“I’m the first person responsible, I’m disappointed in myself,” he said. Ronald Koeman on Tuesday’s loss against the Austria (2-3), which relegated him to third place in Group D, likely to a bad future, to a complicated rival, to a discouraging team, but it turned out to be the opposite, because he avoided . Spain, Germany, France, Portugal and Belgiumas he recovers and focuses on Romania.
The KO against Austria It didn’t really affect their aspirations. It did not suddenly disrupt its route. face him Romania next Tuesday in Munich (6:00 pm), with a week off almost between their last match and the next, with a series of unimaginable favorable circumstances when it expected itself to top Group D, even before the Franceand finished third, because of the purpose of Marcel Sabitzer.
During a break this Thursday at the team’s concentration in the German city of Wolfsburg, Netherlands waiting for the qualifying rounds from an optimistic point of view, warned by the sequence of results in this first stage, where it only came back and lost last minute in one Poland reduced to nothing Robert Lewandowski (1-2).
Then it is also equal to zero at Francebefore falling before Austriadespite the scoring debut of Memphis Depay and the second is the same Cody Gakpo, and face Romaniathe fourteenth-worst FIFA ranking team (it’s number 47 in the world) of the 16 that went into the Euro Cup’s round of 16, just ahead of Sloveniarival of Englandand Georgiawhich fell in place of Spain.
It is true that this is the first of the group, above Ukrainewhich they beat on opening day 3-0; Belgium, with a 2-0 loss; and Slovakia, to which he tied the other; as long as it has not been there in 24 years, in 2000, or that it has won only one of its last seven duels, certainly against the Ukrainian team.
Since last March, Romania has drawn one against Northern Irelandto zero with Bulgaria and Liechtenstein one of the Slovakia and lost 2-0 to the aforementioned Belgium and 2-3 companions Colombiaafter a more precise qualification stage, where they passed, for example, Switzerlandwhich is also in the round of 16 of Euro 2024.
simultaneously, Netherlands headed to the bottom of the qualifying table. There is a big difference. On the contrary, they go France, Spain, Germany, Portugal and Belgiumin addition to Denmark, Georgia and Slovenia. For them, the most visible threat is England, who cannot be measured in any case until a hypothetical semi-finals. Formerly, to cross, in the case of passing Romaniato the winner of Austria-Turkey.
And in the semifinals, among the aforementioned England, Slovenia, Italy either Switzerland.
Source: La Verdad
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