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France-Congo Open Thread, and Game-Watching Tips

   

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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  • http://ghana.worldcupblog.org Inara

    Stream is working great!

  • http://lequipemoustache.blogspot.com Kyle

    this is completely off topic for the game, but I happened upon this site and it has all sorts of videos and les nouveaux maillots rouges.

    http://www.aucoeurdesbleus.fr/

  • http://france.worldcupblog.org Laurie

    Excellent, Kyle! I was going to do a post on the new maillots today.

    My stream is working too. Happy, happy!!

  • http://lequipemoustache.blogspot.com Kyle

    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

  • http://france.worldcupblog.org Laurie

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

  • http://ghana.worldcupblog.org Inara

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

  • http://france.worldcupblog.org Laurie

    Excellent. I love listening to French commentary.

  • http://france.worldcupblog.org Laurie

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

  • http://lequipemoustache.blogspot.com Kyle

    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.

  • http://france.worldcupblog.org Laurie

    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?

  • http://lequipemoustache.blogspot.com Kyle

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

  • lefutur

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

  • http://france.worldcupblog.org Laurie

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

  • iammrben

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

    Signed,

    Nervous Nelly

  • http://france.worldcupblog.org Laurie

    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.

  • Doumé

    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.

  • lefutur

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

  • http://france.worldcupblog.org Laurie

    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.

  • http://france.worldcupblog.org Laurie

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

  • http://www.wickeddeflection.com/ 433

    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.

  • http://ghana.worldcupblog.org Inara

    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.

  • lefutur

    thats very harsh for nasri

  • http://france.worldcupblog.org Laurie

    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.

  • http://ghana.worldcupblog.org Inara

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

  • http://ghana.worldcupblog.org Inara

    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

  • lefutur

    the ratings guy has to be a psg fan

  • lefutur

    nevermind…he gave rothen a 4 too. lol.

  • sandrahn

    Flamini got injured. Great, just great.

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