Germany vs. Spain, Portugal vs. France predictions: Euro 2024 quarterfinals odds, picks, best bets
It doesn’t get much better for soccer fans than Friday afternoon.Four football powerhouses will be in action with places in the Euro 2024 semifinals on the line. Better yet is that the oddsmakers have hung prices to suggest that both Germany vs.Spain and Portugal vs.
France will be hard to predict.Spain is the slightest of favorites to advance to the semifinals at -113, while France is -148 to get past Cristiano Ronaldo and Co.Let’s dive into Friday’s heavyweight clashes and see if we can’t pick out a couple of bets: You could make a strong argument that this is a contest between the two best teams remaining in the tournament.Neither Germany nor Spain have put much of a foot wrong through their first four matches and in a just world they’d be on a collision course to meet in the final, but that’s not how these tournaments work. So, instead, we’ll have to settle for Spain vs.Germany in the quarterfinals at MHPArena in Stuttgart.
Oh well. As the odds suggest, you really have to split hairs in breaking down this match.It’s Goliath vs.
Goliath. In terms of results, no team has had a better start to Euro 2024 than Spain.La Furia Roja went 3-0-0 without conceding a goal in a group that featured Italy, Croatia and Albania, then walloped Georgia, 4-1, in the Round of 16.
No team has created more expected goals, big scoring chances or put more shots on target than Spain so far. It’s quite the tournament résumé, but Germany is right there with them. The hosts have scored 10 goals and conceded just two and were quite impressive in a tricky match with Denmark in the Round of 16.Die Mannschaft won the match, 2-0, and were dangerous going forward all night with 15 shots, five big scoring chances and 2.6 expected goals created. On paper, you’d say this match has all the makings of a back-and-forth classic, but oftentimes when teams like this meet it devolves into a bit of a stalemate.Both Spain and Germany are so good with and without the ball, t...