EURO 2008 INFO

The team of France has obtained an even result, Monday against a well organised too Romania (0-0), for its entry into contention in Euro. Hard to get more than a point after a match to a single shot framed.

Many champions of Europe began their epics with a tie tranquilou during their first match. That would be lying to say that the roots of a third success at Euro french were detectable in the 0-0 conceded to Romania on Monday in Zurich. But we have to hang up the timetable, provided that remains to be convinced that the Blues will come out of this very dense group C with the rank due to their status as a finalist in the World Cup. The rest? A match that the Romanian goalkeeper Bogdan Lobont spent without having to develop, free from any opportunity frank french side. Same comment for Grégory Coupet, including defence - both collective or individual - would not have left an unforgettable impression. With a collective disorderly, a 4-4-2 more elastic than classical, the France team had moments of uncertainty on the defensive and true powerless in terms offensive. It also retains a real margin of manoeuvre on the physical plane. The increasing power comparable to that of 2006 would be seen as an intruder. It had also started with a 0-0 fade, against Switzerland, would like. It is a match where the man of the match elected by UEFA was Claude Makelele. A match where it was clogged everywhere.

It is difficult to say how many match Romania will win matches with the virtues displayed in Zurich. It is already acquired it does not lose much. Both caution, virility and vice can sometimes irritating. They are not prohibited by regulations, and Greece knows something. In a match where Chivu gave a good overview of his class, we saw Goian, Tamas, Rat, Contra, Radoi, whatever team Piturca account as a defensive-oriented. Mutu replaced in the 78th, reserves for later. Players from the East bear a heavy responsibility in the result a minimum Bleus. They have been content with an organization infallible and a considerable capital investment. The match was on the verge of rot after the 45th. It's almost a miracle that it has not come with such arbitration neither good nor bad, just terribly fickle. The first impression was, however, that the team of France took the match on the right end, with what he had to go, technical correctness and willingness to establish itself as the patron and mark quickly. It only lasted little more than ten minutes. For a few stamps and ski ball as hard as sudden tame, Romanians went into their match and quickly dismissing spirits french any idea of superiority.
A single shot framed for the Blues

The team of France had the ball more often and kept the initiative, but for not doing much to tell the truth. The technical accuracy became progressively more questionable, then played the rough qu'Anelka rare balloons vaguely usable (9th, 33rd, 37th). The first balloon framed flew Lobont in the 43rd after a one-two-Benzema Ribéry hijacked. The first shooting framed, strictly speaking, the 57th, on a flat foot shy of Lyonnais, served by his new accomplice. The first? The only. The breakthrough Malouda left concluded with a shot near the skylight (49th) revealed from the back of the locker room that was not running round. There were few calls, not much spontaneity. Sometimes the blue bearer had to face a three against eight in the last thirty metres. Injouable. It should have been an excess of recklessness or an achievement. They did not come. Raymond Domenech sent a message to the 71st minute by replacing Anelka Gomis. Yes, the Benzema has supplanted in the definition of the eleven-type. No, the breeder would not do too much to tip the score. At the 78th, he even enter Nasri in place of Lyonnais. The match did not change, and the french bench, at the very end, had signed to keep a score that the Romanians had started to switch on a misunderstanding. On Friday he will do better. It will go before the last match against Italy. Even in orange.