Football Best Bet

Italy

Having lost their opening match to Holland the Italians will be looking to bounce back from that embarrassing defeat. Winning the next 2 matches will ensure their passage into the Quarter-Finals.

They will be assessing what went wrong for the match against Holland and will look to improve in it. With France drawing with Romania in their opening match, the Italians will hope the Dutch will be able to get a win against the French side so it will have lesser on the Italians.

Man 2 Watch:

Luca Toni - After a bad start to the competition for the Italians, Luca Toni will be looking to fire in the Italians 1st goal in this competition. He will be causing problems in the Romanian’s penalty area with his height.

Possible Starting 11:

(GK) Gianluigi Buffon - (DF) Marco Materazzi, Andrea Barzagli, Gianluca Zambrotta, Christian Panucci - (MF) Gennaro Gattuso, Andrea Pirlo, Mauro German Camoranesi, Massimo Ambrosini - (FW) Antonio Di Natale, Luca Toni

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Romania

After a relatively good start to the group of death by getting a draw with former World Champion France, they will be up against the World Champion Italy. They will be looking to capitalize on the poor start by the Italians. They will be hoping the Italians’ morale is still low so maybe they will be able to get some result in this match.

This will be a very tough test for the Romanians.

Man 2 Watch:

Adrian Mutu - He will be trying hard to get the ball into the Italians net. His run will be one to look out for.

Possible Starting 11:

(GK) Bogdan Lobont - (DF) Christian Chivu, Cosmin Contra, Razvan Dica Rat, Gabriel Sebastian Tamas, Dorin Goain - (MF) Mirel Matei Radoi, Banel Nicolita, Razvan Cocis - (FW) Adrian Mutu, Daniel George Niculae

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The Pick:

I would go for a win for the Italians. But never under estimate Romania like what they did against France by keeping them at bay.

Italy 2 - 0 Romania

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