What lies ahead for England at Euro 2016? They can currently be backed as fourth favourites in the Euro 2016 outright winner market at William Hill to walk away with the title. After putting in such a powerful qualification campaign, winning all ten of their matches, the question is now can they do it at the higher level and under bigger pressure? England expects and the current England squad has the youthful enthusiasm and talent to really take the game to their opponents along the path to potential Euro 2016 success. Is the first European Championship becking for the Three Lions?
Euro 2016 odds at William Hill have England at an 8/1 quote to win the tournament outright, which puts them as fourth favourites. England warmed up well for Euro 2016 with three international friendly victories against Turkey, Australia and Portugal, although they had to grind out the results at times. But that is what friendly matches are for, a bit of experimentation and a look at squads and hopefully Roy Hodgson knows what his starting eleven and starting formation is going to be in order to get the best out of his squad, and not try and fit square pegs in round holes in his set up.
Euro 2016 odds at William Hill sees only France 3/1, Germany 7/2 and Spain 11/2 at a shorter price than the Three Lions in the outright winner market for the tournament. England have gone out of the European Championships via a penalty shoot out on each of the last three occasions that they have made it through to the knockout stage of the competition. Hopefully for England fans, there won’t be more shoot out heartbreak on the horizon for them, but it will no doubt, be in the back of a lot of fans’ minds at France 2016.
England are 5/2 in Euro 2016 odds at William Hill to get eliminated in the round of sixteen, while they are an 11/4 price to get dumped out at the quarter finals stage. Should they make a repeat of 1996 when they lost in the semis that would be a price of 23/4 in the England Stage of Elimination Market for the match. England’s campaign though starts with their Group B action where they take on Russia, Wales and Slovakia.
England are favourites to win the group and can be backed at a price of 3/1 to record seven points exactly from their three games and can be taken at 5/1 to land a maximum 9 points. England’s main focus seems to be on attack going into Euro 2016 and they certainly look as if they have the firepower and creativity to deliver. England’s goalscoring performances at recent major international tournaments hasn’t been great, so will the Premier League goalscoring form from Harry Kane and Jamie Vardy carry on over to Euro 2016? If it does, then the Three Lions could really take some stopping in the tournament.
The biggest surprise inclusion in the squad though is Manchester United’s young forward Marcus Rashford. He was thrown in to club action this season out of desperation because of injuries but how he delivered the goods and took his chances. Then on his full international debut he scored with his first shot in the game against Australia recently. Perhaps he is the one with the magic touch in part of an attacking corps that contains Vardy, Kane, Radford, Daniel Sturridge and Wayne Rooney, with support coming in from Dele Alli. So England have the goals and William Hill Euro 2016 Top Scorer odds on Kane being England’s top hitman is a 23/10 punt, with Vardy and Rooney both at 5/1.
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So Euro 2016 awaits England. Euro 2016 odds at William Hill on England walking away with the title are temping at that 8/1 mark. The potential is there, the confidence seems to be there and the fans will be there in numbers cheering on Hodgson’s men. Will the young Lions be able to handle the pressure and put together a fearless, successful run to land the country their first ever European Championships title?
