Ladbrokes Euro 2012 Free Bet for Outright Winner
- By A.J. Ryder on June 20, 2012 17:40 GMT
There are some very interesting prices up for grabs in the Euro 2012 Tournament Winner Market. Unsurprisingly, things have shifted around a little bit as this talented mix of countries have outperformed at times and underwhelmed, as well.
The surprises here are Greece and the Czech Republic while England, Italy and France are the “supposed to be here's” while Spain and Germany remain favourites to win, albeit in the reverse order than when they started the tournament.
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The Germans are now considered to be the outright favourites with a 21/10 price tag floated by most major bookmakers. Spain are priced at around 9/4 while Portugal can be backed at a 7/1 price.
England and Italy are both trading at 9/1 and that's really not that far off the 11/1 price they were both listed at prior to the tournament itself actually starting. France are 10/1 and that's likely got a lot to do with their 2-0 capitulation to Sweden in their final group stage fixture. Czech Republic are 28/1 to win and Greece are 33/1 to pull off another miracle similar to their 2004 run.
Each-way betting is available on the top two finishers with 1/3 odds. Greece will be facing off against Germany and it will be something if they can keep it 0-0 going into the 70th minute. Germany will be looking to make short work of Greece and the winner of that fixture will play the winner of England vs Italy.
Germany's Mario Gomez goes into the knock-out stage as the betting choice to finish as top tournament goalscorer. This likely has more to do with Germany's favouritism to get towards the finish and have a full three games left for him to grab more goals. Punters will find the German marksman at 13/8 while Cristiano Ronaldo can be backed at 7/2 price and is the clear second choice.
Look for Spain's Fernando Torres at 5/1 as the only other really plausible contender at the moment with Cesc Fabregas and Wayne Rooney both sitting at 16/1.
Italy's Mario Balotelli is an interesting outlier for Italian fans while Karim Benzema could pull into contender with two goals in his next fixture. Both are listed alongside Andy Carroll at 33/1.
