Euro 2016 betting thread

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He's the brains/experience of the operation. Midfield is where he should be and he'll always retain a goal threat.
 
A little joke courtesy of Lord H

A Scotsman walks into a bar. Usually there's an Englishman, an Irishman and a Welshman with him but they're all in France for the Euros.
 
NHughes said:
Footballing brain I hope you mean, otherwise we're screwed.
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Yes, but we're screwed anyway.

On a separate matter, I imagine a lot of people who didn't see the Switzerland-France game last night would look at the 0-0 scoreline and think both teams played out a boring draw that suited both but it was reassuringly competitive. Two ordinary teams, mind, but at least both appeared to be going for the win and if the ref had a pair Switzerland could have snatched it near the end with a strong penalty claim.

I wouldn't bank on other teams taking the same approach if the draw suits them, though.
 
Wales are a decent enough price tonight. Russia will have to commit at some point and Wales will be happy to defend and hit on the break with Bale the likely one to take any advantage of any space left in behind. Worth a bet at 2/1 I thought.
 
Colin Phillips said:
Wales v. Norn Ireland what a display of absolute shite - neither side deserved to go through.
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Croatia v Portugal was just as bad.
These matches are dire.........worst Euros I can remember. I've watched four 0-0 games in the past week In sure!
Pathetic
 
Agree. Absolute disaster of a competition. Too many teams just on damage limitation. Caught the second half of Wales ni and it was shocking football. The evening game was just dreadful
 
Was bound to happen when they increased the number from 16 to 24 participants. Now you have all the 2nd rate teams on one side of the draw and all the legitimate contenders on the other side.
 
SlimChance said:
After Albania, Hungary have the lowest goal expectation in the competition according to the markets. They are given around a 60% chance of scoring 2 or less goals. Bernd Storck will deploy a 4-1-4-1 formation with a 4 players vying for the lone striker role. This is likely to land to Ádám Szalai who has not scored an international goal since October 2014. It's also important to note that the manager likes to pull the lone striker around the hour mark and given he was three other options its hard to make a case for backing any of the frontmen. At the moment I am very much tempted by the 7/1 for No Goalscorer and also by the 9/1 for their captain Balazs Dzsudzsak who has been a prolific midfield goalscorer all his career. He is guaranteed to start all 3 group games and will be on free kick duty. He makes far more appeal than playing roulette with one of their strikers.

Recommended bet:

Hungary Top Goalscorer
Dutch No Goalscorer 7/1 & Balazs Dzsudzsak 9/1
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Well done.
 
Today with Italy v Spain we have the final before the final.

These are by some way the best two teams I've seen so far although Germany has a habit of psyching good teams off their game.

With a slightly heavy heart I've backed Italy to beat my beloved Spain as I feel they are the more direct and dangerous while Spain are probably that little bit more gifted.

I'll be happy enough, though, if it is simply a great game of football.
 
I'm never one to lay into the team but that was truly terrible. The team was so tense it was unreal. The manager's job is to relax them
 
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