Euro 2016 Team Ranking according to bookmakers

Odds are from one of the real sharp bookmakers (Pinnaclesports) with odds closer to reality than meme sites such as Paddypower or Williamhill.

> From strongest to weakest (so, most likely to win to least likely to win the Euro 2016)

France
Germany
Spain
England
Belgium
Italy
Portugal
Croatia
Austria
Poland
Sweden/Switzerland
Russia
Wales/Turkey
Iceland
Ukraine/Czech Republic
Ireland/Slovakia/Romania
Hungary
Northern Ireland/Albania

> Groups will end like this according to the odds

> Group A
1. France
2. Switzerland
3. Romania
4. Albania

> Group B
1. England
2. Russia
3. Wales
4. Slovakia

> Group C
1. Germany
2. Poland
3. Ukraine
4. Northern Ireland

> Group D
1. Spain
2. Croatia
3. Czech Republic
4. Turkey

> Group E
1. Belgium
2. Italy
3. Sweden
4. Ireland

> Group F
1. Portugal
2. Austria
3. Iceland
4. Hungary

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> tfw when you make a football thread and realize time is past midnight in Europe and only americans discussing handegg and niggerball are still up

Got a £5 each way on France to come First or second. Skybet gives you £3 free bet everytime the team you bet to win the tournament wins

looks right but i have a feeling spain and england are gonna have a bad tournament for some reason

People are seriously hyping France way too much. At the end they won't make it even to semis.

Also I love how this year there are no any big favourites and there are plenty of teams that are considered underdogs that could go far in this tournament .

Yeah, we faced off against Austria a few times recently and imo they are really good. Could definitely beat a team like Belgium or England. I would honestly consider Austria favorites over at least Portugal, and at the very least equals to Italy.

There are lots of decent teams and only 2-3 shitty ones in Albania/NI/Hungary. All of the decent teams like Sweden, Russia, Slovakia, Poland etc could probably go far with some luck and players performing at their best.

don't sleep on hungary. they're one of those teams that have been together a long time (pinter, kiraly, gera,szalai etc.)

This.

France is one big meme.

Might put a cheeky 10'er on Italy.

Idk, just got this feel.

>From strongest to weakest (so, most likely to win to least likely to win the Euro 2016)

No, this isn't what they mean. Odds are determined to encourage certain bets, and if a lot of people start placing bets on teams with lower odds they 'increase'.

This too.

In my book Hungary is 2nd in that group. Iceland and Austria are slightly better, not enough to waltz past them and enough to feel the pressure of having to beat them, while Hungary has no pressure on them and 2 rivals that are well within their killing range.

You know, memes aside England could surprise, these tournaments are never about consistency but I'm not sure if Rooney will be playing up front instead of Kane and Vardy
France will be out in semis

What's your prediction of your starting team for the first game? Do the Swedes still play the 4-4-2 with Zlatan slightly behind a big slow guy and Seb Larsson walking up and down the wing until he's needed for free kicks? Will Kallstrom still start?

Who even watches the Yuros lmao

60 years ago Hungary was the best team in the world. What happened to them?

I'm predicting Hodgson going full retard and playing Rooney as the 10 in a midfield diamond behind Kane and Vardy. He'll butcher every link up and the lack of width will leave them exposed. Dropping Drinkwater for Rashford, along with Kane and Vardy's squad numbers seems to confirm this. Can't wait to see the 9-11 strikeforce for England.

I'm not giving you any information, O'Neill.

nah but Zlatan will play at top together with Marcus Berg against Ireland. Thats all I know for now, our coach hasnt revealed anything else (as far as I know?)

I hope Paddy Power make a Vive le Bantz video for you guys too.
youtube.com/watch?v=rLq340eDTCA

Have you not learned your lesson about memes and football yet? (case in point being Lester)

>the rooney is bad meme

bit stale at this point la

>I'm predicting Hodgson going full retard and playing Rooney as the 10 in a midfield diamond behind Kane and Vardy.

But that is the best way to set up England's attack

Ya, you're right. He'll light this tournament up when Hodgson picks him in midfield.

>Italy
>Not crashing out of the group stage with 1 point
jej

Austria have a better chance of winning than England.

Poland value SURREAL

The fact that we have a shitty team is a good reason

No, best way to set it up is Rooney and Kane up front, bring on Vardy for the last 25 minutes. His pace would destroy teams with tired defences. Don't get me wrong, they'll piss on everyone in their group (except maybe Wales who could get a draw, because they know the English players so well), but Rooney at 10 would be found out by any decent coach with a half competent DM at his disposal.

I also get a feeling one of Vardy or Kane is going to get an injury in the build up. Don't ask me why, I just feel it in my balls. Something in training. An annoying niggly injury, where he stays in the squad, makes a small cameo in one game and looks shit, stays in the squad for the rest of the tournament and then misses the first month of next season.

We lost to Belarus today, and yet still qualified ahead of you. You don't get to have an opinion. If you're going to post at all for the rest of the tournament, just pretend to be English, Welsh or Northern Irish.

Why ant Spain breed a good striker?
>Morata
>my old ass hell uncle Aduriz

Rooney is fucking usleess as a striker nowadays, he always plays his best as an AM. And it's also amusing that you think Wales are the biggest threat to them in their group.

>Modric
>Rakitic
>Mandzukic
>Kovacic
>Halilovic
>Brozovic
>Srna
>Perisic

Literally who can stop them?
inb4 Mexico

Halilovic isnt on the final squad

I think Wales will be extremely motivated for the game and most of their players play in the same league as them, or watch them on Match of the Day every week. Wales are better than Ireland and we drew with England twice recently. This will be the biggest match in these Wales players careers.

Russia on the other hand, have gone to shit, and none of their players will have anywhere close to the level of knowledge on English players the Welsh will. England will beat them 2-0 and it will be totally overblown in the press as a great victory. All the analysis will focus on Rooney at 10 and how great he is there becuase he touched the ball a few times.

Slovakia a shit. I know because they drew with us recently, and it was mostly Paul McShane's fault. We would have won if it wasn't for Shane Long getting injured. Anyone in danger of losing to an experimental Ireland side isn't worth shit.

Well Hamren, I can tell you this much. Ireland haven't really settled on a formation, but it's likely to be a 4-4-2 diamond on paper, becoming a sort of 3-4-1-2 set up in reality.

- Glenn Whelan is at the base of the diamond, but pretty much sits between the centre backs.
- The full backs, Coleman and Brady, pretty much play as wingers, but occassionally defend. I'd barely go so far as to call them wing backs.
- McCarthy will be covering his Everton teammate Coleman's runs and rarely gets forward
- It's not clear who'll be beside McCarthy. If it was September you'd say Hendrick, but he was horrendous against Belarus. If Arter was fit it would have been him, but he didn't make the squad. It will probably be Stephen Quinn.
- Irish meme player Wes Hoolahan will be at number 10. Every time he passes the ball, the Irish fans will cream themselves, because they're retarded.
- Walters and Long are up front, but Walters will drift out to the right wing a lot. It won't win us the game or anything, but he'll tear Martin Olsson apart. They're our two most threatening players, mainly because they run around like dogs chasing the ball and can header really well.
- West Ham's backup keeper Randolph will be in goals

Our team is pretty shit in open play, but Brady has great dead ball delivery. Our centre backs (probably O'Shea and Clark), Long and Walters are dangers in the air.

If we're a goal down with 15 minutes left, provided he's fit, we'll wheel out Robbie Keane, but he won't do anything.

There's your Ireland factfile.

You are a piss of shit my beloved cuck

i thought northern ireland was in the euros, not eire

There's 2 different types of memes
>1. This team will be BTFO
>2. This team is such a meme they might just do it

>mfw almost moved to scotland but learned there's muslims now going there in droves

I reckon Belgium will choke and will finish behind Sweden and Italy

>Italy
>6th best odds in the tournament

wew

Russia will finish 4th in my opinion desu

Italy have a point to prove after being shit in the World Cup. They always seem to from good to getting arrogant, getting humbled and then getting good again. I reckon they'll be a contender for sure.

Ya, you're right. That run against Palace in the cup final is the beginning of a return to form after years of being mediocre and not just an increasingly rare flash of the old Rooney

England and Belgium being rated that high. Every tournament it's the the England can actually succeed meme and it is hilariously pathetic. It's a pity Costa Rica isn't in Europe, I would have enjoyed them giving England more ptsd

>bring on Vardy for the last 25 minutes. His pace would destroy teams with tired defences.
Vardy isn't about speed alone he is mainly about seizing opportunities. Bringing him for only 25 min will reduce the chances of a pass finding him for the counter or him finding a mistake to exploit. England must play a 4-4-2 in this tournament If they want The strongest attack

It's rigged for france after the attacks last year

Have you watched or even seen the squad Italy are playing? Or talked to any Italian on this board about this Italian team? They are fucking shit. Worse than the world cup team

;_;

Give me 1(one) good reason why Belgium won't style all over everyone

They're a meme

This year is probably the worst Italian team EVER, i'd be ok with an exit in the RO16

they're probably only doing that promotion because there's gonna be a huge upset (france/germany gets knocked out early, ROI win it or whatever) cap this

Shit defence and memes

American here but I always root for Switzerland since my mom is swiss, are we any good this year?

Every time I watch xhaka play an international game I want to blow my brains out why is he hyped so much?

Is shaqiri just a meme?

Why are our left and rights backs always so good (rodriguez/lichsteiner)

are there any new talented swiss players that joined since the world cup?
P.S. I probably spelled names wrong but its late at night so too lazy to google

Jesus God Christ please let us beat Turkey, if not I'll bomb Paris

>Ukraine team is picked from 2 clubs

Are they a dark horse?

it's the Euros senpai, every single team in that confederation is a meme

We have no defense, how can we be first?

Home advantage cannot be that big of a deal...right?

>France, Croatia that high
>Czech, Iceland that low

niggas.

Easy there Nigel

>90th minute
>last game of the groups
>need a goal

You know woy will bring on rashford

30 YEARS OF HURT
NEVER STOP ME MEMEING

Hiljemark!
I am from Palermo and I saw every match he played this year. Has he any chance of being a starter?

Bet all your things in WALES

Lewicki and Källström is 1st choice atm but Lewicki has had some injuryproblems. Hiljemark is either 3 or 4 choice as central midfield starter. But we have had alot of minor injuries so he might start.

No one has any defence. Ours is horrible and Germany are playing Can at right back.

This Euro is going to be like the one in 2004. France has no defense, Germany has no Lahm, England is one giant meme, I dont even know who is playing for Italy. Wouldnt be surprised if Croatia or fucking Poland win this.

The rest of Europe stopped being in ruins.

This. The goal is to make it so every team ends up receiving, at least, near the same amount of bets. They don't make odds based on expected results, but rather based on what they feel needs to attract common folk to feel comfortable betting on a team.

Anyone but england lol

Spain
France
Germany/Belgium
England
Croatia
Italy
Portugal
all other suckers
roaches

I would put Portugal over Italy and Croatia
and there's no way Germany is that low

I think the three of them are equally likely to be absolute shit or do a nice EC, pretty random desu
As for Germany, I jut don't feel the magic in the team (maybe bc no Royce) but sure they have the squad to win (and diese defense especially)

no Reus didn't stop them to win the wc though
and they seem the only big team without doubts or problems
and you should look the Italian squad, it's pretty bad

We lost against fucking Poland and Ireland

We lost countless of friendlies ever since the wc win

Germany are shit mate

When JapanNT can join EURO?

when you apologise for warcrimes

>friendlies
>counting shit

>No one has any defence
U sure?

Portugal and Croatia are stronger than Belgium and Italy IMO.

>Croatia

How many times do we have to shit on them for yall to understand

Ingerlandd suprise weww lad... They barely beat Oz. And from the education and enthusiasm of some apart from Jamalls in North London , San Marino will be tough In 5 years..

Could anyone explain that Austria meme to me? Why their bunch of literal whos is higher than our team?
>Lewandowski
>Milik
>Krychowiak
>Glik
>Piszczek
>Błaszczykowski
>defeated Germans in the qualifiers
>have both top scorer and top assistant, and as a team most scored goals in the qualifiers

So who is going to stop us, again?

Where's Netherlands?

wat

source?

official power ranking
1. France/Germany/Belguim
2. Spain/Italy/Portugal
3. Russia
4. Croatia
5. Ukraine/England/Poland
6. irrelevant

Ukraine is West Russia isn't it...

South-West, in fact. Belarus are West Russia.

They never recovered from the 1954 final.

>not qualifying from the group stage with 1 point
jej

>no 3rd place playoff
>4th
wew

>JF
>ABE
Kell surpeese

bookmakers don't decide shit. Their odds are based on what people are betting on which is why there are always meme teams in the top 8

TBF, Lewa is the only top player on your list.

Just like in '98, were gonna poison our way to the top.
Home advantage and all that.

Krychowiak was in La Liga Team of the Season in 14/14, and Europa League Team of the Season 14/15, 15/16. So literally GOAT defender. Glik is currently captain of Torino FC and was chosen for the Serie A Team of the Season 14/15. I would say these two could be called top players. And Milik is next Lewandowski in the making, just watch.

Unfortunately you no longer have the GOAT defence, so you can't.

>Lower than Romania and Hungary
>Literally finished ahead of them in the qualifiers

>whoever wants it more will win

Who has the best midfield this tournament, France?

>France

You better don't get to play us, cause we'd tiki taka you to death (cheeky 1-0)

By a mile