Real Madrid’s prodigy paints a rainbow that shakes Signal Iduna Park. Türkiye had an impressive opening day for EURO 2024 as Real Madrid’s Arda Guler produced a standout moment.
Türkiye’s opponent in the opening match in Group F of Euro 2024 is Georgia – the “newcomer” of this year’s Euro. The match will take place at 11pm on June 18.
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Georgia owns two expensive superstars: striker Kvaratskhelia (Transfermarkt value 80 million euros) and goalkeeper Mamardashvili (35 million euros). The value of this duo accounts for more than 70% of the value of the entire Georgia team.
Meanwhile, Türkiye owns an evenly matched team. In defense, they have goalkeeper Bayindir currently playing for Man United, quality defenders such as Demiral, Kadioglu, Celik…
From the midfield up, Türkiye is completely comparable to powerful Eastern European football backgrounds like Croatia or Ukraine.
Their captain – Calhanoglu is considered one of the best midfielders in Serie A currently. Besides, there are stars playing for big clubs such as Kokcu (Benfica), Akturkoglu (Galatasaray), Yildiz (Juventus), Yazici (Lille)… Especially, there is young midfielder Arda Guler currently playing for Real Madrid.
Not only is the Turkish squad evenly matched, it is also very young with an average age of only 25.8 years old – the second youngest in Euro 2024 (behind the Czech Republic). That star team is led by a highly rated coach, Vicenzo Montella.
The Italian strategist had great success when leading Fiorentina in the period 2012-2015, before moving to Türkiye to work from 2021. Like many other Italian strategists, Mr. Montella is a master at cup match.
With superior strength, Türkiye is given a handicap of 3/4 (0.75) left by the bookmakers for Georgia. The over/under bet is 2 1/4 (2.25) left, a quite comfortable number.
Many football websites such as Whoscored or Sportsmole predict that Türkiye will win 2-1 in this match.
According to Sportsmole’s computer data, the result with the highest occurrence rate is a 1-1 draw (10.44%), followed by Türkiye winning 2-1 (9.6%), winning 1-0 (8.24%) and won 2-0 (7.6%). It can be seen that the possibility of Türkiye winning is very likely to appear. The rate of a match having 3 or more goals is also nearly 60%.
