Euro 2008 match betting tips- 16/6/08

An exciting night of football yesterday, Turkey reached amazing odds of 210 in running on Betfair, I hope someone made some money!! Croatia have already sealed their place in to the quarter finals, so it’s out of Austria, Poland and Germany to see which will qualify.

Austria v Germany- Qualification for Germany  is in their hands, getting one point in this game will mean Poland cannot qualify.  Schweinsteiger is serving his suspension due to his silly sending off against Croatia.  Out of the 11 times the teams have played competitively, Germany have won 8 times and the Austrians only have two wins.  The last four meetings have been friendlies with Germany winning all 4.  Austria need to get all three points to qualify and hope that Poland don’t win by a bigger margin.  This should make quite an open game from Austria, but Germany look to have the advantage.

Euro 2008 betting tip:  It will be dangerous for Germany to sit back and play for a draw, especially with the Austrians wanting to give it their all to get a result out of this match.  The problems for the Austrians is that they don’t look like they can score more than one goal, so if the Germans score first then they are in big trouble.  It is almost unthinkable to not see Germany win this match a qualify, but I’ll be backing Austria with  small bet to win at odds of 11.0 on Betfair.  Maybe….but probably not!!

UPDATE- Austria lacked the quality in the final third and losing 1-0 to Germany is nothing to be ashamed about, especially with the performance they put it.  With a few more quality players in the Austrian side, they could become a team to look out for in future.  Saying all that, though, we lost the bet to back them, going small was a good option!!

Poland v Croatia -  Croatia will rotate a few players in order to keep them fresh.  The two teams have met each other 4 times in friendlies, Croatia won the first 2 games, followed by a draw and a Poland win.  Poland will have to go for the win here, hoping that Austria also beat Germany, but Poland will have to beat Croatia by a bigger margin.

Euro 2008 betting tip:  Croatia have already qualified so will be resting a few players, but that’s not to say they won’t want to win this match.  They’ll give a good effort just like they did against England in the Euro 2008 qualification (anyone remember??).   I’ll back Croatia at odds of 3.15, Poland are favourites to win going into this match.

UPDATE- Croatia didn’t let us down, winning 1-0 against Poland.  There’s no doubt that a passionate manager like Bilic wants to win all his matches and that showed today even though they rotated the team.  At least we got a winning bet and at 3.15, it more than covers the small loss from the Germany match.