World Cup Qualifier betting - Ukraine vs Greece

Greece travel to Ukraine tonight in the final stage of qualification for next year`s World Cup in South Africa. This match is the second leg of the play-off for a place in the finals after the first leg in Athens was drawn 0-0. Greece have been poor away recently, failing to win in visits to Switzerland and Moldova, while Ukraine have been excellent at home, winning four in a row including a 1-0 win over third-favourites England.

The hosts are favourites for the game at 17/20 (bet $200 to win $170 profit), leaving Greece as underdogs at 4/1. Another draw is priced at 5/2. The first leg was dominated by Ukraine, who did most of the attacking, and with home advantage and Greece`s poor away form it is easy to see why the home side are odds-on.

A 1-0 win for Ukraine is the favourite result for tonight`s game, priced at 5/1, just ahead of a 1-1 draw, which would see Greece through on away goals, at 6/1. Next most likely is 0-0 at 13/2 and a 2-0 home win is 7/1. 1-0 to the visitors is at 10/1 and would see celebrations throughout Greece, who won the 2004 European Championships.

Former AC Milan and Chelsea striker Andriy Shevchenko is favourite to open the scoring tonight at 11/2, ahead of team-mates Milevskiy and Seleznyov, both at 13/2. Greece`s best hope to score the first goal of the match is Theofanis Gekas of Bayer Leverkusen at 9/1.

Unkraine are 11/5 to be winning at both half-time and full-time and 7/2 to win the match after drawing at half-time. Both halves to end in a draw is priced at 4/1 and Greece are 17/2 to be leading at the interval and the final whistle. Draw/Greece is 11/1 and Greece/Ukraine is priced at 33/1.

Neither team is seen by the bookmakers as having a realistic chance of winning the World Cup next year but Ukraine are seen as slightly more likely than Greece at 150/1 to their opponents` 200/1.

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