Euro 2008 match betting tips- 17/6/08

The final games in the group of death and what a potential night of drama we could be in for.  Can Romania make it through?  Will France and Italy being going home early?  I’ve not thought too much about tonight and decided to get my tips in early today, not because I’m confident, but because my head hurts working out all the possible permutations!!!

France v Italy-  A replay of the last World Cup final, with both teams looking a shadow of the teams they were 2 years ago.  Both teams will be relying on the Dutch to get beat the Romanians to have a chance a qualifying.  Italy could get through with a draw and other complicated scenarios, whereas all the French need to do is win (easy isn’t it?!!).  The teams have played each other 35 times in total with Italy winning 17 of these games and France only winning 8.  France beat Italy in Euro 2000 2-1, scoring the Golden Goal to knock Italy out. 

Euro 2008 Betting tip-  I really don’t have a clue what this result will be, I only know that there will be blood, sweat and tears tonight!!! So I will be going for for the ‘Show an card market’ on Betfair.  Makelele and Gattuso are one yellow card from suspension, but that won’t mean they will be on their best behaviour tonight!!  I’m thinking both players will be needed to make crucial tackles and one wrong challenge will land them in the book.  Back both to be yellow carded at 2.8 and 2.6 odds on the Betfair. 

UPDATE- (France 0-2 Italy)Well in the end it wasn’t quite the game that we thought it would be, with Ribery off and France down to 10 men, that action wasn’t exactly end to end and fast paced.  We win our bet for Gattuso being shown a card, a little consolation after 3 losing bets today.  It’s a shame because I was thinking of backing a red card to be show at 3.15 odds.   

Holland v Romania-  Holland will be fielding a few of their squad players after assuring qualification.  If Romania win this match, then they will qualify at the expense of Italy and France.  The Dutch have beaten the Romania 60% of the time they played each other, with Romania only winning 1 game.

Euro 2008 Betting tip-  This is another game giving me headache!!  Will Holland let Romania win so that two of their fiercest rivals drop out?  Or will they go out for the win tonight?  I don’t know!!! Does anyone?  We know Holland have qualified and will rotate the team, but they still have impressive players.  I’ll go with a small bet on Romania to do it tonight, qualification is in their hands and they should give this game a good go tonight.  They are currently at 2.44 odds to win tonight.

UPDATE-  (Holland 2-0 Romania) Of course Holland won, who could of ever doubted they would??  Another small bet that didn’t pay off, dissapointing but nothing much lost.