France and Brazil have only played each other three times in World Cup history but every game has been memorable.

Raymond Domenech summed up France’s victory over Spain by saying ‘We may have a team of old men but we know how to be patient. Younger people run out of breath.’

Tonight’s game in Hanover has all the makings of a classic.
France, not firing in their first two games but coming good beating Togo, up against Spain who’ve been one of the best teams to watch so far.
History suggests the match will be close, they’ve played 27 times before but never in a World Cup. [...]

Tomorrow’s the 27th June and France are playing Spain in the knockout stages of the World Cup. I wonder if there are any superstitious players on the team who think the date’s a good omen.

They say paybacks a bitch and Tuesday night might be the chance Thierry Henry has been waiting for to let Spain coach Luis Aragones fully understand the meaning of it.

After Les Bleus finally started playing like they can and found they´re goal scoring boots again will the coach stick with a winning formula in the next game with Spain?

Ahead of the all or nothing Togo game Raymond Domenech has been making some of his usual idiosyncratic comments.

Will Raymond Domenech go back to the tried and trusted and put David Trezeguet back in to lead the attack against Togo.

Let´s look at the positive´s, Les Bleus scored a World Cup goal at last so that monkey´s off their backs. Now its just a matter of turning score draws into wins and the bandwagons rolling again.

France are in line to equal a dubious World Cup record of going five finals matches without scoring a goal if they don´t hit the net against South Korea tomorrow.