Germany V. France

Last time we won in France: 78 years ago

great and open game, ribery is awesome and benzema should have scored that, france should be leading the score

France 1-0 Valbuena scores

Sissoko assist

Take Gomez off pls

Benz free kick right before the goal was amazing!!! post was shaking for few secs

Capoue what a moron

1-1 Muller.

Ribery is so f*cking selfish Pep won't like that

Also what a f*cking pass from Ozil

2-1.

France

Germany making up for their U-21 loss to Italia today

René Adler is looking really good today. (Hugo Lloris had some great saves, too, btw.)

Don't know how France haven't scored with all those chances created. Ribery and Benz Adler keeping them in the game.

rwo i saw somer today for an entire game ^^ the moment i saw his face i thought of you haha, he didnt have much to do though

sorry for the off topic**

Idiot wrote:rwo i saw somer today for an entire game ^^ the moment i saw his face i thought of you haha, he didnt have much to do though

sorry for the off topic**

Switzerland has their own thread: http://www.goallegacy.net/t21313p18-swiss-nt#811507

As for France-Germany - it was about time that we'd win in France ^^

France were pretty meh tbh....

Ribery, Cabaye and Valbeuna being the stand outs but the rest seem to treat it like it was a friendly.

Fullbacks were not good enough on the France side either, if you have wingers that come inside you're fullbacks have to provide some attacking impetus and you could have had a cone on both sides and wouldn't have done any worse.

As long our players haven't got injured though

Not sure what Deschamps was thinking putting Sissoko on the wing with Sagna at RB though, almost as bad as us putting Cisse on the wing and Simpson at RB

Well, today Schmelzer, Reus, Götze and Schweinsteiger were out, so there was not much chance for Löw but to try and make do without them ^^

Was impressed with Matuidi shows why he's above Capoue atm he's just so much better.

Agreed on Rami too.

As for Sissoko i think he can play well at this level if he plays in the middle, out wide is just a waste.

I do find when watching France there's too much individualism and not enough team play and until that changes i can't see much progress in the short term.

Can't agree on Evra and Sagna, from a defensive side they were very solid but they need to be offering more going forward with the game so central focused.

I saw this game simultaneously as much as I could along with Italia. France have a fantastic future.

Sissokho cannot be blamed in not defending as he is more of a Box-to-Box player with strengths in his creativity. I don't know why everyone is baffled when he doesn't defend.

I panned Benzema today as his finishing was awful but the amount of touches he received with the ball was encouraging as he knew how to get in all the right positions and created a flurry of chances.

Ribery absolutely ripped Phillip Lahm a new whole. Humiliation there.

France's midfield unsurprisingly was overtaken when (take a guess)....Matudi went off as he completely shored the German midfield and plugged the open gaps within the first half with his tireless running. France as a whole didn't move as well along with not looking as dynamic without him.
Sagna was fantastic and didn't put a foot wrong all night.

MOTM for me was Ribery and my personal choice, Y.Cabaye. Fantastic performance and held his own vs the German midfield with excellent ground covered, kept France ticking, kept the wide areas flowing. Superb from the Frenchman.

Fair enough Sports lol, its either AM or forget it tbh.

CM he doesn't offer enough defensively and on the wing he's just flat out wasted, i understand he's played there before but he's still wasted as far as i'm concerned... get Valbeuna out there and proper AM in the middle or what ever but Sissoko out there is not going to work.

Sissokho is a Box-to-box player who needs freedom to express that trait in between the lines. If he is expected to just create or defend as a mez'zala it will not take advantage of his all round game. He simply needs more time in France under Deschamps.

Benzema for France is being almost as a 9 (without the False and a half term) which is a square peg in a round hole. He cannot be expected to perform in a role outside his comfort zone. He is at his best playing a Cassano type SS/#10 role 'off' and around the play of a target man. In other words someone like Giroud and dare I say? Bafetembi Gomis.

Grenier and Gourcuff need to be called up again. Alessandrini needs to get more chances to prove himself.

Valbuena is an absolute monster. Insanely underrated player as I personally rate him even above Ribery. Yes, I said that.

Mertesacker and Hummels were solid as f*ck, Lahm was struggling against Ribery but did very well in some occassions, Höwedes - can't blame him for playing out of position although didn't have much to do.

Defence should be: Lahm - Mertesacker - Hummels - Schmelzer

My only problem for me is the strikers position, Gomez just doesn't fit in there in my opinion and with Klose out for far too much - there's no one else to fill in... not to mention Löw's reluctance to call up other strikers like Kießling, Meier etc... I think that's the biggest problem for now and not the defence.

Sports heard Koscielny was brilliant but got an injury ?

Good to see Sagna is doing this good despite playing with a bruised ankle since weeks ( wenger mentioned this on TF1 )

Koscielny and Sakho were immense tbf as was Cabaye and Matuidi in front of them.

Its when France brought on Capoue and Rami where things went to shit