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Euro 2016 Qualifying Tips: More wins away for Hungary and Portugal

Greece 2.58 v Hungary 3.30; The Draw 3.15
Sunday, 17:00
Live on Sky Sports Red Button

In qualifying groups for Euro 2008, World Cup 2010, Euro 2012 and World Cup 2014, Greece played 42 times and won 31 times yet, heading into the final fixture of their dire Euro 2016 effort, they are certain to finish bottom of Group F below the Faroe Islands, and are still winless after nine games.
Worse still, they have lost all four of their home encounters without scoring a single goal, rendering it bewildering that they are considered favourites to defeat Hungary, who have far more at stake as they seek to overtake Romania in the second automatic qualifying place.
Bernd Storck's side are unbeaten on their travels, holding the two teams above them and seeing off Finland and the Faroe Islands without conceding. They haven't fired a blank abroad throughout, so should be able to give Greece's campaign a suitably shambolic send-off.
Recommended Bet: Back Hungary to win @ 3.30

Serbia 2.58 v Portugal 3.25; The Draw 3.25
Sunday, 17:00
Live on Sky Sports 5

Greece were qualifying for tournaments with relative ease earlier this decade and Portugal were labouring, and there is no way it is coincidental that they have switched situations since Fernando Santos left his position as coach of the former and soon afterwards took charge of his homeland.
A 1-0 victory over Denmark on Thursday confirmed that, for the first time in eight years, Portugal have made it through the preliminaries without cause for a play-off and this is now an opportunity to close Group J with a flawless away record.
Serbia's recent big-match results suggest that they have a great chance of seizing it. They went down 2-1 in Lisbon and were vanquished twice by Denmark - 5-1 over the course of the two contests - while France also overcame them in their centralised friendly in Bordeaux last month.
Recommended Bet: Back Portugal to win @ 3.25

Germany 1.06 v Georgia 70.00; The Draw 19.00
Sunday, 19:45
Live on Sky Sports 5

Germany remain 4.20 favourites to win Euro 2016, but this qualifying process has weakened their standing rather than enhanced it, as the fact that they have previously traded at the noticeably shorter mark of 3.65 confirms.
They lost away to Poland and Republic of Ireland, been held at home by the Boys in Green, snuck by Scotland by one-goal margins twice and even stuck just four past newcomers Gibraltar in Nurnburg.
The world champions are fortunate still to top Group D, a legacy of their two conquerors' inability to defeat Scotland, but aren't quite over the line, as a draw between the other two challengers coupled with a shock Germany reverse to Georgia could yet relegate Joachim Low's men to the play-offs.
Odds of 1.06 on the hosts prevailing show this scenario to be unlikely, though don't bank on them dominating either. Germany haven't scored more than four in a match as hosts in the group. Georgia only notched in Gibraltar, while the outsiders have been breached a mere 14 times in their nine outings.

Recommended Bet: Back under 3.5 goals @ 2.04


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