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With more than 20 International Friendly matches taking place this evening, you’d imagine there must be some good value punts to be had - and you’d be right!

Bosnia-Herzegovina v France, 20:00

Losing World Cup finalists France will be looking bounce back in the first game of their (second) post-Zidane era. With strength in depth they should be able to experiment and still put on a good show, we predict that they’ll emerge as victors by a tight margin. In this kind of company, you can’t go too far wrong with a few quid on Henry to be first goalscorer.

England v Greece, 20:05

McClaren’s first match as England manager is tough one to call. On the face of it, you would expect England, under a new manager with players playing in their best positions and at home, to be too strong for Greece. We think England will win but with McClaren likely to experiment we’d be reluctant to rule out the possibility of a draw with the durable Greeks coming back into the game late on.

Liechtenstein v Switzerland, 19:15

They say there are no easy games in world football anymore, and a lot of weaker countries have certainly lifted their game in the last ten years or so, but with all due respect there really aren’t too many teams that visit Liechtenstein without expecting to come away with a win. While they have been taking more points off visiting teams by drawing in the last few years, the Swiss should be too strong by far.

Luxembourg v Turkey, 19:00

If there’s one team in World football with a worse record than Liechtenstein. With a 100% losing record in their World Cup 2006 Qualifying campaign, an average of a goal scored once in every three games - as opposed to an average of more than three goals conceeded every game, there’s no way we can see anything but a Turkish victory in this one.

Rep of Ireland v Holland, 19:30

The Dutch were hand picked to give the Gaffer’s men a dress rehersal for their opening Euro 2008 Qualifier against the Germans. Unfortunately for Staunton many of his own team have had to pull out of the game due to injury and in order to protect player who were nursing injuries. With no establish threat up front, Robbie Keane and Damien Duff are both ruled out, we can’t see the boys in green causing any problems for the Dutch. And with Given and Dunne missing - the calamitous John O’Shea standing in as a central defender - we can’t see Ireland keeping a clean sheet. So the verdict, we can only assume it’ll be a win for Holland, possibly by a couple of goals.