Despite being placed in an accessible group for next year’s European Championship, Romania’s national football team, Nicolae Stanciu, says he would like stronger opponents.

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Romania captain Nicolae Stanciu spoke after the Euro 2024 group draw and said he wants the tricolors to go through the group stage.

“They’re pretty strong teams, but they’re not the strongest teams we could lose to. At the start of the draw I wanted us to have a group with Portugal and Italy, we’ve never played them.

We are aware of where we are, we are aware that the strength of the group has allowed us to qualify, from first place in the group, and we want a lot more. We want to go through the group stage” – announced Nikolay Stanchureports FRF.

And Janis Hagi analyzed the group of Romania, which he considers to be balanced. Alaves football player hopes to reach the higher stage.

“A good group, a balanced group, even though Belgium will be favourites, but it will certainly be a tight contest.

I want us to go for every point, for every win, as it was in the previous matches, and at the end of the three matches we went further! Romania” – Janis Hagi reacted.

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Groups of the Euro-2024 final tournament

Group A: Germany, Hungary, Scotland, Switzerland

Group B: Spain, Albania, Croatia, Italy

Group C: England, Denmark, Slovenia, Serbia

Group D: France, Austria, Netherlands, play-off A (Wales – Finland / Poland – Estonia)

Group E: Belgium, RomaniaSlovakia, Play-off B (Bosnia – Ukraine / Israel – Iceland)

Group F: Portugal, Turkey, Czech Republic, play-off C (Georgia – Luxembourg / Greece – Kazakhstan).

How the playoff matches of the selection for Euro-2024 look like

Route A

Wales – Finland

Poland – Estonia

Route B

Bosnia – Ukraine

Israel – Iceland

Route S

Georgia – Luxembourg

Greece – Kazakhstan

Know:

  • The matches will be held on March 21 and 26, 2024 in a semi-final/final format. It will be played in one round.
  • The winners of each playoff will qualify for Euro 2024.

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Euro-2024, the teams qualified for the 17th edition of the competition

Germany (host country)

Spain (winner of group A)

Scotland (second place in Group A)

France (Winner of Group B)

Netherlands (second place in group B)

England (winners of Group C)

Italy (second place in Group C)

Turkey (winner of group D)

Albania (winner of Group E)

Czech Republic (second place in Group E)

Belgium (winner of Group F)

Austria (second place in Group F)

Hungary (winner of Group G)

Serbia (second place in Group G)

Denmark (winner of Group H)

Slovenia (second place in Group H)

Romania (winner of group I)

Switzerland (second place in Group I)

Portugal (winner of Group J)

Slovakia (second place in group J)

Croatia (second place in Group D)