Les Bleus Friendly Match Game Day

[Clara]

The friendly match between France and Sweden is on August 20th in Sweden.

According to FFF, call ups are as follows:

Gardiens de but:
Hugo Lloris (Lyon)
Steve Mandanda (Marseille)

Défenseurs:
Jean-Alain Boumsong (Lyon)
Gaël Clichy (Arsenal)
Patrice Evra (Manchester United)
Rod Fanni (Rennes)
William Gallas (Arsenal)
Philippe Mexès (Roma)
Bakary Sagna (Arsenal)

Milieux de terrain:
Alou Diarra (Bordeaux)
Lassana Diarra (Portsmouth)
Mathieu Flamini (Milan)
Jérémy Toulalan (Lyon)

Attaquants:
Florent Malouda (Chelsea)
Hatem Ben-Arfa (Marseille)
Yoann Gourcuff (Bordeaux)
Sidney Govou (Lyon)
Nicolas Anelka (Chelsea)
Karim Benzema (Lyon)
Thierry Henry (Barcelona)


Samir Nasri is missing, probably because of his injury to the knee. Monsieur Wenger insisted that the injury was minor, and that Nasri would be ready to play for their first fixture game of the season. Domenech probably took him out as a precaution.

Patrick Vieira, Franck Ribéry, François Clerc are out injured, and Eric Abidal probably isn't called up because he is suspended because of his Red Card against Italy during the Euros.

Unfortunately, I won't be able to watch the game since it's pretty hard to follow football (soccer, as I call them) in America. I will try to find useful streaming sites, or live blogs, and post them here as I find them.

[OLyonnais]

gourcuff isn't striker,malouda,govou and ben arfa aren't either. domenech has better solutions for abidal's position

[Clara]

Yes, they aren't strikers, so I don't really get why FFF listed them under "Attaquants." Maybe it's because they are offensive midfielders, whereas the players listed under "Milieux de Terrain" are defensive midfielders.

[Clara]

Hatem Ben Arfa is out (he's injured according to the article Alexandra showed me and according to FFF).
Samir Nasri is in.

[OLyonnais]

shit!!! i was looking forward to seeing hatem playing with karim

[Clara]

I know, me too. They play so great together too
Thankfully, Hatem's injury is not serious, so we should be able to see him play with Karim.

Will you watch the game?

[OLyonnais]

no,slovenia also plays.... with croatia

[Alexandra]

Sweden - France, today at 21:00 (French hour).
myP2P.eu will soon post the channel where you can watch it.

I suggest you download and install TVAnts, in case you don't have it, it rocks.

[Clara]

I can't download it because I have a MacBook, and these programs are for windows. It sucks. Just tell me how the game goes.

[Clara]

Nasri is out again.
No replacement has been named.