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[nakuu]

Equipe de France

The France national football team represents the nation of France in international football. It is fielded by the French Football Federation and competes as a member of UEFA.

France was one of the four European teams that participated at the inaugural World Cup in 1930. In the 1980s, led by midfielder and captain Michel Platini, the team reached semi-finals at both the 1982 and 1986 World Cups, and won the 1984 European Championship.

France then reached an even higher status in international football by being especially successful at the end of the 1990s and in the 2000s; they won the World Cup as the host nation in 1998, and the European Football Championship two years later, while also placing second at the 2006 World Cup tournament. Midfielder and former captain Zinédine Zidane was particularly instrumental in achieving those honours.

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Squadlist:

Keepers: Cédric Carrasso (Bordeaux), Nicolas Douchez (Rennes), Hugo Lloris (Lyon), Stève Mandanda (Marseille).

Defenders: Eric Abidal (Barcelona), Gaël Clichy (Arsenal), Nicolas Escudé (Sevilla), Patrice Evra (Manchester United), Rod Fanni (Rennes), William Gallas (Arsenal), Bakary Sagna (Arsenal), Sébastien Squillaci (Sevilla).

Midfielders: Abou Diaby (Arsenal), Lassana Diarra (Real Madrid), Alou Diarra (Bordeaux), Florent Malouda (Chelsea), Moussa Sissoko (Toulouse), Jérémy Toulalan (Lyon), Franck Ribéry (Bayern Munich).

Attackers: Nicolas Anelka (Chelsea), Karim Benzema (Real Madrid), André-Pierre Gignac (Toulouse), Sidney Govou (Lyon), Thierry Henry (Barcelona)


Discuss Henry, Benzema, Domenech , Ribery, World Cup Qualifiers the latest games, etc....

[Javier Hernandez]

11 min - Toulalan almost scores! Great shot - the keeper probably wouldn't have gotten it if it didn't hit the post (although maybe a replay would show otherwise).

12 min - Henry gets the cross in, but Gignac heads it off target.

19th min - Gignac tries to shoot but the defender blocks it enough to throw it off. He did well to try to get it back but the defender did even better.

Evra shouldn't allowed to be this good.

20th min - Henry attempts a bicycle kick. Good try, but it goes too high.

23th min - Govou with an amaaaaaazing shot that hits the post. Top corner too. France really are unlucky today.

28th min - Domenech gets pushed by an opposition player. French fans around the world rejoice.

32nd min - Amazing pass to Henry and good run by him. He overpowered the chip though, so it went over.

34th min - Gignac scores! 1-0. Henry to Anelka to Gignac. Nice play by the strikers.

36th min - Henry takes the free kick and it gets to Gallas, who heads it just over the net. Could have been 2-0.

[Bill Nicholson]

Goal for France. Henry receives the ball out on the left hand side, he runs at the fullback, slides it into Anelka's path, who then slides it across goal to Gignac who lets the ball run across his body, turns and scuffs the ball as he fires it towards the left post. The goalkeeper is sent the wrong way and can only watch as it rolls slowly into the net. Well deserved, but the Faroe Islands were playing well before that chance.

[Javier Hernandez]

Gignac scores his second! Nice pass, nice run, and great finish.

[deka-]

This one looks like it's done. Nice. Austria next!

[nakuu]

68' The Faroese defender falls on his own and Gignac is penalized... would have been a great chance. He did great to turn the ball to the other side while facing up against a defender.

73' Gignac off for Benzema.

lol!! the ref is injured!

another ref is ready to come on

77' Anelka misses a glorious chance as he shoots straight at the on-coming keeper.

83' Benzema with another chance to score but the keeper cuts his angle to deflect the ball away. It ends up to anelka who turns and takes a shot that glances across goal.

86' BUT! Benzema makes the run and centres it to who takes a quick shot at the keeper who is only able to deflect it to the feet of the onrushing anelka. Simple finish from a rebound. 4-0!

88' Benzema's shot to the keeper's bottom right has him beaten as he sprawls across his net while the ball curls around. 5-0!

[Javier Hernandez]

Amazing strike. Great goal tbh.

France are amazingly clinical today, and this is without both Gourcuff and Ribery. This is the sort of performance, especially finishing wise, that should be seen from them more often.

[deka-]

Well, finishing wise I think it could have been better.. Anelka missed a sitter, Henry several too, Benzema too..

Benzema was very good, and Anelka pretty average, I think Benzema should start against Austria.

[Sakrillmatix]

My prediction on the older forum was almost perfect i predicted a 5-1 win to France

[Eltamatrox]

the best game from France since a very long time, nice to see this team finally reaching a good level !

[Tresh]

Sakrillmatix, on 11 October 2009 - 06:26 AM, said:

My prediction on the older forum was almost perfect i predicted a 5-1 win to France

I was off... What did Domenech do?

[Eltamatrox]

what do you mean "what did he do ?"

[Tresh]

What did he do to have the team perform do well? Did he drop astrology or did the starts finally line up right? We all know that the team hasn't played well under him since the story of Zidane and his mystery ghost — No, The debut of Gourcuff. Did he drop his two defensive midfielders, not adding another because of the loss of Gourcuff and Ribery, but removing another because of the loss? Did Pires and Trezeguet finally get to him... did he really stop shitting? Nice to here we played well though..

[Thiago Silva.]

Nice goal by Benzema

[nakuu]

i'm still skeptical, it's the faroe islands.

serbia beat romania by the same scoreline when we could barely grind a result against them.