Sunday, September 6, 2009

French hopes of automatic qualification in balance


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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