Game Day Open Thread

Hahahahaha. Faroe Islands just drew Austria!!!

for Laurie

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i248/JenniferNLace/Sports/ZinedineZidane.jpg

lol cool picture cool zidane

7 min countdown..

oh wrong time ehehe, than i go outside again with the boys

hopefully Gourcuff can recreate his last game with the pressure.
why malouda! nasri isnt even called up and we play malouda.
our middle defence sucksass…allez les bleus!!!

lineup

2. Boumsong, Jean-Alain
2. Sagna, Bakary
3. Abidal, Eric
4. Vieira, Patrick
7. Malouda, Florent
8. Gourcuff, Yoann
12. Henry, Thierry
13. Evra, Patrice
16. Mandanda, Steve
20. Toulalan, Jérémy
22. Ribéry, Franck
4. Mexes, Philippe
10. Benzema, Karim
15. Clichy, Gael
17. Squillaci, Sebastien
18. Diarra, Alou
39. Anelka, Nicolas

2-22 is starting 11

Vieira is forfait and A. Diarra is starting. Who’s surprised?

It’s all down to Ribery and Gourcuff, or Raymond is out.

I will be cheering Boumsong! You all know why?

Oh, Lord, who just coughed up the ball and almost gave up a goal? Was that Evra?

Oh. Shit. I can’t believe it.

the nightmare begins

Did Ray’s conversion of Abidal to CB bite him in the butt again?

i can’t believe this lineup, to be honest. Domenech deserves to lose his job for this defense + A. Diarra and no central midfield backups.

france is not focused their losing the ball carelessly

I’d need to see the goal again, but I know that the guy who scored was supposed to be marked by Evra. Didn’t see who coughed up the ball to begin with.

AARRGGHHH!! Great chance for Gourcuff.

2-0 yeaaa bye Domenech!

nightmare

Damn. Set pieces again. And poor Domenech — he knows this is it.

horiible defending, horrible goal keeping

only 17 minutes

hahahahaha
2-0, boumsong is having a good game

The announcer: “C’est un cauchemar.”

No kidding.

This back line with Mandanda is a disaster, esp. with A. Diarra. We need a new coach with new idea. Desperately

ding dong the witch is dead

worst france coach ever

escallettes…out!

When is Escalettes up for reelection, and who is it that does the voting?

What’s cute? Seeing feisty little Franck win headers.

Anybody who saw this lineup knew this was going to happen. I’ve never been a Domenech hater, but he deserves to lose his job for putting the team in a situation that this is the best we can put on the field.

Poor France … I really hope Deschamps will be the new coach. It cannot go on this way!

BUTTTTT!!!! RIBERY!!!!!

win or lose he needs to go

“Jackie Chan Boumsong”, The Romanian commentator cried.
Sad, other than fighting there’s not much in our team today

should have been 3-1

Do we really think the FFF is going to let Deschamps in? I’d expect somebody like Houllier. I’m not sure that would be better. We need a bold change.

I vote for Italian manager to replace Domenech. Is anyone available?

I’ve just heard from my mother in law in Bordeaux. She quit watching after the first goal and says, “Domenech fait n’importe quoi.”

Hardly a vote confidence.

boumsong is doing perfectly in taking over Mexes role

TV5 announcer: “très maladroit en defense.”

Again, no kidding.

houllier coached in the 1990’s and failed as well

Yeah, the Houllier rumor didn’t make a lot of sense to me either. But who is there to replace Domenech who would pass muster with the FFF? I can’t imagine them going with one of the 1998 gang (Deschamps or Blanc) after all that’s gone on recently.

wenger, ( its only a dream of course)

wo. 2-2.

Gourcuffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff what a star!!!!!!!!

romania will win

What a strike!

wow. awesome.

Ok no more goals from France now. Don’t know whether to celebrate or not.

That goal was amazing.

You know, it would almost be better if the good half had been the first half. Now what people will remember is how well they’ve played. And Raymond will still be around.

Also, Serbia beat Lithuania 3-0. This group is still wide open

He did not meet his objective of 5 points in first 3 games. He should leave.

Don’t tell Henry, but he’s a lot more effective on the left. Especially playing with Evra

Briand’s getting capped! This makes me happy!!

It’s over. We got the point. My guess is that the fantastic second half bought Raymond at least through Tunisia.

another 2 years of domenech, good luck.
adieu

Michel-Olivier suck donkeys balls u rat bastard!

hope this is the end for the man, it was sheer effort that brought those two goals, a major reform is need at fff

bye domenech

2 points from his 3 games after the Euro = Domenech + the guillotine

Oh! yea the guillotine. There has to be a revolution in FFF.

http://lequipe.fr/Football/breves2008/20081011_224858_escalettes-on-verra_Dev.html

Looks like RD is staying.

Lefutur, you forget that we actually won the Serbia game. So four points in three games. Not great, but apparently not bad enough for Escalettes to dump Domenech, either.

Its interesting that Escallettes chose to point out Raymond’s “wisdom” for sticking with Gourcuff at the end of the article. Wondering what his thoughts were on the Boumsong start and 90 minutes.

The FFF said 5 points from 3 games! This is only 4 points…he can’t stay!

it looks like his staying

France have conceded 14 goals in the last 7 games. abysmal. they are not even ranked in the top 10 teams in the world anymore.

If Domenech stays i will seriously lose it.

Lmao Domenech CANT stay, 4 points is not enough. Aargh aaight he has to go now like Louis XVI he is old now go retire somewhere in a elderlyhome or something.

Gourcuff, Ribéry and Toulalan where the only players who did something (good) and boumsong and a diarra bahbahbah, sagna mandanda henry and benzema weren’t having great game either

but im very happy the good guys gourcuff and ribery scored especially superstrike of gourcuff. i think toulalan shud make a goal too, though he made some weird fouls

but domenech, pleassssssse retire, dont hurt france anymore

Jean Pierre, I agree with you about Gourcuff, Ribéry and Toulalan, but I also liked how Henry and Evra worked together on the left after Malouda was subbed out.

(Was Henry technically playing on the left wing again? That’s what it looked like. I sure liked him better there than as a lone striker the fist half hour or so. I know he hates it, but he should take it for the team.)

Big Benz has been pretty much invisible lately. I’m not sure he links up well with Gourcuff, which would be a shame.

I missed the game due to work, but all the goals are on youtube.
Where was Evra on the first goal? Funny you don’t see him flat footed when playing for united, and the second goal seemed like a very bad marking by Diarra! Taking nothing away from Romania they must have played well. However the talent of Les Bleus will prove that this team has great potential, and the coach is not entirely to blame for everything. The captain of the teams responsibility is not only to play, but to inspire his team mates, forget about the coach, these are highly paid pros that can manage themselves.

ye im also happy that henry looks better on the left with evra, i wonder why he wants to play as lone striker left-mid-right, he is old now

ye whats up with bignose benz? maybe he is missing his pote nasri

i think france is goin to be dependant on some midfielders again like they did with platini and zidane.

eh? uhuh? the keeper of Le Mans is gonna replace Lloris? Lloris is going to Espoirs, weiiiiiird who is this keeper of Le Mans? Pelé? never heard of

Am I the only one who thinks that Mandanda should not be our keeper anymore? Some of the goals conceded by France so far has been his fault. Come on put in Lloris, or try to get Frey to unretire. Also I don’t see how Raymond would stay on as coach but wouldn’t be surprised if somehow he gets to keep his job. I mean bringing back Vieira was not a smart move and it almost costs us.