If You’re Watching Austria-France LIVE, leave comments here

Lineup according to FFF.fr:

Mandanda
Sagna – Gallas – Mexes – Evra
Govou – Toulalan – L.Diarra – Nasri
Henry – Benzema

At least that’s the formation I think it is. I’m pretty sure Nasri is a straight replacement for Malouda. I doubt Domenech is brave enough to try a different formation with him playing directly behind the two strikers.

Yay Nasri is in! Poor Malouda though
Not a bad formation

Too bad there is no Gourcuff and Flamini

I like Govou’s hair

I’m not finding a live broadcast yet. Justin.tv lists this one: http://www.justin.tv/xonesports1 but at the moment it says “Not Broadcasting.” If anybody finds a stream, let us know! (I’m so glad I have the Setanta option just in case.

You tried bet365.com? I’ve watched football games on there before…fairly decent quality although I think depending on where you are certain games may be unavailable.

Allez Les Bleus

lets try all links

cant watch the game, gonna be at relatives house anticipating the Ecuador game, but you we shouldnt have a problem with Austria…..

……at least i pray that we dont lol

Thanks for all the links!

DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!

I think that site of Brad works better than justin Tv because it has no bugs so all make as fast as possible an account on it

Thanks

come on!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

all go on that site of brad if u dont look sentanta and post a lot of spam and comments!!!!

Omgggggg

i feel like a spammer lool

Nasri gots the ball!

First time in my 14 year during life ive seen nasri losing the ball!!

CLOSE!!!!!!! SO CLOSE HENRY!!@ OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG SOOOOOO CLOSE! HE MISSED BY A HAIR

Anybody ready to talk about the game? I still can’t find a good stream, so I’m going to watch it delayed on Setanta at 1:00, but I’m following what’s going on on the fff site. But I don’t want to talk about the game if anybody who doesn’t want to know what happens is here.

France 47& Ball possession
Austria 53% ball possession

Laurie try the link of Brad its good
But you have to register and make an account which takes about 2 minutes

Oooooooo phew

nice mandanda

Welldone nasri

When I’m on the Bet365 site and click on the little video icon, it justs gives me a liveblog kind of thing. What’s the trick to seeing the actual video?

Hmmm thats weird

Do you have an account Laurie?

Click on the Live TV button

and than it should work

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOMG DAMNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!

is it working laurie?

The bet65 website only shows video if you are in Europe. For US it doesn’t do that.

Ohh

I’m sorry!

http://www.justin.tv/widgets/jtv_live.r9389.swf?channel=polsports

this is working.

THanks, Aditya. That explains it. (and thanks for trying, Jean Pierre)

thats discrimination

well i wont post any comments further though for if you watch the match later on

Yeah, once you have an account Laurie, if you’re on the main page click on where it says “Live Streaming” and it should open a separate window with a list of the game you can watch on the left side.

Now can we sack Domenech? How long do we have to endure this!

Oh…well the bet365 works for us Canadians….one more reason not to live in the States …lol

But it does work for Brad who is in Canada

Omg I hate this game

Is Nasri out and injured? What was wrong with Nasri

Jean Pierre, I’m actually following it on the FFF site anyway, so I know the score. And let’s repeat all together now: WE SUCK ON SET PIECES!!!

If you saw the goals, who would you say was responsible? The FFF site is making it sound like they were both Mandanda.

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YES WE ARE REALLY REALLY SUCKING!!! this is not France anymore, whats wrong? I havent seen the first goal, i saw the second one. mandanda is not acting great yeh, the defensers neither! where were the defencers? There was alot of space for the Austrians!!!!!!!!!

We need another goalkeeper, and train the defensive players how to defend!!!

its not austria that is playing well, its france that is player reallllllly baddddddddddd

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Well I am happy. I had decided after the Netherlands match that I am not supporting France till Domenech is sacked.

Anyone knows whether Nasri is still in? I saw a brancard but than I missed it

I hope he is still in and wont be dragged the same way out on a brancard like Ribéry

Ok I dont like Domenech, but I love the French squad even if they are playing this bad.

I wish I cud hate the team as the coach and support a country like Brazil or somenthing. Or the Netherlands as my classmates.

Im afraid by the idea that France wont qualify for world cup 2010… like England did for Euro 2008.

Damn.

But its not all because of Domenech, because why is Mandanda playing like this, and why are the defensive players not playing defensive?

I got the JustinTv link to work (Thanks Aditya!!) but I think I’m going to start fresh at 1:00 and watch the whole painful thing on Setanta. (Because I’m paying them a bundle and they don’t even cover Ligue 1 games any more!)

But I’m still following the game as it’s happening, so everybody please leave comments about what you’re seeing on the field.

hahahahaha
nice match

How can you not support Netherlands when you are actually living there?

Im seeing a French team which is playing very bad on the field which makes me upset >:(

Because my parents are from french origin
And I haaaaaaaaaate the Dutch squad they play like Italy

You lot are American though:p

What! No more ligue 1 on Setanta. That really sucks. Is there any other channel that is showing it?

Damnn I forgot to go to my friends birthday

Ill watch this sucking thing not live too

see ya

Hey! I am not American. I am just staying there. Well I presumed that you were of French origin but if you were raised in Netherlands it is hard not to like them. But I can see that is not the case.

In the US, TV5 Monde is showing one game every Saturday if your cable company offers it. On Comcast it’s $9.99 a month. and there’s always the footy pirates.

@ Jean Pierre
we are opposite, i’m french origin and i hate the team.

What’s footy pirates? A channel?

Are you from Seattle? @ Laurie

If you hate them Michel-Oliver then why do you even bother following them?

No, footy pirates = a generic term for people who rebroadcast pirated content for free. The best site to find European games is http://www.myp2p.eu/. It aggregates links for all of the sites around the world (like Justin.tv) that carry these broadcasts.

Good question, Aditya. Michel-Olivier, I’ve also wondered why you follow France if you hate them so much.

@ Aditya
i’m not following the french game. i watching germany v —stien on tele and holland v the aussies online.

Thanks for the info Laurie. I will see if I can get TV5 now. That’s where I started watching Ligue 1 anyways.

@ Laurie
i follow all team(belarus, italy, spain, japan, ivory coast, canada…), but i’m a dutch fan.

I’m watching this thing live on espn deportes. I wish I could say “I can’t believe my eyes,” but with Domenech in charge, nothing should surprise me. Austria 2-0 at the 60′ minute.

Hahahahaha. Govou strikes again!!!!!!!! 2-1 61′ minutes.

Finally Govou scores!

Okay, I’m taking back what I said about Govou being inconsistent. I believe this makes him our most consistent scorer in the past two years.

Did anybody see the first goal? Chris from the Roma blog is saying tht Sexy Mexy scored an own goal.

Are you FUKING KIDDING ME 3-1 for Austria
Domenech is firrrrrrrred
and i am so pissed, we rnt qualifying for wc2010

Mexes!!!! What a screw-up!!!!

Whoever that was that committed the penalty should be benched for at least the next game…that was brutal and they deserve to be down 3-1.

Yeah Laurie, Mexes has given Austria two goals now, and the game isn’t over yet.

mexes is totally blowing it.
own goal and then penalty. and diarra makes me laugh, wtf is he doin

According to eurosport Austria scored on a penalty. Ivanschitz

ys, mexes would make a great rugbyman.
anelak is in and wont pass the ball. gallas looks like a crying bitch

Well Italy is almost losing to Cyprus.

basicall the french team could be the best in the world.
BUT- the players have the french mentality of being scared, indecisive, and basically
a bunch of pansies on the field. I am 100% french and proud to be
but im not going to lie when i say this is our mentality, and its clearly
reflected by our team. we are so concentrated about not losing that
we shit in our pants and lose.

im just pissed right now

WTF?-I think that says it all. I am too angry to go off right now.

i only saw the final 20mins of the game the good news is there is the guys played way better than they did in euros as far as i the little i saw.what does the coach have against b.sagna? i think his defensive style would have worked today,diara and toulalan infront of the back four.3 goals is too much for all that tallent on the french team.Am still very very hopefull tho, we will regroup and do better in the upcoming matches.i still want to see the game from the begining if anyone knows where…

Is the French Federation , going to finally realize that Domenech is not doing a good job. He inherited a good team and managed to screw it up. I never liked him as a player and don’ as a coach. He was a nasty , rough , tricky , defender . He is a disaster as a coach. Pleeeeeaaaase get rid of the damn-fool.

OC: There was more of an attacking urgency, but still no one can score except Govou. Although the Austrian goalkeeper was excellent, and stopped a couple of definite goals. Sagna came off at the 60th min replaced by Gourcuff to bring more offense. L. Diarra slid back into the RB spot. Two defensive mids is too much, especially against Austria. We lost the game bec of Mexes and as usual, lack of offense. There should be a central midfielder like Bodmer or Diaby who can get foward, alongside Toulalan, or put an attacking midfielder in that spot. I like this option better bec once Ribery comes back, I’d like to see him on the field with Nasri and Ben Arfa, both of whom could play in that spot behind the striker.

I am happy with this result as it makes Domenech’s hold on the job that much more precarious. He is an awful offensive coach and by asking him to attack more the federation is trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. On offense, the team looks like it’s the first time they are playing together and that must be due in part to the coaching.

That being said, some of the players didn’t seem to care much about the game. Benzema in particular couldn’t be bothered to close down any of the opposing players when they had the ball. Others just had very poor games:

Mexes and Gallas = Titus Bramble and Boumsong at their worst for Newcastle.
L. Diarra was messing up even easy passes, Sagna’s crosses were awful.

Seems like Toulalan and Evra are the only ones who had decent games.

I don’t know if anybody noticed but towards the end (after Nasri came off for Anelka, a strange sub) Gourcuff was sitting back, playing a DM role. Hmm… when you’re down 3-1, it that really a good idea?

Anyways, this performance was right in line with Euro 2008, only worse. The team’s confidence is completely gone.

The solution is simple : GET RID OF DOMENECH .In France everything turns around politics, the fool was put there because of political influences.