The matches against Luxemburg and France are essential for an eventual qualification to the tryouts for the Euro 2012 tryouts, but in particular for the purse of the Romanian Football Federation as well as for the wallet of trainer Victor Piţurcă. A double win would make Romania a contender for the second position in the group, which would mean a huge opportunity to enter the final tournament of the European Championship of Poland and Ukraine, which will take place next year. All of this is wishful thinking for the most part, as the Romanian team is playing rather unconvincingly, as proven by its game against San Marino, and the odds of winning against France are rather low.

A qualification in the Euro 2012 is the equivalent of at least 7,500,000 Euros, money paid out by the UEFA. After the Euro 2008, the Romanian Football Federation was paid 8,500,000 Euros by the UEFA alone, 7,500,000 Euros for attending, plus 500,000 Euros for each point gained (the draws against France and Italy). The presence in the European Football Championship will automatically entail new advertising contracts, like it did in 2008. Missing the qualifications, for the final tournaments of the World Cup and the European Cups of 2002, 2004 and 2006 - in a real string of disasters -, has placed the Federation in a very precarious financial situation. Things only improved in 2008 when the same Victor Piţurcă succeeded in getting the team to qualify for the championships of Switzerland and Austria. It needs to be said that Victor Piţurcă achieved the most recent three qualifications of Romania since 1998 (one with the junior team and two with the seniors team). Winners of the group playoffs and the teams that have the best second score in each group will qualify by default for the final tournament of Poland and Ukraine. The other teams that hold the second spot will have to play in knockout