Havertz has pretty much established himself as Julian Nagelsmann’s first choice in the central forward role in recent months. His form at Arsenal has been excellent for the last couple of months as well.

This is Havertz’s best goalscoring season since leaving Bayer Leverkusen, netting 14 times in all competitions, and much of it was spent playing in midfield for Arsenal.

For Germany, the host nation, with a potential route to the semi-finals looking more than possible, Havertz fits a lot of the trends for Golden Boot winners. He also has a strong, if small, major tournament record with four goals in 4.4 90s across the previous Euros and the 2022 World Cup.

The Burnley man is our favourite outsider bet for the Golden Boot.

Switzerland have rotated their central forward quite a lot in their last few internationals. Noah Okafor of AC Milan has played there, but not necessarily capitalised on his chance, while Haris Seferovic is probably seen as a player who has had his time at major tournaments.

Amdouni had an excellent qualification campaign for the Swiss, he averaged 1.11 goals per 90 in the qualification campaign, and despite losing his starting place in the Burnley side to David Datro Fofana, he should be selected on the international stage to lead Switzerland’s frontline.

In a group where the teams are all relatively evenly matched, and none of them are 100% defensively minded, the Swiss have a chance of getting some goals to set this bet up nicely.

Florian Wirtz is not a centre forward, so he doesn’t fit that golden rule, but he is a potential superstar, so he can be considered on those grounds.

Wirtz comes into the tournament after a long, but incredibly successful, season with Leverkusen. The 21-year-old registered 18 goals and 19 assists, as Die Werkself won their first ever Bundesliga title and picked up the DFB Pokal too.

He has now established himself in the setup for Germany and although he has only one senior goal in 16 caps for his country, he has started the last four friendly internationals, and will be given more responsibility by Julian Nagelsmann in the finals.

Germany are in the same group as Switzerland, Group A, with Hungary and Scotland making up the four. Should Germany progress there is a workable route through to the quarter-finals, and potentially the semi-finals too.

Wirtz is a nailed-on starter for Nagelsmann and given the season that he has had for his club and his confidence levels coming into the Euros, if Havertz doesn’t fire, Wirtz certainly could.

Ukraine are potential quarter-finalists if they play to their potential and while there are a few good attackers in their squad, going back to the theory that Golden Boot winners tend to be the central forwards, Dovbyk is the pick here.

The Girona striker netted 24 La Liga this season at a rate of 0.8 per 90, and scored more goals than Jude Bellingham, Vinicius Junior and Robert Lewandowski. The issue for Dovbyk is obviously that he is playing for a team that is not expected to progress deep into the competition.

However, if Ukraine can play five matches, or if Dovbyk can make an impact in the group stages, then the big price that he is at the moment could be made to look far too big.

This may seem like a faintly ridiculous selection, and it certainly doesn’t follow the trends, but it would appear as though Rodri is on penalties for Spain, if recent matches are anything to go by.

Rodri has demonstrated for many years at Manchester City that he is well capable of coming up with big goals when they are required. He has equalled his best domestic tally in 23/24 and is becoming more attack-minded with Spain as well.

He took ten shots in Spain’s Nations League campaign, an average of 2 per match, and followed that up with 12 in Euro qualifying, seven on target in 6.7 90s.

Spain are more outsiders for the title than favourites this time around, but if they do make it deep into the tournament, Rodri will be a pivotal figure for them, playing every minute and potentially scoring a few goals along the way for a place. Paddy are offering five places at 1/5 of the odds.