Netherlands versus Slovakia Monday 6-28-2010 ESPN TV World Cup Football Soccer Round of 16 Sports Betting Odds Pick Preview

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Published: June 27, 2010

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Netherlands and Slovakia will meet in the Round of 16 from World Cup 2010 on Monday morning.

Start time from Durban Stadium in Durban South Africa is scheduled for 10AM Eastern Time with national television coverage provided by ESPN TV.

The three way regulation betting line opened with Netherlands favorite to win at -240, a draw is second favorite at +300 and for a Slovakia victory in regulation an extreme underdog at +700.

The handicap line came in with Netherlands -1 goal at -130 favorite with Slovakia getting +1 goal at +110.

The goal total opened at 2 ½ goals with under a -150 favorite and over the underdog at +130.

The early money in the three way regulation betting saw movement towards a draw as Netherlands is a -210 favorite the draw is now +615 and for a Slovakia victory a bigger underdog at +305.

The handicap line saw movement on the underdog as Netherlands -1 goal is now lined at -120 with +1 goal with Slovakia returning +100.

The early money on the goal total saw under movement as it now sits at 2 goals with over returning -145 and under +125 odds.

The Netherlands qualified as the first place team from Group E with three victories in three games for 9 points. Slovakia with a win, loss and draw in Group F ended with 4 points and second place.

Netherlands opened up play in World Cup 2010 with a 2-0 win against Denmark and then defeated Japan 1-0 qualifying the squad for the knockout round. Netherlands then disposed of Cameroon in their final group game to advance as the first place team from Group E.

Netherlands opened the scoring in minute 36 with a goal by Robin Van Persie. Cameroon found the equalizer as Samuel Eto’o scored on penalty. The game winner came for the Netherlands as Klass-Jan Huntelaar found the net in the 83rd minute.

Netherlands controlled the ball 49% of the time and had 8 accurate shots on goal to Cameroon’s 3.

Slovakia’s World Cup 2010 began with a 1-1 surprise draw with New Zealand. Slovakia allowed the tying goal in injury time in the second half. Paraguay then shut out Slovakia 2-0 in their second game. Slovakia came up huge and defeated Italy 3-2 in their final group contest on June 24th to win second place in their group and move on to the Round of 16.

Slovakia got the first goal of the game in minute 25 as Robert Vittek found the net and he did once again in minute 75 to give his club the 2-0 lead against Italy. The Italians drew closer in minute 81 as Antonio Di Natale scored. But Slovakia returned it to a 2 goal advantage as Kamil Kopunek got it in the net in the 89th minute. But once against Slovakia allowed a late goal to an opponent as Fabio Quagliarella got it past the net in the extra time to cut it to 3-2. Slovakia then held on for the victory.

Slovakia controlled possession for 50% of the game and had 4 accurate shots on goal to Italy’s 6.

Robert Vitek leads Slovakia with 3 goals in World Cup 2010 and no Dutch player has scored more than 1 goal thus far.

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