France:

The hosts are at least second favourite for the title, some bookies also have them on par with Germany. The squad is filled with talents and EPL players, but as always, there's also some drama* possible, with the future status of Benzema still unclear after the sex-tape-scandal involving Mathieu Valbuena. As of December 2015, Benzema is still suspended from the national team. As hosts, France was automatically qualified and played their respective opponents in their quali group in friendlies.

*For reference, let's look at how the 2010 edition of "French drama" went:

Qualification via:


Coached by:


What happened:

Results:

Domenechs coaching career after 2010:


Romania:



The team, which mostly consists of players of the domestic league, was one of the four teams to go undefeated in their qualifying campaign (5-5-0), finishing second to Northern Ireland in the "group of life". It is their first international tournament in 8 years, previously qualifying for the 2008 edition of the tournament. They will also play the opening match against France, hoping to extend their unbeaten run of 17 games going back to June 2014. In their most recent game, they achieved a 0-0 draw with Spain.

Albania:



One of the five debutants and profiting from the 24 team extension of the tournament. It will be Albania's first major international tournament, with their squad of players which are scattered all over Europe. In the qualifying group, they trumped Denmark for second place, and the Danes later also lost the play-offs to Sweden. Albania will probably hope to finish 3rd in their group and sneak into the KO stage, but it seems unlikely, as basically none of the players have experience playing on this level.

Switzerland:



After being co-host in 2008 and failing to qualify for 2012, it will be the 4th time the Swiss team will participate in the European Championship. Their squad will be a mix of Bundesliga players and domestic league players, a majority from FC Basel. EPL fans can look forward to Shaqiri, while Lichtsteiner is probably a lock for the defense. For the group, Switzerland will most likely fight Romania for second place and a spot in the Round of 16.

DER MARKT:

To win the group: France 1.4, Switzerland 5.5, Romania 11, Albania 29
To qualify: France 1.05, Switzerland 1.5, Romania 1.83, Albania 5.5
To win the tournament: France 4.5, Switzerland 71, Romania 261, Albania 501 (and therefore 10 times more like to win than Leicester!)

Schedule:

June 10, 21:00 CEST: France v Romania
June 11, 15:00 CEST: Albania v Switzerland
June 15, 18:00 CEST: Romania v Switzerland
June 15, 21:00 CEST: France v Albania
June 19, 21:00 CEST: Switzerland v France, Romania v Albania

If France had not a quads of incompetent defenders there would be no competition, Evra is bad, Varanne is bad, Koscielny is the best but he's still bad and Sagna is the worst among the 4

France offense best in the world right now

cliffs on varane not being good

He has the same level he had when he left Lens for Madrid

He could be top 3 itw but he's top passive for that

I'd say he's not a top 20 CB right now. It's not bad but for the best CB in a national team that's low

Kos is good, Sagna is done and Evra is turgid. The offense is best itw as is the midifeld.

Would like rits judgement on Varane i seldom see him play these days

Big statement!

best CB in the world "still bad"
interesting

Wrong thread.

Few injuries here and there, but I agree with guivre in a way, huge potential still, but way too irregular to be a top5 CB itw or something, even when he played a lot of games in a row. He had some absolutely horrible games this season. Don't see him as a leader and he seems to play better with Ramos than with Pepe. Otoh, he's only 23yo, so there's enough time for him, but yeah, still a lot to work on that potential of his.

Benzema not going to the Euro, what a bunch of losers and what a giant pussy Valbuena

lol benzema

lol france

hopefully they leave Evra at home too

Deschamps put Ben Arfa on the "reserves", bleh.

hey andre, is my boy ANDRE PIERRE GIGNAC projected to start for France? I'm all in with France if so.

Projected to bench obv but do you even have a choice? No other team has any tie to lolmex afaik.

Looks like we have you hostage ese.

ffs, you're right. oh well, he'll crush np coming off the bench.


VAMOS FRANCIA

No worries we'll make sure you're treated well.

No Lacazette or Ben Arfa seems a bit mdr

cruizn reactivated his twitter account for PIERRE ANDRE GIGNAC

LÖL

I've read that Gignac is also about to ask for the mexican nationality, mdr.

LÖL mdr, académie francaise gonna académie francaise

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