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Stupid ARD commentator telling people randomly stuff. Those 18 dead arent' outside the stadium ffs

Why is the match still going on??????

FT - France 2:0 Germany

So apparently there was a guy shooting up a bar filled to the brim with an AK, and there's hostages taken at a concert venue.

And grenades were thrown at the stadium

ffs

RealGunner wrote:Why is the match still going on??????

suspending it .. it would 've been much worse. for public order.
it 'd have created a devastanting Panic .. and we talk about thousand and thousand of men .
it'd have worsened a situation already awful now

I wonder if the German team will be just packed up into the bus and driven home - after the bomb threat the night before, this sounds like the wisest idea to me.

sounds like the wisest idea would have been to take those bomb threads a bit more seriously

On the other hand, suspending a match due to threats gives these insane criminals even more power.

True.

To early to tell what's going on anyway.

Apart from that many, many people seem to have been killed

fans aren't allowed to leave the stadium. i doubt the teams will be allowed to leave either. The French president was there and he was evacuated in the first half.

All the streets are closed in Paris. There's nowhere to go. The airport is shut down too.

Not going to be much of a game unfortunately... Lass won't be there of course. The emotions will be raw and the team hasn't trained properly until today and it will probably not be a good training session.

I expect a complete lackluster performance on Tuesday and understandably so.

I'm looking forward to see Martial-Benz-Griez together.

Considering Benz will likely never play for NT again, that won't happen... especially not Tuesday with Benz not even on the team.

I want Fekir, Martial and Griezmann once Fekir gets back in February.

I don't know was it wise a decision to have the England v France friendly go ahead on Tuesday. All the talk will be just about the terrorist attack and no one will care what happens on the pitch.

@Art Morte

It is 100% necessary to continue with the match to show that the terrorists are not able to halt life due to the atrocities they committed.

sportsczy wrote:Considering Benz will likely never play for NT again, that won't happen... especially not Tuesday with Benz not even on the team.

I want Fekir, Martial and Griezmann once Fekir gets back in February.

Let's get real, What Benzema has done ( which is acting as an intermediary because he was not smart enough to see that was asking for trouble ) is not worse than Zahia's scandal or 2010's one . Still , Ribéry and Evra (mainly) still enjoyed a good spell with the NT after that.

@rwo

I don't think cancelling a friendly match pretty much immediately after a devastating attack would be a sign of giving in. Just common sense. Who is honestly going to care about the game in a footballing sense at all?

Art Morte wrote:@rwo

I don't think cancelling a friendly match pretty much immediately after a devastating attack would be a sign of giving in. Just common sense. Who is honestly going to care about the game in a footballing sense at all?

Agreed.

Well, I guess there are arguments for and against playing. (As for caring for the match - even in better times few people care for friendlies ^^)

I think the players should choose. They are the ones playing after all.

Then again, these friendlies are for financial reasons any way so I am sure the players, despite the ones playing, will have no choice in the matter anyway.

http://www.lequipe.fr/Football/Actualites/Contre-l-angleterre-les-bleus-n-y-etaient-pas/608539

When interviewed at halftime, DD said to the reporter: "We're not really here" and it showed. They didn't train and football was the last thing on their minds. The kids, namely Varane, Martial, Coman and Pogba, had a bit more energy... but even they looked subdued compared to their normal selves.

Onward to better things. Game was played symbolically and it's over now.

Griezmann---Martial---Niang

Niang has zero chance...

But it will be Griezmann-Giroud-Martial as long as Giroud finishes the season well. Fekir is coming back end of February so he's the wild card.

I also think that Moussa Sissoko is in danger by Rabiot....

My hope for the Euro:

Keepers: Lloris, Mandanda, Areola
Defenders: Sagna, Zouma, Varane, Koscielny, Sakho, Mangala, Digne, Evra (Tremoulinas deserves mention)
Midfielders: Pogba, Matuidi, Lass, Schneiderlin, Cabaye and Rabiot
Strikers: Griezmann, Giroud, Martial, Fekir, Ntep, Lacazette

I don't think either Valbuena or obviously Benz make it. Why? Benz is done. Nuf said. Valbuena shouldn't have made that public interview... Benz has a lot of friends on NT and it's going to be awkward now. So to save the group, DD is going to sacrifice him.

Rather Coquelin than Lass. Is having a much better season.

Damn that's underwhelming squad. An injury to one of the main players (Pogba, and Griezmann) and it's gonna be done.