Results for tag: france
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Betting.Betfair
on Jun 23, 2012 at 02:27:14 PM
[b]There's not been a 0-0 at the tournament yet but Dave Farrar fancies France to make life very difficult for Spain on Saturday evening...[/b]
Having struggled a little in their 1-1 draw with Italy in their opening game of Euro 2012, the World and European champions Spain face their second supposedly top-class test of the tournament, and there's a question about the state of mind of the French players going into the match. There are stories of a huge row in the squad after that insipid performance against Sweden, and if France are anything but fully tuned up for this game then they could be in for a beating. Laurent Blanc's right hand man Alain Boghossian has said that the row was the kind of thing that happens "between a couple" and that we shouldn't read anything into it. You can...
Posted by:
Betting.Betfair
on Jun 11, 2012 at 09:17:44 AM
[u]Match Odds[/u]
If you'd bet on this game several months ago, France would have been a real value selection. There was a time when les Bleus were underdogs, which was baffling considering their superior individual talent and the solid if unspectacular collective progress made under Laurent Blanc during the qualifiers.
Unfortunately, the market has straightened itself out. France are now favourites, with the match odds looking right on the eve of the game. The 2.56 on Karim Benzema and co. will draw in plenty of punters, but I'd recommend the safety net of 0&-0.5 on the Asian handicap (2.11) or DRAW NO BET (1.73).
[u]Over/Under 2.5 Goals[/u]
The consensus is Roy Hodgson will make England difficult to beat, and both his personal track record as a coach and the players available...
Posted by:
Betting.Betfair
on Feb 10, 2012 at 07:56:20 AM
[i]After success last week backing the New York Giants in the Super Bowl, the Betfair Contrarian is confident of following it up with a rugby triumph. He's spotted Ireland at a massive 4.6 to win away to France in the Six Nations on Saturday, and thinks that there's a formidable case for backing them despite their poor record in Paris...[/i]
[u]France are without their kicking king[/u]
Ireland couldn't have asked for a bigger boost in the build-up to Saturday's encounter than the news that France's chief kicker Dimitri Yachvili will sit it out with a back injury. The experienced scrum-half was their top points scorer at last year's World Cup, racking up an impressive tally of 39, and carried that form into their Six Nations opener against Italy, in which his ten-point haul accounted...
Posted by:
Betting.Betfair
on Feb 22, 2011 at 05:22:28 PM
[b]England players have been undergoing a series of Jungian psychological tests to boost team bonding. Ralph Ellis wonders if the Red Rose can put a feather in their caps by beating the French or whether this will go down as a bird brained experiment.[/b]
So now we know why Chris Ashton loves that flying try celebration. He's actually a bird. And not just any bird, but a yellow peacock.
That's how English rugby's emerging superstar has been categorised in a series of psychological tests carried out under the instruction of Martin Johnson. England's manager seems to be copying the "no stone unturned" approach of his World Cup winning mentor Clive Woodward ahead of this year's competition.
All the elite stars in the Six Nations squad spent a day doing detailed quizzes under the guidance...