Spain v Turkey Betting Preview – Euro 2016, 17th June
The Spaniards have a good foothold in Group D after taking out Turkey in their opening game. A late goal from Gerard Pique gave the reigning European Champions all three points in the game and now they can move on with confidence to face Turkey. Turkey fell 1-0 to Croatia in their group opener and now have the difficult task of trying to pick themselves up from that loss in their most difficult game of the group. Will they be able to get enough of the ball to do any damage to the Spaniards?
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Spain v Turkey Betting Tips
This is tournament football and Spain won’t care if they win every match 1-0. That is the scoreline they recorded in their opening match of the tournament against the Czech Republic. You got what you knew you were going to get from Spain all the way, a lot of possession and a bunch of chances. It took a defender in the form of Gerard Pique to make the breakthrough which will have raised more questions about the lack of goalscoring threat in the Spanish side, despite all the chances that they actually make. Spain are a patient side, they aren’t worried about the tempo of the game and they still exude class. It may be boring at times to watch, but it’s a proven method for them. They took over 70% of possession in the game against the Czech Republic and produced 18 shots. Just to put their dominance into focus, keeper Petr Cech produced more passes than any other Czech player in the game.
Spain are now unbeaten in 13 European Champions matches and they haven’t conceded in their last 600 minutes of European Championship football. You can take a price of 2 1/10 on Spain to win to nil against Turkey which isn’t unreasonable at all. This is Spain and you aren’t going to be looking at a high scoring game so under 2.5 goals is a quote of 5/6. You are likely to find appeal as well in a Spain 1-0 correct score punt on the game at a price of 5/1 while a 2-0 Correct Score will give you odds of 11/2. Spain have won their last two against the Turks as well and both by a one goal margin. Spain to win by a one goal margin will give you a price of 5/2 which has to be pretty tempting. Spain hold a W4 D3 L1 record from eight previous contests against Turkey and have won three of the four previous competitive matches between them.
Spain have already set their pattern out for what is likely to follow for them in the Championships. Turkey lost their opener against Croatia, their resilience broken by a tremendous strike by Luka Modric. They were heavily second best in all departments in the match, with Croatia being very dominant over them. The question is whether or not Turkey can really muster up enough going forward to beat Spain because they aren’t going to get a lot of the ball. That’s the problem for Turkey because they at least have to get a point out of this one so it may be a long afternoon of sitting back. Turkey have gone W8 D2 L2 in their last twelve matches so haven’t been too bad. Burak Yilmaz is a big 4/1 anytime goalscorer option while Spain’s Alvaro Morata and Artiz Aduriz are 5/4 joint favourites in the anytime goalscorer market.
Spain v Turkey Betting Odds
Spain 2/5, Draw 15/4, Turkey 9/1
Spain v Turkey Predictions
It has to be temping to roll with a Spain to win to nil victory on this one. They will have all the ball in the game and Turkey will be pretty limited. This has to be a low scoring game all of the way because the Spaniards will just want to maintain their control. Spain to win.
