraine is priced at 33/1.
Neither team is seen by the bookmakers as having a realistic chance of winning the World Cup next year but Ukraine are seen as slightly more likely than Greece at 150/1 to their opponents’ 200/1.
Source:liveoddsandscores.com
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