The "tricolors" transformed from a powerful force on their own field into a team of anonymous. If until recently Romania inspired fear when it played a match in front of its supporters, now we live from memories.
Romania has already disputed 3 of the 5 matches on its own field from these preliminaries and all ended disastrously. Lithuania defeated us with 3-0 at Cluj, while France recovered from 0-2 at Constanţa, obtaining the draw game. The Serbs left with all the three points, imposing yesterday with the score of 3-2.
The statistics is not on the "tricolors" side. In all the preliminaries which ended with the qualification to a final tour, Romania has never lost more than four points on its own field, and now it has already lost 8 points. Actually, in all the preliminaries groups with four or many teams in which it started, Romania has never lost more than 5 points on its own field. :O
THE FINAL TOURS OF THIS GENERATION
World Cup 2010 3m 4-8 1p » 8p lost » :S
European Cup 2008 6m 17-4 16p » 2p lost » qualification
World Cup 2006 6m 11-4 15p » 3p lost » they didn’t qualify
European Cup 2004 4m 8-6 6p » 6p lost » they didn’t qualify
World Cup 2002 4m 4-3 7p » 5p lost » they didn’t qualify
THE QUALIFICATIONS OF THE ROMANIAN NATIONAL TEAM AT THE FINAL TOURS
European Cup 2008 6m 17-4 16p » 2p lost » qualification
European Cup 2000 5m 14-1 11p » 4p lost » qualification
World Cup 1998 5m 20-2 15p » 0p lost » qualification
European Cup 1996 5m 11-7 12p » 3p lost » qualification
World Cup 1994 5m 17-4 13p » 2p lost » qualification
World Cup 1990 3m 7-1 9p » 0p lost » qualification
European Cup 1984 4m 6-2 9p » 3p lost » qualification
World Cup 1970 3m 4-1 7p » 2p lost » qualification
World Cup from 1930, 1934, 1938 and 1962 went on with another system of qualification
The chances of a qualification in South Africa become almost null, if we take into consideration that Romania has obtained only one point in the matches on its own field with the three adversaries to the qualification, Serbia, France and Lithuania. Besides, the "tricolors" have to play again with the three teams, but this time they will play away.
1. Serbia 5m 12-5 12p
2. Lithuania 5m 6-4 9p
3. France 4m 6-6 7p
4. Austria 4m 5-7 4p
5. Romania 4m 5-8 4p
6. Feroe 4m 1-5 1p
The matches left:
IN ROMANIA
Austria
Feroe
AWAY
Serbia
Lithuania
France
Austria
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