The friendly match between Romania and Northern Ireland is scheduled for Friday, March 22 at 21:45 at the National Arena in Bucharest and will be broadcast by Prima TV.

Romania’s Euro 2024 team will play the first of four warm-up matches scheduled before the final tournament in Germany against Northern Ireland, a team in the midst of a generational change and no longer in contention for the continental tournament. or world competitions.

Romania qualified for Euro 2024 after winning Group I without defeat (six wins and four draws) and with only five goals conceded, managing to beat Switzerland: 2-2 (d) and 1-0 (a), Israel : 1-1 (a) and 2-1 (d), Belarus: 2-1 (a) and 0-0 (d), Kosovo: 0-0 (d) and 2-0 (a) and Andorra: 2 -0 (d) and 4-0 (a).

After the confrontation with Northern Ireland, Romania will play three more friendly matches: with Colombia (March 26, from 21:30, at the Metropolitano in Madrid), with Bulgaria (June 4) and Liechtenstein (June 8) – the last two at the Steaua Stadium, time from time the FRF will be announced.

“This is an important promotion, we perceive these games as exams. We are not making final decisions about Euro 2024 right now. There is another level waiting for us there, we will see who will be with us in Germany. The door is open to everyone. The train is moving, it takes a lot of effort for someone to jump on the train while it is moving!” said Edward Iordenescu, the coach of the “tricolors”.

Attention, Romania has a streak of 11 matches without failure (the last defeat was on November 17, 2022, 1:2 at home in a friendly match with Slovenia)!

Northern Ireland missed out on the European Championship finals after finishing 5th in Group H with just nine points from three wins and seven losses (Denmark, Slovenia, Finland and Kazakhstan ahead of them; only San Marino finished below them ).

“If we look at Romania, they had a very good qualifying campaign and won the group. It’s important for me to test the players and see what it takes to get that qualification. In order to qualify, we have to finish above teams like Romania or other teams of the same level,” said British coach Michael O’Neill.

Northern Ireland have not qualified for the finals since 2016, when they traveled to France for the EC after winning a group in which Romania, who also qualified, finished 2nd (the Tricolors won 2-0 at home and played away draw, 0 -0).

Romania and Northern Ireland last met head-to-head in the 2020 Nations League, when the two teams drew 1-1 in both Bucharest and Belfast.

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