England 4/9 Favourites to Beat Turkey

England 4/9 Favourites to Beat Turkey

England 4/9 Favourites to Beat Turkey

📅22 May 2016, 11:00

This Sunday, 22nd May, England and Turkey will play as international friendly match at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester.

The teams haven’t placed since October 2003 and that match ended in a goalless draw. Prior to that they played in April of 2003 and England won that game 2 – 0. England also beat Turkey in their three previous matches in 1991, 1992 and 1993. More recently England lost 1 – 2 to the Netherlands while Turkey beat Austria 1 – 2.

It seems that England are likely to win this match as the bookmakers at Winner Sports have given the team odds of 4/9 to win while the odds on Turkey are 7/1 and a draw has been set at 3/1. In the correct score market the shortest odds of 17/4 are on a 1 – 0 win for England followed by 19/3 on a 2 – 0 win and 7/1 on a 1 – 1 draw.

At present England is tenth in the FIFA World Rankings with 1069 points. They are 91 points below Uruguay.

Turkey is thirteenth in the FIFA World Rankings with 983 points. They are 36 points below Ecuador.