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November 30th, 2008

Nice-Grenoble: Never Mind.

By: Martha | Comments 3 Comments

Singin’ in the rain.
Conditions were so bad that the match was postponed yesterday, and then put off again today. For what it’s worth, here’s the lineup that would have taken the field — for the second match in a row, Rémy was in the squad but didn’t even made the bench. By next weekend, one [...]

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November 28th, 2008

Squad List for Grenoble (And Not Much More)

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“So this is snow, huh? I don’t get it.”
Gardiens: Moreau, Ospina
Défenseurs: Apam, Cid, Diakité, Hognon, Kanté, Rool
Milieux: Coulibaly, Echouafni, Faé, Hellebuyck, Jeunechamp, Traoré
Attaquants: Bamogo, Ben Saada, Modeste, Mouloungui, Rémy
Absents: Letizi, Ozokwo (blessés), Adu, Barul, Gace, Moussilou, Quansah (choix de l’entraîneur)
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Sorry I’ve not been around this week — travel, family and Thanksgiving seriously cut [...]

November 24th, 2008

ASSE 0-1 Nice + Some Editorializing

By: Martha | Comments 4 Comments

Who does he think he is, Gerd Müller?
ASSE 0-1 Nice
But: Echouafni (20è) pour Nice
St Etienne: Janot - Andreu, Benalouane, Varrault, Sauget - Machado, Hautcoeur, Dernis (Payet, 73è) - Ilan (c), Gomis (Gigliotti, 82è), Mirallas (Matsui, 64è)
Nice: Letizi - Diakité, Apam, Kanté, Rool - Echouafni (c), Coulibaly (Jeunechamp, 73è), Faé, Hellebuyck - Bamogo (Modeste, 58è), Mouloungui [...]

November 21st, 2008

ASSE: Sorta a Preview

By: Martha | Comments 4 Comments

My squad is how big? No shit!
For the first time since Frédéric Antonetti was a svelt 20-year-old, he’s got a full squad to choose from: No suspension, no injuries, no personal crises, no nothing. Everyone is fit and ready to go — what luxury!
Gardiens: Letizi, Ospina
Défenseurs: Apam, Cid, Diakité, Hognon, Kanté, Rool
Milieux: Coulibaly, Echouafni, Faé, [...]

November 19th, 2008

Nice 2-1 Nantes

By: Martha | Comments 2 Comments

“With my head, bi- boss! I scored with my head!”
Buts: Bamogo (20è), Mouloungui (80è) pour Nice ; N’Daw (8è) pour Nantes
Nice: Letizi - Diakité (Jeunechamp 83è), Apam, Kanté, Rool - Echouafni (c), Faé, Hellebuyck - Bamogo (Coulibaly, 86è), Modeste (Ben Saada, 73è), Mouloungui
Nantes: Alonzo - Pierre, Moullec, Mareval, Gravgaard - N’Daw, Capoue (Keseru, 83è), Da [...]



November 14th, 2008

More on Créteil + Bit of News

By: Martha | Comments No Comments

“This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”
I managed to find the Créteil match and, while I’ll spare you a full report (I can hear the sighs of relief from here), I’ve still got some reactions to offer on a handful of newbies/youngsters/Habibs.
•Ospina reads the game really well — he’s almost never surprised by [...]

November 12th, 2008

A Pair of Reports, One More Thorough Than the Other

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The number of times this man yelled “HABIB!” against Lorient: 419.
Report the First
Alright, so, the Lorient game. Ugh. Fantastic to play like that and get three points, but still — ugh. The goal was a stroke of luck, a failed clearance that ended up at Chouf’s feet with the keeper down, and which he rolled [...]

November 11th, 2008

Tiny Little Créteil Preview

By: Martha | Comments 2 Comments

I was reading — by which I mean “looking at the charts and the pictures” — La Gazzetta dello Sport this morning, and they had a piece comparing the top clubs in all the major European leagues, in which the top of each table was included. And Nice were there! For some reason, seeing that [...]

October 27th, 2008

Nice 2-2 Bordeaux

By: Martha | Comments 4 Comments

Where am I? Who are you people?
After the first 30 minutes or so of Saturday’s match, you’d never, ever have been able to convince me that Nice would get a point. Not a million years. As everyone who gave voice to the obvious after the match (Antonetti and Cyril #1 among them) said, they gave [...]

October 24th, 2008

All the Preview You’re Gonna Get, Or: Even More Ospina!

By: Martha | Comments No Comments

“Je suis un gardien de but. Oui?”
Gardiens: Letizi, Ospina
Défenseurs: Apam, Diakité, Gace, Hognon, Jeunechamp, Kanté, Rool
Milieux: Coulibaly, Echouafni, Faé, Hellebuyck, Traoré
Attaquants: Bamogo, Ben Saada, Modeste, Mouloungui, Rémy
Absents: Cid (17 stitches in his head), Adu, Asamoah, Barul, Moreau, Moussilou, Ozokwo (choix de l’entraîneur)
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So, word on the street — by which I mean the big [...]






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