Martyno1 said:
However, France (and probably Italy? I don't care about them enough to notice) has an excellent record against Spain, Spain never beats France and I'm sure they'd rather face the French again rather than Spain.
No clue?? They are roughly equal W/L in all games played, and Spain won their last game earlier this year..
No way Italy were lucky against Romania. They had so many blown headers early on. If you were watching at the time it would have seemed that it only was a matter of time before they started going in (Don't forget Toni's disallowed header aswell, no sure where the ref was placed but from the tv angle I'd easily call it onside).
Mutu's penalty was a piece of shit, dead straight 1m high? Expected more from him - was thinking top right
Re the Holland/Romania game, the (if romania win, holand first and romania 2nd) situation has been way overfactored in the price imo
I layed romania at 2.06 after the italy/france game - currently holland 3.05, romania 2.2, draw 4.2
I think romania are still way to short, will drift to 2.4+ before kickoff I reckon.
I'm not buying any of this conspiracy bullshit. Obviously holland will rest a few players (heard this morning VDS will be rested too), but I doubt they will lose on purpose "strategically" - perhaps they won't exactly bust their balls trying to win the game, but not lose on purpose.
This isn't some dirty italian 2nd division, it's international football and if holland obviously deliberately blow off the game it wouldn't be wise imo (reaction would be huge)
Donadoni and marco played together for awhile in milan, and I think if there's any dirty shit going on holland (at least marco, maybe not the players..) will push for a win against romania help get italy through and let them have a shot against Spain. - Might be a bit of value in Italy 3.85 to qualify from the group