Romania vs France, Monday June 9th [r]

[dcuni_ted]

i miss zizou

Well, a head butt sure would spice things up.

[Suyuntuy]

Abidal + Malouda = a useless left side.

[roykeanes_safc]

About half an hour too late but at least nasri will finally come on

[Gandalf The Red]

I have 2 words to say about this game


shyte

[Amsteldam]

Thats an understatement!!!! :D

Good for Holland though, a nice boring 0-0 tie

[Suyuntuy]

Nasri and Gomis have never played together before in a NT match, though.

[code1390]

I hope there wern't too many Americans who decided to "give soccer a chance" and watch this game. They will be forever ruined.

[RibbyBollywood]

8 minutes and AET: Romania may actually be quite good, and we know that from them handling their qualifying group though they are the underdog in the group from reputation, these teams will just have to do their best in the next two.

[timotheus]

I am recording this game on my VCR.

Hmmm...

Hmm....

I want to have a complete record of the tourney but...
hmmmm


Anyway, Andy before this match "The tournament for me starts today!".

Right, Andy....

[RibbyBollywood]

In 1990, the group with Ireland, Egypt, England and Holland had all draws but for one game.

http://www.planetworldcup.com/CUPS/1990/wc90index.html

It seems like we could see a lot of draws in this group.

That's happened at other world cups too.

[unclesox]

Anyway, Andy before this match "The tournament for me starts today!".

Right, Andy....
Still, it's a better quote than anything Tommy Smyth has to offer. :p

[Suyuntuy]

Long balls into the area when Nasri and Gomis are playing up front? WTF?

[timotheus]

Allez les yaaaaaaaaawn.......

[Crimen y Castigo]

you know tommy smyth is bad enough during a good match.

when he's forced to fill dead air, jesus weeps for all of us.

[Henry Porter]

This whole cup has devoid of anything magical so far...

[roykeanes_safc]

I hope France go out, they have been shocking and spoiled my £10 Italy France double

[sendorange]

Romania have done well defensively, which probably shouldn't be unexpected seeing how they handled the Dutch in qualifying.

Why Domenech didn't take off a DM for Nasri earlier is bizarre, far too negative and left just Gomis as a striker when they needed to push on and get a goal, in fact even more bizarre considering this is the group of death.

[Suyuntuy]

Well, it's expected. As entertainment, the Copa America is ten times more fun because attacking football is still the norm in the Conmebol. UEFA is a battle of midfields with solid defences.

[Tuco]

Great, I sit through 85 minutes of this game when my Justin.tv connection breaks:

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[unclesox]

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080609/capt.7f9a0d1a30444c31a1fe94e49a59ba14.soccer_euro_2008_romania_france_eur327.jpg

Fulltime

Romania 0:0 France

BOOKINGS:
27' D.Niculae (deliberate handball) His 1st booking of the tournament
40' Contra (unsporting conduct) 1st
43' Goian (foul on Ribéry) 1st
51' Sagnol (foul on Mutu) 1st