Euro 2008 betting tips- Croatia v Turkey Quarter final 2

It’s Friday and the second quarter final out of four is being played tonight and I bet you are all hungry for a bit of Turkey action.  Despite the French crashing out of the competition the other night it’s good to know that manager Raymond Domenech has his priorities right, what’s one of the first things he did after the match?  No… he didn’t phone up to register his vote for the Big Brother eviction…but he of course proposed to his girlfriend!!!  Who’s said the love of the beautiful game is lost??

 Croatia v Turkey

Croatia can go into this match with confidence, they are unbeaten in the last 3 games against the Turkish, with one win and two draws.  Croatia beat Turkey in Euro ‘96 at the group stage, Bilic was playing in that team that day.  Turkey showed great battling qualities in their last game and Croatia will have to make sure to kill the game off to stop the Turkish from making a comeback.  An interesting stat is Turkey have picked up the most cards in the tournament, with 1 red and 10 yellow, so it might be worth looking at the bookings market to bet on.

Euro 2008 Betting tip:  This is very tough math to call, you cannot underestimate the Turkish, they have shocked alot of people by making it far in World Cup and once again at Euro 2008 they have shown alot of character and good football.  Croatia are at odds of 1.88 to win this match and Turkey at a massive 5.1.  But saying all that I will be backing Croatia tonight to get to the semi-finals, Bilic has shown that he is a very clever manager so far and of course I have to back the team I’ve tipped from the start of the tournament!!.   Either back Croatia to win at 1.88 or to qualify at 1.47, I hope I’m right!!!  Also it looks certain that at least one Turkish player will get a card, go for Tuncay to be yellow carded, no odds available on Betfair yet(or pick any other player!!!).  Small update- haven’t had time to get Tuncay added to the shown a card market, so go with midfielder Mehmet Topal to be booked at odds of 3.0.

UPDATE- (Croatia 1-1 Turkey, *Turkey win on penalties)  In the end Croatia were dumped out of Euro 2008  by Turkey just like a Big Brother contestant kicked out of the house for threatening behaviour.  After missing great chances in the first half, I always feared for Croatia, as the experts always say….you need to take your chances when you are on top and Croatia didn’t do that.  With 1 minute to go in extra time it looked like the bet for Croatia to qualify would be a winner, but things change quickly in football!!!  It seems that little bit of luck deserted us on the night, especially with Tuncay getting booked as predicted (27 minutes), unfortunately I had to change the bet as I had no time to get him on the ‘Shown a card market’.   Well maybe I should of taken note of my pre-match write up and  ‘never understimate’ the Turkish….it cost us the winning bets on the night!!!