Antoine Griezmann to win the Golden Boot
Finally it's time for the highlight of 2018 – the World Cup in Russia. And I think that I've found a candidate for the Golden Boot at this year's tournament with really top odds. You can get 14/1 on the French striker Antoine Griezmann bagging the most goals at this year's tournament.
For me, France is one of the teams that has a major chance of lifting the trophy. They qualified comfortably from a group which included Sweden and the Netherlands. And with players such as Pogba, Mbappe, Kante and Varane, they have one of the World Cup's very strongest squads. Martial, Laporte, Lacazette, Coman and Payet are names that don't even get a place in this insanely star-studded squad.
Atletico Madrid's Antonie Greizmann will lead the line up-top in an attacking role, as he does for his club in the Spanish capital. Last month, Griezmann scored two goals in the Europa League final against Marseille and then brought the trophy back to Madrid. At the Euros in France a couple of years ago, Griezmann scored six goals and was named the best player of the tournament. The 27-year-old striker is clearly one of France's most important players.
I think Griezmann will be doing his best very goal-hanging and getting in on the act.
France got a dream draw for the finals – ending up in Group C together with Denmark, Peru and Australia. In a group with opponents of this calibre, France, of course, should be the favourites and ought to win all their matches. I think France will score a lot of goals in the group stages, and I think Griezmann will be doing his best very goal-hanging and getting in on the act. The winner of Group C will go up against the second-placed team from Group D which includes Argentina, Croatia, Nigeria and Iceland. In my eyes, this will probably lead to a Croatia v France match-up, with France emerging victorious.
Griezmann is higher-up in the hierarchy of set-piece and penalty takers for France.
Griezmann scored the most goals of all the French players in the qualifiers with his 4 finishes. Not a huge figure by any stretch of the imagination. But now that Dimitri Payet is injured and will miss out on the tournament, Griezmann is higher-up in the hierarchy of set-piece and penalty takers for France.
I think that France will go to the latter parts of the knock-out stages at least in this year's World Cup, and that Antoine Griezmann will score the goals that get them there. He is a given starting player in Didier Deschamp's first eleven and he also has experience of playing in a major championship. He's the right age and I think this could very well be Antoine Griezmann's World Cup. I play 1 unit for a lot of fun at 14/1 on Antoine Griezmann to win the Golden Boot at the 2018 World Cup.
Good luck with your bets.
