The chances of the top six winning the World Cup look like this:
Brazil 5.55
England 6.60
France 7.05
Argentina 8.10
Spain 9.10
Germany 11.10
If there was complete certainty that one of these teams would win gold, then one could bet on all of them and get a guaranteed profit of almost 21%. But I do not think that anyone can give such guarantees. Even if we imagine that all these teams have reached the 1/4 finals (and they can meet each other at earlier stages), it turns out that there will be 2 teams that, in order to become a champion, need to win only 3 games in underdog status. This is a fairly common situation in annihilation games.
Can you post the source of this list please?
In my opinion, England is not the second favorite to win
I would put:
1 - Brazil > France > Germany > Argentina > England > Spain
Only considering these six above, but I think I prefer to put Netherlands instead of Spain in sixth place
Obviously it's not 100% guaranteed to any os these 6 squads to win, but I don't see any other teams winning this cup, maybe Netherlands and Belgium. Portugal and Uruguai are strong but not at the point to win the cup.
Well, the truth is that it does not surprise me that Brazil is in the first places, now it surprises me that England has the second place, when we have all witnessed that England has been harshly criticized by almost everyone in the world of football, in their friendly matches , the matches were not the best, ´but I believe in something, that you cannot play a team for friendly matches, I think that it is only a guide of what a technical director is trying at a given moment, to see what cards You can use it to your advantage, this is something that not everyone understands and that's why I like the 2nd place selection to England.
England is currently in the process of renewing young players, and some of these young players occupy important positions in their respective clubs. interesting for us to watch the development of England in the world cup stage this time. although almost the entire England squad is filled with young players.
however, it is possible they are able to stop the big squads who are more superior in this world cup.
armed with the experience of several tournaments they have gone through despite failing, but I am sure the English players have had quite a good experience and made it their capital to compete in the race for the world cup trophy in Qatar.
This time, England is the squad that really caught our attention although we realized that England's potential to win the world title was very small.
After many years we are having some positive news about England in World Cup even they lost on many occasions when they were at their peak and have too many quality players which is wired for many even new generation is also having some wired feelings about England having world's best soccer system, but they have never been quality team, so hopefully we will have good results from these youngsters, and they try to change things for positive way and having better results than expectations.
Currently, most of English fans are sure this team is capable of reaching into last four with quality and skilled players even some doubts, but we have to wait for the start of event about this all that can change the history like their women's done few months back in Euro, or we are again going down and out without any serious progress.
Well, the England team has always been one of the toughest in the entire FIFA World Cup tournament, for now I think they have a good strategy, because in friendlies they haven't shown their full power, but I've always known that Kane is a very good player, and around him there are players who are very good and who can make a difference with respect to the other teams, they all favor Germany, Brazil, Argentina, even Portugal, but we must not forget what that the English are capable, another team that I have also seen that is quite famous and that the Netherlands can play a good role, for me they are the ones that most deserve a world cup.