Bang !
Bang!
France 2 Ecuador 0
Sub Bafetimbi Gomis hit a screamer in 59 minutes.
He’s 22 and has 16 goals for St Etienne in 27 starts and 8 sub appearances.
Senegalese descent, six foot and 12 stone and explosive.
A scorching goal : power, skill, confidence. Kenwyne Jones, eat your heart out.
Gomis made it 2-0 by scissor-volleying Anelka’s cross. Vialli used to do that at Sampdoria.
Just before the first goal, as the game rambled towards the last 30, I was thinking : “France need Fernando Torres – Cisse’s not good enough, Anelka’s lost his edge years ago, Henry’s past it. Without a Torres, France will be Portugal in blue shirts. But maybe Benzema is the new Torres.”
Bafetimbi Gomis is not as gifted as Benzema.
But he’s what you need. He’s fresh and knows where the goal is.The last player to score twice on his debut for France was Zidane 14 years ago.
Ben Arfa is like Limpar with bottle.
The awesome Thuram won his 138th cap.
Lassana Diarra was zippy and good for Nasri .
Right back Willy Sagnol won his 55th cap.
Nasri looked good in the Zidane role. A helluva player. Resourceful, loads of ideas. If one thing doesn’t work, he tries another. If that doesn’t work, he tries something else .
Nasri is 20 and won his 8th cap in this game and played 90 minutes. He has pedigree. A Clairfontaine graduate, played for France since Under-16 level.
France are in the Group of Death with Italy, Holland, Romania.
Domenech names his 23 tomorrow.
He dropped Trezeguet to bring Gomis into his squad. That was a good idea. He took off Cisse to bring on Gomis tonight. That was an even better idea. Maybe Domenech knows what he is doing.Time will tell.
Benzema could be the new Torres. Or Gomis could be the new Toto Schillaci?