France have strength on the wings and good crossers, would be silly not to play someone who's decent in the air. Giroud scored against Romania, Griezmann wasted a fair few chances.
Game 15: France vs Albania
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France have strength on the wings and good crossers, would be silly not to play someone who's decent in the air. Giroud scored against Romania, Griezmann wasted a fair few chances.
Evra is a bit of a liability.
Jesus Paddy
Evra 
Koscielny, why do people rate him in England? I've seen people praise him here as well. Low standards. Very low standards. Nothing player.
Griezmann is more than decent in the air though.
Oh Paddy.
I would be injured as well if I got my leg that has high
But I thought Pogba was the problem........................
This ref is Albanian.
Edit, that's not that bad (the high foot). One before is clearly a foul on Evra.
Edit, that's not that bad (the high foot). One before is clearly a foul on Evra.
Paddy trying to climb that Lila.
France need some more more creativity in the middle. No point having both Matuidi and Kanté as central midfielders against Albania.
Bloody hell, he's got a new contract at Juve? Must be 34/35 by now?
How did Evra escape a bookin then?
Get Pogba on for Matuidi quick.
Did Martial and Memphis bump heads or something?
Give him the right partner, one that compliments him well he's a pretty good player. Anyone else and he ends up looking quite bad. Saying that he's looking especially poor today.
Martial is trying to hard. As others have said the lack of a midfield passer means the ball isnt getting from Mf to attack quickly enough. Having giroud up top doesnt help either, Griezmann and cabaye would be the changes id make
By Caf standards he should be on life support.
Giroud only scored because of an error from the Romania GK. I'm fairly certain Griezmann would do better than him in the air as well. Further, France don't do much crossing unless it's from set pieces. Griezmann would do much better in this side than Giroud, there's no question about it.
Giroud just broke the fourth wall and asked the audience what was wrong with that.
Starting to worry about my accumulator now. France were first up and already look like they're gonna screw me.
Martial is poor, but at least he is trying and not hiding like many others. I am not sure why he deserves more criticism than any of Giroud and Coman who have been completely invisible and shit even when they had the ball.
Feck knows, mate.How did Evra escape a bookin then?
Martial is clearly not coming back out after the break.
France all over the place on set pieces.
The Germans will have a field day against this defence.
As bad as Breel Embolo was for Switzerland, Martial has been worse in this one. What happened to the wonderkids?
Possibly the worst half of the tournament so far.
This has been a bit shit..
Such a bad half from France.
Coman done a roulette though. That makes the rest of the 45 minutes irrelevant.
Zero goalscoring opportunities. It has been a terrible half
That's what happens when your midfield pairing is the limited Matuidi & Kante against a deep lying block.
Martial for Pogba is the next sub that has to be made.
Martial for Pogba is the next sub that has to be made.
Terrible half from France.
Very poor from France. Albania was more and more brave in the attack as the half wore on.
France are shite.
Awful half, get Griezmann on please.
Payet their best player.
Emre Mor had a good cameo the other day. Coman has been decentish. What other wonderkids are there.. Lallana ripped Russia a new one.