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the lads in euro games
Topic Started: Sep 13 2007, 09:34 AM (21 Views)
Sheddy
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Claude Makelele and Florent Malouda both played the whole game for France on Wednesday night but were on the wrong end of the upset of Euro 2008 qualifying so far.

Playing in Paris, the French went down 1-0 to Scotland, a repeat of the result in Glasgow earlier in the campaign. The two defeats are the only ones suffered by France in qualification since 1999.

Malouda forced a first-half save and Makelele, with a rare volley, fired over but France, who also had the recently departed Lassana Diarra in their side, now fall out of the two qualification places in their group. They are third, two points behind the Scots and one behind Italy.

Andriy Shevchenko was in dangerous form against his old rivals from Serie A as Ukraine played Italy at home. The Chelsea striker hit the crossbar, forced Gianluigi Buffon into further saves and swept in a 71st minute equaliser after Italy failed to clear a corner. It was his 34th international goal on his 76th appearance.

However the Italians stuck again in the 77th minute for a 2-1 win which means Ukraine are struggling to make the Austria/Switzerland tournament. They are seven points off a qualification place but do have one game in hand.

There was satisfaction for Chelsea's England four who were part of a 3-0 win over Russia that has put their qualification campaign right back on track.

Joe Cole and Shaun Wright-Phillips were prominent attacking threats from wide positions, Cole playing for 88 minutes and Wright-Phillips completing his first full game for England on the occasion of his 15th cap.

John Terry and Ashley Cole chalked up another clean sheet. England move into the top two in their group, three points behind Croatia who visit Wembley in the final qualification game in November.

Also registering another shut-out was Petr Cech as the Czech Republic beat Republic of Ireland 1-0. Played in Prague, the challenge made by Reading's Stephen Hunt on the Chelsea keeper last season had not been forgotten by the crowd who booed Hunt after his 38th minute introduction.

The Ireland player was then shown a straight red card after a foul on 61 minutes.

The Czechs are in a comfortable second place, six points ahead of nearest challengers Ireland.

Paulo Ferreira returned as Portugal's left-back having missed out at the weekend and played 90 minutes but the 1-1 result at home to Serbia leaves them contesting a very tight group.
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Sheddy
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34th international goal for shev

lets hope he can do it for the blues

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saw the match, malouda was allowing himself to get wound up too easily last night. should be interesting to see how his season pans out. makalele, class as ever. think you may have made a mistake letting diara go, last two international games he has been outstanding, fast, aggressive, eager to attack and energetic enough to get back and cover when possesion has been lost. did he not play like this with you ?
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Sep 13 2007, 12:00 PM
saw the match, malouda was allowing himself to get wound up too easily last night. should be interesting to see how his season pans out. makalele, class as ever. think you may have made a mistake letting diara go, last two international games he has been outstanding, fast, aggressive, eager to attack and energetic enough to get back and cover when possesion has been lost. did he not play like this with you ?

Yes he did. I was surprised we let him go and in particular to a local rival. I'm well worried that it'll come back and bite us on the but, if not this season in seasons to come. :stress:
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