On Tuesday June 10th Group D action will begin for your Euro 2008 bets.  One of the tournament favorites, Spain is going to take on rival nation Russia.  Both teams are very used to each other by now, as they met in their opening game of the Euro Cup in 2004.  This game ended with a 60th minute goal by Spain’s Juan Carlos Valeron, as Spain went on to win the match 1-0.  Russia have never beaten Spain, in the only other two encounters between both teams.  They lost 1-0 in Granada in 1998 and then they drew 0-0 in Albacete in 2006.  Both teams missed they cut for the quarter finals last time in 2004 and will not want history to repeat itself tomorrow.

Spain qualified for this year’s Euro 2008 by winning their qualifying group.  They finished with an impressive record of 9 wins, 2 losses and 1 draw and are one of the betting favorites to win the entire Euro 2008.  They are also playing in their fourth successive Euro Cup.  They have only failed to qualify once, which was back in 1992.  This year they are lead by Fernando Torres who is one of the top candidates to take home top goal scorer this Euro Cup.  He will need to get them off to a good start if they hope to go deep this year.  Currently Oddsmakers at Sportsbetting.com have Spain as -143 favorite Euro 2008 bets heading into tomorrow’s match.

Russia reached this year’s Euro 2008 by finishing second in their qualifying pool.  They etched out England who many thought would be a top team this year.  They finished with a record of 7 wins, 2 losses and 3 draws.  This will be Russia’s third apperance in a Euro 2008.  They were eleminated after the group stages in both 1996 and 2004.  They hope for a better result this year as they have put together a good team.  They have a lot of team chemistry as many of their players have played club soccer together.  They will be a hard match up for Spain and it will be anyone’s game.

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