Roma, Sylva, Biancarelli – Evra, Ibarra, Oshadogan, Squillaci, Rodriguez, Givet, Juan, El Fakiri – Plasil, Bernardi, Giuly, Cissé, Rothen – Prso, Morientes, Adebayor, Nonda Zicos is out on suspension, hopefully Monaco will qualify and he will play in the final. Other notes: The decision to play Jerome Rothen & Dado Prso will be taken before the match as both are not 100% fit. 1,600 Monaco supporters will make to trip to London, which is indeed the amount of tickets allocated to the club. Allez Monaco.
Good luck to Monaco--I'd like to see a Porto-Monaco final. That way we could claim three French scalps in a single european campaign.
Ok I gotta ask, why do you have your team as PSG, but a Monaco avatar? Plus I thought PSG supporters HATED OM and Monaco!
Hi Chili, Porto won't finish the match, all their players will be carded for diving before the end of the first half.
I just figued out you could have avatars as a non premie. It's coming off soon. Why do you have an Arsenal avatar and Celtic under you're teams? I thought the Scots hated the English.
by Patrick Haond Monaco's UEFA Champions League stars are well aware that they will face a battle of attrition as they visit Stamford Bridge aiming to stop Chelsea scoring two goals. "It is obvious that we should expect an English war," said Cisse - who played in London for West Ham. "There it will be physical with battles all over the pitch and lots of pressure. "You feel the Englishmen never stop sprinting for about ten minutes and that can make it difficult to breathe.
Dechamps said they will not defend even though they have 2 goal advantage. I'm not sure this is the right strategy. With Rothen and Prso not 100 % I wonder if they should play with 1 forward (Morientes) and switch to 2 in the 2nd half Morientes and Nonda if they fall behind. Either way the back 4 will have to play huge. I'm scared because they could conceed a few goals because they are the weakness of the team. They played well against Chelsea at home but the road crowd may rattle them. Squillaci back is good but Givet did the job well the last time.
Yeah, maybe, but we'll win regardless because the whole setting of the final--all those screaming Germans in Gelsenkirchen--will probably cause the French team to piss their pants and surrender before the game even starts.
First things first. Let's qualify for the final, then, Germany or not my dear portuguese friend, you will taste Monaco powerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. You....... will piss your shorts. By the way, do you want beds by the side of the pitch for the final, as i noticed your players spent a lot of time on the ground. Tired ? If so, let UEFA know in advance, it's that easy to transport these things on a football pitch. We on the other hand, will make sure we wear a special Porto anti-elbowing mask. Could be useful.
Right, good that you're recognizing the presumptuousness of talking about the final before you've even reached it. But I don't see whythis is even in the France forum--isn't Monaco its own distinct country?
Monaco is not a country. What language do you think they speak in Monaco why its French of course hence it belongs in the France forum. Monaco plays in the FRENCH league and in Monaco they speak FRENCH.
Well, the CIA world factbook identifies Monaco as an "independent state." I don't know if that distinction is just semantics, but Monaco seems to have a separate identity, albeit one that is dependent on France for defense. http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/mn.html And while they speak French there, they also speak Italian and Monegasque, which is a distinct language that apparently has its roots in Ligurian (whatever that might be). http://www.flw.com/languages/monegasque.htm
You're kinda trolling here, but I'll answer anyway. Are you familiar with the concept of "tax haven"? If not, look it up. How do you think a city of 30 000 inhabitants, on "a" country's territory (France in this case) keeps an "independant state" status? For eveybody's (well, a few, actually) convenience, that how. You have money? I mean, a lot of money? Buy yourself residency in Monaco and enjoy the tax benefits. Another example would be the island of Jersey. Not very moral all this, if you ask me...but then again, I'm probably only saying this because I can't afford "residency" there... As for the "monegasque" language: every area has its own "dialect", or "patois", as we would say. "Monegasque", spoken by 5000 people...Great. I've been to Monaco many times, I've never heard it...Could be because I insist in having conversations in Esperanto only. Having said this, time to listen to the game, on..what else but radio Monte-Carlo? http://www.rmcinfo.fr/ Enjoy the game.
I'd like to think that I'm poking gentle fun at mes amis francaises, rather than trolling (which has the overtone of being mean-spirited). And as someone with a life-long obsession with tiny european principalities and obscure micronesian and carribbean islands, I'm well aware that many of them manipulate their distinctive status to give visitors and/or residents tax advantages. But that doesn't mean that they aren't separate nations;on the contrary, it's their status as separate that permits them to offer those tax breaks that larger countries can/do not. Here there's a hornets' nest of issues. There are all kinds of distinctions in types of languages, from the monolithic major ones to the small regional variations. Merely because a language is spoken by a small number doesn't mean it's not distinct--on the contrary, some of hte most distinctive languages are in danger of disappearing precisely because they're so unlike any others that they become isolated and ignored. Anyway the game is on now and I'm off bigsoccer because I don't want to see the score before I watch it on tivo tonight. Bonne chance you all. I really do hope you hold off chelsea and that we meet in the final.
Congrats to Deschamps and Monaco; let's hope that thinking about the CL final keeps you from thinking about PSG, Lyon and Le Championnat!
congratulation Monaco !! Chelsea made a very good first half, but the Monegasques were much more courageous!! P.S. : Association Sportive de Monaco Football Club is a French club who play in the French championship !!
a) a few months ago France beat Germany 0-3 in that same city. b) Marseille won the European cup in Munich 11 years ago. c) for those of you who think the Germans always defeat us in war; Jena, 1806, Napoleon's army annihilates the German army and the French cavalry pursues those remaining away for miles on. d) In response to one of your previous posts, there's no such thing as Monegasque football, they have always been part of the French Football Federation, without the FFF you have a Monaco national team that gets smashed by teams like Andorra and Malta. e) I think you're lost, go back to the Portugay forum https://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=178
What happened with Giuly in this game. He started him out of his best position up front instead of Prso and then he takes him out later on because he didnt play well. Im happy Monaco is going through but I am disapointed the way Giuly was handled I prefer he start at and play his natural and best position. I also dont understand why Nonda was brought in late in the game. I also wish Monaco could have won the game. I hope for the final if everyone is healthy thats its Morientes and Prso up front and Guily where he belongs.