Euro: 16.5 million euros of online bets in France on France-Germany

It is quite simply the seventh game to have generated the most online bets since the opening of the sector in 2010 to competition. According to information from the sports daily

, Didier Deschamps' men's first match at the Euro, which took place last Tuesday in Munich, resulted in 16.5 million euros being posted online on the national market. The French punters were obviously inspired by the beautiful poster which pitted the Blues against one of the other favorites of the competition, Germany. With the key a victory for Paul Pogba, Kylian Mbappé and their teammates (1-0).

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More punters than for the 2018 World Cup final

Also according to information from the sports media, about 778,000 players are at the origin of these bets.

This is more than for the final of the 2018 World Cup in Russia which had gathered around 600,000 punters.

This meeting nevertheless remains at the top of the national ranking established by the National Gaming Authority of the matches that have been the subject of the most online bets.

At the time, 36 million euros in stakes had been recorded.

Finally,

mentions that this Euro should generate "a little more than 85 billion euros in sales on the world market" this time. That is an increase of 30% compared to Euro 2016.