World Cup Betting Odds For Peru

Live Betting Odds On Peru In The 2018 World Cup

As of this writing, there are quite a few live betting odds on Peru in the 2018 World Cup, but more will almost certainly be coming online at leading legal sportsbook sites like Bet365.com – which we recommend for our international readers – and Bovada.lv – which ably serves US bettors more effectively than any other wagering platform online. Most of the wager types available for Peru are of the futures variety. Right now, Bet365 is offering odds that put the sixth-qualifying team from CONMEBOL about middle of the pack or just underneath some of the longer-shot hopefuls like Sweden, Senegal, and Serbia.

Over at Bovada, which uses the American System for listing odds, Peru is looking at odds that are, frankly, a long way down the list of the bookies’ likeliest teams to stand atop the podium at the start of July. These long odds may not actually reflect the side’s chances, but it stands to reason that Bet365’s odds on Peru making out as the winner of Group C seems like a pretty accurate assessment of los Incas’ chances relative to the other squads in the group. For what it’s worth, Bovada has Peru as the third-most likely team to win the group with moneyline odds well back of Denmark but far ahead of Australia.

Additionally, Bovada is listing futures odds on a few individual Group C matches. Other options for betting on Peru at the World Cup will become available as we get closer to the June 2018 start time of the next edition of the tournament at the leading legal sports betting sites we recommend for our readers. However, the only way to be sure you’ve got all the most up-to-date information is to check the FIFA World Cup section of betting shops like Bet365 and Bovada.

Peru Players To Watch In The 2018 World Cup

Peru has a few star players on its roster that are expected to really show up and make a huge difference for their country’s chances of bringing home a good result a the upcoming 2018 edition of the FIFA World Cup or at least to match the previous high-water mark of the quarterfinals, achieved way back in 1978. In fact, just making it to the World Cup after 36 out of the running is a testament to the herculean efforts of the team’s leading scorers, Jefferson Farfan and Paolo Guerrero. Of the two, Farfan is the more experienced, with 79 total appearances for the Peruvian side, scoring a total of 23 goals in his 14-year career as a member of the Blanquirroja senior squad. It was Farfan, currently a member of Russia’s Lokomotiv Moscow, was actually the Peru player to score the most crucial goal of the FWC 2018 qualification series – the winner in the playoff against New Zealand’s national team.

Though now 33 years old – not exactly middle aged by any means - Farfan is seen by many of his team mates and los Incas’ head coach Ricardo Gareca as the elder statesman on the team in actual fact, especially as the side will need to draw on hi experience now more than ever as the red-and-white-kitted squad makes 2018 its first FWC debut in more than three decades. One of the other reasons Farfan is so crucial to any success Peru can hope to achieve is because he provides a counterpoint to Guerrero. Also age 33, and having been capped 86 times by la Blanquirroja’s managers over the years, Guerrero’s appearance at Russia 2018 thankfully won’t be impacted by his 60-day suspension for using a substance banned by FIFA, though in this case it was simply amphetamine, practically a requirement in the wet and chilly Peruvian winter months). With 32 total goals scored since his first call-up in 2004, he is the leading goal-scorer in the team’s history as well as its captain going into Russia 2018.

The final piece of the puzzle when considering the World Cup betting odds for Peru is inside the box for most of the game, that being the duo of skilled goalies Pedro Gallese and Leao Butron. Gallese, aged 27 and playing professionally for the legendary Veracruz, has made 36 appearances for la Blanquirroja since joining the team in 2014, and, more significantly, was a major contributor in Peru’s 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification with 49 saves to his credit. Butron, on the other hand, boasts 21 caps in the run-up to the upcoming World Cup has in actual fact amassed an incredible 79 appearances since his first call up 20 years ago. Now aged 40, Butron, who stills plays professionally for Alianza Lima since 2015, is going into what will likely be his last World Cup appearance. He will look to punctuate his international playing career with a typically dominant showing inside the net – no mean feat for any goalie at this stage of the game, but for Butron it would be the conclusion of perhaps the best career for a Peruvian keeper in a generation if he succeeds.