Former champions France's hopes of making the 2010 World Cup finals suffered another blow here on Saturday when the 1998 winners were held to a 1-1 draw by Romania in their Group Seven qualifier.
France, who travel to a must-win qualifier with group leaders Serbia, who they trail by four points on Wednesday, took the lead through veteran captain Thierry Henry early in the second-half only for Julien Escude to put through his own net a few minutes later.
France's controversial coach Raymond Domenech conceded that it had been a tough evening.
"It is disappointing," said Domenech, who caused quite a stir a year ago when instead of commenting on his side's disappointing Euro 2008 finals campaign he instead proposed to his girlfriend. Click to read more...
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