N'Gog

[Nate.]

Anyone been watching the England - France U21 game?

 

Just turned it on to see him coming off but the commentators are raving about his performance.

 

Anyone catch it?

 

France 2 up by the way, dunno if he scored?

[Maldini]

Obertan and Moussa Sissoko scored

[kop205]

He didn't.

 

In any case, it has already been decided that he is s**** by plenty of people.

[Redwire]

He played ok. Had a couple of chances well saved and liked up pretty well.

[fabfive]

From the Fa's website

 

 

 

We're into the second half at the City Ground.

 

England v France

Under-21 International Match

The City Ground, Nottingham Forest FC

8pm, Tuesday 31 March 2009

Live on Setanta

 

We're into the second half at the City Ground and Stuart Pearce's side will look to claw back a two-goal deficit. Bolton Wanderers' Fabrice Muamba replaced David Wheater at the interval. On the hour mark, Fraizer Campbell replaced Matt Derbyshire upfront.

 

In an entertaining first 45 minutes, the French made the most of their chances in front of goal. On 26 minutes, Gabriel Obertan was found by Moussa Sissoko on the edge of the box and after a piece of good fortune, Obertan drilled the ball past Joe Hart.

 

Barely ten minutes later, Sissoko then went from provider to goalscorer. After Wheater had lost possession on the halfway line, Sissoko raced towards goal and as Hart narrowed the angle, Sissoko calmly lifted the ball over the Manchester City 'keeper to double the French lead.

 

England

1 Joe Hart, 2 Martin Cranie, 3 Andrew Taylor, 4 Michael Mancienne, 5 David Wheater (14 Fabrice Muamba, 46), 6 Nedum Onuoha, 7 James Milner, 8 Tom Huddlestone, 9 Matt Derbyshire (19 Fraizer Campbell, 60), 10 Mark Noble, 11 Adam Johnson

Substitutes 12 Craig Gardner, 13 Scott Loach, 15 Jamie O’Hara, 16 Lee Cattermole, 17 Jack Rodwell, 18 Danny Welbeck

 

Coach Stuart Pearce

 

France

1 Johan Carrasso, 2 Garry Bocaly, 3 Cheikh M'Bengue, 4 Paul Baysse, 5 Dorian Dervite, 6 Etienne Capoue, 7 Gabriel Obertan (17 Jirès Kembo Ekoko, 61), 8 Moussa Sissoko, 9 David N'Gog (18 Frédéric Nimani, 60), 10 Younousse Sankhare, 11 Armand Traore

 

 

Substitutes 12 Jean-Armel Kana-Biyik, 13 Lamine Gassama, 14 Marvin Martin, 15 Yohan Mollo, 16 Johnny Placide

 

Coach Erick Mombaerts

 

Attendance 23,632

[Maldini]

Sissoko is the kid who played against us for Toulouse at the start of last season, very good player.

[dorgie]

That's a good attendance for an U21 game.

[Raj]

Sissoko is the kid who played against us for Toulouse at the start of last season, very good player.

 

Does he play in midfield?

[Maldini]

Yeah, centre mid. He's the latest in a long line of fantastic all round midfielders to come through the French system.

[Sion]

i think there's obvious reason to sell Lucas and Sign Moussa

[Maldini]

[Philby]

Obertan looks a real talent. Keep an eye on him.

[Zoob]

I turned on after half time, and the commentators were saying N'Gog should have scored 3 or 4 goals. I just saw a couple of chances he had and I thought they were good saves by Hart rather than bad misses...

[richwilks]

I turned on just as he was running into the box, did a couple of step overs and hit a cracking shot just over the bar. Looked pretty good from what I watched but only watched in 5 minute spells.

[Raj]

i think there's obvious reason to sell Lucas and Sign Moussa

 

Indeed

[alias75]

Watched the game and was pretty impressed with him (and the whole of the France U21 team) the one problem i usually have with strikers like N'Gog is they physically have all the assets you need but don't have the game intelligence to use them effectively. But the most impressive thing about him was his movement which was very good.

 

He had a couple of good chances both were good saves by Harte, but he played the lone striker role really well and linked up the play really well.

[Magic8Ball]

Watched the game and was pretty impressed with him (and the whole of the France U21 team) the one problem i usually have with strikers like N'Gog is they physically have all the assets you need but don't have the game intelligence to use them effectively. But the most impressive thing about him was his movement which was very good.

 

He had a couple of good chances both were good saves by Harte, but he played the lone striker role really well and linked up the play really well.

Any decent wingers ? and how come Houllier isn't a scout for us at the Clairefontaine training academy ...

[richwilks]

How quick is that Armand Traore btw?

 

Looked lightening on a couple of occasions last night.

[Raj]

How quick is that Armand Traore btw?

 

Looked lightening on a couple of occasions last night.

 

Yeah, but he's s***

[Snookie]

Yeah, but he's s***

Any player named Traore is damned to be crap.

[Raj]

Any player named Traore is damned to be crap.

 

Nah, he's crap regardless of the name.

He's quick, but he has no bottle. Wenger said so himself a while ago

[Bootle Buck]

I thought the commentator was very harsh on him. He had two good chances but to be fair Hart pulled off excellent saves. His move in the second half were he beat a few players and shot just wide was superb. I can't believe the commentator said he should have scored 3/4. He loooked far better than anything England had playing upfront.

[Maldini]

The lads on TLW said the commentator was raving about him. It's on Setanta now if anyone wants to watch.

[carrafan]

Its his 20th birthday today as well. Happy birthday, you poor fecker.