Mbappe, Haaland best bets for World Cup top scorer
Drew Dinsick and Jay Croucher break down the odds for the World Cup's top goal scorer, including why favorite Kylian Mbappe (+600) is a safe choice and why Erling Haaland (+1400) is the best bet at its current price.
Video Transcript
Well, Jay, the, World Cup's about to kick off, and I'm very excited to hear your breakdown of the top goalscorer market here.
We currently have a favorite in Kylian Mbapp at 6/1.
Kane of England, 7/1.
Erling Haaland, of your Norwegian squad is 14/1.
and Lionel Messi, still in the mix apparently at 16/1.
how do you currently, see this market, and do you think there is an advantage here, in terms of, who ultimately might be able to reap some serious, goals in this one?
Yeah, I think that Mbapp is the most likely to win just because I think France is, by a small margin, the most likely team to win the tournament.
Mbapp playing as the striker there.
He obviously has great history at World Cups.
He's the penalty taker, which is a big thing in these markets.
You want to be on, the penalty taker.
But I think the best bet at these current prices is Erling Haaland at 14/1.
Very high on Norway overall.
I think they are a very strange high variance team where there just isn't a big track ro- record of these guys at big tournaments.
They haven't played in a World Cup or at the Euros since 2000.
But this is the golden generation of, Norwegian footballers with Erling Haaland, with Arsenal's captain, Martin degaard, as the attacking force behind this team.
They had a perfect record, in World Cup qualifying.
They won every game, and it's not like they were just beating up on bad teams either.
They beat Italy 3-0 and 4-1.
And so I just think that with the upside of Norway, a team that I think very realistically can get to the quarterfinals and potentially push beyond that, I think that Haaland naturally is going to be, the key figure for them.
The offense, the attack operates entirely around him.
he is, you know, arguably the best goalscorer in the world, and he is the penalty taker as well.
So Erling Haaland for me at 14/1.
