Women U20 Euro:RUSSIA vs FRANCE -by maradona1

RUSSIA – FRANCE

This is the last round game of the second phase of the European U20 Championship for women Division A, which is held in Liepaja in Latvia.

Meet Russia and France. Both teams will go in the quarter finals together with Latvia. These three teams have score of three wins and one defeat. But the game is still important in terms of final placement in a group,and because of and because of the easier opponent in the quarter finals. Since the Latvia will play against Netherlands where the host is absolute favorit,it is obvious that Latvia will have a score of 4-1. And defeated team in game between France and Russia will only take third place in the group,so that team will have strong oponent in QF, probably Lithuania which will finished second in other group. That is reason why France-Russia is a very important match.

In this case my choice will be France. After some very bad games of Russian team (lost to Sweden in first phase,lost to Netherlands, not-so-easy win against a very weak Poland),I think that in clash with one of the favorites in this championship,Russia has no chance.

Pick France (-6.5).