ENGLAND VS ALGERIA LATEST PREDICTIONS AND BETTING PREVIEW
We're in a must-win situation for the English team and it's been a day where we've seen that, frankly, anything can happen. We've seen more than a few upsets in the past 24 hours and they don't get much bigger than Serbia toppling Germany.
On a day where a German misses a penalty shot, anything can happen!
If regards to the outright odds, England have had their prices cut this morning and are now trading at a 2/9 margin with popular UK bookmaker Blue Square. Algeria is trading at a 12/1 price and the draw can be backed at 5/1.
Wayne Rooney is odds-on to score a goal here at anytime while he is a slim 6/1 to score in both halves. Wayne Rooney's odds to get a hat-trick are priced at 12/1 and that's one of the shortest listings on a hat-trick I've ever seen. Wazza is 5/1 to score a header and 4/1 to score a screamer from outside of the box. He is 21/10 to score first for England and 11/2 to hit the woodwork.
You can back Rooney to be booked at a 2/1 price and 25/1 that he will be sent off.
Steven Gerrard is also odds-on to score today and I think thats likely because Gareth Barry will hold in this match and that allows Stevie G and Frank Lampard to get forward and play their more natural games. Lamps is trading at an identical 10/1 price for an anytime goal.
Emile Heskey is priced at 11/8 to score a goal at anytime but I've got my eyes on him to score a header with an 11/2 payout from Blue Square.
Peter Crouch is listed at 10/11 while Aaron Lennon trades at a 2/1 price.
The odds are all so short on the English team because the bookmakers expect the goals to come from anywhere. This one could turn into a rout pretty quickly and I fancy England to get the job done emphatically here.
I like a bet on Rooney to score twice and a goal from Frank Lampard as well.