France NT News, Formations & Results

Koscielny and Sakho played together at training behind closed doors

France Under 21 Team is absolutely shit. M'Vila is the biggest joke since Ali Dia. Varane getting raped like there is no tomorrow

Lacazette and griezmanm saving the day! 5-4 on aggregate now. 1 more goal ffs

U23 coach was a joke. He failed to make 3 competitions with major talent and he was kept for a while somehow. No tactical awareness whatsoever.... either his method worked or bust. Always destroyed the group stage and then couldn't handle an opposing team tactically stopping things. What an idiot. Thank god he's gone.

As far as the A team, extremely good signs. You have U23 stars that have stepped up in Sakho, Mbiwa, Sissoko, Gonalons and Capoue. Add to that, Lloris is 24, Benz 24, Menez 24, Matuidi 25, Giroud 26, Cabaye 26, etc. The only guys approaching 30 or over it are Evra and Ribery and i don't feel that Ribery is slowing down at all. In any case, if he does, Benz goes left and Giroud central. I also expect Varane, Mangala, Cabella and others to make a push. Holding out hope for Coquelin, Lacazette and a few other kids to develop too. Countless young talent out there and i'm missing many on this list.

Also, Deschamps is a Serie A/Juve trained tactician and he knows how to prepare and manage a game.

The Spain game in Paris in March will be interesting. There is definitely an identity developing, which has lacked since 2007 frankly. It's pretty simple:

1- For the first 55-65 mins, take the physical impact to the opponent and wear them down, especially in the midfield.
2- At that point, bring in Valbuena and another attacker to go at the tired midfield and pressure the defense.
3- Pressure all the time and don't lose shape.

Did it against Spain and then Italy. Didn't see the italy game... but i don't think it was a huge telling one. Friendly is a friendly. Spain game showed a lot however.

SPOOOOORRRRRRRRRTSSSSSS i miss you so much dude

Get better alright

Mr Nick09 wrote:SPOOOOORRRRRRRRRTSSSSSS i miss you so much dude

Get better alright

Thanks dude... although your post made me feel a little uncomfortable lol.

Just some good old man love brah, just take it

lol i had the same reaction

France squad

Goalkeepers: Mickael Landreau (Lille), Hugo Lloris (Tottenham Hotspur), Steve Mandanda (Marseille)

Defenders: Gael Clichy (Manchester City), Patrice Evra (Manchester United), Mathieu Debuchy (Newcastle United), Laurent Koscielny (Arsenal), Adil Rami (Valencia), Mamadou Sakho (Paris Saint-Germain), Bacary Sagna (Arsenal), Raphael Varane (Real Madrid)

Midfielders: Yohan Cabaye (Newcastle United), Etienne Capoue (Toulouse), Maxime Gonalons (Lyon), Blaise Matuidi (Paris Saint-Germain), Moussa Sissoko (Newcastle United), Mathieu Valbuena (Marseille)

Forwards: Romain Alessandrini (Rennes), Karim Benzema (Real Madrid), Olivier Giroud (Arsenal), Bafetimbi Gomis (Lyon), Jeremy Menez (Paris Saint-Germain), Franck Ribery (Bayern Munich).

Surprised and happy to see Allesandrini. Deserves the call up.

France's CB future is secured for the next 10 years with players like Varane, Zouma, Sakho, M'biwa...

Mangala, 22, just became the starting CB for Porto as they sold Rolando... I LOVE him.

Pogba, Rabiot, Benzia, Aurier, Umtiti, etc. A lot of talent coming up.

I hope Enzo will choose France.

@2018

Gonalons is better than Rabiot. Grenier is better than Enzo.

Not to mention Ben Arfa will be into his 30s by then lol.

Why you looking 5 years ahead anyway?

Most of these players probably won't reach the level you expect in 5 years.

Rabiot has a much higher ceiling than Gonalons because he's better technically. Right now... Gonalons easily. As far as my lineup for WC2014:

Lloris
Sagna-Varane-Sakho-Evra
Pogba-Cabaye-Matuidi
Valbuena-Benzema-Ribery

sagna has been giving some of the worst rb performances ive seen recently,he shouldn't start

Sagna is feeling mistreated at Arsenal tbh. They're not offering him an extension lol. It's as if they want to wait and see how he does before offering him... he's really not happy about it given what he's given the club. Can't blame him.

I imagine it will do him a lot of good to feel free and happy at NT.

Not to mention Arsenal have no DM and meh CBs.

What sportsczy said. After suffering TWO leg breaks in 2 years. I don't think Sagna is feeling happy atm.

Might go to PSG this summer.

France NT traveling to south america for a 2 week tour this summer. Two big games:
- v. Uruguay in Montevideo on June 5th
- V. Brazil in Gremio on June 9th

The idea is to get used to training conditions, climate and crowd there. The quick turnaround in the games is to simulate WC conditions.

They need to take players who will be part of WC14. Sensible thing would be to take about 30 players

we will take that friendly very seriously.

Ganso wrote:we will take that friendly very seriously.

you should try and go. It will be a goat game.

I really want to go to these friendlies vs France/England and to the Confederations cup but the stadiums are way too far from where I am.I will have to wait for the world cup to watch my first brazil match

starting lineup is going to be:

lloris
sagna- varane-sakho-evra
sissoko-cabaye-matuidi
valbuena-benz-ribery

Don't like

Sagna, Evra, Sakho, Sissoko and Valbuena have no business being in the team.