Red Letter Day: Rangers vs. Lyon Lineups
By: Inara | December 12th, 2007OMG I am scared shitless. ALLEZ LYONNAIS!!!
Lyon:
Vercoutre
Clerc - Squillaci - Anderson - Grosso
Juninho - Toulalan - Kallstrom
Govou - Benzema - Ben Arfa
Bench: Roux, Reveillere, Bodmer, Baros, Remy, Belhadj, Keita
Rangers:
McGregor
Hutton Cuellar Weir Papac
Hemdani
Whittaker Ferguson Thomson McCulloch
Cousin
Bench: Carroll, Boyd, Adam, Darcheville, Broadfoot, Naismith, Faye
Feel free to post commentary, frustrations, and thoughts here during and after the game.
Selected viewing options:
There are A LOT, which makes sense since this THE game of Matchday 6. As always, if one link doesn’t work, try another. For a full list of various streams (including for media player and TVants), click here or here. . Here are some of them:
Sopcast: sop://202.190.75.149:3912/2109 (English), sop://broker.sopcast.com:3912/34443 (English), sop://broker.sopcast.com:3912/32146
Channel Surfing (recommended, IE only): http://www.channelsurfing.net/watch-espn-star.html
Additionally, UEFA (ESPN Soccernet) is also selling the stream on their website, for $7.95. ESPN360 will be streaming this match free on their website. The only hitch is that not all internet providers allow access to ESPN360 (Comcast in Boston doesn’t), but try anyway. Thanks to Ronald for the link! And for those of you who live in the United States, don’t forget that ESPN2 will be broadcasting this match live, so you can watch the game from the comfort of your own couch.
Category: Champions League
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Can i just take some time out to congratulate Lyon on a fantastic in in glasgow, i am heartbroken but i have to admit that the best team won!
Jean Claude Darchevilles miss will live with me forever as i was actually celebrating the goal.
Benzema is quite a player, easily outshone Juninho and you will do well to get him on a long contract!It has been nice chatting with you lot, especially Inara and your love for your team is clear, good luck in the later stages of the champions league, and good luck in ligue 1 as well.
If Lyon can avoid Man Utd and Chelseas, who knows.
Again, well done and good luck.
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And how much has this match added to Benzema’s market value? Henry must be starting to watch his back.
Wow this was a score line I didn’t expect but boy it feels good.
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Well, as usual, Scots choke.
Told ya.Posted from
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Thanks Mark and sincerely sorry for you and your team. This group was a cruel one. Good luck to you in UEFA Cup.
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Cheers Thierry, ahhhh the UEFA cup, i look forward to scrambling for tickets to poland and khazakstan….you will notice my sense of humour is still intact!
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Yes, Mark. I’m a big fan of the Tartan Army and am genuinely sorry you couldn’t go through instead of Barca. Best of luck and a better group draw next year!
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LOL. who know you could win it.
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Mark: Thanks so much for your kind words. I know the defeat hurts but Rangers have a lot to be proud of. Lyon did qualify but at the end of the day it just comes down to experience. But you guys made us suffer a home defeat, something that not even the likes of Barca, Milan, MU, Bayern or Real have ever accomplished. And not only that, but that was our biggest European home defeat ever. And even today, Rangers played with a lot of heart and could have qualified if Darcheville had scored. No use crying over spilled milk of course, but next year the players will have that much needed experience under their belts. It wasn’t too long ago when Lyon were in the exact same situation Rangers are in (actually, that was only five years ago). Good luck in the UEFA Cup!
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Whoever said that Benzema would get a hat trick had a very good guess. Benzema got a brace and could easily have gotten two more goals if he had better finishing.
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My heart is still beating so hard !
I loved this game… ! I’m hurry about coming in Gerland for next round !!Posted from
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I just couldn’t take it anymore before the second goal. Lyon were playing so defensive for 20 minutes! Here are some of my comments on the game, they are in French, so sorry for this, but i don’t have time to translate right now!
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We want videos of Tommy Smyth : yeah when he had to “manger son chapeau” LIVE!!! Please Inara show us this embarrassing moment for our dear friend : I am sure that he is expressing his lack of understanding of such a performance from a French team ;b
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Bon, que dire de ce match:
Deja, je pense que la victoire est merite sur l’ensemble du match, meme si les Rangers ont fait un beau forcing pendant 20 minutes avant le second but. Je suis vraiment content de la prestation de l’equipe. Parlons un peu des joueurs:Benzema a encore montre l’etendu de son talent avec ses deux buts et ses raids solitaires, il est vraiment incroyable. Il a fait prevue cependant d’un peu de complaisance sur son action de but pour le 2-0 ou il dribble le gardien… Ca a d’ailleurs failli couter cher a l’autre bout du terrain. Mais la je cherche vraiment la critique, car il faut bien avouer qu’il est hors norme. Il perce, il temporise, il passe, il cadre, il controle, il reste debout et va au contact. Bref pour moi avec Messi, c’est le joueur du moment en Europe.
Govou a fait une excellente premiere mi-temps (recompense d’un but) meme si il rate une occase enorme. Cependant, il a bien su defender quand Grosso partait a la charge comme un tare! Je pense d’ailleurs que Govou devrait tout le temps etre aligne a gauche avec Grosso, car il sait defender, et Cela permet de compenser les errements defensives de l’italien. Sydney a quand meme ete plus transparent en deuxieme mi-temps, un remplacement logique donc.
Ben Arfa n’a pas du totu ose alle au contact aujourd’hui (il aime pas se salir peut-etre). Je trouve curieux de voir qu’il soit si bon en dribble a l’arret, par contre il a du mal a passer les joueurs en mouvement. On a quand meme pu voir sa grande complementarite avec Benzema sur le premier but. Tout de suite il a su ou Benzema allait partir.
Kallstrom a ete plutot invisible sur ce match, mais ses placements ont gene l’adversaire.
Juninho a ete vraiment tres bon meme si il n’a pas tellement ete influent en attaque. Il a ete tres bon sur ses 2 coup-francs, mais il a surtout etait exceptionnel pour canaliser ses co-equipiers quand Rangers a assailli les Lyonnais pendant 20 minutes. Il a su calmer le jeu des qu’il avait le ballon et permettre ainsi aux autres de remonter. Bref, du bon capitanat pour moi.
Toulalan… Toulalan… que dire, il a ete genial. Il sait tout faire cet home la sauf marquer. Le plus present dans les duels avec Squillaci. Il a aussi fait des percees magnifiques. Bref, du grand art.
La defense quand a elle ne doit son salut qu’a Squillaci qui a ete de tous les combats. Grosso a bien apporte offensivement mais a encore ete plus que friable en defense. Anderson n’a quasiment pas touché de ballons, quand a Clerc, il a rien fait non plus. Bref, je suis content que Rangers n’a pas plus utiliser les ailes et fait de centres, car sinon le match aurait ete tres different. Vercoutre quand a lui a encore ete moyen dans les airs (il frole de se mettre un c.s.c. sur la claquette). D’ailleurs il semblerait que ce soit toujours quand les ballons aeriens viennent de sa gauche qu’il a du mal. Ce qui d’ailleurs est un probleme vu notre faiblesse de se cote au niveau defensive.
J’ai ete un peu surprise du choix tactique de Perrin de faire rentrer Bodmer pour Ben Arfa. Il est impossible pour Juninho, Kallstrom et Bodmer de jouer ensemble au milieu (ils se marchent dessus), et l’equipe commencait a reculer mechamment (C’est comme jouer a 10). D’ailleurs des que Perrin a sorti Juninho, Bodmer a pu se faire une petite place et l’equipe a pu remonter (bien aide par le second but il faut bien le reconnaitre).
Donc, je suis tres content de la victoire, mais faudra vraiment revoir la defense d’ici fevrier et la reception d’un cador!
Allez, vivement le tirage au sort!
N.B.: Meme si Baros n’a pas touché le ballon, Benzema a encore marquee 2 buts avec lui en soutien… Un attaquant de soutien cree des espaces pour notre prodige
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Wouah, lots of spelling mistakes and no accents, sorry! Japanese keyboards can be a pain to write French
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Pride of Lyon, I’m going to watch the game in about half an hour. I’m storing your player ratings away to see if I agree.
(And Karim? I don’t care if you do turn twenty next week. My offer to adopt you still stands.)
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Oh, and for what it’s worth? I found a French keyboard a pain to write English.
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Laurie : Yes, I know it was a pointless comment, I am just like Aulas trying to find an excuse for everything!
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Laurie : the worse thing about it is that it is a Japanese keyboard, and the word I am using doesn’t know French, so everytime I write a word like “defensif” it changes into “defensive” and so on… French are so good to find excuses, glad I don’t have to find some for my team today.
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I love this team so much. What a great early Christmas present.
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word
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Word software (sorry)
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laurie’s probably on about qwerty v. azerty… but i have one at work and the other at home, and my fingers have learned to handle BOTH with astonishing ease. writing french w/accents on a qwerty board otoh is a bitch…
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accents are simple on a qwerty. for a “e” with accent aigu press Alt+1+3+0(or is it five?).
No japanese keyboards are way past that. Accents don’t even exist on mobile phones (from which I write now).
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Laurie I’m sure ‘older’ adoptions are perfectly valid (assuming his parents don’t mind signing over the future demi god of football).
I’m currently exploring college options for my oldest son and we’ve just visited one that turned out to be Karim’s old school and which links up with OL to do daily after school football training. Can you imagine how difficult it now is to persuade my son to even visit another school? Interesting however the school really put a strong emphasis on respect and consideration, above all else including academic achievement. Benzema is actually a pretty good role model for their alumni.
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Storm, that’s really cool that your son may end up attending Benzema’s school. Does your son play football?
Interestingly, I read an interview from one of Benzema’s teachers, who said that while he wasn’t that great at academics, he was very professional about it and always determined to do his best. I can just imagine a younger Karim sitting at a desk agonizing over a spelling rest.
Just adorable really. I wonder who he sat with in the cafeteria!
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