Euro 2008 Final - Betting Preview

After two weeks of scintillating football, the Euro 2008 football championship has boiled down to the encounter between Spain and Germany in Vienna on Sunday.

The Spanish national team has spent decades in the football wilderness, watching the final stages of major international football tournaments from the sidelines, and will be looking to prove once and for all that they are the finest football playing nation on continental Europe.

Boylesports have priced Spain as the favourites for the Euro 2008 final, at odds of 6/5 in match betting markets.

While Spain are unarguably in fine form, it is impossible to dismiss Germany’s prospects in the final. The Germans are tournament specialists, and have the knack for holding their nerve and generating results at the highest level and can match anything the Spanish attack have to offer in the form of Schweinsteiger, Klose and Ballack.

The Germans have been priced at 5/2 by Boylesports in their match betting markets to claim the Euro 2008 title on Saturday.

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Boylesports have put up their Last Action Hero betting special for the Euro 2008 final. If Michael Ballack Or Fernando Torres score the final goal of regulation time, Boylesports will refund all losing single 1st/last/anytime goalscorer, correct Score & scorecast bets on the match.

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Euro 2008 Final Bets

While Euro 2008 match betting markets are likely to be very active this weekend, punters know that a bet on these markets is something of a coin toss. Either team could come out winner, and better bets and higher odds can be found in alternative markets.

Although finals tend to be cagey affairs, its hard to imagine the exuberant, world class attacks of Spain and Germany being stifled by the occasion. Punters may therefore want to explore goalscorer betting markets.

A bet on Miroslav Klose to score the first goal will pay out 7/1 at Boylesports. Meanwhile the mercurial Fernando Torres is backed at odds of 5/1 to be the first goal scorer. These odds contract somewhat in the anytime goal scorer markets, where Klose will pay at out at 23/10 and Torres is priced at 13/8.

Winning margin betting markets pay out some of the best odds in the final. For example a 2 goal win by Germany will pay out at 11/1 at Boylesports, with a win by a similar margin for Spain paying out 9/2. With odds like these punters can place more than one bet, increasing their chances of generating a payout.