Spain only hardly gained their victory with a final score of 1-0 in spite of being the heavily favored squad to win this game on Saturday in the betting lines. Spain will now be progressing on to the semifinals, where it will stand before Germany. Germany won their quarterfinals game vs Argentina in a final score of 4-0.

David Villa attained the winning goal in the 83rd minute, also landing his 5th goal of the World Cup. Now, in a reprisal of the Euro 2008 final where Spain routed Germany 1-0, they will be facing Germany again. Villa, for his part, is certain that Germany is not likely to be thrilled to find them in the World Cup online betting semifinals.

The World Cup’s only leftover South American squad is now Uruguay with Brazil, Argentina and now Paraguay being removed from the competition. Uruguay removed the last of the African teams when they defeated Ghana in a heartbreaking penalty shootout.

The issue about the World Cup betting when it gets to the knockout stage is that there are typically no easy teams left in the competition. But this year it’s been a ridiculous competition and there’s surely a structure of the teams leftover in the World Cup odds competition. At one end of the competition you have World Cup betting afterthoughts like Paraguay (55/1) and on the other end you have the heavily favored teams like Spain (3/1).

And funnily enough these 2 teams squared off on Saturday in the World Cup betting quarterfinals. Obviously Spain was the huge favorite, as it ought to have been, in the World Cup odds going into this game.

Paraguay had a penalty shoot out win vs mid-level squad Japan and hardly qualified for the quarterfinal game. And it mainly got into the Round of 16 action after winning a bad Group F which was one of the poorest in the World Cup betting event.

Spain on the flip side has been really extraordinary in spite of a shocking starting competition loss to tiny Switzerland in its first competition of the 2010 World Cup betting event. It went on to win 2 must win games –one of them against a pretty good Chilean side. In the Round of 16 it faced the hardest challenger of the draw, Portugal, and dispatched its Iberian neighbor and World #3 with few problems.

Now it looks as if it has got its ticket punched into the World Cup betting semifinal event as well. Spain was made a 13/25 favorite to defeat its South American challenger by the World Cup odds makers. The second closest soccer betting line in the World Cup betting quarterfinal event is a far away 49/50.

The ridiculous thing about Spain is that it has not even played up to its potential yet. Fanatics have been waiting for at least a leading notch performance, if not the perfect game from this Spanish squad, and this squad has not come close to producing it. Maybe fans will at last get to see what this squad is capable of against the German side in the forthcoming World Cup semifinals betting.


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