Belgium - Romania (first half) 1-0: Tielemans opens the scoring

Lineup for Belgium - Romania match - Graphics: AN BINH

Belgium and Romania were the two teams that caused the biggest surprises in the first round of Euro 2024, in two different directions. While Romania surprisingly beat Ukraine 3-0, Belgium shockingly lost 0-1 to Slovakia.

However, Belgium still has a good chance of advancing, as they are stronger than all other teams in the group. Compared to Romania, Belgium has a squad with five times more players.

In all fairness, Belgium were unlucky in their loss to Slovakia. They conceded a goal from an individual mistake, which led to a chaotic situation. And then Belgium's strikers kept missing chances inexplicably.

Belgium team needs to stand up after opening day defeat - Photo: REUTERS

Except for De Bruyne - who still played a good role in leading the game, the remaining attacking stars such as Doku, Trossard, Lukaku were all big disappointments. But coach Tedesco still has many quality replacements such as Openda, Tielemans, Lukebakio, De Ketelaere...

In the past, Belgium and Romania have met quite often. But the last time the two teams met was more than 10 years ago (in 2012).

The advantage of winning the first match helped Romania focus on defending in this match. Although they do not have a strong squad, Romania's defense is the best in the tournament. In the qualifying round, they conceded only 5 goals. And in the last 3 matches, Romania kept a clean sheet.

Bookies still rate Belgium highly when offering Belgium a handicap of 1 1/4 (1.25) goals, with an over/under bet of 2 3/4 (2.75) goals.

Many football websites such as Whoscored and Sporsmole simultaneously predicted that Belgium would win 2-1. According to Sportsmole's computer data, the most likely scores are a 1-1 draw (12.73%), Belgium winning 1-0 (12.55%), and Romania winning 1-0 (9.15%).

On the other hand, the rate of Belgium winning by 2 goals is only about 23%. It can be seen that the handicap of 1 1/4 goals for Belgium is not likely to happen.

Expert's choice: Choose Romania with a handicap of 1 1/4 goals, the match will have 3 goals or more.

Prediction: Belgium to win 2-1.

Readers can watch the match between Belgium and Romania on channels THVL1, THVL2, HTV7, HTV Sports , VTV3, TV360, VieOn, SCTV...

Source: https://tuoitre.vn/bi-romania-hiep-1-1-0-tielemans-mo-ti-so-20240622195701867.htm