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England vs Slovakia predictions: Euro 2024 tips and odds
Steve Davies’s England vs Slovakia betting tips include two 9/2 and a 21/10-priced selection, with Cole Palmer backed to score
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Our betting expert has three England vs Slovakia tips for Sunday’s European Championship round-of-16 clash in Gelsenkirchen (5pm kick-off). Scroll down for the analysis behind his selections.
England vs Slovakia betting tips
- England to win 2-0 @ 9/2 with Betfred
- Highest-scoring half – first half @ 21/10 with Betfred
- #PickYourPunt – Cole Palmer to score anytime, under 3.5 Slovakia corners and under 1.5 Slovakia goals @ 9/2 with Betfred
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Three Lions can step up and reach last eight
England have struggled to create chances and score goals – and can expect another test from a stubborn Slovakia.
But having managed to score only two goals in three Group D matches over the past fortnight, take them to net a brace in 90 minutes against the Slovaks.
The idea that this England side, a team that look jaded and tense, will steamroll anyone seems fanciful. However, they are still a class apart from Slovakia, who are rated 40 places lower by Fifa, and Gareth Southgate’s misfiring men can eke out a 2-0 success.
The English have not been awful despite the headlines. They were good for a half in the 1-0 victory against Serbia and never looked likely to lose against Slovenia. While there has been no spark, there should not be any panic.
Slovakia have been quite positive in their three group games, which yielded a 1-0 win over Belgium, 2-1 loss to Ukraine and 1-1 draw with Romania.
Against England they are not going to see an awful lot of the ball and will have to defend well. Milan Skriniar is the star of a decent defence – but one which the Three Lions, if Southgate is finally bold enough to re-engineer his front four and bring in Cole Palmer and either Ebe Eze or Jarrod Bowen from the off, can break down regularly enough.
England vs Slovakia tip 1: England to win 2-0 @ 9/2 with Betfred
Statistics suggest goalmouth action will come early
For all the firepower in the Three Lions’ ranks, their two goals so far came before Southgate even looked at his bench.
Jude Bellingham’s winner against Serbia was in the 13th minute, and Harry Kane’s opener in the 1-1 draw with Denmark in the 18th. The Danes levelled before the break.
England’s games get drearier and tighter the longer they go on. Since Slovakia’s three goals have all come before the break, take the first 45 to be the highest-scoring half.
England vs Slovakia tip 2: Highest-scoring half – first half @ 21/10 with Betfred
Cole can mine a profitable bet builder seam
The English and the Slovaks have met six times in very recent history and the Central Europeans have managed the grand sum of only three goals across those games, and never more than one in any of them.
In three matches in these finals they have scored exactly one in each of them and it is hard to imagine, against a far better side than the three they have met so far, that they can exceed that number.
This game will be played in Slovakia’s half so make under 1.5 Slovak goals the bedrock of a bet builder that pays 9/2.
The second component is under 3.5 Slovakia corners, a figure based on how little possession the Slovaks will have.
The riskier element on the face of it is the third one, Cole Palmer to score at anytime.
The Chelsea man has had his best-ever season and in 20 minutes off the bench against Slovenia looked livelier than anyone Southgate can currently call upon.
England vs Slovakia tip 3: #PickYourPunt – Cole Palmer to score anytime, under 3.5 Slovakia corners and under 1.5 Slovakia goals @ 9/2 with Betfred
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