Topic: FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 - page 50. (Read 5258 times)

Around 6 hours to go for the match between New Zealand and Norway. I checked a few sportsbooks and Norway seems to be the clear favorites at -400. Despite the home advantage, New Zealand is being given odds of +750. Both these teams should qualify for the next stage, given that the other teams in the group are Philippines and Switzerland. The second match which is scheduled for today is going to be between Australia and Republic of Ireland. The match will take place at Sydney and the hosts should be able to win this one.

So.... New Zealand, which is one of the hosts so let's say it entered this cup without much "deserving" and is also far from being one of the favorites. The team has only won one of nine games played this year, so they need a lot of support from the local fans to try to get a good performance.

Norway, on the other hand, is considered a more traditional team in football, including its team winning the first female Golden Ball in history.

Then, clearly my bet in this women's world cup opener will be in favor of Norway... I'm still analyzing the possibilities.

If we compare recent results of both teams, there is one big difference - Norway played most of their games against elite teams like France, Spain or England, while New Zealand didn't had such strong opponents basically. Norway is heavy favourite in this game and I think that going with over 2.5 goals is good option. But maybe home stadium factor can give a boost for New Zealand.
I'm less familiar with Australia and Ireland teams and I won't make any bets on this game.
I'm going to watch at least one game tomorrow, but it won't be very convenient to do it because most of games will start quite early when most of us are at work in Europe.

I feel like even though it will not reach means, I think that it is going to reach higher than what it is today. That's saying something, because if it gets more popular, not more popular then men, but more popular than what it is today, then we are going to probably see them make more money as well, because popularity equals to having a lot of people watch it, and when that happens it is going to bring in more money.

However, it could go down the WNBA route as well, that has been going around for a long time and it is still not watched a lot and it is still not bringing people over and that is why the payment there sucks and that's why not a lot of people try to be like that. The entry point to that is very low, so talent pool is limited and the viewership is not fun. You need to offer a lot of money and make a loss for just a decade in order to make sure kids grow up wanting to make that money and then you have great talent.

tomorrow we will have 2 games

New Zealand - Norway

well, it is known that people in New Zealand do not like soccer and with the low performance of their women's team the situation only gets worse, in the last 25 games that the national team of new zealand has played lost in 17 games and only won in 4 games, he stayed in a cycle of 10 consecutive games without winning in any game, but he was lucky in his last game to beat Vietnam, which is not a very strong team, so that cannot be a strong indication that the new zealand team has recovered, on the other side we have norway that comes into this game as a favorite, in the last friendly games they played they had mixed results, with 9 friendly games they only won 2 games and had 3 draws and 4 defeats but they were games against strong teams

Australia - Ireland

Australia in the last 16 games got 11 wins, 4 losses and 1 draw, and will face Ireland who played only 7 friendly games in which they won 2 games, lost 3 games and drew 2 games, I see Australia being the favorite for win this game, but those odds are very low and Ireland can surprise, for this reason I will not place any bets on this game. games with odds of @1.30 tend to surprise, I'll watch the game for a while, I don't like women's soccer because I see it being much more unpredictable than men's games, if there is an increase in odds and I see that I can place a bet, then i will bet

I don't think that women's games will reach the level of popularity and corporate support anywhere in the next 10-15 years. At the most they can carve out a section of hardcore supporters for themselves. The issue with this tournament is that many of the matches are being held in the tiny island nation of New Zealand. The total population is only around 4 million, and rugby is far more popular when compared to football. Also, traveling to New Zealand is unaffordable or expensive for most of the fans in Europe and North America.

I have looked at the bets available and it is not the same as the other matches I am used to
The options of under and over goals are one, some matches for example have the option to bet under or over 4.5 goals. This all suggests that we will indeed have matches with a lot of goals happening. We may see some 6-0, 8-0 or maybe even more, especially in the group phase
After that it should get more competitive.


FIFA has to show the matches with plenty of people in the stadiums, otherwise sponsors don't like having their brands displayed in empty stadiums.
Unfortunately women's soccer has not yet reached a very large scope, but with time it can get there.

Despite the fact that this particular thread is very active with the users, the tournament itself hasn't taken off in a big way. Ticket sales have been lukewarm, and yesterday it was announced that the organizers will be giving out 20,000 tickets for free in New Zealand. This was despite an appeal from Jacinda Ardern (former Prime Minister) to the general public, to show more interest in the tournament. 5,000 tickets each will be handed out in cities of Wellington, Hamilton, Auckland and Dunedin. Hopefully this will ensure that the stands are not empty during the matches.

It's scary to imagine how big score in England - Haiti game can be if England will play full power. I think that some games easy can reach double digits of goals scored. Though, now I'm checking results of previous World Cup and there is not many big results. Only USA 14:0 Thailand is something what you won't see in men football at such level.
For main contenders group stage is just warm up, usually they have one opponent in group for 1st place, but serious things begind in playoffs.

In fact I think the best strategy for this tournament is to focus on goals.
I've been checking that women's football has an average of goals much higher than men's football, so... for those who are going to bet on this market, it's important to remember that statistically it's very unlikely that a match ends in 0x0, I'd bet on goals for both sides and with a big margin of difference between the two teams.

Of course this is not a rule, each game needs to be analyzed carefully, but for me this is an important factor to keep an eye on.

Yeah the only way to bet the heavy favorites in women's soccer is by goals.  There is zero value in trying to bet them to win.  You basically win nothing and in an event of a draw by some miracle ypu end up getting crush.  Wait until the later rounds or bet goals you have it right that's the way to attack this tourny

Today they released the odds for the women's World Cup, for the first matches.
It's very difficult to find an even match, check it out:



The most balanced match will be Colombia vs Korea

It's incredible how it's different from men's world cup, look at the odds of Brazil, Germany, France, England, Spain and USA, all 1.03 or less
Maybe the way is to bet on goals in the group phase, and only in round of 16 bet in wins

Having an idea is not making choices.
That is, if I analyze the performance of a player/team, it can help me to have an idea which ones I should be more attentive to.

Of course, we cannot conclude, on the basis of friendly games, who is better or worse.
But just like in men's football, in the pre-seasons, you can already have an idea of how a certain team will play. Of course, a team can be very good in the pre-season, and later in the season they just mess up. How could the opposite happen.

What I just wanted to understand, if someone watching the friendlies, will be aware of one or another team / player.
English is not my strong point, and sometimes the translation does not convey the intended idea.

It's unattainable to accurately forecast the tournament winner, but as always, I give my credit to the US women; it's readily apparent that they might become champions again; they have what it takes to win the competition, though they may face certain challenges along the way. The United States of America is strong in football, particularly among women. They're significantly superior to the men, don't get me wrong, the FIFA men's world cup is more difficult with each team developing spectacular performance in games. However let's expects a positive results from them.

Yes and you say Based on the friendly results, do you think it's possible to have an idea of the teams that will be more competitive?
Doesn't that mean want to try to making a more competitive team choice from the results of a friendly match.

It's true that some people who don't understand women's soccer will look at the results of previous matches to be able to make predictions on which team is the strongest and can be bet on.
But if they only rely on that, they will actually make a mistake because they don't really understand the whole thing about the women's soccer team.

I don't say make choices based on friendlies.

But, for those who don't know much about women's football, watching friendlies (since they are the only games that take place before the World Cup), can help to have a better idea of how it is played, and understand how some players play.

The defending champion US is likely the favorite team again to win in this time as well, whereas some of the sports analysts claim that team B needs to be watch out in this year cause there some of the popular individuals are there as well as some underdogs.

Well I am curious about the attention created by Women's FIFA is anywhere near to the Men's!

The results of friendly matches cannot be our benchmark for choosing who is the most competitive and stronger because friendly matches are only for trial matches.
If you pay attention to all friendlies then there are a lot of ridiculous results that occur so choosing only based on friendlies can be a big risk.

It would be nice to choose a team when they have played matches so we can see the statistics and also how to play to determine who is better.

Making predictions based on friendlies will be risky. These matches are not being given a lot of importance and players who are not released by their clubs may not take part in them. From what I can see, there were a few upsets, the most important of them being the loss suffered by Germany. Irrespective of whether it is the men's game or the women's, German football has been in decline for quite some time. Their loss to Zambia just reaffirms the general trend. Also, it shows the rapid improvement being made by the CAF and AFC teams.

I don't know if you've been paying attention, but the teams that will be in the World Cup have already played their last friendly matches before the World Cup.
https://www.flashscore.com/football/world/friendly-international-women/results/

Based on the friendly results, do you think it's possible to have an idea of the teams that will be more competitive?