Euro 2021 Betting: Are Portugal overpriced to win back-to-back European Championships?
2020. Blink, and you’ll miss it. It seems as though it was only yesterday we were all gearing up for the forthcoming spring months and subsequent build-up to summer, and now it’s almost Christmas.
A global pandemic has effectively rendered this year null and void, and in the process completely wiped out Euro 2020 right from under our collective noses. Indeed, the tournament is now only eight months away from beginning - the exact same time from now since last March and as we have seen, it goes pretty quickly.
The usual suspects head up the outright betting, though for the first time in a long while it is England who are currently the bookies favourites at 5/1. World Cup holders France are 6/1, Belgium are 11/2 and the Netherlands are 15/2, while Germany can be backed at 8/1 and Italy at 12/1.
It is Portugal who I am focussing on here, though, after the reigning European champions thrashed Andorra 7-0 in a friendly on Wednesday night. While thrashing a side renowned for being thrashed may not be that noteworthy, the resounding result in Lisbon was merely the icing on the cake for Fernando Santos’ team, who have now lost just one match since the 2018 World Cup.
14 victories, seven draws and just one defeat in their previous 22 games is a pretty impressive return for a side who proved their pedigree at last summer’s Nations League finals, three years after winning Euro 2016. Portugal eased past Switzerland 3-1 in the semi-finals before edging a tight affair in the final on home soil, beating a talented Netherlands outfit 1-0 to claim the first ever Nations League trophy in June 2019.
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14.3%
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15.4%
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14.3%
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11.1%
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11.1%
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11.1%
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7.7%
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6.7%
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2.9%