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France-Congo Open Thread, and Game-Watching Tips

February 5th, 2008 | By: Laurie | 28 Comments »

If you’re looking for a way to watch the France-Congo game, try this Eurosport site. (Thanks, Inara!) Right now I’m getting a black screen, but with luck that will change as the game time comes along. One source says 17h00, the other says 18h00, so your guess is as good as mine. Check the site at both times.

There’s also a pirate site at myp2p that says they’ll be showing it as a MediaPlayer stream, so you can give that a try as well if necessary. Last I checked it was showing tennis in slow, choppy motion, but we can hope that changes as well.

I’ll be hanging around this site as I’m watching the game (crossing my fingers that I can see it), so feel free to stop by and leave comments.

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By Kyle | February 5th, 2008 at 12:02 pm

aussi il y a un lien en français si vous voulez…

mms://livestream.eurosport.com/nogeo/63424.wsx

le lien marche très bien avec le windows media player

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By Laurie | February 5th, 2008 at 12:03 pm

If Cisse hadn’t dyed his beard, I wouldn’t recognize him with black hair.

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By Inara | February 5th, 2008 at 12:07 pm

oh wow, Boum Boum is captain. Lyon affect in light speed.

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By Laurie | February 5th, 2008 at 12:08 pm

Excellent. I love listening to French commentary.

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By Laurie | February 5th, 2008 at 12:34 pm

Anybody else feel like this game’s being played through molasses? Everybody’s so afraid of making a mistake.

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By Kyle | February 5th, 2008 at 12:44 pm

I was just thinking that. If anything they should be playing balls to the walls for the chance for an A call up next time.

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By Laurie | February 5th, 2008 at 12:57 pm

I’m a bit underwhelmed so far. What do you think? Mexes looks good, though.

I’m having stream problems and having to bounce back and forth between the two feeds while listening to the French commentary. Which is funny, because there’s about a 4-5 second lag, French behind Eurosport. You don’t realize how long that is until you’re following an active sport.

I see the Eurosport site offers the option of downloading. I’m considering that, because I’d really like to be able to analyze the play a bit more. Has anybody tried it?

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By Kyle | February 5th, 2008 at 1:19 pm

Wow…lights out. This should be interesting. If they had EDF supplying them clean nuclear energy, this wouldn’t happen.

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By lefutur | February 5th, 2008 at 1:35 pm

for once i get a live stream to work on my mac and then the game stops

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By Laurie | February 5th, 2008 at 2:00 pm

Crap. It looks like we’ve lost Nasri again.

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By iammrben | February 5th, 2008 at 2:07 pm

We have? I can’t get a stream at work — please explain!

Signed,

Nervous Nelly

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By Laurie | February 5th, 2008 at 2:18 pm

He went down holding his ankle again. They took him off, and the next shot he was hobbling down the side of the field in an icepack. Did not look good.

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By Doumé | February 5th, 2008 at 2:26 pm

Yes, Nasri was down, replaced by Clichy I think.
You haven’ missed much really, I came after the 56th minute black-out and I didn’t see much rhythm, much flow, much cohesion, and it seems Cissé wasn’t put in good positions. It seems thing were going pretty good on the left wing and in the middle, but crosses were poor. I wonder how long these guys had been told they would be playing together. I guess Trez wouldn’t have shone (shined?)(grammar?) within this.
The Spanish public wasn’t fired up. The 19 guys from the A team were watching and probably made more noise than the rest…
But let’s not forget that African teams are always tricky to play, I’ve seen good stuff from them.
Not sure what they were hoping to learn from it; Should these A’ games serve as a laboratory to try risky things? towards the end there was some 3-5-2 going on that could be interesting for playing non-aggressive teams.

By lefutur | February 5th, 2008 at 2:29 pm

pretty boring stuff. i think j.a. boumsong was the man of the match.

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By Laurie | February 5th, 2008 at 2:30 pm

That was a pretty disappointing game. (As disappointing as a France game can ever be for me, which is not too.) After seeing this, I’d definitely pick Trezeguet as my fourth striker. Cisse looked lost. Briand isn’t NT ready yet.

I did like Menez, Mexes, Clichy. Sagna maybe. Nasri didn’t look 100%, even before he got injured. Mandanda and Lloris didn’t have a lot to do. Boumsong and Givet aren’t A level, but they mostly got the job done. The midfield looked basically average.

I wish I could watch this game again. It took me the entire first half to be able to recognize the players without effort.

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By Laurie | February 5th, 2008 at 2:31 pm

From what I could tell, Givet subbed in for Nasri and went in at leftback, pushing Clichy up to midfield.

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By 433 | February 5th, 2008 at 4:27 pm

Clichy could do a job at left midfield.

Thanks for all of your comments about the game being disappointing. It’s a consolation since I couldn’t watch the game myself.

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By Inara | February 5th, 2008 at 4:36 pm

Ratings from football365.

S.Mandanda : 5,5
(Lloris, 46eme : 6)
Sagna : 5,5
Boumsong (cap) : 6,5
Mexès : 6
Clichy : 5,5
A.Diarra : 6
Flamini : Non noté
(Ménez, 17eme : 4)
Rothen : 4
Nasri : 3,5
(Givet, 77eme)
Briand : 5
Cissé : 4

Cisse, Menez, and Rothen must be feeling that sting.

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By lefutur | February 5th, 2008 at 5:04 pm

thats very harsh for nasri

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By Laurie | February 5th, 2008 at 5:37 pm

I think that’s a little harsh for both Menez and Nasri. Menez at least fought for the ball occasionally, which is more than some players were doing. And I’d put Mexes level with Boumsong. Other than that it looks about right. But again, I was having stream problems and really wish I could see the game again.

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By Inara | February 5th, 2008 at 7:09 pm

Oh man, I didn’t even see Nasri’s score. Damn, that’s low.

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By Inara | February 5th, 2008 at 8:26 pm

Some of you guys might enjoy this while also help giving Ray a hint about Euro squad selection:

http://www.francefootball.fr/FF/VOTE_SELECTION_FRANCE_2008.php

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By lefutur | February 6th, 2008 at 12:57 pm

the ratings guy has to be a psg fan

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By lefutur | February 6th, 2008 at 12:58 pm