Sweden vs Romania
Sweden vs Romania will meet on March 23, 2019, in the first round of the EURO 2020, Group F preliminaries, at the “Friends Arena” stadium in Solna, at 19:00.
Sweden: time form, latest results, statistics
Sweden succeeded in CM 2018 to qualify in the quarter-finals after crossing the group stage, where they had Germany, Mexico and South Korea as their opponents. The Scandinavians have eliminated Switzerland (1-0), but they have not been able to cross England (0-2). After the World Championship in Russia, the Swedes played in the League of Nations with Turkey (2-3 and 1-0) and Russia (0-0 and 2-0), winning the group. There were 4 friendly matches with Austia (0-2) and Slovakia (1-1) in 2018 and Finland (0-1) and Iceland (2-2) in 2019. In the EURO 2020 preliminaries, the team coached by Janne Andersson will try to rank second, given that Spain is the big favorite of Group F, so matches with Romania (23.03.2019, home) and Norway (March 26, 1919, away) will be particularly important for Sweden.
Romania: the form of the moment, the latest results, statistics
Romania qualified for Euro 2016, but missed the participation in CM 2018 in Russia, after President Razvan Burleanu had the bad inspiration to entrust his national team to German Christoph Daum. After the match in Podgorica with Montenegro (0-1), Christoph Daum was replaced by Cosmin Contra. He led the Romanian team in 14 games, the balance being 9 wins, 4 draws and one defeat. The failure was on November 14, 2017, in one with the Netherlands (0-3 at home), but it should be noted that since then, the “tricolori” had 10 games in a row without defeat, friendly and in the League of Nations (7 successes and Romania has finished second in the League of Nations after Serbia and, like Sweden, is also aiming for this position in Group F of the EURO 2020 preliminaries, where Spain is the big favorite.
Sweden vs Romania: direct results (H2H)
So far, Sweden vs Romania have met nine times, with Sweden’s 3 wins, 3 draws and 3 UK results. The Golavera was favorable to the Scandinavians, 18 to 11. In the three matches played in Sweden, “Blågult” won 2 wins and “Tricolorii” 1 was successful, the goal being favorable to the hosts, 11 to 3.
The 9 Sweden vs Romanian meetings
- 01.09.1935 Stockholm: Sweden vs Romania 7-1 (1-0) Friendly
- 27.06.1937 Bucharest: Romania vs Sweden 2-2 (1-2) friendly
- 15.06.1955 Gothenburg: Sweden vs Romania 4-1 (2-0) Friendly
- 17.06.1956 Bucharest: Romania vs Sweden 0-2 (0-1) friendly
- 08.09.1982 Bucharest: Romania vs Sweden 2-0 (1-0) EC preliminaries 1984
- 09.06.1983 Solna: Sweden vs Romania 0-1 (0-1) EC preliminaries 1984
- 14.06.1994 Newport Beach (USA): Romania vs Sweden 1-1 (0-0) Friendly
- 10.07.1994 San Francisco (USA): Romania vs Sweden 2-2 (1-1, 0-0), 4-5p, CM USA 1994
- 27.03.2018 Craiova: Romania vs Sweden 1-0 (0-0) Friendly
Sweden vs Romania Picks
The favorite group of the F group is Spain, which will normally finish first. Sweden, Norway and Romania will beat Sweden, while the Faroe Islands and Malta will not count in the qualifying fight. The Swedes reached the quarter-finals at CM 2018, where they left the Netherlands in the preliminaries and Italy at the barrage. One year ago, in March, Romania defeated Sweden in a friendly match played in Craiova with a score of 1-0 (Dorin Rotariu 57). Now, “ours” start with the second chance and even if they did not lose any matches in 2018, I recommend you bet on the Scandinavian victory. The reason is the defense of the “tricolors” – Cristian Manea, Romário Benzar, Cristian Săpunaru, Ionut Nedelcearu, Dragos Grigore, Cosmin Moţi, Cristian Ganea and Nicuşor Bancu – who do not look good at all.
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Odds: 1.80
