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The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

World Cup Weekend Best Bets

The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

CBS Sports, SportsLine

Sports, Football

4.5779 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2026

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

The Early Edge crew previews England vs. Norway and Argentina vs. Switzerland.

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0:00.0

We continue with World Cup picks.

0:01.6

We move to Norway versus England.

0:03.6

We've got Martin Green, John Imer, and Brad Thomas.

0:07.0

Martin, we just heard from Buckets that maybe he is leaning towards Norway here.

0:11.2

Of course, England favored.

0:12.3

We look at the preview.

0:14.2

This is Saturday 5 Eastern in Miami Stadium.

0:17.6

But, you know, Buckets, I'm going to actually let you start here.

0:20.7

I'm not going to start with Martin because I want Martin to hear your full explanation as to why you like Norway to qualify at plus 170.

0:30.4

The reason I like Norway to qualify at plus 170, other than the fact that it's a big plus number and that makes me happy is Norway is a

0:38.1

team that understands their play style and doesn't try to be something they're not. This is a team

0:42.4

who has not kept a clean sheet in the entirety of the World Cup. Their back line is non-existent,

0:47.6

but they get that and they adjust their play strategy because of that. They press for 90 minutes.

0:52.5

They make life hell for their opponents. And we've seen both teams to score and over two and a half goals hit in every one of their World Cup games because they're good at scoring goals. They've got Martin Odegaard. We love Odegaard, right? Martin, yay, up the gunners, right? We've got Erling Holland. Nusa has been incredible. Even Bodo Gimps's captain, Patrick, has really stepped up in a role and helped carry this team. This is a Norway's team that nobody expected to have a deep run in this tournament. And now that they're there, I'm just back in the momentum at this point. They took Brazil out. I know Brazil's been, trying to think of a nice word for this. Can't think of one. Brazil's been Brazil right now, so I know that does it say a whole lot, but I'm just,

1:29.0

I'm back in the momentum. I'm buying into the hype and I'm buying that Norway's good enough to force an England team who's struggling defensively into a tricky 90 minutes here. Martin, I suspect you're going to politely tell buckets why he's wrong. well I'm just trying to look at it objectively player for player coach for coach

1:46.7

England have Thomas 2 why he's wrong. Well, I'm just trying to look at it objectively. Player for player, coach

1:46.0

for coach. England have Thomas Tuchel, a Champions League winning manager with experience at Chelsea,

1:52.2

PSG, some of the biggest clubs in the world. Norway's manager was an absolute flop at Wolverhampton

1:58.4

Wanderers in the championship. They finished 18th.

2:01.4

I think Norway have two good players. They have Harland and they have Erdogard.

2:05.5

I'll take Harland and I'll raise you Harry Kane. As an Arsenal fan, I love Erdogard,

2:10.1

but I'll take Erdogard and I'll raise you Jude Bellingham, Organ Rogers,

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