European Football

[postman44]

Hi ken who is your tip to win the Euros and be top scorer be very interested whom you select.
Thank you

[Togo]

[Ken4155]

Togo, despite all my predictions to the contrary, i do hope you are right. No room for sentiment though when it come to handing dosh over to the bookies - unless i'm backing the Super Clarets, of course :-)
I've sacked the idea of predicting which player will win Player Of The Tournament award but i will be looking at one or two ways of edging a few of my bets.

[Ken4155]

There i a team in this competition who haven't lost a match since 10 Sep 2018 - a 1-0 defeat to Portugal in the Nations League. During that time, they have played 27 games, only 6 of which were friendlies, winning 21 and drawing 6. They have scored 75 goals and only let in 7, keeping a clean sheet in their last 8 matches. They have appeared in 3 finals, winning one.

My final pre-tournament bet is; £5 win Italy @ 8/1

That brings my total ante-post stake to just under £65.

Best of luck to all punters.

[Ken4155]

Not long to go now before the opening match of the tournament and while i fancy Italy to win this match, the Turks could prove more troublesome than the bookies would have us believe (Turkey 15/2 to win!). Backing Italy to win @ around 1/2 on won't make anyone rich (just a tad richer) so i've been tempted by Willy Hill's offer;

£5; Italy to win, Immobile to have over 1 SOT and the match to see over 2 goals. 6/1 for a poss return of £35.

[Ken4155]

Immobile has two shots on target, scoring with one of them, in Italy's 3-0 win.

Ker-ching :-))

Also Italy get my ist round acca off to a flying start.

[Ken4155]

Today's first game is the Wales v Switzerland affair and, though i have Switzerland in my 'acca', this is one of those games that could really go either way. The only reason i'm slightly siding with the Swiss is that they arrive here in very decent form - they score goals even when being beat. Wales, on the other hand, haven't scored a goal in their last 4 games. Who knows, they may have been saving them for the comp? :-/

None of the offers whet my appetite so i've built my own bet and not used any of my own money :-)

More than 1 goal in the game, over 3 cards, over 5 corners, Ramsay to be booked, Seferovic to score anytime. £2 free bet @ 18/1 for a poss return of £36

[Ken4155]

Fell a tad short with my last bet :-(

Denmark to win by 2 or more goals, Denmark to be awarded most corners, Finland to be awarded most cards.

£5 @ 8/1 for a poss return of £45.

[Ken4155]

Had the news from the Denmark v Finland match not been encouraging, i certainly would not have watched the Belgium v Russia match. Now i am in a better frame of mind, i will be doing so and here's my bet;

Over 2 goals, over 2 cards, over 9 corners and Lukaku to score anytime throughout the 90 mins. £5 @ 17/2 = poss £47.50.

[DTCwordfan]

not good news from Denmark though as to Christian Eriksson......match postponed apparently.

[ynnafymmi]

Perhaps Shankleys axiom-"Football isnt a game of life and death,its much more important that that"isnt so true after all

[Ken4155]

Lack of corners and cards in the Belgium bet.
Already done England to win (£5 @ 17/2) so have taken up Willy Hill's offer of 11/1 that there are over 2 goals, over 3 cards and over 10 corners. £5 stake.

[Ken4155]

Decent win for England but nothing to get too carried away with. Croatia a tad disappointing, imho.
On to the next match, Austria v N Macedonia and one in which the Austrians ought to win. Yes, i know that N Macedonia beat the Germans, but i can only go off the stats in front of me. And they show that these two sides met twice last year, home and away, and the Austrians won both - 2-1 and 4-1. One thing is for sure, the Macedonians do like to collect yellow cards, even in friendlies.
So, Austria to win, over 2 goals and N Macedonia most cards. £5 free bet @ 7/1 = poss return of £35.

[ynnafymmi]

Scotland will win it.1-0 against the Czechs,1-0 against the Croats,1-0 against our friends in England(dont tell the SNPers i said "our friends"),after that easy-peasy.Scotland invented football,high time we were thanked for our invention.

[Togo]

^^Wrong.

""Football’s modern origins began in England more than 100 years ago, in 1863. Rugby football and association football, once the same thing, went their separate ways and the Football Association, the first official governing body for the sport, was established.""

[Togo]

Although in fairness the Scots did play a small part in the invention of the 2 games. Many years ago a Scot visited England looking for a loan and brought with him a couple of Haggis. After foolishly tasting one of them his English host took the other and booted it, out of hand, over a high wooden paling as far as he possibly could. Afterwards he thought "that was fun" . Wisely having no more of the stuff to kick into touch he had a ball made in roughly the same shape and proceeded to hoof it high and long at every opportunity. The birth of Rugby football was on hand and from there came Association Football.

[ynnafymmi]

^^.Wrong.Back in about 1300,the Scottish kings had to issue an edict banning people from playing football in the streets.We invented football,we invented golf...us Scots probably invented more things than any other country in the world.

[ynnafymmi]

Ha-Ha,Togo.You should come up to Scotland.The SNP would love you.Inventing nonsense and lies comes easy to them.

[Togo]

Kicking each other, the neighbours kids, or the dirty washing down to the Loch for fumigation, does not count as football.

[Ken4155]

That's another £35 winging it's way through cyber-space on to 4155's bank account :-))

Gonna study the Dutch game, now.

[Ken4155]

I very confident in the Dutch winning this match, i'm quite confident that Memphis Depay can get on the score-sheet, so my bet really depends on how frustrated the Ukrainians become.

Netherlands to win, Depay score anytime, Ukraine more cards.
£5 @ 7/1 = poss return of £40.