qs! wrote:

Benzema is quality.

Yep. He's a proper footballer

We were linked quite heavily to Matuidi, 3-4 years ago. Would've been a great buy on the cheap

France look good but I think ultimately they'll run short on goal power in the big games

@lorddulaarsenal wrote:

This ref is terrible

Honduras are terrible. They're looking to hurt the French players.

Ricky1985 wrote:
Clrnc wrote:

France actually have 3 very similar players in the middle. All 3 are very complete box to box CMs, who can do almost anything.

Matiudi can't pass or shoot. Not very well anyway. Cabaye can pass and shoot but can't really run and certainly isn't notably athletic. That's why he's chosen to sit in front of the back 4.

Pogba definitely fits your description of a complete, box-to-box centre midfielder though. Love him.

What I meant was they are all very similar box to box midfielders, not focusing on their strengths and weakness. In these days, its weird for a team to play 3 similar players in the middle and hard to achieve balance with it. Most teams have a dedicated pivot/sitter, and a number 10 in the middle trio.

Cabaye is the unfortunate player to sacrifice for the team and play the Arteta role it seems for France.

Meanwhile, Wenger is praising Griezmann so much on TF1 commentary duties.

Griezmann faded out in the second half

My word. The number of potential leg breakers there's been today!

Debuchy adds so much to the France attack.

flobaba wrote:

Griezmann faded out in the second half

Yep. Expected him to have a field day against ten men

Jonathan Pearce: "It's 3-0 what a good goal!"

Martin Keown: "It's in the side netting Jonathan."

"Jonathan Pearce don't trust technology after he watched all the robots kill each other when reporteding from the frontline of the Robot Wars"

If Benzema's confidence grows from this game France could be in with a shout.
They need him to hit a purple patch.

Hope the Argies lose. Will make the WC twice as interesting.

Don't know what Wenger sees in Griezmann. Good player but nothing special.
Sakho over Kos is a joke.
And Benzema is #kwalitee