World Cup: Group C: France vs. Australia, 6/16/2018

[Live in the Now]

France

Coach: Didier Deschamps

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	GK	Hugo Lloris (captain)	26 December 1986 (aged 31)	97	0	Tottenham Hotspur
2	DF	Benjamin Pavard	28 March 1996 (aged 22)	5	0	VfB Stuttgart
3	DF	Presnel Kimpembe	13 August 1995 (aged 22)	2	0	Paris Saint-Germain
4	DF	Raphaël Varane	25 April 1993 (aged 25)	41	2	Real Madrid
5	DF	Samuel Umtiti	14 November 1993 (aged 24)	18	2	Barcelona
6	MF	Paul Pogba	15 March 1993 (aged 25)	53	9	Manchester United
7	FW	Antoine Griezmann	21 March 1991 (aged 27)	53	20	Atlético Madrid
8	FW	Thomas Lemar	12 November 1995 (aged 22)	11	3	Monaco
9	FW	Olivier Giroud	30 September 1986 (aged 31)	73	31	Chelsea
10	FW	Kylian Mbappé	20 December 1998 (aged 19)	14	3	Paris Saint-Germain
11	FW	Ousmane Dembélé	15 May 1997 (aged 21)	11	2	Barcelona
12	MF	Corentin Tolisso	3 August 1994 (aged 23)	8	0	Bayern Munich
13	MF	N'Golo Kanté	29 March 1991 (aged 27)	23	1	Chelsea
14	MF	Blaise Matuidi	9 April 1987 (aged 31)	66	9	Juventus
15	MF	Steven Nzonzi	15 December 1988 (aged 29)	4	0	Sevilla
16	GK	Steve Mandanda	28 March 1985 (aged 33)	27	0	Marseille
17	DF	Adil Rami	27 December 1985 (aged 32)	35	1	Marseille
18	FW	Nabil Fekir	18 July 1993 (aged 24)	11	2	Lyon
19	DF	Djibril Sidibé	29 July 1992 (aged 25)	16	1	Monaco
20	FW	Florian Thauvin	26 January 1993 (aged 25)	4	0	Marseille
21	DF	Lucas Hernández	14 February 1996 (aged 22)	4	0	Atlético Madrid
22	DF	Benjamin Mendy	17 July 1994 (aged 23)	6	0	Manchester City
23	GK	Alphonse Areola	27 February 1993 (aged 25)	0	0	Paris Saint-Germain

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Australia

Coach: Bert van Marwijk

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	GK	Mathew Ryan	8 April 1992 (aged 26)	43	0	Brighton & Hove Albion
2	DF	Milos Degenek	28 April 1994 (aged 24)	18	0	Yokohama F. Marinos
3	DF	James Meredith	5 April 1988 (aged 30)	2	0	Millwall
4	FW	Tim Cahill	6 December 1979 (aged 38)	105	50	Millwall
5	DF	Mark Milligan	4 August 1985 (aged 32)	70	6	Al-Ahli
6	DF	Matthew Jurman	8 December 1989 (aged 28)	4	0	Suwon Samsung Bluewings
7	FW	Mathew Leckie	4 February 1991 (aged 27)	52	8	Hertha BSC
8	MF	Massimo Luongo	25 September 1992 (aged 25)	35	5	Queens Park Rangers
9	FW	Tomi Juric	22 July 1991 (aged 26)	34	8	Luzern
10	FW	Robbie Kruse	5 October 1988 (aged 29)	63	5	VfL Bochum
11	FW	Andrew Nabbout	17 December 1992 (aged 25)	3	1	Urawa Red Diamonds
12	GK	Brad Jones	19 March 1982 (aged 36)	5	0	Feyenoord
13	MF	Aaron Mooy	15 September 1990 (aged 27)	33	5	Huddersfield Town
14	FW	Jamie Maclaren	29 July 1993 (aged 24)	6	0	Hibernian
15	MF	Mile Jedinak (captain)	3 August 1984 (aged 33)	75	18	Aston Villa
16	DF	Aziz Behich	16 December 1990 (aged 27)	22	2	Bursaspor
17	FW	Daniel Arzani	4 January 1999 (aged 19)	1	0	Melbourne City
18	GK	Danny Vukovic	27 March 1985 (aged 33)	1	0	Genk
19	DF	Josh Risdon	27 July 1992 (aged 25)	7	0	Western Sydney Wanderers
20	DF	Trent Sainsbury	5 January 1992 (aged 26)	34	3	Grasshoppers
21	FW	Dimitri Petratos	10 November 1992 (aged 25)	2	0	Newcastle Jets
22	MF	Jackson Irvine	7 March 1993 (aged 25)	18	2	Hull City
23	MF	Tom Rogic	16 December 1992 (aged 25)	36	7	Celtic

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The Australia team is decent, but they are obviously MASSIVELY overmatched here. Could scrape results in the other two games.

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[Savant]

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Just had to be Rami. Evilo is going to love that.

 

[Evilo]

Rami's purpose is to be a sparing partner.... Not a Pepe clone.

 

[cgf]

So I was watching a WC preview thing on youtube from Australia and before talking about the contenders, they talked about their socceroos. And one of the commentators (a silverfox named Foster) made a point about how this marking Australia's 4th consecutive WC appearance highlighted the Australian federation's failure to take advantage of their unique qualifying position to plan long-term with their NT to develop a real identity & style that could let them someday do something more than just qualify for the World Cup every cycle. Since Australia are going to have more world cup games in the future & probably a lot more world cup losses, he argued that they should worry more about how they lose & their long-term plan than whether they can eek out a point or two by playing anti-football at the WC, or not.

It was easily the most cogent & insightful NT analysis that I can remember hearing made before a WC in english or german media. Shame the Aussie's chickened out & brought in BvM for this tourney on an interim basis. Hopefully, the next guy is given the rope to really shape them in qualifying, even if that makes the process a little more nervewracking for them than it has been in other cycles.

 

[Evilo]

Sooooo, it seems DD has once again seen the light right before the tournament's start.

He's going to lineup Pavard and Lucas at FB (Sidibe and Mendy are really short in terms of coming off injury) who have been extremely good when played.
In midfield, Tolisso will replace Matuidi and play with Kante and Pogba. Good.
And up front, no Giroud, and Dembele, Griez and Mbappe will start instead.

That looks fantastic. Hopefully they play together like their potential suggests.

 

[maclean]

Dembele, Griez and Mbappe will start instead.

Really curious to see how these three gel! Drool-worthy on paper and I feel a very disparate skillset

 

[cgf]

Sooooo, it seems DD has once again seen the light right before the tournament's start.

He's going to lineup Pavard and Lucas at FB (Sidibe and Mendy are really short in terms of coming off injury) who have been extremely good when played.
In midfield, Tolisso will replace Matuidi and play with Kante and Pogba. Good.
And up front, no Giroud, and Dembele, Griez and Mbappe will start instead.

That looks fantastic. Hopefully they play together like their potential suggests.

Son of a...

Well now I have to hope that your players are so complacent that they convince DD he was mistaken & you need Matuidi & Giroud's leadership back in the starting 11!

 

[Evilo]

Really curious to see how these three gel! Drool-worthy on paper and I feel a very disparate skillset

We already know Mbappe and Griez love to play together.

 

[Suiteness]

Is Mbappe/Dembele optimal for a team that will inevitably park the bus? I believe Fekir instead of Dembele at the start would be more adequate in this situation. Ironically, Australia is the type of opposition against whom Giroud would be most effective.

 

[Bon Esprit]

This one is not going to end well for the Aussies. 3 or 4 I'd guess.

 

[darko]

So I was watching a WC preview thing on youtube from Australia and before talking about the contenders, they talked about their socceroos. And one of the commentators (a silverfox named Foster) made a point about how this marking Australia's 4th consecutive WC appearance highlighted the Australian federation's failure to take advantage of their unique qualifying position to plan long-term with their NT to develop a real identity & style that could let them someday do something more than just qualify for the World Cup every cycle. Since Australia are going to have more world cup games in the future & probably a lot more world cup losses, he argued that they should worry more about how they lose & their long-term plan than whether they can eek out a point or two by playing anti-football at the WC, or not.

It was easily the most cogent & insightful NT analysis that I can remember hearing made before a WC in english or german media. Shame the Aussie's chickened out & brought in BvM for this tourney on an interim basis. Hopefully, the next guy is given the rope to really shape them in qualifying, even if that makes the process a little more nervewracking for them than it has been in other cycles.

Next guy is Graham Arnold. Notorious for preaching boring football.

 

[Evilo]

News of Lloris' death have been greatly exaggerated.

 

[Sol]

Australia pressing the attack.

 

[robertmac43]

Australlia is looking oddly comfortable in this match. Mooy is looking amazing thus far for Australia, slowing it down and getting some good looks

 

[robertmac43]

Just waiting for the French to flick the switch and bag the first one

 

[darko]

Some top notch diving by France.

 

[Suiteness]

Expected Australia to be way more negative than this, I'm pleasently surprised.

 

[Sol]

Some top notch diving by France.

For sure.

 

[robertmac43]

Expected Australia to be way more negative than this, I'm pleasently surprised.

Putting on a tackling clinic atm

 

[Shrimper]

Moaning Lawrenson is hilarious at times.

 

[LemmyUlanov55]

Expected Australia to be way more negative than this, I'm pleasently surprised.

Well, van Marwejk and his son in law seem to be a pretty good fit for the australiens..

France needs to pick up their movement in midfield, no pace and lazy pressing won't do it against those aussies..

 

[robertmac43]

How long before Giroud get the call?

 

[Ceremony]

This might be worse than the Iran game yesterday

 

[Savi]

France very underwhelming so far.