World Cup gambling at the sportsbook on Sunday in the round of 16 may easily be a semifinal or final but Germany and England faced off on Sunday with the loser being removed from the World Cup gambling and bets.

With the English the slightest of favorites, the World Cup betting odds were about as close as you can get on this competition.

World Cup betting has preferred Germany and England in each of their group matches and neither squad has been extremely outstanding. England did enough to get through as the 2nd place squad from Group C behind the u.s., though it was really unsatisfying in their three group matches. Germany at least got 2 wins in Group D, despite the fact that they were not pretty extraordinary either.

England may have more skill but thus far in this World Cup they have not shown a lot of it. At least in the last match vs Slovenia, Wayne Rooney looked better, though he hasn’t scored yet. He was the one player who could make a big difference on Sunday.

Germany and England have a history of playing great World Cup matches. England won 4-2 when they met back in the 1966 final at Wembley. In that final, Geoff Hurst scored a hat trick for England. Four years later it was Germany defeating England in the quarterfinals. The squads met in 1990 in the semifinals and the competition went to a penalty shootout that Germany concluded up winning 4-3.

And for the 2010 World Cup, Germany pretty much thrashed the English team to a 4-1 win.

While it was believed that the similarly-matched teams may come down to penalty time in a close game, that just was not the case. The English defense was sloppy and the Germans came out fast to a 2-0 lead before the English team landed their point.

Then, England’s Frank Lampard landed a goal that would have brought the game to a tie. The goal wasn’t spotted by the referee unfortunately for the English team. The ball bounced a few feet behind the line at the goal, but lacking delay, the German goaltender basically picked it up and tossed it back into play. That basically tricked the referee into believing the ball had not crossed the line and the English squad was denied their point.

Germany might feel the determination compensates for for 1966, when the English squad was famously awarded a 3rd goal even though Geoff Hurst’s shot appeared to bounce down on the line.

England’s coach Fabio Capello thought that goal would have been a turning point for the English team, and they may have wound up winning the contest after that. However, a better German team basically ran away with the game in the second half. Germany’s Thomas Muller won 2 times to take Germany to a 4-1 lead, giving England their greatest ever World Cup loss.

Germany, who have now attained at least the quarterfinals at every World Cup since 1954, will take on Argentina in the last 8 on Saturday.