Women’s World Cup co-hosts Australia will need to pull off an upset when they go head-to-head with Sweden early Saturday morning on TSN. Despite having the longer odds of these two teams to win it all pre-tournament, Sweden is the favourite to win the third-place match at FanDuel at -132.
Sweden was the seventh choice to win the Women’s World Cup when the tournament kicked off in Australia and New Zealand in July.
While anybody who bet on them to win it all at 18-1 won’t cash that bet, Sweden did overachieve with upset wins over the United States and Japan to reach the semi-final. After bowing out to Spain in the 2-1 semi-final loss on Tuesday, Sweden will still be motivated to go out on a high note with one more victory on Saturday morning.
Meanwhile, only the United States, England, Spain and Germany had shorter odds to win the Women’s World Cup than Australia at FanDuel when the tournament got underway.Then they went toe-to-toe with England in a match that was tied late in regulation before the Lionesses scored a pair of late goals for the 3-1 victory on Wednesday.
Sweden has the head-to-head edge in goals scored and goal differential at this tournament, despite being dominated in attacking chances in its loss to Spain.
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