Israel vs. France [R], FIFA World Cup Qualifying Round, 30.03.2005

Re: Yakin

lol. What a waste. You would have been better off getting Ronaldinho's name or Heinze's or Dehu's or Fiorese's or..............

Meh. Funny thing is, the move worked out well for both clubs. We finished second, won the cup - Basel broke the unbeaten games Swiss record and had a perfect start to a league campaign.

 

Israel really should have beaten France. I remember Grant said that he wanted to finish these 2 games with atleast 3 or 4 points and here we are with 2. We lost our chance to win our home games, now we really need to step it up. And like i read, someone else said that the Israeli players celebrated their equaliser like they won and the truth is they shouldn't have been that happy, they should have stayed focused and kept going to another one. Nimni sucks! i've always hated him and after the goal he missed i really despise him. Benayoun i was really disappointed in but i guess it is because of his injury. its too bad we didn't win. we really need to pray now....

 

I mentioned this in the French board:

How can France feel as if they're playing a man down when it was TREZEGUET who was red carded? We don't hear or see him unless he scores or if the ball is in the penalty area.

Sans defending set-pieces where his height and heading is used, Trezeguet being off the field should not affect our defense. Especially with THREE d-mids!

WTF?

My sister, the going to grad school psychologist, said it must have been: Psychological.

Also, Ben Haim who tackled Trez from behind. Let's also point out he tackled TREZEGUET, in the FRENCH HALF, from BEHIND.

WTF? again.

He doesn't dribble, his passes are sometimes wayward. What was Trezeguet's big threat? What was he doing? He was passing it even FURTHER BACK the French half!



*Then added today:

Oh look, Trez really is injured from the tackle, he's missing Juve's match v Fiorentina this weekend:

http://skysports.planetfootball.com...&channel=France

"It is upsetting, there is blood everywhere in my ankle," said Trezeguet. "It is hugely swollen.

"The defender just came to destroy me.

 

May I just say well done Israel to scrape a draw from the clutches of defeat twice, your team must have something about it.