How to find the Euro 2016 Golden Boot winner

Who will have the golden touch at Euro's?

Euro Betting

It often pays to look outside the favourites when backing the Golden Boot winner at a major tournament. You don’t have to be an odds compiler to figure out the favourites to win the Golden Boot at the forthcoming European Championships.

Thomas Muller of Germany has a strong international track record, Cristiano Ronaldo is liable to score a hat-trick against any opponents, while Antoine Griezmann is increasingly likely to lead the line for a potentially rampant France side who will enjoy home advantage.

However, cast your mind back four years and we had the unusual situation of six players tied on three goals.

While Ronaldo and Fernando Torres might have been among the favourites, the same didn’t apply to Mario Mandzukic and Alan Dzagoev, the latter of whom was a 150/1 shot before scoring a trio of goals for Russia. Indeed, he might have been overall winner if his country had progressed beyond the group stage!

Therefore, it’s important to consider all angles when selecting your Golden Boot bets.

How many players should I back to win the Boot?

It’s an interesting question. If you really fancy the likes of Muller, Ronaldo or Griezmann to top score, then perhaps just selecting one player and betting each-way could be the best way to go.

However, we’re in favour of casting our nets wider in search of a value winner. Only five players are trading at shorter than 20/1 and you can pick holes in the credentials of each one, especially Harry Kane whose international career for England is only just beginning.

We think that three or four players can be taken on this market. Perhaps a couple between 16/1 and 33/1, while it’s worth going even bigger for the other selections providing you’re not backing a complete no-hoper.

Does the Golden Boot winner have to go deep?

The answer is not really. Yes, you want your players to get as much Euro 2016 game time as possible but you only have to remember the 2014 World Cup for the contrast that exists between the group and knockout stage of these major tournaments.

At Euro 2016, we are talking about an enlarged format of twenty-four teams and that means that the overall quality is diluted within each group stage. For example, the French team are probably salivating over the prospect of meeting Albania, Romania and the Swiss.

A team like Northern Ireland did very well to reach the finals but are their players really going to snuff out Germany, Ukraine and Poland in successive matches?

As the tournament progresses, it naturally follows that attacking players find it harder to score goals against higher-quality opposition. Tight games regularly occur and it often needs extra-time and even a penalty shoot-out to sort things out.

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Give us some big-priced contenders for the Golden Boot

OK, how about Spain’s Alvarto Morata who could lead the line for La Roja? He’s an 80/1 chance with bet365 and the same applies to Austria’s Marc Janko who played impressively during qualifying. At a shorter price with the same bookie is Mario Mandzukic who continues to be the Croatia target man.

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