France U21 meets Croatia U21 in round 2 of Euro 21. The match will be played on Friday, June 21st at San Marino Stadium (Serravalle)
Playing against England in the first round, the French frankly came off literally before the final whistle. France conceded in the 54th minute and did not convert a penalty before that. A few minutes later English midfielder Choudhury picked up a red card. And literally in 3 minutes, the French didn’t convert 2 penalties. The time was running out, and the French could not find the keys to Henderson’s net. By the way, he belongs to Manchester United but kept the goal in all 46 matches of Sheffield United in the last championship and promoted to the Premier League with it. But Ikone still scored the Englishmen in the 89th minute. And in only one minute, the English defender scored an own goal. The French earned those three points with great difficulty.
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Before the match against Romania in the 1st round, the Croats were considered the obvious favorite. The bookmakers offered about 1.4 for their victory against 4 for Romania. And Romania took and won with a convincing 4-1 score. Not to say that the Balkans failed or did not try to win; they delivered 15 shots on the goal of the Romanian national team. But it was not their evening.
Croats need a victory in order to continue the struggle for progressing from the group. I won’t undertake to predict whether they will be able to win or not. But both teams will strive for victory and will attack a lot too. And we are likely to see more than one goal in the upcoming match. Surely, the coaches will make the necessary adjustments after the first round; perhaps we will see some squad changes that would be able to improve the conversion of the attempts. Croats are creating these goal attempts often enough. But, as we see, they also have obvious problems in defense. And France will not score 2 penalties for the match all the time. Taking into account that the defense of Croatia looks much weaker than the English one, the French won’t leave the field without a goal scored or even a couple. Both teams play quite prolific football. Both played their 4 of 5 last matches with Over 2.5 goals scored. A little more than half a year ago, they played against each other and scored 2 goals for each.
Prediction for the match: Over 2.5 goals scored
