Blanc apparently making massive changes to starting XI for France

He's unhappy with Malouda and A. Diarra... Nasri apparently has a small injury and he doesn't want to risk him if he can.

Starting XI:
Lloris - Sagna, Rami, Abidal, Evra - Martin, M'Vila, Cabaye - Valbuena (or Rémy), Benzema, Ribéry

Have i mentioned that I like Blanc a lot .

Very attacking side.

On paper France's team must be top 5 in the world. One of the better defenses in the world.

sportsczy wrote:He's unhappy with Malouda and A. Diarra... Nasri apparently has a small injury and he doesn't want to risk him if he can.

Starting XI:
Lloris - Sagna, Rami, Abidal, Evra - Martin, M'Vila, Cabaye - Valbuena (or Rémy), Benzema, Ribéry

Have i mentioned that I like Blanc a lot .

Very attacking side.

And no Kaboul, very happy?

Nasri deserves to be benched anyway, not a loss

excited to watch Marvin Martin there

yes, 4 assists for man city and he deserves to be benched

sportsczy wrote:He's unhappy with Malouda and A. Diarra... Nasri apparently has a small injury and he doesn't want to risk him if he can.

Starting XI:
Lloris - Sagna, Rami, Abidal, Evra - Martin, M'Vila, Cabaye - Valbuena (or Rémy), Benzema, Ribéry

Have i mentioned that I like Blanc a lot .

Very attacking side.

Everything has been rendered un-important

Nasri didn't get benched. He couldn't train today because of a knock. If he's ok to go, Cabaye sits.

When is the freakin' game?

Tomorrow evening 20:45 local time i think. Romania suspended Mutu and Tamas + Chivu retired internationally + Piturca is suspended. I think Blanc doesn't feel they have a lot to offer offensively and are vulnerable defensively. He's going for the kill here.

It's nobody's fault if he sucks with france.

ribery is better than he is on the left, and if he cant go right, then he needs to sit his asses down

St_Nick09_of_Goal wrote:It's nobody's fault if he sucks with france.

ribery is better than he is on the left, and if he cant go right, then he needs to sit his asses down

I completely agree

We were always extremely talented and were top 5. That moron Domenech destroyed the team when he was holding a full house. Now Blanc is re-establishing us.

Watch Remy... he's made huge progress end of last year and this year. He's acting more like a CF and less a winger. He's pretty lethal in front of net now both with his feet and with headers. I like him a lot.

sportsczy wrote:We were always extremely talented and were top 5. That moron Domenech destroyed the team when he was holding a full house. Now Blanc is re-establishing us.

Ah my friend, we Italians know how you feel, and we went through the same thing with Lippi. Tobad for you guys though, we won the World Cup and that's where both squads began falling from the point on. However, when it comes to rebuilding, we went down all the way to 16th place all the way to 6th place in a matter of a year, when France still struggles to get in the top 10...

Nasri put it in his head that he would become the new AM star for france like Zidane was, that's where his obsession of playing AM came from. Being the center of attention is what he wants, but he completely sucks at it.

He knows nothing of the position, and he has no tactical awareness. As AM, Marvin Martin >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Nasri. amd he will own again tomorrow, giving one more reason why he should be starter.

sciacca wrote:

sportsczy wrote:We were always extremely talented and were top 5. That moron Domenech destroyed the team when he was holding a full house. Now Blanc is re-establishing us.

Ah my friend, we Italians know how you feel, and we went through the same thing with Lippi. Tobad for you guys though, we won the World Cup and that's where both squads began falling from the point on. However, when it comes to rebuilding, we went down all the way to 16th place all the way to 6th place in a matter of a year, when France still struggles to get in the top 10...

You don't believe the rubbish FIFA rankings do you? After the WC, we had our entire team that was basically suspended for the game against Belorussia. We lost that one in summer of 2010 and haven't lost a game since (12 games)... we're easily a top 5 team right now.

sciacca wrote:

sportsczy wrote:We were always extremely talented and were top 5. That moron Domenech destroyed the team when he was holding a full house. Now Blanc is re-establishing us.

Ah my friend, we Italians know how you feel, and we went through the same thing with Lippi. Tobad for you guys though, we won the World Cup and that's where both squads began falling from the point on. However, when it comes to rebuilding, we went down all the way to 16th place all the way to 6th place in a matter of a year, when France still struggles to get in the top 10...

It is amazing that two teams coached by absolute idiots beat Spain's Aragones and Brazil. SMH.

So who would play on the right when everyones fit and on form?

Ben Arfa?

Nasri is better than Ribery in this system. Ribery is going to keep sending in crosses and Benz is going to keep wasting them.

Nasri is going to play on the right when he's healthy. If Martin impressed as the AM, the job is his. Ribery is our best LW player at the moment... better than Nasri. He brings directness and pace. Nasri sits on the ball too long for my taste.

I like Remy on the right personally because he can switch to CF easily when Benz roams. Ribery and Nasri cannot play CF at all.

sportsczy wrote:

sciacca wrote:

sportsczy wrote:We were always extremely talented and were top 5. That moron Domenech destroyed the team when he was holding a full house. Now Blanc is re-establishing us.

Ah my friend, we Italians know how you feel, and we went through the same thing with Lippi. Tobad for you guys though, we won the World Cup and that's where both squads began falling from the point on. However, when it comes to rebuilding, we went down all the way to 16th place all the way to 6th place in a matter of a year, when France still struggles to get in the top 10...

You don't believe the rubbish FIFA rankings do you? After the WC, we had our entire team that was basically suspended for the game against Belorussia. We lost that one in summer of 2010 and haven't lost a game since (12 games)... we're easily a top 5 team right now.

Maybe, maybe not. As it stands regardless of the Fifa Rankings, Italy is ahead of France presently within results and stats. This speaking of after the 2010 World Cup, as it is irrelavent seeming on how me and you see it. We are undefeated as well... Haven't lost one game in our qualifers and in fact broke records in our history as we have not conceded a goal for more than 700 minutes and we are one game from qualifying for the Euro's having an 8 point difference from Serbia and Slovenia. Italy managed to beat the World Champions and Germany failed to defeat Italy once again earlier this year. So already playing vs two major sides, we managed to go through them without defeat. France still need to fight for a spot as they did lose on game during their qualfiers, and are only 3 point gap behind Bosnia. France is more like in the Top 10, just like Italy.

The top 5:

1) Spain
2) Netherlands
3) Germany
4) Uruaguay
5) Brazil

5th may be debatable, it can go to Italy or Argentina

Immaculate_Mole wrote:So who would play on the right when everyones fit and on form?

Ben Arfa?

at some point, ribery or nasri will be sent there, but they all spoke out about wanting to play left, specially ribery lol, but he is right to be honest. he excelled there with bayern.

So Nasri might be tried there, if not, Remy, Menez, Payet, etc... wide open.

frankly, benzema can play on the right and gameiro in the middle, will look great actually.

ribery-gameiro-benzema

sciacca wrote:

sportsczy wrote:

sciacca wrote:

sportsczy wrote:We were always extremely talented and were top 5. That moron Domenech destroyed the team when he was holding a full house. Now Blanc is re-establishing us.

Ah my friend, we Italians know how you feel, and we went through the same thing with Lippi. Tobad for you guys though, we won the World Cup and that's where both squads began falling from the point on. However, when it comes to rebuilding, we went down all the way to 16th place all the way to 6th place in a matter of a year, when France still struggles to get in the top 10...

You don't believe the rubbish FIFA rankings do you? After the WC, we had our entire team that was basically suspended for the game against Belorussia. We lost that one in summer of 2010 and haven't lost a game since (12 games)... we're easily a top 5 team right now.

Maybe, maybe not. As it stands regardless of the Fifa Rankings, Italy is ahead of France presently within results and stats. This speaking of after the 2010 World Cup, as it is irrelavent seeming on how me and you see it. We are undefeated as well... Haven't lost one game in our qualifers and in fact broke records in our history as we have not conceded a goal for more than 700 minutes and we are one game from qualifying for the Euro's having an 8 point difference from Serbia and Slovenia. Italy managed to beat the World Champions and Germany failed to defeat Italy once again earlier this year. So already playing vs two major sides, we managed to go through them without defeat. France still need to fight for a spot as they did lose on game during their qualfiers, and are only 3 point gap behind Bosnia.

We beat England and Brazil in the streak... again, FIFA doesn't really mean anything. Your Euro pool teams are probably ranked higher than ours and, as a result, you're ranked higher than us. It has nothing to do with how good teams really are.

As i've said before, the WC winner is #1 and the Euro winner is #2. The rest is completely subjective and the FIFA rankings are meaningless. It has Russia, Norway, Greece and Chile ranked in front of France ffs... Chile i'm actually ok with because they're actually a good squad. The others are laughable. Russia and Norway didn't even qualify for the WC lol.

Wanted to see more Nasri-Martin