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The final week of pre-event trading for Eurovision 2018 (Lisbon 12 May), has seen Betfair place Cyprus’ Eleni Foureira’s ‘Feugo’ as 11/10 market favourite to win the 63rd edition of the Pan-European song contest.
Eleni Foureira’s ‘Feugo’ has flipped-the-script on Eurovision 2018 trading, as the Cypriot entry was 100/1, just ten days ago.
However, Betfair details that Eurovision punters have backed ‘Feugo’ following Foureira’s well-received pre-event rehearsals.
Cyprus’ move to the top of Eurovision bookmaker rankings, comes at the expense of Israel’s Netta Barzilai’s ‘Toy’, which had been the previous outright 5/4 event market favourite (current price: 3/1).
Reports from Lisbon, detail that Netta Barzilai has underperformed in pre-show rehearsals, underwhelming Eurovision test audiences.
“Cyprus has overtaken previous favourites Israel, with entrant Netta’s unconvincing rehearsals’ performance of Toy seeing the entry drift out to 5/1, before coming back into 3/1 second favouritism thanks to getting a highly advantageous second half slot in the draw” details Betfair Spokesperson, Katie Baylis.
With a live TV audience of approximately +200 million viewers, watching and judging an international song contest, bookmakers expect a helter-skelter evening of Eurovision trading.
The pressure is now on Eleni Foureira to deliver Cyprus’ first ever Eurovision victory, however, could European pop heavyweights France (5-time winners) and Sweden (6-time winners) spoil a Cypriot pop party!
“France are our third favourites at 12/1, with Germany at 14/1 and Sweden at 16/1 rounding our top five in Eurovision betting” Betfair adds.
Betfair – Eurovision Winner 2018
- 11/10 – Cyprus
- 3/1 – Israel
- 12/1 – France
- 14/1 – Germany
- 16/1 – Sweden
- 20/1 – Italy
- 20/1 – Ireland
- 22/1 – Lithuania
- 25/1 – Norway
- 30/1 – Australia
- 33/1 – Estonia
- 40/1 – Czech Republic
- 50/1 – Bulgaria
- 50/1 – Finland
- 50/1 – Moldova
- 50/1 – Hungary
- 60/1 – Denmark
- 66/1 – Austria
- 80/1 – Spain
- 100/1 – Ukraine
- 100/1 – Netherlands
- 200/1 – United Kingdom
- 200/1 – Slovenia
- 200/1 – Portugal
- 250/1 – Albania
- 300/1 – Serbia
