France - Romania

 France will meet Romania in the opening match of the EURO 2016.

France have a great team and by the bookies they are main favorites to win this tournament.  At the start of this tournament they will have Romania for the opponent, one of the poorer teams on this EURO.

Romania showed disciplined play in defense in the qualifications for EURO and in 10 matches they conceded only 2 goals.  However their group was pretty easy with teams like Greece, Northern Ireland, Hungary, Finland and Faroe Islands.  While in their last 2 friendly matches before EURO their defense was not so good and they conceded even 4 goals against Ukraine and 1 against Georgia.  Today they will face maybe the strongest offensive team on this EURO. France looks really strong upfront. They playing with 4-3-3 formation, with players like Giroud, Payet, Martial, Griezman, Coman and Pogba upfront.  They were very efficient in their previous friendly games and they have managed to score 13 goals in last 4 matches. I think they will surely manage to break Romania’s defense and score them a lot of goals no matter that Romania will defending here hardly.   France will surely want to start this tournament in best possible way, they will have huge support of the fans and I think they will manage to cover handicap here.

Here is projected line ups

France: Lloris - Sagna, Rami, Koscielny, Evra - Pogba, Kante, Matuidi - Griezmann, Giroud, Payet

Romania: Tatarusanu - Sapunaru, Chiriches, Grigore, Rat - Hoban, Pintilii - Torje, Stanciu, Stancu - Keseru

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