Past tournament history suggests that three goals should be enough to earn punters an each-way return in the Euro 2008 top scorer market.

And with that figure in mind Germany’s Michael Ballack looks well worth investment at 28/1 with totesport.

With no Didier Drogba to wrestle for the ball when Germany win a free kick the Chelsea ace will dominate all of the dead ball action in offensive areas.

Joachim Low´s side have been pitched into one of the weakest looking groups at the finals (Austria, Croatia, Poland) and it is fair to say that the Germans will be confident of scoring plenty of goals against that opposition.

Expect Ballack to be right in the thick of things. Another aspect in the attacking midfielder´s favour is that he had the benefit of a short domestic season and will be a lot fresher than many at the finals.

He was injured and on the sidelines for eight months before slowly easing back to his very best form as Chelsea came up just short in the Premiership title race.

He will literally be raring to go when his country get their tournament underway against Poland.

Another player worth a look is Switzerland´s star man Alexander Frei who is 50/1.

He became Switzerland´s all-time leading goalscorer when he bagged two goals against Liechtenstein a recent friendly.

Switzerland have home advantage going for them which could well give Frei a run to the knockout stages. Of the dozen previous times the European Championships have been played – a host nation has reached the semis at least.

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