MEBET365 - FREE Tips For Betting, Football Bet of the Day

State of Origin: Robbie Farah stopped from taking flight to join New South Wales Blues

<h1>
<div class="first">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Robbie Farah has been banned from flying to the Blues' 
Coffs Harbour base on Wednesday due to regulations that ban passengers 
from travelling within 24 hours of hand surgery.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Farah was due to 
fly mid-Wednesday afternoon but was prevented from boarding a Virgin 
Australia flight after going under the knife on Tuesday.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">The determined New South Wales hooker was not permitted to fly because he did not have clearance from his surgeon.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Blues
 officials were left scrambling trying to gain a medical clearance for 
Farah to fly as soon as possible, and the New South Wales camp is 
confident he will be able to fly on Wednesday night.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Farah is likely to be able to take a 7:00pm flight to Coffs Harbour regardless as his surgery took place at 5:00pm on Tuesday.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Farah is rated a 50/50 chance to play in State of Origin III at Lang Park next week.  </span><br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_kWmDzjotwit8hnE3cKD5g2OXIB-9rHTrkeZJVlB6lXYYKP0dpS6Ysg-hVsWtgizc7rbSZZbobjvOEUWmJO0acYACYTkmtutwP9fSgXEYNMsEei0OHvaQ3ODDyav1mBU4IubeDxn2zg/s1600/8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_kWmDzjotwit8hnE3cKD5g2OXIB-9rHTrkeZJVlB6lXYYKP0dpS6Ysg-hVsWtgizc7rbSZZbobjvOEUWmJO0acYACYTkmtutwP9fSgXEYNMsEei0OHvaQ3ODDyav1mBU4IubeDxn2zg/s400/8.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div>
</h1>

State of Origin: Robbie Farah stopped from taking flight to join New South Wales Blues

Robbie Farah has been banned from flying to the Blues' Coffs Harbour base on Wednesday due to regulations that ban passengers from t...

18:22

Champions League: Chelsea viewed as Premier League's main threat

<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;">
Twenty-four days on from the Champions League final, the 2015/16 edition begins in Yerevan.</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;">
<span style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; transition: color 0.2s;">FC Pyunik (Armenia) v SS Folgore-Falciano (San Marino)</span> won't sound like the most natural successor to Juventus v Barcelona in the competition schedule, but both are domestic champions, albeit ones who must navigate four rounds of qualifiers to stand a chance of drawing either 2014/15 finalist.</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;">
There are four first-round double headers in total. <span style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; transition: color 0.2s;">Gibraltar's Lincoln Red Imps face Andorra's FC Santa Coloma</span> and <span style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; transition: color 0.2s;">Northern Ireland's Crusaders oppose Estonia's Levadia Tallinn</span> also on Tuesday, followed up by <span style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; transition: color 0.2s;">Faroese champions B36 Torshavn meeting Wales' The New Saints</span> on Wednesday.</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;">
Since the current qualifying structure came into place in 2009/10, just one of the 11 first qualifying round victors survived the second (Luxembourg's Dudelange stunning Red Bull Salzburg in 2012/13) and they went out a round later. So no round-one starters have ever reached the final qualifier, let alone the group stage.</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;">
That explains why none of these dreamers presently feature in the Champions League winner market which, despite the trophy last being retained by AC Milan in 1989/90, is headed by holders Barcelona, who are <span class="inline-odds has-qtip" data-hasqtip="1" oldtitle="16/5" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffb80c; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1e1e1e; outline: none; padding: 3px 2px 1px; transition: color 0.2s;" title="">4.20</span><span style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; transition: color 0.2s;"> </span>to do it all again.</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;">
A transfer ban means that they will begin their defence with the same squad - besides Xavi, who left for Al-Sadd - but newcomers will be allowed from January and Sevilla right-sider Aleix Vidal has already been signed as one of those.</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;">
Second favourites status is shared by 2014/15 semi-final losers Real Madrid and Bayern Munich, who are <span style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; transition: color 0.2s;">available to back at</span> <span class="inline-odds has-qtip" data-hasqtip="2" oldtitle="5/1" style="background: rgb(255, 184, 12); padding: 3px 2px 1px;" title="">6.20</span>.</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;">
Neither have completed any pulse-raising business yet. Real purchased Porto right back Danilo and reclaimed midfielder Casemiro off them, while Bayern replaced Pepe Reina (who joined Napoli) with Stuttgart's Sven Ulreich and landed RB Leipzig midfielder Joshua Kimmich in a deal struck in January.</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;">
Last season's runners-up Juventus are rather harshly assessed as <span class="inline-odds has-qtip" data-hasqtip="3" oldtitle="22/1" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffb80c; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1e1e1e; outline: none; padding: 3px 2px 1px; transition: color 0.2s;" title="">23.00</span><span style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; transition: color 0.2s;"> </span>joint-eighth favourites, the perception appearing to be that their journey to Berlin was a fluke.</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;">
However, they have done arguably the most eye-catching early summer spending of any Champions League club in recruiting Sami Khedira, Mario Mandzukic and Paulo Dybala, though the departure of Carlos Tevez and almost certainly Andrea Pirlo too are a blow. Then again, it was Alvaro Morata, not Tevez, who scored in both legs of the semi-final and the final.</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;">
Despite the absence of any high-profile signings to date and their round-of-16 flop in 2014/15, Chelsea are <span style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; transition: color 0.2s;">by far the most fancied of the Premier League contenders at</span> <span class="inline-odds has-qtip" data-hasqtip="4" oldtitle="17/2" style="background: rgb(255, 184, 12); padding: 3px 2px 1px;" title="">9.40</span>, a price that makes them the fourth favourites overall.</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;">
The similarly transfer-quiet Manchester City, who have never ventured beyond the round-of-16,<span style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; transition: color 0.2s;">follow them at</span> <span class="inline-odds has-qtip" data-hasqtip="5" oldtitle="17/1" style="background: rgb(255, 184, 12); padding: 3px 2px 1px;" title="">18.00</span>, with Manchester United and Arsenal's respective Memphis Depay and Petr Cech moves not enough to lift them from the <span style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; transition: color 0.2s;">bottom of the Anglo pile at</span> <span class="inline-odds has-qtip" data-hasqtip="6" oldtitle="21/1" style="background: rgb(255, 184, 12); padding: 3px 2px 1px;" title="">22.00</span>.</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;">
2014/15 quarter-finalists <span style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; transition: color 0.2s;">Atletico Madrid and Paris St-Germain trail both of them at</span> <span class="inline-odds has-qtip" data-hasqtip="7" oldtitle="22/1" style="background: rgb(255, 184, 12); padding: 3px 2px 1px;" title="">23.00</span>, with the rest of the field 70.0 or longer.</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOyxJbJdum0DVO-it43uR2eOvpC3asg0dMtQUgcwRQtcl3GDnmQs22apVSmYvDEplVCWvIFLPijnua02e8YbqvgESfU4-BQqyDdt9yl9_Xsmeeiu8KXQfrmyf6fGLS6kRcGU2PrTNqlQ/s1600/mourinho+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOyxJbJdum0DVO-it43uR2eOvpC3asg0dMtQUgcwRQtcl3GDnmQs22apVSmYvDEplVCWvIFLPijnua02e8YbqvgESfU4-BQqyDdt9yl9_Xsmeeiu8KXQfrmyf6fGLS6kRcGU2PrTNqlQ/s400/mourinho+3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;">
<br /></div>

Champions League: Chelsea viewed as Premier League's main threat

Twenty-four days on from the Champions League final, the 2015/16 edition begins in Yerevan. FC Pyunik (Armenia) v SS Folgore-Falciano (Sa...

18:08

Porto confirm Jackson Martinez will join Atletico Madrid

<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Portuguese club have confirmed the striker will depart after Atletico agreed to pay his €35 million release clause<br /><br />Porto have confirmed Atletico Madrid have agreed to pay Jackson Martinez's €35 million release clause.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The player's agent revealed last week that the 28-year-old would move to the Vicente Calderon after rejecting the chance to join AC Milan.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A statement on Porto's website said: "Atletico Madrid agreed on Tuesday to pay Jackson Martinez's release clause to the sum of €35 million."</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Colombia striker has spent three seasons with Porto and played 136 official matches, scoring 92 goals.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was the top scorer in the Portuguese league in those three campaigns, with 26 goals in 2012-13, 20 in 2013-14 and 21 in 2014-15.</span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvvkA-_CHirMdt-1HINcBWzvTPJZkYYzI3oFIq5DwULt3pfRo_wJZsHh9AqR8bjZEhjOFdeTYhu3TjsBFSoiW5Lw-XkEr_ak2XU8H7xeGralbzx6B2At5HR8fTNexsurYjaoAbnZVoXQ/s1600/alectico+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvvkA-_CHirMdt-1HINcBWzvTPJZkYYzI3oFIq5DwULt3pfRo_wJZsHh9AqR8bjZEhjOFdeTYhu3TjsBFSoiW5Lw-XkEr_ak2XU8H7xeGralbzx6B2At5HR8fTNexsurYjaoAbnZVoXQ/s400/alectico+3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">
<br /></div>

Porto confirm Jackson Martinez will join Atletico Madrid

The Portuguese club have confirmed the striker will depart after Atletico agreed to pay his €35 million release clause Porto have confirmed...

18:07

Liverpool flop set for West Brom escape route this summer

<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rickie Lambert days at Liverpool look numbered after reports in Star Sport say he’s emerged as a summer transfer target for fellow Barclays Premier League outfit West Brom.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 33-year-old joined the Reds last summer from Southampton alongside teammates Adam Lallana and Dejan Lovren, but struggled to nail down a regular place in the starting XI under manager Brendan Rodgers.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lambert made just seven starts in the league last season and scored twice, although he doesn’t appear to have a future at Anfield ahead of the new campaign following the arrival of Danny Ings, while Rodgers is reportedly looking to bring in another forward during the transfer window.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aston Villa were keen on the England international during the January transfer window, but Lambert decided to stay and fight for his place on Merseyside.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now with a move to the Hawthorns a possibility, the lure of regular first-team football should be enough for Lambert to call it quits on his unsuccessful time with his boyhood club.</span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGTRVvfU1vVOg0n0Bqgn2-a1gYY005iCgaaHqhQIuka5ql6XPuI25fqAyeLYp2zVvARUGJaZu_wc1eqisUYZztJMHkfgmyfxyqNIREbvnkK5Bi02WMSMaVhR2NZzZNTxYxSGeGu6nZyw/s1600/lambert1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGTRVvfU1vVOg0n0Bqgn2-a1gYY005iCgaaHqhQIuka5ql6XPuI25fqAyeLYp2zVvARUGJaZu_wc1eqisUYZztJMHkfgmyfxyqNIREbvnkK5Bi02WMSMaVhR2NZzZNTxYxSGeGu6nZyw/s400/lambert1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">
<br /></div>

Liverpool flop set for West Brom escape route this summer

Rickie Lambert days at Liverpool look numbered after reports in Star Sport say he’s emerged as a summer transfer target for fellow Barclays...

18:06

Arturo Vidal’s agent claims there was no talks with Aresnal

<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Arturo Vidal’s agent, Fernando Felicevich, has stated the midfielder has never had talks with Arsenal, per his Twitter account.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Daily Mail reported on Sunday that Vidal was set to complete a move to the Emirates after a €29 million (£21m) fee was agreed between the two clubs.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But Vidal’s agent has broken his silence confirming that such reports are well off the mark.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fernando Felicevich, Arturo Vidal agent: "I've never had talks with Arsenal" #AFC<br />— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) June 30, 2015</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNN_sFpoz6t6hoYTpTlpLAB-Yo1naeIUaZpmcoPBsZqf0xNzWBAX6ArHgGkLQTbrsNEeeygGx_hR27I-WD8_ablcB92j31Mjy6Bd1jiIWARzk4S6-N0FkLHV_CQAbZ2YsUMYttxXiGdw/s1600/vidal3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNN_sFpoz6t6hoYTpTlpLAB-Yo1naeIUaZpmcoPBsZqf0xNzWBAX6ArHgGkLQTbrsNEeeygGx_hR27I-WD8_ablcB92j31Mjy6Bd1jiIWARzk4S6-N0FkLHV_CQAbZ2YsUMYttxXiGdw/s400/vidal3.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div>

Arturo Vidal’s agent claims there was no talks with Aresnal

Arturo Vidal’s agent, Fernando Felicevich, has stated the midfielder has never had talks with Arsenal, per his Twitter account. The Daily...

18:05

Japan v England: Holders to end trophy hopes of resilient Lionesses

<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; background-color: white; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Japan v England</span><br />Thursday, 00:00<br />Live on BBC One and British Eurosport</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; background-color: white; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;">
<br />Japan</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; background-color: white; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;">
They have been backed at odds of 20.0 and higher to win the competition and are <span style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; transition: color 0.2s;">still available to back at</span> <span class="inline-odds has-qtip" data-hasqtip="1" oldtitle="4/1" style="background: rgb(255, 184, 12); padding: 3px 2px 1px;" title="">4.80</span>, yet it remains a mystery why they have been so overlooked.</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; background-color: white; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;">
Japan are holders, they have won all five of their games in regulation time - a feat nobody else in the tournament can rival - and they have conceded only two goals, which were both 90th-minute consolations in fixtures that they led 2-0.</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; background-color: white; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;">
It is therefore no surprise that, despite being priced like outsiders, over £20,000 has been staked on them retaining their trophy, as Germany did in 2007 before having their era of dominance ended by Japan in the quarter-finals four years ago.</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; background-color: white; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;">
<br />England</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; background-color: white; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;">
We are now two wins away from Sir Mark Sampson and Dame Lucy Bronze becoming a reality, with England's fourth successive 2-1 victory at the World Cup, this time at the expense of hosts Canada, securing their place in the semi-finals.</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; background-color: white; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;">
This is their best ever World Cup performance and, as you may just have heard, the finest of any senior England national side in 25 years.</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; background-color: white; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;">
There is a significant distinction between Japan and the quartet that the Lionesses have defeated thus far though. Mexico, Colombia, Norway and Canada were all below them in the world rankings, whereas Japan are above. The sole other statistically superior team that they have faced, France, beat them fairly decisively.</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; background-color: white; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;">
It is also true that Japan haven't met anyone as good as England, but their 100% record in this year's competition and 2011 success mean that they don't have to prove their quality as much.</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; background-color: white; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;">
<br />Match Odds: <span style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; transition: color 0.2s;">Japan</span> <span class="inline-odds has-qtip" data-hasqtip="2" oldtitle="21/20" style="background: rgb(255, 184, 12); padding: 3px 2px 1px;" title="">2.06</span>, England <span class="inline-odds has-qtip" data-hasqtip="3" oldtitle="7/2" style="background: rgb(255, 184, 12); padding: 3px 2px 1px;" title="">4.50</span>, The Draw <span class="inline-odds has-qtip" data-hasqtip="4" oldtitle="9/4" style="background: rgb(255, 184, 12); padding: 3px 2px 1px;" title="">3.30</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; background-color: white; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;">
England have already eliminated two nations that the odds indicated that they weren't supposed to in Norway and Canada, yet Japan are an enormous step up even from those.</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; background-color: white; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;">
They have won every match this summer and, for all that Sampson's squad are the most talented that they have faced, the 2011 winners will be fully aware that this is the dream draw.</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; background-color: white; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;">
Though the Lionesses have overachieved, they aren't at the standard of other semi-finalists Germany and USA and are indeed the lone of the final four to have never claimed the World Cup before.</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; background-color: white; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;">
While USA, Germany and Japan have prevailed in five of the previous six editions, this is England's first semi-final, and the final is an even more exclusive club. Across six instalments, there have been a four former champions and seven different finalists.</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; background-color: white; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;">
Take away the maiden two, USA and Norway, and four of the five others (Germany, China, Sweden and Brazil) had to lose a semi-final before they triumphed in one. Japan were the only side to profit from beginner's luck at this phase in that entire timeframe.</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; background-color: white; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;">
<br /><span style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; transition: color 0.2s;">Both Teams to Score</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; background-color: white; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;">
England's run of 2-1 wins may not continue against Japan, but there is no reason why they can't at least net against the defending champs, having done in each of their three other head-to-head clashes in the past decade.</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; background-color: white; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;">
Both teams to score has delivered in each of England's past four World Cup ties and two of Japan's latest four. The other advantage of this wager is its longevity. As both countries have given up two 90th-minute goals apiece, a slow start for either attack needn't dictate a blank.</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; background-color: white; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;">
<br />Best Bet: <span style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; transition: color 0.2s;">Back Japan to win @</span> <span class="inline-odds has-qtip" data-hasqtip="5" oldtitle="21/20" style="background: rgb(255, 184, 12); padding: 3px 2px 1px;" title="">2.06</span><br />Other Recommended Bet: <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; outline: none;">Back both teams to score @</span><span style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; outline: none; transition: color 0.2s;"> </span><span class="inline-odds has-qtip" data-hasqtip="6" oldtitle="7/5" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffb80c; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; outline: none; padding: 3px 2px 1px;" title="">2.40</span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxk34eQNxlzgjF8TSKUHKY7hDdsv_rmncseepAuB0sqAz5c5UDOcA4cqfDnibS9S78F9Pq_V1tilJBgJQRCdQPtrA8vSyEc4njZodRiDn1fTBO-GReSuZAOW0tXqXJ9NV-M3Z5kJFOdA/s1600/9.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxk34eQNxlzgjF8TSKUHKY7hDdsv_rmncseepAuB0sqAz5c5UDOcA4cqfDnibS9S78F9Pq_V1tilJBgJQRCdQPtrA8vSyEc4njZodRiDn1fTBO-GReSuZAOW0tXqXJ9NV-M3Z5kJFOdA/s400/9.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; background-color: white; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;">
<span class="inline-odds has-qtip" data-hasqtip="6" oldtitle="7/5" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffb80c; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; outline: none; padding: 3px 2px 1px;" title=""><br /></span></div>