French squad for Ireland game

Gregory Coupet (Lyon)
Mickael Landreau (Nantes)

Jean-Alain Boumsong (Newcastle)
William Gallas (Chelsea)
Gael Givet (Monaco)
Willy Sagnol (Bayern Munich)
Sebastien Squillaci (Monaco)
Lilian Thuram (Juventus)
Jonathan Zebina (Juventus)

Vikash Dhorasoo (Paris St Germain)
Alou Diarra (Lens)
Claude Makelele (Chelsea)
Jerome Rothen (Paris St Germain)
Patrick Vieira (Juventus)
Zinedine Zidane (Real Madrid)
Ludovic Giuly (Barcelona)

Florent Malouda (Lyon)
Thierry Henry (Arsenal)
Sylvain Wiltord (Lyon)
Djibril Cisse (Liverpool)

i suppose a team would be something like this

coupet

thuram
gallas
sagnol
givet

makelele
vieira
zidane
rothen
giuly

henry

any other suggestions?

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Vikash Dhorasoo (Paris St Germain)

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Did he play for AC Milan last year?
If so, he can be fairly dangerous.

This is the team that beat the Ivory Coast 3-0:

Coupet, Thuram (Squillaci 24), Boumsong, Gallas, Sagnol, Dhorasoo, Makelele (Diarra 88), Zidane, Henry (Cisse 71), Wiltord (Trezeguet 80), Malouda (Rothen 71).

Subs Not Used: Landreau, Zebina, Givet, Vieira, Govou.

Vieira was injured.

Pires obviously hasn't made up with Domenech. I think that is good from our point of view.

Can anyone tell me about Dhorasoo & Malouda? I think I know enough about the rest to make a judgment.

I think some of our players are at least as good as any they have, in some cases actually better:

Given
Finnan
Duff
Roy Keane (who consistently did well against Vieira last year)
Robbie (at least as good as Wiltord).

Others in our set up are potentially good enough: Kilbane (MOTM in Paris), Carr (big game player?), Andy Reid if he's on form.

Thuram & Sagnol are good players but we should be far from in awe of them. Did Duff face Sagnol at all in Chelsea vs Bayern last year?

Boumsong is a bit of a Bobo Balde, strong but error prone.

Is Henry the same player away from Highbury? O'Brien has kept him scoreless a few times, though Henry has given Kenny C a few runarounds.

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Originally Posted by Stuttgart88

Can anyone tell me about Dhorasoo & Malouda? I think I know enough about the rest to make a judgment.

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Dhorasoo is a top player. He played against Celtic for Lyon and Milan. Milan bought him from Lyon after an impressive season but couldn't get into the Milan team. He's very pacy. Plays anywhere in front of the midfield. Probably competing with Guily or Rotten for a place in the team.

Malouda also played against Celtic but don't remember him.

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Originally Posted by eirebhoy

Probably competing with Guily or Rotten for a place in the team.

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Probably just a freudian slip but a good one, re Rothen

Malouda is a tricky left winger very highly rated!