Euro 2008 - Romania vs France Football betting preview

Game: Romania v France

Tournament: UEFA EURO 2008 GROUP C

Date: Mon 9 June

Kick-off: 1700 BST

Venue: Letzigrund Stadion, Zurich

This is a very interesting match in prospective.

On the last tournaments France played very bad and sincerly i don't think this Domenech is "the coach" for France squad.

He made a very poor group stage in the last World Cup and he made also a very bad qualification phase, losing twice against Scotland, that deserved to be in this Euro2008.

Unfortunely for Domenech there are some major problems for this Euro08 start:

France captain Patrick Vieira remains a major doubt and could even been ruled out of the tournament after he picked up a thigh injury in training.

Coach Raymond Domenech will wait until the final moment before deciding whether to replace Vieira with on-standby midfielder Matthieu Flamini.

Thierry Henry (sciatic nerve) and Franck Ribery (ankle) are also doubts.

On the other side, is a full fit Romania, that showed off a great football in the qualification.

This team have great talents such as Chivu or Adrian Mutu, and we might think that France always start bad in this kind of competitions.

The pressure is huge and Romania have nothing to lose here. Like Mutu said: "We will do our best and a positive result against France would give us real impetus for the games against Italy and Holland. "As our captain Cristian Chivu said, 'It's time for us to show what we can do'."

This makes really sense and i think Romania it's a very good underdog here.

In this kind of competition there isn't favorites and this group is full of strengh so, every match is a final.

I think Romania have conditions here to draw the match against France, so, i'm with it on my coupon.

Pick : Romania +0.5, +1
Odds : 1.74
Stake : 6 / 10
Bookmaker : Bet365
Match Result : 0-0
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