WORLD CUP GROUP E: The Ultra previews GERMANY v CURACAO with a recommended BETDAQ bet.
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🇩🇪 Germany v Curacao 🇨🇼
6pm Group E gets under way on Sunday evening UK time as four-time world champions Germany begin their campaign against World Cup debutants Curacao in Houston on WORLD CUP 2026 Betdaq Betting Exchange! . After all the late nights and early starts elsewhere in this tournament, this is a rare treat of a civilised kick-off time – but it serves up the biggest gulf in class of the entire Group stage! We have the shortest price of any side at the World Cup here; Germany are trading as short as 1.06 with Curacao 48.0 and the draw is 23.0 at the time of writing.
On one side, a nation with four World Cups in the cabinet; on the other, the smallest country ever to reach the finals. It’s fair to say anything bar a comfortable win for Germany would be a massive surprise here. This one is going to be about how many goals Germany can score rather than will they actually win. It’s also fair to say that we’ll have look around the side markets here with Germany so short in the match odds market. Make no mistake, the story of Curacao is one of the great tales of this entire World Cup. The tiny Dutch Caribbean island, with a population of under 186,000 people, has become the smallest nation by both population and area ever to qualify for the FIFA World Cup – but in terms of actual football, the gulf in class is enormous here.
Curacao is stitched together largely from players of Dutch and Caribbean heritage plying their trade across Europe and North America. Just getting here is a staggering achievement, and one the island should be enormously proud of. The cold reality, though, is that the step up to this level might actually end in an embarrassing score line. You have to feel that simply competing with credit will be the real measure of success here; maybe avoid a score line of 6-0 or worse for example. The handicap is placed at 3.5 with Germany trading marginally odds on at 1.95 to cover that; for the less adventurous, the -2.5 goals handicap is 1.43. This is about as one sided as Group stage fixtures come at major tournaments; probably a reflection of the expanded World Cup that we have prices like 1.06 – that’s not usually the norm.
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The positive for Curacao is that Germany have been a side in transition for a few years now. They won their UEFA qualifying Group, but they had to recover from a shock opening defeat to Slovakia to rattle off five consecutive wins. Their recent World Cup history makes nothing straightforward; they were eliminated at the group stage in both 2018 and 2022. However, this is about an ideal start as Germany could wish for. Their squad is packed with quality, even if they haven’t been a massive force in recent years. You would expect Curacao to set up to defend deep, keep the score respectable and treat the night as damage limitation, while Germany will be desperate to rack up goals and send a message. I feel Germany can cover the 3.5 goal handicap, but I’m happy to keep stakes small here.
The Ultra Says:
One point win Germany -3.5 goals to beat Curacao at 1.95 with BETDAQ BETTING EXCHANGE.
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