Luca Brecel vs Mark Selby Prediction: Selby to be crowned the world champion

The 2023 snooker world championship final match between Luca Brecel and Mark Selby will take place at the Crucible Theatre. In this matchup, Selby seeks his fifth world championship and Luca Brecel his first. 

When the score was 14-5 yesterday, Luca Brecel had an incredible run to turn the match on its head and win it. Si managed to claw back and get within two frames of victory for himself, but Brecel managed to sneak in the one frame he needed to complete one of the most impressive comebacks in the history of the Crucible. Before two weeks had passed, Luca Brecel had participated in this competition on six separate occasions but had never been victorious. With a chance to win the title, the Belgian will hope to give a top-class performance as he is the underdog.

Mark Selby had an absolutely incredible day at the baize, starting with the greatest comeback in the history of the Crucible taking place in his semi-final match, followed by this epic struggle that came to a conclusion gone past midnight. Under the impression that we would stay out later tonight, but not like this. Allen appeared to be on the verge of defeat when Selby took a 16-10 lead, but he fought back superbly to bring Selby to the edge of defeat. Allen will undoubtedly be disappointed with how he began against Selby in that matchup because he gave himself an excessive amount of work to complete, but Selby deserves respect for bringing it to a successful conclusion. Selby was able to stop a wave of frames from going against him earlier today, while Si Jiahui was unable to do so. As a result, Selby is playing in his sixth World Championship final.

Mark Selby has our full support in this match. Luca Brecel has also been quite powerful, but he is not even close to being on par with Selby at this point. Given the solid play of the two players, we feel confident betting on the over.