Zealous wrote:Spain are going to murder them if they play like they did tonight looooool.

No Cabaye No Party

The only way to defeat Spain's anti-football is to be clinical

Is Benzema clinical? I'm not sure...perhaps we will find out?

BhritanniaBhlue wrote:The only way to defeat Spain's anti-football is to be clinical

Is Benzema clinical? I'm not sure...perhaps we will find out?

So if he leads France past us will he be a top 10 forward in the World

Le Samourai wrote:

BhritanniaBhlue wrote:The only way to defeat Spain's anti-football is to be clinical

Is Benzema clinical? I'm not sure...perhaps we will find out?

So if he leads France past us will he be a top 10 forward in the World

Perhaps

somehow, somewhat, france will win!

He's not clinical in a Madrid shirt either lol

At some of the comments about Blanc being average.

Anyway, as I thought before Mexes, as good as he is, is unfortunately too slow to play the highline. Koscielny and Rami are the solution, dammit. Should have also gotten Toulalan for a DM spot. He'd work so well with Diarra anchoring the Defense against Spain. I prefer him over M'Vila anyway.

Is me or this anti football from France is not working, simple because they dont have a no 10 and none of their wingers make runs. Imv counter attacking is best way forward against Spain. They have enough players to trouble them on the counter, Benz, BenArfa, Ribery, Nasri etc.

Should have taken Gourcuff as well.

The only No.10 France have, atm.

Gourcuff wasn't good enough even against Iceland. Wouldn't have done France any favors nor himself any justice.

As for Mexes...he's lost a good deal of pace after that injury. I think that's what's really behind the poor displays. pre-injury, I definitely believed he could play a high line, but now....I think Kjaer could've done better . The same is true though...play Mexes in a deeper backline that relies more on tactical awareness over pace and he'll boss.

Lord Hispano wrote:Should have taken Gourcuff as well.

The only No.10 France have, atm.

Gourcuff is crap and if the Sweden match has told has anything that Cabaye is one of the first names on the teamsheet....

As i said earlier he is France's piggy.... he improves the cover the defence gets from the midfield tenfold, the link play improves tenfold and he's the only one breaking beyond Benzema when he drops deep.

If Cabaye does'nt start against Spain then France dont stand a chance.

Yeah Cabaye's legit. True with Mexes as well.

Invincible warship won't make it past the Spanish armada.

If Benzema is truly France best AM then I see no hope for France tbh, he is still a 9 and not a 10. But we will see, he might surprise me.

Se7en wrote:If Benzema is truly France best AM then I see no hope for France tbh, he is still a 9 and not a 10. But we will see, he might surprise me.

Thing is he's playing no different to how he plays for Madrid.... he's always dropping ridiculously deep....

Key difference Madrid have Ronaldo, Higuian and even Di Maria taking up the space he vacates.

The only one who even seems remotely interested in doing this is Cabaye.

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:

Se7en wrote:If Benzema is truly France best AM then I see no hope for France tbh, he is still a 9 and not a 10. But we will see, he might surprise me.

Thing is he's playing no different to how he plays for Madrid.... he's always dropping ridiculously deep....

Key difference Madrid have Ronaldo, Higuian and even Di Maria taking up the space he vacates.

The only one who even seems remotely interested in doing this is Cabaye.

But he attacks the box aswell for Madrid, I mean he scores alot of goals + he bottles alot of them aswell lol

For France the only shots he seem to take are from outside the box

Benzema is Trequartista.

if torres starts spain stands a chance if not then i guess france is through

REWB wrote:koscienly and giroud will save france, dont worry .

off topic but i like ur secret siggy

This is mostly for Mole's benefit.... according to L'Equipe, there was a heated discussion between Blanc and Ben Arfa after the Sweden game. Ben Arfa even suggested that he be sent home. No insults were thrown around.

There was a similar exchange between Blanc and Nasri.

I don't see either Nasri or Ben Arfa playing the next game unless Blanc is forced to. My projected lineup

Lloris
Debuchy-Rami-Koscielny-Clichy
M'Vila-Diarra-Cabaye
Menez-Benzema-Ribery

Yeah i heard he was angry about being subbed off saying that there's been a lot worse players than me and including Nasri as an example....

I did'nt watch the game but i heard Ben Arfa only had 32 touches of the ball and Nasri was hesistant to pass to him....

Which i do believe watching the two games prior because Nasri seemed hesistant to pass the ball forward at all.

If this is true i do understand why Ben Arfa is so frustrated but possibly he should'nt make such a big deal out of it but he's not that type of guy if he's frustrated he will usually let you know.

Diarra vs Spain will be useless

oh yeah....uh....Ben Arfa still a knuckle head...not much has changed uh? i thought so.

REWB wrote:koscienly and giroud will save france, dont worry .

Koscienly - Rami CB partnership is a disaster waiting to happen

Mr Nick09 wrote:
oh yeah....uh....Ben Arfa still a knuckle head...not much has changed uh? i thought so.

Been fine for us, no one has a bad word to say about him.... even during the months when he was on the bench he was fine.

I blame the frenchies for riling him up and Nasri being crap

he wanted to play the euros so he kept quiet

next season will be fun