Arsenal fans got just what we wanted from our internationals tonight as both Laurent Koscielny and Olivier Giroud started for
France in their friendly game away to the Netherlands.
Not exact matches
We will have to wait and see whether the Arsenal and England defender Kieran Gibbs is selected by his national manager Roy Hodgson for the
friendly game against
France at Wembley tonight, which is bound to be an odd and emotionally charged encounter after the terrible terrorist attacks
in Paris, but with England wracked by injury problems and having to play a very young team, as well as the limp performance put
in by Ryan Bertrand at left back against Spain, I will be surprised if Gibbs does not start.
Vardy — arguably the Premier League's
in - form player at the moment — has scored 12 goals
in his last 12
games, becoming the only player to achieve such a feat
in the EPL, but will not be present for Tuesday's
friendly against
France after being ruled out through injury.
France have had five international breaks and 10
games in that time and they were all
friendlies as they qualified for this summer's tournament as hosts.
We want to win every
game,» «But we will be more tested
in these
friendlies coming up (against
France and Spain next month) and everyone wants to win competitions and make this country proud.
We were given a double whammy this morning when we found out that Aaron Ramsey and Olivier Giroud had both been sent back from international duty, after facing each other
in a
friendly game last week, which
France won 2 - 0 with Giroud scoring.
The manager of the
France national team, Didier Deschamps, has revealed that Benzema will start on the bench for the second
game in a row, when they take on Australia
in a
friendly match
in Paris tonight.
Since going down 1 - 0 at home to Belarus
in Laurent Blanc's first competitive
game in charge
in September 2010,
France have qualified for Euro 2012 — without recourse to the play - offs — and enjoyed
friendly wins over England, Brazil and the United States (as well as some forgettable draws against Croatia, Chile and Belgium).
He was the star man for his national team as they eased past Paraguay by 5 - 0
in a
friendly game, becoming the first player to score a hat - trick for
France in 17 years.
Their recent 3 - 2 defeat
in a
friendly at home to Colombia — a
game in which
France had led 2 - 0 — has raised more question marks over the team's attitude, but Pogba remains confident he and his teammates have what it takes to claim their country's second second World Cup tournament win.
Le Président has not yet signed his contract but
France's next
game, a
friendly against Norway
in Oslo on August 11, is less than two months anyway and he will already have formulated strong ideas about how he is going to approach his gargantuan task.
They are set to miss Arsenal's
games against Swansea, Tottenham and Bayern Munich
in the Champions League and
friendlies versus Spain and
France.
While it is nice that
games overall are making an effort to include more playable female characters,
in this case FIFA 16 is quite limited: there are only twelve national teams (Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, England,
France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Sweden and the United States) and three modes (offline
friendlies, online
friendlies and Tournament Mode).