France plays in the World Cup for the 12th time and won it all at home in 1998. In 2002, though, France went 0-3 and didn't score a goal. 1998 here Zinedine Zidane is back for another try, but Djibril Cisse, broke his leg in France's last warmup game before the tournament, and is out.
The Swiss are making their eighth appearance in the World Cup and their first since 1994 in the USA. They've reached the quarterfinals three times, but not since 1954 when they were playing at home. In that year, Switzerland blew a 3-0 lead against Austria and lost 7-5. Switzerland surprised 2002 semifinalist Turkey in a 2-game series to win its spot.
Mmmm...Swiss chocolate. In fact, mmmmmmmmm....Swiss confectionaries of any sort. Makes me want to go back to Switzerland just thinking about it. Makes me wish I were Swiss instead of Swedish.
A perfect, perfect cross into the six yard box, right into a space Gygax could comfortably push his forehead into, and he blunders it into Barthez. Barthez indulged us all with a comedy fumble, but Gygax was too busy regretting his last move to jump on it
Trezeguet and Henry do not play well together at all, they both need to be the focal point of the attack and need a creative striker behind them, it has always been a disaster for France when they have played together.
Shep Messing! Oh, man, there's a blast from the past!
I remember watching him play (he was a goalie for the New York Cosmos, and then played for the Oakland Stompers (which is another blast from the past in and of itself) a couple of years) but I hadn't thought about him in at least twenty-five years. Funny how things like that can be buried in your brain and still survive there are so long.
What a terrible performance from France. The use of substitutions was horrible. Ribery looked just awful and shouldn't have seen the pitch in the second half. Dhorasoo looked great, but he only got 9' to play. Louis Saha is a good scorer, but needs to actually play in the box where they can feed him the ball (which shows yet another reason why this 4-2-1-1 is not going to work for this team).
Domenech seems to be making bad decisions all around, from the snubbing of Giuly and Pires to the poor formation choices and substitutions. He deserves to be slammed by the French press.
How does everybody feel about Switzerland?
I would imagine neutral.
But in either, case, 0-0.
International law dictated that every country that started with "Sw" in English had to be neutral in World War II.
I don't think this is a good thing.
A perfect, perfect cross into the six yard box, right into a space Gygax could comfortably push his forehead into, and he blunders it into Barthez. Barthez indulged us all with a comedy fumble, but Gygax was too busy regretting his last move to jump on it
11. Even Swaziland?
I remember watching him play (he was a goalie for the New York Cosmos, and then played for the Oakland Stompers (which is another blast from the past in and of itself) a couple of years) but I hadn't thought about him in at least twenty-five years. Funny how things like that can be buried in your brain and still survive there are so long.
I remember he had a lot of hair.
http://www.msgnetwork.com/ourteam_smessing.jsp
Shep back in the day:
http://tinyurl.com/o2v26
Domenech seems to be making bad decisions all around, from the snubbing of Giuly and Pires to the poor formation choices and substitutions. He deserves to be slammed by the French press.
4-2-1-1 should read 4-3-1-1
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