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Should be a good game tonight, but Nice v Monaco is the real Cote d'azur derby.
Looks like Nice put out a first time last night too. Doesn't bode too well for the rest of the season... |
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In about 30 minutes Criox de Savoie (D4) amateur team wth quite a professional set-up against Lyon. Croix de Savoie have quite a big budget for an amateur team. They are sponsored by Danone, have a couple of ex-pros and six players who went through the Lyon Academy. Lyon have quite a strong team out, according to L'Equipe this morning, but have left Benzema and Ben Arfa on the bench just in case. The rest of the bench is made up of kids, unknown for some but generally pretty good. Will be watching this and the rugby at the same time. Hope Scotland give the French a run for their money. I'm going to get enough stick at work tomorrow as it is after yesterday's debacle at Twickers.
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I drive my truck past, or through, a few places mentioned in BB Bobs report. Bolougne, Niort, Tours, Le Man, Bordeaux etc. i might have to see how close to some of these grounds I go. It'd make a 9 hour rest period a bit more interesting.
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If you use maps.google.com you can get a pretty good aerial view and can usually spot the grounds. Use To view the link you have to Register or Login for the grounds addresses if you want to be more exact!
League 1 plays Saturday and Sunday. League 2 plays Fridays with a "big" monday night game (almost always Nantes) usually on Eurosport France. The National is, I think, Fridays and Saturdays. (Sorry if I'm teaching you to suck eggs!) |
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La Croix-de-Savoie fait sensation dans cette première période et aurait même pu ouvrir la marque sans trois interventions remarquables de Coupet. Les Lyonnais peinent à développer leur jeu. Seul Benzema se montre percutant dans la surface du FCS 74 3 great saves from Coupet keep Lyon in the game! |
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Fred (80 mins) 1-0
However, elsewhere:- Carquefou - Nancy (mt : 0-0) 2 - 1 Carquefou is somewhere just outside Nantes (or so I found out when I googled it! |
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I think you'd be better off without Perrin anyway, although I'm not sure there are any outstanding candidates to replace him at the moment.
You would never, ever find the kind of results in the FA cup that you have seen in the Coupe de France. The number of L1 clubs going out is amazing. Nice did quite well only losing to a L2 team (even if Angers nearly weren't allowed to be promoted at the start of the season). All part of the rich tapestry (or should that be crapestry?) that makes French football, if not the best quality in Europe, certainly the most unpredictable! |
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My son tells me we should follow Lyon as I live in Leigh-on ....Sea.
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And things are only going to get worse before they get better. Canal+ have drastically lowered their bid for exclusive T.V rights since the bought out their competitors TPS last year, so theoretically there'll be at less dosh going into French football in the near future. France couldn't afford to buy the best players before so God knows what it's going to be like in the future. In the meantime let's see if Cissé carries on his goalscoring run tonight. Two other pieces of info. Monaco have a useful youngster by the name of Bakar, I think, who scored a hat-trick coming off the bench in the previous round, and Marseille's sub keeper is none other than Cedric Carusso - remember him? - back after a long lay-off with ligament problems. |
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Marseille 2:0 Monaco HT Two early goals: Valbuena (with an assist from Grandin on his debut) and Grandin. He arrived from Caen last week with a reputation of being very talented but also a bit of a partygoer with an attitude problem. Hope this is the proverbial game of two halves, if not I'm off to bed. By the way, Marseille are playing very well. They could steam up the table in the second part of the season.
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Final score Marseille 3:1 Monaco. Entertaining game. cissé got Marseille's third before Bakar, monaco's best player, pulled one back to give them a little hope.
The next round's draw has already been made with some interesting clashes: Lyon v Sochaux (Lyon up against the Cup holders and Alain Perrin's former club) Carquefou v Marseille (The romance of the Cup) PSG v Bastia (a lot of rivalry between the capital's club and the team representing Corsica - should an explosive affair!!!) |
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Lille at home for my boys. Not the easiest of games, but one that we should get through.
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Full draw
Nightmare draw for the holders French Cup holders Sochaux squeezed through to the last 16 with a 4-3 extra time defeat of Montpellier - but now the draw has put them away to Lyon, in one of three all-Ligue 1 ties. Only eight Ligue 1 Orange teams remain in the draw, which was made by French international favourite Christian Karembeu and Miss France 2008, Valérie Bègue. FULL DRAW Bordeaux v Lille Lyon v Sochaux Lorient v Metz Carquefou (CFA 2) v Marseille Amiens v Arles (National) PSG v Bastia Sedan v Angers Dijon v Tours (National) Matches to be played on Tuesday 18 or Wednesday 19 March. |
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Sorry, couldn't resist the picture of Miss France!
More on the weekends games:- Football: Minnows Carquefou slay high-fliers in French Cup 2008-02-03 17:30 (New York) by Chris Wright =(PICTURE)= ATTENTION - ADDS Marseille win /// PARIS, Feb 3, 2008 (AFP) - Fifth division outfit Carquefou produced a huge French Cup shock Sunday, knocking out first division high-fliers Nancy to reach the last 16, while league leaders Lyon avoided a similar fate with a narrow win over a fourth division side. After a goalless 90 minutes at Carquefou the match came to life in extra-time when, instead of Nancy's superior fitness proving decisive, their hosts from a small northwestern town shocked them by first taking the lead, then going back in front after the professionals had levelled. Laurent Delanoe opened the scoring after 101 minutes of hard-fought action which had seen Nancy look nothing like the side standing third in the French table and dreaming of possible participation in the Champions League next season. They emerged from their slumber briefly when Marc-Antoine Fortune levelled inside four minutes with a fortuitous lob, just before the end of the first period of extra-time. But if the first division side thought they had earned at least a replay Sebastien Le Paih had other ideas and netted the winner with three minutes to go at a Stade du Moulin-Bousseau packed with 3,000 fans. "It's a shock," said Carquefou coach Denis Renaud. "It will take a few days to sink in. Now we're just three matches away from the Stade de France (which will host the final." Nancy coach Pablo Correa slammed his side. "We didn't deserve any better and I have to congratulate Carquefou. They wanted it more than we did." In an all-first division encounter, ten-time winners Marseille saw off neighbours Monaco 3-1 at the Stade Velodrome where new signing from Caen, Elliot Grandin set up the opener for Mathieu Valbuena before hitting a sumptuous second inside the opening ten minutes. Djibril Cisse, on a hot streak after his up-and-down Liverpool adventure, bagged the third before Djamel Bakar netted a consolation. Lyon meanwhile thanked a goal ten minutes from time by Brazilian Fred as the league leaders edged out fourth division Croix de Savoie 1-0. On Saturday, Ivorian striker Amara Diane scored a brace as Paris Saint Germain made it into the last 16 by ending the dreams of fifth division Le Poire-sur-Vie, 3-1 away, while holders Sochaux also advanced, on penalties, against Montpellier. Another fifth division side, Lyon-Duchere lost out to the only goal, scored for top flight Lille by Nicolas Fauvergue. bur/cw/dj08 -0- Feb/03/2008 22:15 GMT |
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