AS Monaco thread [R]

[SportBoy333]

AS Monaco FC - AJ Auxerre : 2-1
Grâce à une grosse performance collective, l'AS Monaco FC renoue avec le succès en battant l'AJA sur sa pelouse. Les buts de Serge Gakpé et Frédéric Piquionne sur penalty permettent aux Monégasques de gagner une place au classement. Compte rendu...

http://www.asm-fc.com/article.aspx?id=2734

http://www.asm-fc.com/ImageCache/artimg-341_t2007_2_3_22_56_2_q90_f14_500x307.jpg
Premier match et premier but de Fréd Piquionne sous le maillot monégasque

[rossgreen]

I've noticed two things:

a)Monaco is improving;

b)Your team is pretty young.

How long do you think it will be until you are back in the top 5 of France and back in European play?

And what positions do you feel need to be upgraded to help you with this goal?

[SportBoy333]

Could be as soon as next year where they are at that level. The back 4 needs to be upgraded because you have Monsereau who's a Lyon reject. Bolivar and Cufre who are are a bunch of average South American players. Dos Santos is a journeyman and Modesto isnt even a International player.
The forward position looks better because Pino from Coulumbia and Piquionne were just signed. Gapke and Toure are 2 very promising midfielders and you also have verterans like Plasil, Meriem and Bernardi in that group.

[rossgreen]

Could be as soon as next year where they are at that level. The back 4 needs to be upgraded because you have Monsereau who's a Lyon reject. Bolivar and Cufre who are are a bunch of average South American players. Dos Santos is a journeyman and Modesto isnt even a International player.
The forward position looks better because Pino from Coulumbia and Piquionne were just signed. Gapke and Toure are 2 very promising midfielders and you also have verterans like Plasil, Meriem and Bernardi in that group.

So basically the back four minus Givet need an overhaul? What about GK?

[SportBoy333]

Roma has been rumored to go back to Italy for a while now. There are like 4 players who are "untouchable" in my opinion, meaning that they can not be sold and if they are it would be disasterous. Those 4 are

Givet
Toure
Gapke
Menez

Everyone else can leave as far as Im concered. I already read a report about Menez possibly going to Portsmouth and I hope that does not happen. He was the youngest player in France to have ever scored a hat trick in a game. I dont expect the team to be challenged Lyon next year but I do expect them to be in the hunt for a European place.

[rossgreen]

Roma has been rumored to go back to Italy for a while now. There are like 4 players who are "untouchable" in my opinion, meaning that they can not be sold and if they are it would be disasterous. Those 4 are

Givet
Toure
Gapke
Menez

Everyone else can leave as far as Im concered. I already read a report about Menez possibly going to Portsmouth and I hope that does not happen. He was the youngest player in France to have ever scored a hat trick in a game. I dont expect the team to be challenged Lyon next year but I do expect them to be in the hunt for a European place.

So what would be your starting XI, as of now?

[SportBoy333]

I like this lineup here

...........................Roma..........................
....Cufré.......Bolivar........Monsoreau........Givet.....
...................Leko............Perez................
.............................Toure..............................
............Gapké.......................Menez.......
...........................Piquionne....................

I have Koller on the bench and I know he just scored for the Czech Republic but playing him 70-90 mins. isnt gonna help any for the future.

[rossgreen]

I like this lineup here

...........................Roma..........................
....Cufré.......Bolivar........Monsoreau........Givet.....
...................Leko............Perez................
.............................Toure..............................
............Gapké.......................Menez.......
...........................Piquionne....................

I have Koller on the bench and I know he just scored for the Czech Republic but playing him 70-90 mins. isnt gonna help any for the future.

Thanks, man.

Honestly, if you strengthen the back line and maybe get another GK, Monaco could push for a CL spot, if not only UEFA Cup.

[SportBoy333]

The last 2 years they lost Evra to ManUtd., Maicon to Inter, and Squilacci to Lyon. Those are high quality interantional players and their losses would hurt any team.

[Catel]

I calculated that between 1982 and 2005, Monaco stayed out of the podium only 8 seasons !

[rossgreen]

The last 2 years they lost Evra to ManUtd., Maicon to Inter, and Squilacci to Lyon. Those are high quality interantional players and their losses would hurt any team.

Most definately. Got any one in mind you'd want the office to go for?

[SportBoy333]

Cant think of any.

[minus]

Juan Pablo Pino will be seeing some playing time???

[Douai]

I really feel that AS Monaco had a good match against PSG last week.They had several chances to score.I am still surprised that Piquionne missed that one penalty kick.

[rossgreen]

Is Givet better at RB or LB?

[SportBoy333]

LB. By the way, I wont be online that much anymore so I wont be able to keep this thread updated. If it dies it dies. If you guys keep it alive then thats great.

[marakana10]

LB. By the way, I wont be online that much anymore so I wont be able to keep this thread updated. If it dies it dies. If you guys keep it alive then thats great.

I'll try to keep it updated. How come you are leaving?

All the best!

[marakana10]

Le Mans 0-2 AS Monaco

Frederic Piquionne 12
Diego Perez 47

http://www.football365.fr/resultats/photos/monaco_perez_0405.jpg

Starting 11:

30 Flavio Roma
2 Sylvain Monsoreau
3 Manuel Dos Santos
4 Francois Modesto
22 Fabian Bolivar
32 Gael Givet
5 Diego Perez
15 Yaya Toure
23 Jerko Leko
9 Jan Koller
20 Frederic Piquionne

Table: Points, GP, GW, GD, GL, GoF, GoA, GoD
1. Lyon 58 26 18 4 4 47 21 26
2. Lens 44 25 12 8 5 38 27 11
3. Toulouse 41 26 12 5 9 30 28 2
4. Sochaux 40 26 10 10 6 30 28 2
5. Lille 39 26 10 9 7 32 25 7
6. Marseille 38 26 11 5 10 31 27 4
7. Saint-Etienne 36 25 10 6 9 39 33 6
8. Rennes 36 26 9 9 8 23 22 1
9. Bordeaux 36 25 11 3 11 26 28 -2
10. Le Mans 34 26 8 10 8 30 31 -1
11. Lorient 34 26 9 7 10 25 29 -4
12. Nancy 34 25 9 7 9 22 26 -4
13. Monaco 33 26 9 6 11 31 28 3
14. Auxerre 32 26 7 11 8 29 33 -4
15. Troyes 30 26 7 9 10 27 34 -7
16. Nice 29 26 7 8 11 24 26 -2
17. Paris-SG 28 25 6 10 9 27 30 -3
18. Valenciennes 28 25 8 4 13 25 37 -12
19. Nantes 23 26 4 11 11 20 32 -12
20. Sedan 22 26 4 10 12 33 44 -11

[Allez Lyonnais]

LB. By the way, I wont be online that much anymore so I wont be able to keep this thread updated. If it dies it dies. If you guys keep it alive then thats great.
What's the deal? :confused:

[SportBoy333]

My comp crashed and I dont know when Im getting a new one so in the meantime I've being borrowing someone elses.