Anybody know any Sky gitital channels which are showing these games for free other than Setanta Sports. Any Israel or Swiss channels on the dish?????
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Anybody know any Sky gitital channels which are showing these games for free other than Setanta Sports. Any Israel or Swiss channels on the dish?????
Wednesday 30th March footie as follows
Austria and Wales - Sky Sports 1
Poland and Norn Iron - Sky Sports 2
England and Azerbaijan - BBC 1
Israel and France - Setanta
Cant see any others showing any Live football other than eurosport who are doing asian qualifiers
Selling the rights to anything that may interest Irish fans to Setanta really annoys me. They charge extortionate fees for generally poor products that I have no interest in. Why should we have to pay their monthly fee to see our national team play? I really don't see why Sky got rid and instead decided to show Wales games, which are just painful.
The French match doesn't appear to be on TV5, according to the schedule on their site.
Apparently French match is on French channel: C+ Sport.
Swiss match: Alfa TV, SF-2, and TSR / TSi 2
never heard of any of them.
They are all national (Swiss) channels.Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmyP
SF1/2: German
TSR1/2: French
TSI1/2: Italian
Alfa TV: never heard of it either.
As for the matches themselves,
I'm going for Israel to beat France and Swiss to beat Cyprus
I have an inkling that cyprus could run the swiss close
dunno why - just nagging in the back of my head - they have showed no form and the swiss have been good
Unfortunately I think both France and Switzerland will win tomorrow night. France are due a goal and Israel have their captain suspended along with their only Premiership player, Ben-Haim. I think the euphoria of their weekend result may be a little much for the Israelis. :) As for Switzerland, I thought their defending was appalling on Saturday night. However, I was impressed with their midfield and Frei up front. Also their right-back (Deggen??) was very impressive. It must be remembered that both Murat Yakin and Hakan Yakin were missing, and Vonlanthen was on the bench. I expect the Swiss to win comfortably tomorrow night.
I dont think either of them will win tonight unless you are talking about the U21 matches as the games are on tomorrow night. I think it will be a draw in Israel and Swiss will win. It would great if the Cypriots did us a favour though.
have a nasty feeling israel will collapse wednesday. France are not looking likely to score let alone hammer anybody - but if they put it up to them, Israel will implode. Hope I am wrong but can see the French winning 0-2/0-3 wednesday :eek: Henry has a habit of returning from a rest period/injury and playing a blinder.
Israel havent lost at home in something like 6 years. Plus Israel hates France and they are going to be up for this match tomorrow. I expect France to score but so will the Israelis. Im still putting money on a scoring draw.
I expect Switzerland to win. A draw would be a massive shock and unlikely to happen.
Ben Haim and Beneyoun are doubts while they also have a few suspensions.
Tal Ben Haim will play tomorrow
Yossi Benayoun will try to finish the training today, and we hope that he'll be able to play tomorrow.
As long as Ben Haim and Benayoun are fit to play, all we need is that Henry won't be able to play. As you know, Henry and Trezeguet are very dangerous together, and our defence will have much easier life without one of them.
Dunno if any of yous lads are exiles based in London(?), but if you are and you want to catch either of the games tomorrow, particluarly Israel - France, you could do worse than go to the Famous Three Kings in West Kensington. They've got about 10 different tv's, and usually have a huge selection of international matches on at the same time..
Israel's fitness could well be a factor, playing two tough ties so close together. Let's pray France don't run riot in the second half.
Benayoun declared fit and u-21 Israel beat France 3-2
I think that Israel could sneak this - dunno why - I cannot make up my mind what result I want - when you look at it a draw would defo seem good.
If Israel win - it really puts pressure on France - basically if Is win and we beat Israel and dont get beaten by France - it would be almost certain we would be above them.
Whereas if France win - I think it could really knock thestuffing out of Israel
but overall I want a draw or an Israel win
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Originally Posted by pronane
Erm, was this in response to my post, Pronane? If so, to answer your question, no idea where they get all the channels from i'm afraid (i guess european cable?), but they just do. There was one particular occasion when i was in the Famous Three Kings and they had Ireland, Wales, and Scotland matches on, plus France v Slovenia, Holland V Czech, and a couple of others. Admittedly a few of these were on small screens and with no sound, but still i've never come across a place before that had so much choice, and knew exactly what was going on. My local pub in South London couldnt even work out how to put the Wales game on on Saturday as it clashed with Eng/NIre :confused:
France will also have played two tough ties closely together.....
I think the Swiss will do Cyprus 2-0 and the French Israel game will be 0-0.
Added to that, France had a long flight to Israel where as the Israeli squad could relax after the weekend game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Saint Tom
Not to mention they've had quite a rough reception, nothing like the Irish ones have gotten. They're really gonna have the crowd against them tonight, unlike the Ireland match where the crowd was extremely quiet.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheJamaicanP.M.
I don't think we'll see another 0 - 0 from France. They did look much better against Switzerland, even if they didn't score, and the Israeli defence, well, IS there an Israeli defence? by far the weakest point in a very average team.
Am I right in saying that the Israeli defence will be further weakened by the absence of Ben-Haim and also their captain from the weekend who got suspended. The French did look quite slick at the weekend, although they missed so many chances. Still, a team that can create so many chances always worries me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shae_B2D
Well, Ben-Haim will play tonight, and the Israeli coach has surprisingly changed the line up of the defence for tonight, leaving Omri Afek outside and having Kalmi Savan as a defense player in the right side, also meaning he is adding Avi Nimni as a midfielder, and he plays at the back anyway. So since he moved everything around there, it might not be weakened too much.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheJamaicanP.M.
Can't you predict an Israeli win and marching orders for Domenech demain matin? it's always more fun to see the French lose.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuff Paddy
Hope they don't sack their manager. We always seem to meet teams just as they've got a new manager and we feel the backlash :eek:
As far as I'm concerned they can keep losing with a new manager as well. See if I care.Quote:
Originally Posted by OwlsFan
Supposedly people are doubting Israel's fitness, that two ties in the same week at such a high level will be asking a lot of their domestic players, who aren't used to two ties in the same week. Teams in Europe are more accustomed to it. That's why I made the comment about praying France don't run riot in the 2nd half.Quote:
Originally Posted by Saint Tom
Anyone have a link to that site that's supposed to be broadcasting Israel v France? If you search Livesports LS1 on yahoo.com for instance (i believe) it'll get you there. However, i think the site is in Hebrew so it's hard to navigate. A direct link would be great.
In the meantime, I'll be brushing up on my Hebrew.
Nevermind, found it. http://www.livesports.co.il/
20:50 local, 18:50 GMT, I believe.Quote:
Originally Posted by pronane
Currently I don't see any direct link to the game at Livesports, btw.
Yeah, didn't that happen just before we played Russia at home? Israel beat the 2-0 in Russia, they sacked their coach & the new one brought back all their old, good players. See, Israel even did their best to stop us qaulifying last time too.Quote:
Originally Posted by OwlsFan
hmm, err, hmm, eh. Don't hold that against all Israelis. Some of us will prefer to see you qualify over our own team. Personally, I want to have you guys in first place in the group and us second. and the French nowhere. but for that cause i'm even willing to let the Faroe Islands finishing second and above us, as long as it means the French are out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
And, well, the French have been playing bad for quite a while now, Euro 2004, anyone? It will take more than a new manager to get them look like the team which won the WC and Euros not too long ago.
[QUOTE=Shae_B2D]hmm, err, hmm, eh. Don't hold that against all Israelis. Some of us will prefer to see you qualify over our own team. Personally, I want to have you guys in first place in the group and us second. and the French nowhere. but for that cause i'm even willing to let the Faroe Islands finishing second and above us, as long as it means the French are out.QUOTE]
Jaysus. Well said! :)
[QUOTE=Tipp Townie]well... I'm not alone. don't think the French have ever heard their national anthem booed so much as it was today... Not for such behavior usually, but the French (anyone said Barthez) earned it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shae_B2D
Anyone wants updates from the game?
Fabien Barthez 16
Jean-Alain Boumsong 2
Alou Diarra 15
William Gallas 5
Gael Givet 17
Willy Sagnol 19
Benoit Pedretti 18
Patrick Vieira 4
Florent Malouda 7
David Trezeguet 20
Sylvain Wiltord 11
Subs
Gregory Coupet 23
Eric Abidal 14
Jonathan Zebina 3
Vikash Dhorasoo 13
Ludovic Giuly 8
Thierry Henry 12
Steve Marlet 21
The French line up. Henry and Giuly only on the bench?
0-0 in both games so far. Half an hour and 10 mins gone in the Swiss and French games respectively.
Not 10 min yet, starting the 9th min now. Already one Israeli player who got a yellow card and will miss the away game in Dublin, Walid Badir.
Malouda just missed a good opportunity to score.
yes please keep the updates coming as i am unable to watch the match in my corner of the world
also does anyone know anywhere you can listen to the match online in english? thanks
Israel have proved in the first 10 minutes how good they can be. They are playing better so far than we have played in any of our games. They gave us too much respect but they're a decent team.
Crap. The Swiss are 1 up. :mad: