{"id":2701,"date":"2022-12-17T12:19:44","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T12:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soccerballworld.com\/?p=2701"},"modified":"2024-04-26T17:47:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T17:47:14","slug":"argentina-bet-favorites-2022-fifa-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soccerballworld.com\/argentina-bet-favorites-2022-fifa-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentina slight betting favorites to defeat France, lift 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Blasting their way to this weekend\u2019s FIFA World Cup final against holders, France, Argentina currently sits as minute betting favorites to clinch the Coupe du Monde in Qatar \u2013 landing their third trophy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Argentina, led by former Barcelona star and Partis Saint Germain talisman, Lionel Messi \u2013 fired their way through to the final earlier this week with a one-sided 3-0 win over former finalists, Croatia \u2013 with Messi netting first ahead of a pair of strikes from Manchester City forward, Julian Alvarez. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite dropping a surprising and shocking 2-1 loss to Saudi Arabia in their opening group game, Argentina managed to progress through to the final round with wins over Australia, and Netherlands ahead of their semi final win over Croatia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matching with Morocco \u2013 the first African side to progress through to the semi final, France managed to land a comprehensive 2-0 victory over the former, with goals from left back, Theo Hernandez, and substitute, Eintracht Frankfurt forward, Randal Kolo Muani firing France to their second consecutive final after they clinched the most-recent incarnation with a win over Croatia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ahead of Sunday\u2019s final, continued form from both sides throughout the knockout stage leaves the two on almost mirror playing fields, with Argentina currently sitting as marginal -110 favorites against France who currently sit as +105 underdogs to retain the World Cup. Betting on this weekend\u2019s World Cup final is available over at Rushbet<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As far as the third place play-off which features other semi-finalists, Croatia, and Morocco, the two will feature tomorrow \u2013 vying for a bronze medal in Qatar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In Sunday\u2019s final, both Argentine talisman, Messi, and French superstar, Kylian Mbappe will also battle it out as the leaders of this tournament\u2019s golden boot \u2013 with both sitting on five goals each throughout both the group stages and the knockout phase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Behind both Messi and his Paris Saint Germain teammate, Mbappe<\/a> \u2013 come the above-mentioned, Alvarez, and A.C. Milan striker, Olivier Giroud, who have both found the net four times apiece in Qatar.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Should Messi nor Mbappe find separation over the course of Sunday\u2019s final in Qatar, with both sitting on five goals, the Argentine will then scoop the Golden Boot if Mbappe is until to add to his assist tally of two \u2013 with Messi sitting on three goals for his Argentina teammates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An extra caveat of this tournament also comes in the form of an expected final bow at the international stage from Argentine captain, Messi, who confirmed that win or lose against France, the final will mark his final World Cup game for the side. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With France and Didier Deschamps looking to become the first country to win back-to-back World Cups since the Brazilian national side back in 1958, and 1962, the Blus will also look to land their third Coupe du Monde since the beginning of the century, after success against Brazil in 2002, and their most recent 2018 success opposite Croatia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blasting their way to this weekend\u2019s FIFA World Cup final against holders, France, Argentina currently sits as minute betting favorites to clinch the Coupe du Monde in Qatar \u2013 landing their third trophy. Argentina, led by former Barcelona star and Partis Saint Germain talisman, Lionel Messi \u2013 fired their way through to the final earlier…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[325,1],"tags":[355,360,351,341],"class_list":["post-2701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-soccer","tag-2022-fifa-world-cup","tag-argentina","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-france"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":325,"label":"News"},{"value":1,"label":"Soccer"}],"post_tag":[{"value":355,"label":"2022 FIFA World Cup"},{"value":360,"label":"Argentina"},{"value":351,"label":"FIFA World Cup"},{"value":341,"label":"France"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/soccerballworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Collage-Maker-16-Dec-2022-10.12-PM-1024x536.jpg",1024,536,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Ross Markey","author_link":"https:\/\/soccerballworld.com\/author\/rossmarkey\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":325,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":325,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":155,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":325,"category_count":155,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0},{"term_id":1,"name":"Soccer","slug":"soccer","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":504,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":504,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Soccer","category_nicename":"soccer","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":355,"name":"2022 FIFA World Cup","slug":"2022-fifa-world-cup","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":355,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":4,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":360,"name":"Argentina","slug":"argentina","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":360,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":351,"name":"FIFA World Cup","slug":"fifa-world-cup","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":351,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":7,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":341,"name":"France","slug":"france","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":341,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":3,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soccerballworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soccerballworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soccerballworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soccerballworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soccerballworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/soccerballworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4018,"href":"https:\/\/soccerballworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions\/4018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soccerballworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soccerballworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soccerballworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soccerballworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}