Inside The Odds: World Cup Week One! | "I worry about Scotland defensively" | USA Chances
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What are the highlights from the opening fixtures of the 2026 World Cup?
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Alright, welcome along. Inside the Odds. It's our regular World Cup preview show on Off the Ball in association with Novi Bet. We're going to be here with you periodically throughout the World Cup to chat through the upcoming games of the next few days. It all starts tomorrow evening. Mexico versus South Africa. All very exciting. Graveyard shift then for the next one Friday morning. Czechia versus South Korea. It could have been us, guys. 3am on Friday morning. There is a part of me that's like... God, that would have been a hard one to get excited for.
No. Come on, we would have went out on Thursday night and we would have been out until the early hours of Friday. 3am.
We're on a rollover into the breakfast shift. I know, I'm just trying to... Like, you know, we have to have some sort of light at the end of the tunnel here. I won't be watching Czechia and South Korea and none of the rest of the world will be either. So they wouldn't have watched those either.
You say that now. I might be watching it you think so?
you watch every game I don't know I did watch I did make like my Qatar was probably the best World Cup ever for watching games yeah at the European time zones but I don't know this one will be a struggle I think yeah bring it to Saudi Arabia maybe they'll see what else oh well yeah well look it can't be you know there's problems wherever we go it appears okay Friday evening then Canada versus Bosnia and Herzegovina 2am then for that's the I think that's 9 o'clock or 8 o'clock. And then it's nothing until 2 a.m. for USA Paraguay. So it's a very slow start, but it all gets going properly on Saturday. Unfortunately, the first game that's on at 8 o'clock, which is prime time for us, Qatar versus Switzerland.
It picks up from there, though. 11 p.m. Brazil versus Morocco. Scotland versus Haiti. or Haiti, as we would call them, 2am, and then Australia versus Turkey, 5am. Australia versus Turkey or Turkey-a? I'm sticking with Turkey. We're sticking with Haiti as well. Absolutely, yeah. Australia versus Turkey is an interesting game. 5 o'clock in the morning is an interesting start time. Like, how late is that in America? Or wherever the game's been played? It must be on the West Coast. Even if it's the West Coast, it's still... 9 o'clock you know what I mean it's fairly late like you know so anyway that's 5 o'clock then Sunday we've Germany versus Curacao 6pm leave me alone with the pronunciation Netherlands versus Japan is the game a lot of people are looking forward to 9pm and Ivory Coast versus Ecuador at 11 followed by Sweden versus Tunisia at 3am you could settle in on Sunday
You could settle in on Sunday and watch a lot of football if you wanted to, because none of those games are bad.
What teams are playing in the first few days of the World Cup?
So anyway, that covers off the first four days or so. Anyway, we've gone with Brazil versus Morocco as our game of the first few days, but now we better have a big game each day, so you could also go with Mexico versus South Africa, Canada, Bosnia, or Germany, Curaçao, and now we're better offering up to a €10 free bet if your bet builder loses on the biggest game of each day of the World Cup. So... We might just jump into that bet builder then that we've made for Brazil and Morocco. I think David kind of disagrees with that. I've gone for it to be a full-time result being a draw, both teams to score, yes, and Bruno Guemeres to pick up a card of any colour. Obviously, yellow is the one I'm suggesting.
That's a 14-1 bet. I think... one of the Brazilian midfielders Bruno or Casemiro are guaranteed yellow card in every game this year so I've just gone for Bruno on this one and I just don't fancy Brazil maybe later in the tournament I think they could probably play their way into it I feel like they're very light in midfield and I look maybe I'm going off Morocco four years ago but they still have Brahim and they still have Hakimi and there's good players there but you kind of think they might be a little bit weaker David do you?
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