Turkey v Croatia Betting Preview – Euro 2016, 12th June
This is an important scrap in Group D because these two, along with the Czech Republic are all supposed to in a race to finish second behind outright group favourites Spain. A win here would do a world of good in confidence to whoever can take it and it should be a tough game for both. Croatia are a decent side and showed that through qualifying in keeping a tight defensive ship running. Turkey had to work hard to book their place at Euro 2016 but have been steadily improving through the calendar year.
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Turkey v Croatia Betting Tips
This is part of the fascinating Group D which houses Spain and the Czech Republic as well. It is important to get off a good start, but who will land it? Turkey showed all of their battling qualities in qualifying for Euro 2016 in edging out the Netherlands and they have gone with a brilliant W8 D1 L1 record in their last ten games, a run of form which started with them destroying the Dutch 3-0 last September in a big qualifier. The only defeat that the Turks have suffered in their last ten was against England in a recent friendly game. Even in that, they showed good spells of controlling the game and being a threat. Following that defeat against England, they posted 1-0 wins over Montenegro and Slovenia to restore confidence. Those two wins perhaps says a lot about where they are at. They aren’t a big offensive threat, but they can grind out results.
Tukey have the fantastic Burak Yilmaz trading at 9/4 in the anytime goalscorer market for the game. They will be taking on a stubborn defence in the form of Croatia, who only conceded just the five goals during Euro 2012 qualification. These two nations have only met six times before on the field and the Turks, having drawn two and lost four of those six, are out looking for their first ever victory over the Croatians. This is a tough game that they have been handed to start off with in the group, but the rewards of coming out on top in it would be huge. Given the lack of scoring threat from Turkey and the good Croatian defence, you can back this game to go under 2.5 goals is trading at a price of 4/7 with online betting site Stan James.
With Luka Modric and Ivan Rakitic at the heart of their midfield, Croatia have a good thing going. That’s some high quality there and of course, they will be looking to feed the brilliant Mario Mandzukic up front, who is trading of 9/2 in the First Goalscorer market. Croatia qualified automatically from their group in second place behind Italy to reach France 2016 and they only lost the one game along the way (which was on the road at Norway). Croatia scored twenty goals in their ten qualifiers and that’s the kind of scoring power that Turkey can’t match. They are carrying decent form into Euro 2016 as well because they have posted a W6 D1 L0 record in their last seven played and having lost just one of their last ten played. In that sequence of ten games, they have taken clean sheets in six of them. It surely has to be tempting to back Croatia at 11/6 to win to nil in the match.
Turkey v Croatia Betting Odds
Croatia 23/20, Draw 9/4, Turkey 29/10
Turkey v Croatia Predictions
Croatia can look a classy team at times, whereas you get the more battling direct stuff from Turkey. So a contrast in style so which do you back? Turkey have done pretty well in picking themselves up after a tough patch and are going decently enough. But Croatia look to be ahead of them and given the price in the target market, well worth throwing something at Croatia to win.
