Euro 2016 - pre-draw betting preview
THE draw for the European Championship takes place in Paris from 5.15pm on Saturday with England among the top seeds, while Ireland, Wales and Northern Ireland are in pot four.
Sixteen of the competing 24 teams will make it through to the knockout phase so England should feel confident of not repeating last year’s group-stage exit at the World Cup.
Sky Bet rate the Three Lions 11-2 shots to suffer another early embarrassing elimination with the worst-case scenario for Roy Hodgson’s side a group of death also containing Italy, Poland and Turkey.
Northern Ireland are 1-2 to bite the dust in the first round, while Wales are 6-5 and Ireland can be backed at evens not to clear the opening hurdle.
It is evens with bet365 and Ladbrokes that England are drawn in the same group as either Wales, Northern Ireland or Ireland and bet365 make Hodgson’s men 4-11 to go furthest of the quartet for next summer’s finals in France.
Euro 2016 seedings – pot one: France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, England; pot two: Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Russia, Croatia, Ukraine; pot three: Czech Republic, Sweden, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Hungary; pot four: Turkey,
Ireland, Iceland, Wales, Albania, Northern Ireland.
