France Team Against England

[Matt]

FRANCE SQUAD TO FACE ENGLAND:

 

Goalkeepers: Cedric Carrasso (Bordeaux), Hugo Lloris (Olympique Lyon), Steve Mandanda (Olympique Marseille

 

Defenders: Anthony Reveillere (Olympique Lyon), Gael Clichy (Arsenal), Philippe Mexes (AS Roma), Adil Rami (Lille), Mamadou Sakho (Paris St Germain), Bacary Sagna (Arsenal), Eric Abidal (Barcelona)

 

Midfielders: Alou Diarra (Bordeaux), Yohan Cabaye (Lille), Yoann Gourcuff (Lyon), Yann Mvila (Stade Rennes), Samir Nasri (Arsenal)

 

Forwards: Karim Benzema (Real Madrid), Kevin Gameiro (Lorient), Guillaume Hoarau (Paris St Germain), Florent Malouda (Chelsea), Loic Remy (Olympique Marseille), Mathieu Valbuena (Olympique Marseille), Dimitri Payet (St Etienne)

 

cant find any mention of the England team though.....

 

[Romey 1878]

Jay Bothroyd is in the England squad .

 

No place for Baines... what an idiot Capello is.

Edited November 13, 2010 by Romey 1878

[MikeO]

Some strange ones there...

 

Foster, Robert Green, Joe Hart;

Ashley Cole, Rio Ferdinand, Kieran Gibbs, Phil Jagielka, Joleon Lescott, Micah Richards, Chris Smalling, John Terry;

Gareth Barry, Steven Gerrard, Jordan Henderson, Adam Johnson, James Milner, Theo Walcott, Jack Wilshere, Ashley Young;

Gabriel Agbonlahor, Jay Bothroyd, Andy Carroll, Peter Crouch.

 

Think Capello picks his squad purely on the basis of reading the tabloids.

 

And what possible justification is there for picking Smalling?

[Romey 1878]

I'm absolutely baffled as to how Gibbs gets in ahead of Baines when he doesn't even get to play for Arsenal unless Clichy is injured .

 

The sooner this Italian dickhead is gone the better.

[marcopaulo]

really capello?? gibbs and smalling?? really??? FUCK YOU!!

[Romey 1878]

Ashley Cole pulls out of the England squad... Warnock called up.

 

Go and jump in a fire Capello, you dick.

[Ten]

Its better for us though.

[marcopaulo]

harsh on bainesy though...2nd best left back in this country behind cole

[Matt]

I imagine Terry is out too following his injury, good news for Jags at least

[marcopaulo]

he'll probably keep up form will owd capello and play smalling there with henderson

[Romey 1878]

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11679_6511046,00.html

 

 

Jags misses training.

[Romey 1878]

Joe Hart's out tonight too.

[Romey 1878]

Word is that Jags is playing RB, Ferdinand and Lescott at CB, with Gibbs at LB.

 

Erm...

[Kohen]

:major overreaction alert:

[MikeO]

Word is that Jags is playing RB, Ferdinand and Lescott at CB, with Gibbs at LB.

 

Erm...

Foster; Jagielka, Ferdinand ©, Lescott, Gibbs; Henderson, Barry; Walcott, Gerrard, Milner; Carroll .

[MikeO]

Quote on 606....

 

"There are only two types of England games these days - the false dawn, and the reality check."

 

So true.

[Romey 1878]

That defence is going to get torn to shreds IMO. Jags will be exposed at RB because, to be honest, he's shite there, AND he hasn't played there in aaaages. Lescott hasn't played anywhere for a a few weeks now. Ferdinand looks finished at the highest level. Gibbs hasn't played regularly either.

 

Capello really does get worse with each squad he picks.

[Romey 1878]

We could be in for a tonking here. Oh well.

[Romey 1878]

This is actually quite funny - a keeper that will never be good enough for this level, a defence that looks incredibly uncomfortable and disorganised, a midfield that doesn't look like it has a clue what to do, and a non-existent forward line.

 

Did Fabio get anything right?

[MikeO]

BBC "Fabio Capello's men couldn't find a team-mate with a torch and a map right now."

[marcopaulo]

got a bit better towards the end but jags is just not a right back..poor guy

[marcopaulo]

jags to cb for second half...thankfully

[marcopaulo]

gerrard has injured himself which is good..pretty sure he's handed the armband to jags

 

edit: commentator said milner has it and he's right...sure i saw the armband on someone in the cb position though..ah well would've been nice..fuck knows why milner has it

Edited November 17, 2010 by marcopaulo

[The Beard]

It's no wonder that I find it hard to get excited about International football, well England anyway. Granted it was a friendly but we have a left back who is understudy to the opponents substitute left back. A centre half who has barely played all season and another that looks over the hill (if he was ever under or on the hill), a centre half deployed as a right back and possibly the best midfielder (I know it's hard to admit) playing practically as a second striker, which nullifies his game. Torn apart by a rebuilding team, who had pace, skill and guile which we tried to match with the long ball and endeavour. One word to describe it all really, SHITE!!!!

Edited November 17, 2010 by The Beard

[marcopaulo]

we bring on bothroyd...they bring on remy...

 

nuff said really

[Bill]

I know it was only a friendly but we were without .... Hart, Johnson, Terry, A Cole, J Cole, Lampard, Rooney, and Defoe, was there any others.?

 

How many of their top players did the French leave out. ?

[marcopaulo]

would joe cole really get in that team? and is glen johnson really that good? ashley cole yeah is a big miss...jags is not a miles worse player than terry..strikers yeah we were weak with rooney and defoe and lampard has a scoring nack aswell..the team wasnt majorly weak though not enough to excuse the shite performance anyways

[Bill]

would joe cole really get in that team? and is glen johnson really that good? ashley cole yeah is a big miss...jags is not a miles worse player than terry..strikers yeah we were weak with rooney and defoe and lampard has a scoring nack aswell..the team wasnt majorly weak though not enough to excuse the shite performance anyways

 

 

Only 8 players or more. If they were all fit and playing regular, every one of them would be in the squad.

[marcopaulo]

yeah and i just said it wasnt majorly weak because the ones to back most of the players up arent rubbish..jagielka for terry not a massive difference...joe cole isnt doin the business and i think milner/johnson/young are better..rooney, defoe and lampard probably wouldn't all start together...

 

players missin wise it was weakened but the replacements aren't shite so in my eyes the team wasn't weakened enough to excuse the shower of shit we were subjected to

[The Beard]

I may be wrong but where some of the French team suspended since the world cup fiasco? Anelka, Ribery, Evra, Toulalan for example?