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France’s Starting Lineup (and Leave Comments if You’re Watching)

August 20th, 2008 | By: Laurie | 119 Comments »

From l’Equipe. No huge surprises for starters, but it’s good to see Mexès starting. And I’m interested to see what Sagna can do, too.

Malouda and Govou feel like a weak attacking midfield. Are either Toulalan or L. Diarra going to help them out, do you think?

Le onze de départ : Mandanda - Sagna, Mexès, Gallas, Evra - Govou, Toulalan, L. Diarra, Malouda - Henry (cap.), Benzema.

I’m still not sure whether I’ll be able to see this game. Myp2p.eu is listing several options. The question is whether my internet connection will cooperate with their pirate streams. I’m crossing my fingers, but I’ve tried two sites so far and can’t even get them to load.

If you’re fortunate enough to be watching the game, leave your thoughts and comments.

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By Jeff/433 | August 20th, 2008 at 4:10 pm

Clara - Were you watching an online stream?

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By sandrahn | August 20th, 2008 at 4:11 pm

Thanks Clara. How was Sagna then? (I support Arsenal and want to know how our young French players who’ve never played for the NT do now that Domenech has decided to pay them some attention).

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By Clara | August 20th, 2008 at 4:11 pm

Aww, but thank you, Jeff/433!!

Soccer is still very new to me, so I’m still trying to figure everything out.
I mean figuring out that there were different leagues in soccer took me the entire day to figure out! Haha.

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By Jeff/433 | August 20th, 2008 at 4:11 pm

sandrahn - what Arsenal sites do you follow?

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By Michel-Olivier | August 20th, 2008 at 4:12 pm

the worst team beat the second worst team of euro08. sweeden with no zlatan suck. france is not going to qualify for WC10 under ray.

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By Jeff/433 | August 20th, 2008 at 4:13 pm

Clara - When I first started following club soccer after the 1998 World Cup, I could not get my head around the fact that teams are in up to 4 competitions simultaneously.

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By Ben | August 20th, 2008 at 4:15 pm

Anybody know what formation France was playing in when they had 3 DMs? Did L. Diarra move to the wing?

BTW, Romania was the worst team of Euro 2008 (or possibly Austria).

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By Jeff/433 | August 20th, 2008 at 4:16 pm

Rather than wait for the end of the regular season to have a tournament (i.e., the palyoffs) there are 3 tournaments (i.e., cup competitions) held concurrent with the season: league games on the weekend and cup games during the week. It’s great stuff, really.

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By Laurie | August 20th, 2008 at 4:18 pm

Sandra, Sagna looked VERY good offensively — he had the assist on Benzema’s goal. Defensively everybody was shaky, including Gallas and Mexes and Evra. I was heartbroken that Clichy didn’t even get a Gourcuff-style time-wasting ninety-third minute cap.

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By Jeff/433 | August 20th, 2008 at 4:20 pm

I think Clichy has a lot of caps in his future. We don’t him injured.

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By Jeff/433 | August 20th, 2008 at 4:20 pm

Have you all seen the news that Silvestre signed for Arsenal?

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By sandrahn | August 20th, 2008 at 4:23 pm

Thanks Laurie. That’s our Bakary! Amazing player! Wish we could clone him.

Jeff, if you’re asking which Arsenal blogs I regularly read….there are a few:

arseblog.com
http://aculturedleftfoot.wordpress.com
arsenalinsider.co.uk
http://www.arsenal.vitalfootball.co.uk
gunnerblog.com
http://www.arsepod.co.uk/wordpress1 (goodplaya)
goonerholic.com
http://youngguns.wordpress.com/

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By sandrahn | August 20th, 2008 at 4:26 pm

yes, jeff, I’ve been reeling from that news all day long. Couldn’t believe it was true until I saw the official announcement on arsenal.com. I’m still shocked. I honestly don’t know what to say, I can’t be coherent about it. Here’s a good summary of the pros and cons:

http://www.arsenal.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=509193

A 31 yr old MANC who used to trash Arsenal and headbutted Freddie! (Tho you could argue Freddie deserved it).

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By Laurie | August 20th, 2008 at 4:26 pm

Ben, I was trying to figure out formation as well, but my pirate stream was so fuzzy I was having a hard time identifying who was where. I’m hoping somebody who had French HD TV will clue us in.

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By Michel-Olivier | August 20th, 2008 at 4:26 pm

@ ben
are you stupid
France = 1 point and 1 goal, that was france entire tourney.
france suck when makelele was playing and still suck under domenech.

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By Jeff/433 | August 20th, 2008 at 4:26 pm

Sandrahn - that’s pretty thorough.

Everyone - I could have told you (and Raymond) that Sagna and Benzema on the pitch at the same time would work!

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By Jeff/433 | August 20th, 2008 at 4:28 pm

Michel-Olivier - That’s a loaded question. Don’t listen Ben.

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By Jeff/433 | August 20th, 2008 at 4:33 pm

I hope Silvestre will work out. He was a Man-Utd ever present for several seasons, and did well enough. A France recall would be shocking!

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By Ben | August 20th, 2008 at 4:52 pm

Michel-Olivier, you are such a class act! If I were “Michel-Olivier smart” I would insult you as well, even though I’ve never met you, but alas I haven’t been blessed with your intelligence.

Thanks for trolling.

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By lefutur | August 20th, 2008 at 4:55 pm

Don’t feed the trolls. (michel-olivier)

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By Michel-Olivier | August 20th, 2008 at 5:11 pm

fasts are facts
france was the worst team with 1 point and 1 goal.
how many trophies did makelele won with france?0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

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By Michel-Olivier | August 20th, 2008 at 5:18 pm

@ lefutur
le realite et toi, vous ne vous entendez pas, nest-ce pas?

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By Laurie | August 20th, 2008 at 5:23 pm

C’mon, gents. This is a great site because our commenters limit the personal attacks. Let’s keep it that way.

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By gaston | August 20th, 2008 at 7:37 pm

though france won, i doubt it was the attacking football domenech promised. and the coach is always hasitante to introduce new players. domenech should be experimenting with players, not putting the same old players again and again. gallas, govou, etc. flamini, gourcuff should be the ones introduce to get feel of interantional experience

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By metamoralia | August 21st, 2008 at 7:27 am

Thanks for the comments, Laurie, Inara, Jeff, Clara et al … I missed the game, but “followed” it here through your comments the next morning.

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