FRIDAY NOVEMBER 30th
Next email will be sent at 16.00 UK time today and will cover the final round of J-League matches.
As usual, on a Friday at this time of year, the focus is on Ligue 2, but I can start with a few words about the FA Cup second round tie between Bradford City and Brentford. City have played a lot of matches, two more than the Bees in the last month, they have played a midweek match for five straight weeks before this and are distracted by their Capital One Cup game with Arsenal in 11 days time. They are a big club at L2 level and really have to have promotion as a priority, they play a JPT game next midweek too. Reading between the lines, I think they will field a strong team today and rest as many as possible for the Port Vale match. It is very cold in the UK, especially up North with below freezing temperatures forecast for kick off. Brentford will rotate their squad, but we have talked many times about the keen competition for starting places and they have very good options in almost every position. They are keen to win, boss Uwe Rosler has been "promised" he can use any funds generated from a big third round tie to further strengthen the squad, they have had City watched, highlighted some of their set pieces and have been putting in extra work on the training pitch this week to combat these plays. Unfortunately, I think the odds are just about correct, so no involvement from me, however , I can point out that City have been especially vunerable just before the break, conceding 29% of all their goals between the 30-45th minute, duruing the same period the Bees have yet to concede a single goal.
FRANCE LIGUE 2:
ARLES- LE MANS
Hosts did us a favour last week with their derby win at Istres, when I wrote....
The decision to replace Thierry Laurey as Arles coach with youth academy boss Pierre Mosca was not popular with supporters or players alike, but it is done now and everyone has had 18 days to come to terms with the interim appointment. Mosca started with a 3-0 defeat to Laval, but has had 14 virtually free days to work with the players and get his ideas across and they stopped the rot ( one Ligue 2 win in ten) with a 1-0 road cup win, albeit against lowly opposition, last weekend. He now needs to get something from the derby game with neighbours Istres, where a result will get everyone on his side and he is helped in this endeavour by the return from suspension of defensive midfielder Julien Cardy (14-1-0) and from injury, of winger Chaouki Ben Saada (4-0-0), both are big plusses for the new coach, only one loss (to Monaco) in six when Ben Saada plays.
That win has been described as fortunate in several places, as the home side had a man sent off and we saw little from Arles as an offensive unit until very late, but how do you expect a team who had lost seven in a row to play away to a highflying opponent , come out all guns blazing ? They needed to stop the rot and that was mission accomplished, Mosca changed the squad around and must have been overjoyed with the outcome.....
Next email will be sent at 16.00 UK time today and will cover the final round of J-League matches.
As usual, on a Friday at this time of year, the focus is on Ligue 2, but I can start with a few words about the FA Cup second round tie between Bradford City and Brentford. City have played a lot of matches, two more than the Bees in the last month, they have played a midweek match for five straight weeks before this and are distracted by their Capital One Cup game with Arsenal in 11 days time. They are a big club at L2 level and really have to have promotion as a priority, they play a JPT game next midweek too. Reading between the lines, I think they will field a strong team today and rest as many as possible for the Port Vale match. It is very cold in the UK, especially up North with below freezing temperatures forecast for kick off. Brentford will rotate their squad, but we have talked many times about the keen competition for starting places and they have very good options in almost every position. They are keen to win, boss Uwe Rosler has been "promised" he can use any funds generated from a big third round tie to further strengthen the squad, they have had City watched, highlighted some of their set pieces and have been putting in extra work on the training pitch this week to combat these plays. Unfortunately, I think the odds are just about correct, so no involvement from me, however , I can point out that City have been especially vunerable just before the break, conceding 29% of all their goals between the 30-45th minute, duruing the same period the Bees have yet to concede a single goal.
FRANCE LIGUE 2:
ARLES- LE MANS
Hosts did us a favour last week with their derby win at Istres, when I wrote....
The decision to replace Thierry Laurey as Arles coach with youth academy boss Pierre Mosca was not popular with supporters or players alike, but it is done now and everyone has had 18 days to come to terms with the interim appointment. Mosca started with a 3-0 defeat to Laval, but has had 14 virtually free days to work with the players and get his ideas across and they stopped the rot ( one Ligue 2 win in ten) with a 1-0 road cup win, albeit against lowly opposition, last weekend. He now needs to get something from the derby game with neighbours Istres, where a result will get everyone on his side and he is helped in this endeavour by the return from suspension of defensive midfielder Julien Cardy (14-1-0) and from injury, of winger Chaouki Ben Saada (4-0-0), both are big plusses for the new coach, only one loss (to Monaco) in six when Ben Saada plays.
That win has been described as fortunate in several places, as the home side had a man sent off and we saw little from Arles as an offensive unit until very late, but how do you expect a team who had lost seven in a row to play away to a highflying opponent , come out all guns blazing ? They needed to stop the rot and that was mission accomplished, Mosca changed the squad around and must have been overjoyed with the outcome.....
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Arles-Avignon :
Yattara, Roques - Cantini, Quintin, Soro, Abdelhamid, N'Diaye, Plessis,
Rodriguez, Cardy, Ben Saada, Douniama, Savanier, Akalé, Pieroni, Suarez.
Le Mans : Janot, Makaridze - Buaillon,
Doumbia, Koné, Kassai, Cuffaut, Derouard, Zito, Kanté, Thomas, Sanson,
Baby, Thomert, Mendes, Sylla.
Arles have scored 42% of their goals in the last 15 minutes of games.
GFCO AJACCIO- CLERMONT
I think it is ......
I think it is ......
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GFC Ajaccio : Maury, Gigliarelli - Filippi, Rachidi, Davidas, Kehiha, Romey, Colinet, Dufau, Chevalier, Sinapi, Seymand, Poggi, Laïfa, Collorédo, Saadi, Touré.
Clermont : Farnolle, Fabre - Avinel,
Perrinelle, Saïss, Imorou, Esor, Ekobo, Bayod, Capelle, Dembélé,
Salibur, Bockhorni, Fomen, Sylla, Armand.
Hosts have scored 50% of their goals in the last 30 minutes.
Clermont have conceded 48% of their goals and scored 52% in the 30 minutes before the break ( 16th-45th minute)
RACING CLUB LENS- LAVAL
Two teams on the up, we highlighted Laval very early in their upturn as a potential improver and I am pleased with that, they have lost just once in eight, a defeat at Le Mans where they paid the price for a slow start, that was "one of those days" when everything went wrong and we can forget that. They were .....
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Lens : Kasraoui, Riou -
Bergdich, A.Touré, Yahia, Baal, Coeff, Démont, Le Moigne, Plumain,
Nomenjanahary, S.Sow, Valdivia, D.N'Diaye, Pollet, Touzghar.
Laval : Balijon, Vanhamel - Belaud,
Perrot, Talmont, Falette, Rose, Gonçalves, Betsch, Gamboa, Ewolo, Hamdi,
Troaré, Do Marcolino, Viale, Lebouc.
Lens have conceded 55% of all their goals in the last 30 minutes.
Laval conceded 39% in the last 15 minutes.
I can finish with a few words about XXX XXX at the World Challenge .....
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Good Luck.
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