What were they playing, surely not football
JK, but imagine you had the balls to put something on over let's say 10 goals before the match started, would have been a nice multiplier. If any bookie even offered such high margins.
Even if a bookie had to offer 10 or more goals for the Dutch squad, the odds would not be as absurd as you may think. I'd say 8.00 to 10.00 tops, the Dutch are regarded as one of the strongest teams in this tournament, they are vice-champions from the last world cup (2019 France), the pre-match line was around 4.5 / 5.5, they beat a semi-decent team of Norway 7-0 in their last friendly lol, my point, there were many goals expected in this match.
Zambian team with almost no friendlies played in preparation for the Olympics, complete underdogs at +15000, with the exception of their captain, who was actually pretty great, the others are absolutely god awful, including their center backs and goalie, who were comical. If the Dutch had not substituted their best player and goalscorer, Miedema, the game could have turned out even uglier.
There's money to be made here...
I wanted to comment on this last week but totally forgot, I really think sometimes like the women's team in USA asking for higher salary than the men's is a bit out of context. I mean no disrespect to women's football but we all can see clearly the quality is so different.
And if you ever see US men play Gambia men it will never be like this.
So performance based pay, which is what women's team say makes them deserve to get paid more, is silly because you are a playground bully in most games.
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