News: World Cup Round 2 - France vs. Mexico (6/17/2010)

If your team is in the same mindset (play for the tie tomorrow and go for the win on the last match day), this could be a very very boring game. But then again, I'll take a crap 0-0 tie over a dazzling 2-3 defeat any day.

So whats the deal, is Domenech starting Henry or what?

youre new to this forum huh? if you werent you would be asking the stars, not us.

I don't care if we play 11 back and just wait for them, I don't care if this game is even uglier than the Uruguay game, I don't care if it's remembered as the worst game of WC 2010...

Just one thing matters: WE CANNOT LOSE THIS GAME...

A boring 0-0 tie is all I'm asking for.

ALLEZ LES BLEUS!

To big soccer not at all, to the French forum yeah I'm not a frequent visitor to be honest.

My bad i meant to say they won.

I don't get why Aguirre puts in Conejo. I don't see him benching him against France, also Guille will probably start. Aguirre is just too stubborn.

allez les bleus !!

I would be shocked if you guys didn't score a couple vs. Mexico, esp. seeing as their goalie is the worst so far in the entire tournament.

I wish we had the same team spirit as Germany, then i'd say it is going to be easy.

Reading trough the French NT thread one would get the feeling the inmates are running the show.

Must win game .

If we don't win we simply have no business in this world cup .

ALLEZ LES BLEUS !!!

A little less than 5 hours to go. The more I think about it, the more it is obvious to me that the big unknown for this game is Mexico's strategy. Do they go forward and try to to get the win or do they play it safe and hope for the draw?

Let's try to figure this out taking the following (very unscientific) numbers into consideration ("Win/Draw/Loss" refers to the outcome of today's game; the percentage number reflects the chance of advancing to the next round given each possible outcome):

Mexico:
Win: 99%
Draw: 35%
Loss: 10%

France:
Win: 95%
Draw: 75%
Loss: 5%

Fairly simple: win and you're in, lose and you're out, draw and you can still advance without any help from other teams (the big difference of course is we'd have to beat South Africa on the last match day whereas Mexico would have to beat Uruguay).

So here is how I see it: Mexico should be in a bit more of an attacking mindset than us. However, as the game goes along with the score still tied, you can expect them to take fewer and fewer chances and eventually settle for the draw.

In the end, all this should have very little impact on our own strategy: we need to be extra cautious, hope to catch Mexico on a counter attack when the push forward and if this doesn't work, accept the draw once they start retreating.

No--it's a must win-or-draw game. Once again the important thing is to not lose. Anything else is a good result.

Hear, hear!

I'd hate to think we'll be content with a draw against Mexico .. Also , leaving it for a draw means South Africa still has a chance in the last game against us . But frankly , I don't care about what the other teams do . If France wins it's next two games we are qualified , simple as that .

Though Evra has said it's important to win , hopefully all the players have this sort of mentality .

Lets hope for one of these
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzGm-Qov3aI"]YouTube- France-Mexique[/ame]

Allez les bleus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Vive la france!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why would Mexico have a 99% chance of advancing with a win? If Mexico beats France 1-0, then they lose to Uruguay 1-0 and France beats South Africa 2-0, Uruguay and France are in. This seems like a somewhat plausible outcome.

Call me cynical, but if Mexico beats us today, I think there's about a 1% chance that Uruguay-Mexico ends in anything but a draw--the one mitigating factor would be the fear of Argentina in the round of 16, but seriously, would you risk a guaranteed qualifying spot just to try to avoid Argentina?

La composition de l'équipe de France :

Lloris - Sagna, Gallas, Abidal, Evra - Toulalan, Diaby - Govou, Ribéry, Malouda - Anelka.

(source: Eurosport.fr)

That looks like a solid lineup for France.

10 minutes remaining. this is it,

objective is simple

win or go home

Allez! Allez! Allez!

Anelka. so selfish.

Sure, he has plenty of time to prove me wrong but Anelka is horrible!

How many times can I repeat - " Anelka out - Govou out!" ?

The obvious is not to Ray who insists on these two! Anelka zero - Govou zero!

Ribery is having no success in midfield. Getting the ball up front is so SLOW and when we do no one moves to create space - there is no MOVEMENT!