Fantastic Euro 2016 will enter history
This tournament, undoubtedly, did not disappoint, many fantastic matches attracted huge number of not just football fans. Despite critics’ opinions we think that the idea of increasing the number of participants was successful due to what such teams as Wales or Iceland have probably won the hearts of fans from the whole Europe.

Some favorites confirmed their class but, of course, there was a multitude of surprises and amazing changes of matches’ outcomes, what is the main advantage of a sporting rivalry. Today we became wiser to such extent that we know all results of the previous championship, so we should check how bettors could have earned.

Predicting Portugal’s win you could have gotten rich
Before the beginning of Euro 2016 Portugal, of course, changed in the number of favorites to final win, but not straight away. The odds 18/1(19.00) which was offered by Bet365 bookmaker points to the bookmaker not being confident in Portugal’s triumph. At that time Fernando Santos’ players won against higher qualified teams (the final triumph of the hosts was estimated at 3/1(4.00), Germany – 4/1(5.00)) and broke the bank. As well as many bettors who predicted such result before the beginning of Euro. Prediction of teams that would go into the final brought even better incomes. The final pair France – Portugal was valued by bookmakers at 25/1(26.00).

Thomas Muller the favorite of BetVictor to the title of the Top Scorer
According to BetVictor bookmaker’s data the fight for the title of the Top Scorer of the Championship should have been fierce. Odds makers’ favorite was Thomas Muller (7/1), but probably too much pressure led to him ending the tournament without a goal. Interestingly, none of the 12 matches in the history of the European Championship brought him a goal. It is so strange since during the World Championship he scored 10 goals in 13 matches. A bit higher odds were for Cristiano Ronaldo (7/1) or Antoine Griezmann (8/1) and namely the French one, having scored 6 goals, was unchallenged.

He also got the title, fair or not, of the Most Valuable Player of the tournament. For the prize for Paul Pogba or Cristiano Ronaldo the bookmaker would pay 13,00, while the odds for the title of the Tri-colors made 16/1.

Miracles in group F
After drawings of the final tournament of Euro 2016 it seemed that the least fascinating rivalry would be in group F. Portugal had to win over the lower qualified Iceland without problems, then win over Austria, which disappoints on large tournaments, and without any fuss deal with Hungary. How it all ended – will all perfectly know. It’s just a pity that we did not have such thoughts before the beginning of the competition in order to make huge money on it.

The odds for Portugal leaving the group made 1/10(1.10) while it still could not be confident in the advance until the last minutes of the match against Hungary. The Hungarian national team in its turn took the first place in the group despite bookmakers had set the odds for such possibility at the level of 12/1 (13.00)(with 4/5(1.80) for Portugal’s first place).

In general, in order to present You how unexpectedly the fight in group F ended, we offer the final situation in the group together with the odds for advance of particular teams.

1	Hungary	69/50(2.38)
2	Iceland	3/5(1.60)
3	Portugal	1/10(1.10)
4	Austria	11/50(1.22)

Not least interesting was the following participation of group F teams. The fate of Portugal is known to everybody, but the following matches of the Icelanders were not less unexpected. In the match of 1/8 finals it won over the confident in themselves English, then the odds for their win made 8/1(9.00) at Paddy Power bookmaker. Their rough gaming style has set in mind for many years.

Wales a footstep away from the final
Nobody took the Welsh gaming seriously before the beginning of the tournament, they were not predicted to leave the group or even get a point. Opinions appeared that the Welsh team is first of all Gareth Bale plus ten footballers, whose main task is not to hamper the Real Madrid’s star. Bookmaker Unibet set the odds for their advance at 3/5(1.60) and the first place in the group 5/1(6.00) (with 4/591.80) for England), and for the advance into the semi-final 16/1. Wales, as it turned out, had one of the most effective attacks at the tournament, 10 scored goals in 6 matches impress. More than 8 goals for the Welsh national team is worth even 10/1(11.00).

The odds for the final triumph of the Welsh also looked decent 80/1(81.00) and if to look at time – they needed just a bit more to get into the final, what seemed impossible for us before the beginning of the tournament. However, there was a dare-devil in Great Britain who bet on the win of Wales at Euro 2016. Even more, he added gold for the Welsh to the triumph of Leicester in the Premier League. With the bet of 5 pounds his win would make 1 million.

Championship over or under?
Statistically speaking, bettors all over the world to a large extent bet on over rather than on under. It is due to players’ psychology, moreover, being bettors they can also be fans. Watching matches, they expect not just income but also amazing performance with huge amount of goals. In the course of Euro 2016 they could not increase their capital. In 51 matches only 108 goals were scored, what gives us in average 2,12 goals per match and it was the worst result since 1996 (in 2012 – 2,45).

The most often result was 1:0 (11 times), eight times matches ended with results 1:1 or 2:2. Even 33 matches ended with less than 2,5 goals and only 5 – more than 3,5. Just in 20 matches both teams scored. Maybe it is worth betting on under 2,5 at the next large tournament.

You can earn not just on sports betting
The European Championship is not just wins and losses, but also a whole bunch of events on the field and beyond it. More bookmakers offer possibilities to earn on such bets. So, for example, bookmaker Betsson offered bets “Will a goal be scored in scissors/over oneself?” We all remember the fantastic goal of Xherdan Shaqiri, which left none chances for a save to the Polish goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski. The odds? 9/1(10.00).

The odds at 9/1(10.00) was also set by the bookmaker office Betsafe and the question was “Will the camera be able to catch any coach while picking nose?” We are confident that everybody knows what outcome this prediction had and there is no big point in hazing this coach. However, on the basis of what was seen we will be impatient to see what bets bookmakers will offer for the World Championship in Russia.

In the end we would like to remind you, boasting a little at the same time, that we wrote about such bets before the beginning of the tournament here. In our opinion, bets worth attention were that a fan would ran out to the field (odds 3/2(2.50)) or that one of the footballers would take off his T-shirt (odds 3/5(1.60)). We counted even two fans on the field and a T-shirt was taken off by the author of one of the goals in the match Croatia – Spain.