France vs Nigeria 5pm / Mon 30th

greendom

Johner wrote: »

Benzema not in the game at all so far.

He's getting in the right positions, just needs the right ball

Knex*

Giroud should get a 2 year ban for that.

Sell him.

Agent Coulson

The French like to throw their elbows.

They also seem to get away with it as well.

greendom

1 - 1 in today's match for elbows. Moses opened the scoring for Nigeria, Giroud with the equaliser

Knex*

greendom wrote: »

1 - 1 in today's match for elbows. Moses opened the scoring for Nigeria, Giroud with the equaliser

The face slap thing on Cabaye?

Muahahaha

Can't believe this is still 0-0

greendom

Knex. wrote: »

The face slap thing on Cabaye?

Looked like it might have been unintentional, but definitely made contact.

JONJO THE MISER

Nodded off, looks like i have not missed much.

Washington Irving

Knex. wrote: »

Missed the start of the game. Was Moses' one bad?

Moses and Cabaye running for the ball. Moses slightly ahead, stretched his arm and caught Cabaye. Looked accidental.

I thought that's what you were on about in your earlier post. Now my reply makes no sense :pac:

Knex*

Washington Irving wrote: »

Moses and Cabaye running for the ball. Moses slightly ahead, stretched his arm and caught Cabaye. Looked accidental.

I thought that's what you were on about in your earlier post. Now my reply makes no sense :pac:

I was! Edited the post you quoted when I remembered. That's how much of a non elbow I thought it was :pac:

Dapics

Has Giroud actually managed to take more than two touches of the ball at any time?

i.e - has he had any dribbles/held the ball for longer than two seconds???

Both him and Benzema are playing ****e.

JONJO THE MISER

:eek: Thats a bloody penaltly.

Benimar

How is that not a penalty??

miralize

Evra is just rubbish now.

Biddy_61

Deffo penalty. Its not rugby!

Wtf?

Skrtel school of defending that one

AllGunsBlazing

Evra got away with that.

Invertpyramid

Another rugby tackle from Evra. Shocking defender. That sort of stuff needs to be stopped by the officials.

jamesbere

Christ, definite pen

Johner

Bad miss by Debuchy, should have done better.

Knex*

Hugs!

Biddy_61

Justice!

ConstantJoe

Awful stuff there. Nigerians must be furious.

Invertpyramid

miralize wrote: »

Evra was always rubbish.

Fixed that one for ya.

Son Of A Vidic

Not for the first time in an important international game, France will get the key decisions.

greendom

Great play from Matuidi

Al_Coholic

Dapics wrote: »

Has Giroud actually managed to take more than two touches of the ball at any time?

i.e - has he had any dribbles/held the ball for longer than two seconds???

Both him and Benzema are playing ****e.

Not sure why they are playing both up front,they have had to change the system to accomodate them,Benzema is playing mostly on the left wing he has been great up front on his own in previous games.

CountyHurler

Benimar wrote: »

How is that not a penalty??

Evra's fairly adept at playing the innocent victim at this stage... Seems like this referee buys the act as well... There is a serious problem with referee's tolerating defenders pushing/dragging/holding/pulling the opposing team's players, particularly on set pieces.

tigger123

Pogba has been fantastic, and Nigeria are definitely owed a pen.

Corholio

Don't understand why Griezmann isn't playing instead of Giroud. It's messed up their system playing him up front and Benzema out wide.

AllGunsBlazing

Nigeria are well capable of springing a surprise here.

Al_Coholic

Evra needs to cop himself on,go out and close the ball down instead of just dangling a lazy leg out.

CountyHurler

Corholio wrote: »

Don't understand why Griezmann isn't playing instead of Giroud. .

He should be gone actually... Elbow straight in the face... I'm sure it didn't hurt, but by the letter of the law he should definitely be gone..

Nuri Sahin

Please get Giroud off.

Billy86

Gotta love a ref who's good humoured in his facial expressions.

Giroud is quite ordinary to say the least

JONJO THE MISER

That american ref thinks we are playing NFL.

Invertpyramid

rarnes1 wrote: »

Giroud is quite ordinary to say the least

Careful where you say that. The Arsenal lot will rage at you.

Skylinehead

Invertpyramid wrote: »

Careful where you say that. The Arsenal lot will rage at you.

We will?

Billy86

WTF call is that? I rewound and Benzema was definitely onside for both touches after the free kick.

Invertpyramid

Invertpyramid wrote: »

Careful where you say that. The Arsenal lot will rage at you.

I was being generous. He's been pretty hopeless today!

Alfred Borden

Giroud off Griezmann on at halftime has to happen

GreNoLi

Good game, Benzema and Giroud can't play together.

Slicemeister

The ref explaining himself... tight affair best player on the pitch is Nigeria number 9.

Billy86

Donal Skehan fills me with blind rage. :mad:

Alfred Borden

Invertpyramid wrote: »

Careful where you say that. The Arsenal lot will rage at you.

Why would we? he is having a stinker and a few of us dont particularly rate him too highly anyways.

urabell

Someone needs to sit that American team down and teach them the offside rule

Dapics

Invertpyramid wrote: »

Careful where you say that. The Arsenal lot will rage at you.

As an arsenal fan, I will testify to the capability of some 'Carebear' Gooners to do this when it comes to any criticism of Giroud.

Quite as to why some of us do, I have not a clue. He is not good enough for Arsenal.

Mind you this is the same lot who didn't want Wenger to sign Cesc because we already had Cazorla.....

Son Of A Vidic

Billy86 wrote: »

Gotta love a ref who's good humoured in his facial expressions.

He might be better served concentrating on cutting out some of his nonsense refereeing, instead of trying to be everyone's friend.

CountyHurler

jaysus the eyes on Ronnie Whelan... Did he go back to Dunphy's house for a nightcap last nite?