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records for once. Previous winners of this
tournament include current UEFA chief
Michel Platini (9 goals in 1984), and legends
such as Van Basten and Gerd Muller. If we
told you that the current player with the
most European Championship goals due to
play this summer was a Champions League
winner and backable at 100.00 you would
immediately log on and lump a hefty sum
on him, correct? Possibly, but not when
you found out that person was journeyman
Czech Milan Baros! If you don’t like the
look the of the Euro 2004 top scorer, then
Bayern stalwart Mario Gomez is favourite
for the Golden Boot at 6.00 (41 goals in
50 appearance at time of writing), closely
followed by Dutchman Robin Van Persie
at 8.00 and the shy and reserved Cristiano
Ronaldo at 11.00. If you fancy backing a bit
of eccentric, then Ibrahimovic of Sweden at
40.00 might be your choice or ‘Super’ Mario
Balotelli can be backed at 20.00’s.
Whatever happens, two things are certain.
Firstly, that the aforesaid Mario Balotelli will
do something crazy and entertaining (like
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and secondly, that Unibet is the only place
you want to bet this summer. Alongside
our current offering of 391 markets to bet
on, we will also be launching our Happy
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period of 10 days! So as soon as your off this
plane, log on to Unibet.com and enjoy!
beat, and that is reiterated with a look at the
betting so far, with 85% of the tournament
bets on those teams so far.
However, if you are looking elsewhere for a
‘value’ bet, look no further than the French
who with manager Laurent Blanc, are
currently sneaking up on the blind side of
the favourites at 11.00’s. They have been
gradually improving since the 2010 debacle
in South Africa, and have a fairly winnable
group containing Sweden and Ukraine.
They have also beaten both Germany and
Spain since then, but then again beating
Spain in a friendly is no sure sign of quality
– so did England. England are the other
side in group D alongside France, and for
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fabled land (due to an ageing side and a
less than satisfactory choice as manager
in Roy Hodgson). If you are a glutton for
punishment and enjoy wasting your money
– the Three Lions can be backed at 12.50 for
the title come July 1st.
The top goal scorer market normally
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Mr Messi at this tournament it is a chance
for someone else to break some goal scoring
will be the word this year then you can stake
your hard earned cash on them at 80.00 to
wrestle the title off Spain, who delighted the
football purists on their way to their second
European Championship crown in 2008.
Unsurprisingly, the favourites for this
tournament are the three European nations
which made it to the World Cup Semi Finals
two years ago, with World Cup winners and
Euro holders Spain favourites for Euro 2012
at 3.70, with three time winners Germany a
whisker behind at 3.75. If both these teams
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Spain with Germany in the notorious ‘group
of death’ – and we could see a repeat of the
World Cup Semi Final in 2010 where Spain’s
‘tiki-taka’s’ gave Germany’s young guns a
footballing lesson. The odds on these two in
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2010, the Netherlands, are backable for the
title at 8.00’s, which may seem slightly high
for a team that only missed out on winning
the World Cup by a whisker. However, they
were only ranked as second seeds in the
draw – which subsequently led to them
being drawn alongside rivals Germany in
the aforementioned group of death, with
Portugal (20.00) and Denmark (80.00) as
the ‘lesser’ seeds in the group (by no means
easy games with Europe’s standout player
in Cristiano Ronaldo lurking with intent).
These three favourites won every qualifying
game (expect the Netherlands who lost a
dead rubber in Sweden after they had
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