European competition
Following the French reppers in the Champions League, UEFA Cup, friendly matches with all sorts of teams, and anything else.
France Fans, Let’s Get Ready for Euros!
By: Laurie |
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Hey, France fans. There is less than a month to go before the start of Euro 2008. This means it’s time to start preparing ourselves.
From now through the start of Euros, the France National Team page over at World Cup Blog will be running daily polls about issues affecting the team. [...]
Category: European competition“Le point sur” Lyon and Marseille’s Chances in the Champions League
By: Sam | 3 Comments
After the results were final in Matchday 5, Lyon knew their hopes of going through to the knockout stages of the Champions League, which they had so poorly started, rested on their shoulders and theirs alone.
In all fairness, the same can’t be said for Marseille, who kicked off their campaign with a bang, beating Besiktas [...]
European Round-Up: Lyon Awakens, Marseille Rides Luck, UEFA Cupsters Kick Off
By: Sam | 1 Comment
Here’s an interesting role-change: Usually French clubs are lacking a bit of everything in the Champions League, and solid in the UEFA Cup. This week’s European fiesta had that changed around, with Lyon and Marseille winning and drawing respectively, and the UEFA Cup contenders gathering a win to go with two losses.
The big story was [...]
Peut-être! Allez! Oui! Égalisation! But! But! C’est fabuleux! Gignac surgit! Oui! Toulouse est qualifié!
By: Sam | 1 Comment
Sometimes words speak louder than actions.
Misson Somewhat Accomplished for UEFA Cupsters
By: Sam | No Comments
With one quarter of the Ligue 1 clubs competing in the first round of the UEFA Cup, whose second leg was disputed this week, you knew not all of them would go through, especially since it wasn’t by any means the top of the crop repping the ligue. Well, out of the five, three went [...]
Category: Bordeaux (FCGB), European competition, France Ligue 1, Lens (RCL), Rennes (SRFC), Sochaux (FCSM), Team News, Toulouse (TFC), UEFA Champions League
Tags: Bordeaux (FCGB), Bulgaria, CSKA, Denmark, European competition, France Ligue 1, Greece, Kobenvahn, Lens (RCL), Lokomotiv, Marcus Allback, Panonios, Rennes (SRFC), Sochaux (FCSM), Tampere, Team News, Toulouse (TFC), UEFA Champions LeagueLyon (x) = Good, Marseille (y) = Bad. If League = Champions, Reverse Function
By: Sam | 6 Comments
And the mystery continues. Lyon sucks in the Champions League, but are top in the Ligue. Marseille are outside the relegation zone on goal differential at home, but manage to beat the finalists of the most prestigious club comptetion in the world, at their stadium. Any theories?
Marseille were 7-1 to lose the match at Anfield, [...]
The Daily-Or-So News Dispatch (07.09.30)
By: Sam | 1 Comment
+ This weekend we had the chance to catch up on late matches from Week 3, and the first one was Lyon-Lens at Gerland. Lyon could go top if they took it by three goals. They did. A smart goal by Fabio Santos (I know! Isn’t that weird?), and two spectacular ones from Kimmy Kallström [...]
Représente ta ligue: Not a Bad UEFA Cup Start for our Boys
By: Sam | No Comments
If you’re a France fan, it’s hard not to be a UEFA Cup fan. We rock at it, before the knockout round at least. If we could only be as good in the Champions League, we’d be set. Regardless, the lesser-cup fans were delighted today with the 38 matches being played from Russia to Scotland [...]
The Daily-Or-So News Dispatch (07.09.19)
By: Sam | No Comments
The big news on the French football front today was of course Lyon’s slap-in-the-face trip to Barcelona, but let’s not forget the other goings-on around the league, with other clubs gearing up for their UEFA Cup matches tomorrow, Ligue 2’s Week 7, and what Raymond Domenech has to say about Marseille’s chances in the Champions [...]
Représente ta ligue: The Lyon Sleeps Tonight
By: Sam | 3 Comments
Yes, I insist on using that headline every time, what of it? You’ve probably heard: Olympique Lyonnais were destroyed by Barcelona, Lionel Messi in particular, in Matchday 1 of the UEFA Champions League. Total humiliation, as some would have it.
Lyon are now on the bottom of Group E, after being thoroughly dominated by the Catalonians [...]
Tags: Barcelona, European competition, France Ligue 1, Group E, Lionel Messi, Lyon (OL), Nou Camp, Thierry Henry, UEFA Champions League
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