Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Domenech announces his starting 11

The starting 11 for Les Bleus:
Lloris - Sagna, Gallas (cap.), Escudé, Evra - L. Diarra, Toulalan, Gourcuff, Malouda - Anelka, Gignac.

Hmmm, interesting...Escude rather than Squillaci? Are we back to a 4-4-2? Granted Diarra and Toulalan are holding midfielders so they might slide deeper to sit in front of the back 4. Gignac might drift back to play on the right wing, so in reality we might find Les Bleus back to a 4-2-3-1...again if this line up cannot secure the full 3 points from the Faroe Islands they do not deserve to be in South Africa for the World Cup. Domenech should have played the central defensive pairing he will be using against Romania, rather than "testing" players. We shall see. I am not worried about this match, but very concerned about the upcoming games versus Romania and Serbia....

2 comments:

philip said...

yeah well its another 1-0
6goals in 8 qualifying matches maybe we don't deserve to be in south africa.

good news he is starting Lloris which made his 3rd clean sheet out of 3

also why didint Domenech play Benzema maybe Real Madrid has something to do with this?

GFC said...

Well Lloris did get the clean sheet, but looked shaky at times, not good against a team of semi pros. I also agree....6 goals in 8 matches...ugh.

As for Benzema, not sure. Recently Benzema has appeared to fall out of favor with the France manager, not sure why.