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Spurs v Portsmouth Odds For FA Cup Semi Final Showpiece at Wembley

Spurs have been made red hot favourites to win this FA Cup semi final against Portsmouth, at Wembley on Sunday with most Bookmakers, including, Paddy Power who quote them as short as 3/10 to win the match with Pompey only 9/1; the draw is a 4/1 option.

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Spurs boss, Harry Redknapp will most certainly be a man with mixed feelings as his current team take on Portsmouth, his former team who he guided to FA Cup glory just two years ago. Since his departure from the Fratton Park club however, the fortunes of Pompey have been turned upside down, with the club all but relegated from the Premier League and on the verge of financial ruin.

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Spurs on the other hand are having their best season for several years, where not only have they reached the FA Cup semi final, they are still very much in the running for the lucrative 4th place spot in the Premier League. In his short tenure at White Hart Lane, Redknapp has built up a strong squad of players, has engendered a great team spirit who have a belief that they win every match that they play.

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Meanwhile, Redknapp’s successor at Fratton Park, Avram Grant, has done his utmost to keep his players focussed on football, and this semi final represents the only chance they have of some redemption from an otherwise dire season. At least they can go into match, with very little left to lose an attitude that could well pay dividends, which is why we think the extremely generous odds of 9/1 for a Pompey victory, should not be completely ignored.

Quite understandably, it is the strikers of Spurs that dominate the goalscoring markets, with Jermaine Defoe, favourite at 7/2 with PaddyPower to score the first goal against his former club, with Peter Crouch and Roman Pavlyuchenko next best at 4/1. Portsmouth fans however might want to back their leading man Frederic Piquionne to score first, particularly with the very tempting odds of 10/1.

It would not surprise us to see this tie going to a replay, however, momentum appears to be with Spurs at the moment and as heart wrenching as this may be for Redknapp, we can see his team winning by just the odd goal and would back a 2-1 scoreline at 7/1 also with Paddy power.

Posted: Saturday, 10th April 2010
Author: Rodney Wise
Tags: fa cup, wembley, tottenham hotspur, portsmouth, paddypower,

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