England 17/20 Favourites to Beat Russia

England 17/20 Favourites to Beat Russia

England 17/20 Favourites to Beat Russia

📅10 June 2016, 11:00

This Saturday, 11th June, England and Russia will play their opening match of the Euro 2016 tournament at the Stade Vélodrome, Marseille

The teams haven’t played since October 2007 when Russia beat England 2 – 1. Before that they played in September of the same year and England won that game 3 – 0.

However, it seems that England are the strong favourites to win this encounter as the bookmakers at Winner Sports have given the team odds of 17/20 to win while the odds on Russia are 15/4 and a draw has been set at 47/20. In the correct score market the shortest odds of 9/2 are on a 1 – 0 win for England followed by 11/2 on a 1 – 1 draw. England is 4/5 favourite to win Group B with odds of 4/5 while Russia trails as second favourite with odds of 11/4.

England reached this stage of the tournament after finishing first in qualifying group E with 30 points having won all 10 games.

Russia progressed after finishing second in qualifying Group G with 20 points having won 6 games, drawn 2 and lost 2.