EURO 2021

Bookmakers’ tips are inseparable element of every great sports event. Many people conform to them by nominating the tournament favorite and acting in accordance with the famous sentence: “the bookie always wins.” Others treat it as an opportunity to become rich: they bet on their favorites or look for “dark horses” of the tournament. So let’s check what the chances of individual national teams look like according to 6 renowned bookmakers: William Hill, Unibet, Expekt, Paddy Power and Bet-at-Home. All of them tip unanimously the Spaniards, the present world and […]

The favorites of the coming European football championships are Spaniards and Germans. The title’s defenders, who defeated the Germans four years ago, have a chance of about 34 per cent to win the whole tournament; that results from the analyze of bookmakers betting predictions Euro 2012 winner. Poland’s odds to be winner are much smaller, but as a compensation, our team can really count on advance to the next stage. Betting on Poland can bring you a fortune, because in case of White-and-Red victory, for every PLN bet on that […]

Paolo Bento announced on Monday evening during a press conference in Obidos Portugal’s European football championships roster consisting of 23 players. The lineup does not significantly differ from that nominated by the coach to take part at the match with Poland in February. Just as before the match in the National Stadium in Warsaw, the team lacks the injured striker Danny and the defenders Ricardo Carvalho and Bosingwa, who were excluded from the team last year after a conflict with the coach. The footballers nominated by Bento are mostly foreign […]

Michael Laudrup, one of the best footballers in Danish history thinks that his national team has a good chance to make it out of the “Group of Death”, because it is regarded as the weakest team. “I believe in our dynamite during European championships”, he said. Rivals of Danes in Group B will be respectively: Dutch (June 9 in Kharkiv), Portuguese (June 13 in Lviv) and Germans (June 17 also in Lviv). “Our team plays traditionally the best when it is a priori regarded as a “loser” and in consequence […]

Franz Beckenbauer said he believes manager Joachim Loew is in charge of the best Germany squad in the nation’s football history. The Bayern Munich legend lifted the World Cup as a player in 1974 and then as a manager in 1990, but he is of the opinion that neither group had the same strength in depth as the squad Loew is leading into Euro 2012. “We have always had a high level of quality in the national team squad,” Beckenbauer told Bild am Sonntag. “But Jogi, he now has the […]

The representation of Portugal, the seventh in the FIFA ranking, will compete for the title of the European Champion in football for the sixth time. In 2004, as the hosts of the tournament they recorded their best score in this event. They reached the final where they couldn’t cope with the Greece. Paulo Bento team barely qualified for the main event until the playoffs where they won by beating Bosnia and Herzegovina in the two-legged tie up to 6:2. The Portuguese play alternately in the group, a draw 4-4 with […]

World Cup vice-champions, on the second place after Spain in the FIFA rankings are one of the main favourites to win the European Championship. Two years ago in the World Cup final after extra time the Netherlands lost 0:1 to the Spanish. The team of Bert van Marwijk will play for the ninth time at the European Championship. The best result so far was the gold medal in 1988. In qualifying for the Euro 2012 the Oranje team won 27 of 30 possible points available. The brightest points of the […]

European championship favorite is Spain. Poland is among the group of teams that should gain promotion to the quarter-finals – said in Warsaw Joachim Loewthe, German national team coach. German coach – just like other coaches of the participants of the Euro 2012 – on Thursday took part in a two-day organizational workshops before the tournament in Poland and Ukraine. Similar meetings are held before all great events. In addition to the coaches there are also team managers, team doctors and security and transport officers. – Our minimal goal during […]

Dick Avocaat, a Dutch selector of the team of Russia, believes that the 2:0 victory over Denmark on Wednesday in Copenhagen means that his team will be very “dangerous” for each participant in the European Championships. The Russian team will be group rivals for Polish football players. The victory over Denmark gives pleasure to everyone because it is a very strong team. Full control over the game for the first 20 minutes with a scored goal of Roman Szirokow already in the fourth minute may be too short, but all […]

Nearly 900 million PLN was spent on the stadium in Lviv, one of the four Ukrainian stadiums for Euro 2012. The stadium in Lviv will be the stadium at which three matches in group B (9, 13 and 17 June) will be played. It makes space for about 33 thousand fans. It is located on the southern exit from Lviv, just 12 km from the city center and about 8 km from the airport, at the end of the Stryjska street. There is 4500 parking places available, with 100 designed […]