Romania’s draw with Northern Ireland made the main favorites in our group at the final tournament of EURO 2024, the Belgians, take the tricolors at matinee price. Belgium sees Romania as an extremely easy opponent, in front of which it cannot have any kind of problems.
Obviously, the opinions belong to the Belgian press, not to the officials, who were present, like the Slovakian representatives, in the stands of the National Arena at the Friday night match. Both the Belgians and the Slovaks sent to see the Romanian national team at work filled whole pages of notations or stayed non-stop with their laptops open, a sign that they identified many problems to analyze.
“We imagine Romania would have liked a better start to 2024. The Romanians were taught a harsh lesson and were unable to get a better result than a 1-1 draw with Northern Ireland in a friendly.
A draw with 74th in the world, a result that will surely not please their coach. And we think it could be worse. Dominating the game, but unable to really penetrate the Northern Ireland defence, Romania got scared very early and could have conceded a goal in the 7th minute.
Defeated from the start, it took the Romanians a quarter of an hour to regain their composure before scoring the equalizing goal. Since then, the score hasn’t changed and therefore Romania has been in trouble since the beginning of the year.
It was not the best way to start the preparation for the EURO, a tournament that is fast approaching – wrote those from RTBF.
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