After the two semi-finals, we now have the twenty six songs competing for victory on Saturday night, who are the bookmakers backing to win?
With just an hour to go until the first dress rehearsal for the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 takes place, we take a look at who the bookmakers predict could win on Saturday.
Who will win the Eurovision Song Contest 2018?
- Cyprus – Eleni Foureria – Fuego
- Israel – Netta – Toy
- France – Madame Monsieur – Mercy
- Lithuania – Ieva Zasimauskaite – When We’re Old
- Germany – Michael Schulte – You Let Me Walk Alone
- Sweden – Benjamin Ingrosso – Dance You Off
- Ireland – Ryan O’Shaugnessy – Together
- Italy – Ermal Meta & Fabrizio Moro – Non Mi Avete Fatto Niente
- Norway – Alexander Rybak – That’s How You Write A Song
- Estonia – Elina Nechayeva – La Forza
- Australia – Jessica Mauboy – We Got Love
- Bulgaria – Equinox – Bones
- Czech Republic – Mikolas Josef – Lie to Me
- Denmark – Rasmuseen – Higher Ground
- Hungary – AWS – Viszlat Nyar
- Finland – Saara Aalto – Monsters
- Moldova – DoReDos – My Lucky Day
- Austria – Cesar Sampson – Nobody But You
- Spain – Alfred & Amaia – Tu Cancion
- Netherlands – Waylon – Outlaw in ‘Em
- Ukraine – Melovin – Under the Ladder
- Portugal – Claudia Pascoal – O Jardim
- United Kingdom – SuRie – Storm
- Albania – Eugent Bushpepa – Mall
- Slovenia – Lea Sirk – Hvala, ne!
- Serbia – Sanja Ilic & Balkanika – Nova Deca
Cyprus remains the favourite to win this years Eurovision Song Contest, while Israel having head in to the competition as the favourite is now second. The biggest movers over night were:
- Lithuania – Ieva Zasimauskaite – When We’re Old (4th favourite, 1 week ago – 23rd favourite)
- Germany – Michael Schulte – You Let Me Walk Alone (5th favourite, 1 week ago – 16th)
- Ireland – Ryan O’Shaugnessy – Together (7th favourite, 1 week ago – 30th favourite)
Source: Eurovision World
Albania at #24? Boo! 🙁 Hopefully Eugent proves the bookies wrong tomorrow. I really want to bring Albania the their first Eurovision victory. 🙁