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Day one of this Euro Beach Soccer League stage in Lignano Sabbiadoro is over. Favorites in Group A won their respective matches easily, both by a 4 goal difference.
Switzerland played the first match in Division A against Eric Cantona’s France. Les Blues tried it once again, but they are not in shape this year. After losing all matches in their home event in Marseille last week, French really needed to add some points to their backs to try and qualify for the Superfinal… But a new defeat makes that quite difficult. Saturday and Sunday, new chance. Swiss killed the French during all the match and gave no option to surprise. Switzerland adds their first three points then to their pigeonhole.
Same story happened in the other match of the day. Portuguese –these time with the full team- defeated hosts quite easily. Italians disappointed in Lignano having, like French, no option at all against their rivals. You can tell when Portuguese stars are on the field, and that is what happened today. No option for Italians ant 6-2 final score.
In Division B we witnessed the most interesting match of the day, with Azerbaijan managing to defeat Czech Republic in a brilliant match with 9 goals. Azeri won Czechs 5 – 4 and have a good chance to qualify for the Superfinal in Portugal. Czechs need a miracle to qualify, they need to win against the Dutch tomorrow and try and be the best second in Division B.
Results Friday 2nd July:
1) 15:30 AZERBAIJAN 5 vs. 4 CZECH REPUBLIC
2) 16:45 FRANCE 1 vs. 5 SWITZERLAND
3) 18:00 PORTUGAL 6 vs. 2 ITALY
Upcoming matches:
Sat 03.07.10
4) 15:00 NETHERLANDS vs. CZECH REPUBLIC
5) 16:15 PORTUGAL vs. FRANCE
6) 17:30 ITALY vs. SWITZERLAND
Sun 04.07.10
7) 15:00 AZERBAIJAN vs. NETHERLANDS
8) 16:15 SWITZERLAND vs. PORTUGAL
9) 17:30 ITALY vs. FRANCE
