Euro 2016 Favourite Team First Match

Spain players Celebrate Pique Goal to Czech. Image from UEFA
France, England, German, Spain, Italy has play in first match in each their group in Euro 2016. France played in opening match, Friday 10th June, against Romania and win 2-1. France scored by Olivier Giroud (57') and Dimitri Payet (89'), the Romanian scored by Bogdan Stancu (65' pen). Romanian given penalty after Patrice Evra clipped Nicolae Stanciu in inside the penalty area. France has shown they are ready to compete to reach the "King Of Europe" 2016 trophy.

England played on Saturday and the result was draw against Russian 1-1. The match was ruin by incident beetween Russian suporter and hooligan (England fanatic) supporter in Marseille, France. trouble began in the stadium on Saturday after flares were let off by Russian fans near the end of the game. Then, some  climbed across barriers designed to keep rival fans apart. A group of Russian supporters appeared to kick and puch fleing England fans, who were forced to clamber over fencing to escape. This incident has been investigating by UEFA and both teams has threatened to ban if there is further violence in Euro 2016. 

Schweisteiger Celebrate his Goal. Image from UEFA
German win over Ukraine 2-0, on Sunday 12th june. German scored by Shkodran Mustafi (19') and senior player Bastian Schweinsteiger in injury time (90'+2). German is one of the favourite team to reach Euro 2016 trophy. Bastian has shown that he still have "something" in this big event. Bastian, Manchester United midfielder, who hasn't played since 20 March because of knee injury, came off the bench in stoppage time and 2 minutes later scored. 

On Monday, Spain the other favourite team, beaten Czech 1-0. This is not a great result for 2010 World Champion,  2008 and 2012 European Champion. Spain win in possesion ball, have some opportunity to make goal, but need Gerrard Pique the center back to score a goal with his head in 87'. Where are the attacker and attacking midfielder? There are some goal opportunity by spain but failed to finish it to goal. Something has to fixed in finishing in Spain's attackers. Andres Iniesta proven that he still the of the biggest influence in Spain team in the game by his assist to Pique to score.  

Italy has just played in Monday night in France, and they succeed beaten Belgium 2-0. Italy scorer is Giaccherini (32') and Pelle (90'+2). Italy great organisation and high discipline is the factor of their superiority to Belgium in that match. Belgium played more individuality and waste their great talents in their team such as Radja Nainggolan, Eden Hazard, Marouane Fellaini, etc. 

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