Raul Jimenez Leads Mexico Edge as Koki Ogawa Stays Quiet

Raul Jimenez is the preferred Mexico scoring play on the FanDuel World Cup slate for Thursday, June 11, and the build that includes koki ogawa puts Mexico at the center of the discussion. Mexico opened around -230 at home against South Africa, which is why Jimenez is the forward singled out for better scoring odds.

That slate is only two games deep: Mexico vs. South Africa at 3:00 PM ET in Mexico City, then South Korea vs. Czechia at 10:00 PM ET. The format forces a seven-player lineup under a $100 cap, with four forward or midfielders, two defenders and a goalkeeper, plus a three-team minimum and a maximum of four players from any one side.

Mexico's salary edge

Gutierrez was priced at $6 and handled Mexico's set pieces, while Alvarado came in four dollars cheaper than Jimenez. Julian Quinones was listed at $18 and Erik Lira at $11, giving roster builders a spread of price points inside a favorite that also carried roughly 70 percent clean-sheet odds. That combination pushes Mexico from a simple favorite into the slate's most efficient salary pool.

Jimenez matters here because the choice is not just between goals and no goals. It is between paying up for a scorer with better odds to hit the net or trying to save salary with a cheaper Mexico option that comes with a different ceiling. On a slate this small, those pricing gaps decide whether a lineup can absorb two premium attackers or has to pivot to value.

South Korea and Czechia names

Son handles South Korea's penalties and set pieces, which keeps him in the same conversation as Patrik Schick, who was priced at $18 for Czechia. Michal Sadilek checked in at $8, while Lee Gi-Hyuk was priced at $5 and projected to start. Oswin Appollis carried South Africa's penalty and set-piece responsibility, so the slate gives fantasy players several set-piece paths, but Mexico's home spot still makes Jimenez the clearest scoring bet.

The practical move is straightforward: build around Jimenez if you want the better scoring odds, then use the cheaper Mexico pieces to fit the rest of a seven-player roster. On a two-game slate, the edge belongs to the forward who combines the strongest goal case with a team priced to produce at home.