French Cup (Coupe de France) Match Predictions 8 February 2012 - The 90th Minute Soccer Blog

Below are predictions for all the Coupe de France matches on Wednesday, February 8, 2012. Times listed are BST or local UK time.

French Cup (Coupe de France) Match Predictions

Wednesday, 8 February 2012

Lyon v Bordeaux, 15:15 Lyon wins 1-0

Valenciennes v Lille, 18:00 Lille wins 1-0

Chateauroux v Montpellier, 19:00 Montpellier wins 2-1

Ajaccio Jeanne d'Arc, 19:50 Ajaccio wins 2-0

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French Cup (Coupe de France) Match Predictions 8 February 2012 - The 90th Minute Soccer Blog

Yohan Cabaye is used to winning things and when he was at Lille last season they won both the French Cup along with the French League Title. Yohan Cabaye no excuses at Brighton Yohan apologized earlier in the week for the dreadful capitulation in the second half at Fulham, and he has come out [...]

So we're back to yet another Cup game. Not the Coupe de la Ligue, that was last week. Not the Coupe de France either, that was the week before. No, wait, that's the Coupe de France again, but the next round. I'm getting confused... The good thing is that Lisandro isn't. He repeated this week that he WANTS to get a trophy with OL this year, and a French Cup, whichever it is, is a good and (normally) not too difficult way to get one.

Ah, the magic of the French cup We've just got over our annual dose of nostalgia during FA Cup third round weekend, but there was definitely a distinct lack of chicken chasing from England's footballing minnows. The FA Cup has been outdone by France's Coupe De France. Fifth division outfit Sable face the giants of [.

Liverpool loanee Joe Cole scored an impressive hat trick yesterday for Lille in the French Cup against Chantilly. Lille went on to record a 6-0 victory.
Liverpool fans are still left wondering why he wasn't able to produce these sort of goals for us last season, after he arrived with so much promise.

Liverpool loanee Joe Cole scored an impressive hat trick yesterday for Lille in the French Cup against Chantilly. Lille went on to record a 6-0 victory.
Liverpool fans are still left wondering why he wasn't able to produce these sort of goals for us last season, after he arrived with so much promise.

Liverpool loanee Joe Cole scored three goals for Lille on Saturday night as the Ligue 1 outfit Lille beat Chantilly 6-0 to bok their place in the last 32 of the French Cup.Cole has been in great form for Lille this season, and his goals came in the 22nd, 59th and 65th minute.The former Chelsea man recently hinted that he could stay in France after his loan spell ends.

LFC: Loan star hits treble

Joe Cole fired a hat-trick as Lille beat Chantilly 6-0 to reach the last 32 of the French Cup on Saturday night.

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Mail: Joe Cole scores a hat-trick for Lille

A Joe Cole treble helped Lille swat aside sixth division side Chantilly 6-0 to reach the French Cup last 32 as three top flight teams went out to lower league opposition.

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Every year, Tottenham are linked with a galaxy of stars. On the forums you read ‘We need a striker, we need a left back, we need a centre half' and so on and so on. Virtually a whole team, despite just being a couple of wins
from a Champions league space last season.

The ITK's come out of the woodwork claiming that a friend of a friend of Daniel Levy's gardener has heard ********* (insert any world class player you wish), is in talks with the club about an imminent deal.

Arsenal are set to complete the signing of Lille forward Gervinho for £10.6million after negotiations passed a crucial stage.

Gervinho has been in London and having agreed personal terms with the Gunners with the Ivorian is ready to put pen to paper on a four-year contract.

It looks like the Lille striker Gervinho has decided he is going to join Arsenal. The 24 year-old Ivory Coast international has just won the French Ligue 1 Championship and French Cup Double with Lille and has been linked with Arsenal, Liverpool and Newcastle United since the end of the season. But the reason I [.

Potential departures of Lille's main playmakers - originally posted on Soccerlens.com

Winning the French championship brought jubilation to the streets of Lille. Red and white flags were woven on May 22nd with the double mark emblazoned on them after Lille OSC clinched their first league title since 1954 with a 2-2 draw against Paris St.

PARIS, France — Lille claimed their first French league title since 1954 despite being held to a 2-2 draw at French Cup final victims Paris Saint-Germain in a heated encounter here on Saturday. Victors over PSG in last weekend's cup showdown, Lille required just a point to complete the second league and cup double in [.

I've just watched a couple Lille matches the Coupe de France (French Cup) final victory over Paris Saint-Germain on the weekend and the almost-league-title-clinching victory tonight over Sochaux.

The secret to Lille's success appears to be good players. A fair few of them are French most notably their rock at the back, and France's first-choice right-sided central defender, Adil Rami (who's transferring to Valencia at the end of the season).

PARIS, France Lille moved to the brink of the Ligue 1 and French Cup double when a second-half Gervinho goal secured a 1-0 league home win over Sochaux on Wednesday. The northeners, who were last champions in 1954 and won the French Cup on Saturday, have 72 points with two games left and lead [...]

Arsene Wenger, after the draw against Spurs, vehemently denied that his Arsenal boys do not have a winning mentality. Always fighting, he is developing a siege mentality within Arsenal which may prove detrimental to their already fading season. Remonstrating with referees, ungracious in defeat or draw and a stubbornness to accept that his Gunners team are anything but world beaters has been the theme of this season's title challenge.

PARIS, France — Fifth division amateurs Chambery continued their dream French Cup run on Wednesday, a 2-1 victory over Sochaux seeing them progress into the quarter-finals. Sochaux became Chambery's third first division scalp after they had previously knocked out Monaco and Brest. It is the first time a club as lowly as the Savoyards has [.

PARIS, France — Paris Saint Germain, who were last crowned French champions back in 1994, moved to within one point of leaders Lille with a 2-1 win over bottom club Arles-Avignon on Saturday. Turkish striker Mevlut Erding, PSG's top scorer last season, ensured the points with goals in either half, with Senegelese midfielder Deme Ndiaye [.

PARIS, France — Fifth-tier Chambery claimed another major French Cup scalp on Saturday, following up a success over Monaco with a penalty shootout win over another top flight side in Brest to reach the last 16 along with fellow amateurs Drancy. Bordeaux promptly became the 12th first division side to exit the tournament after they [.

PARIS, France — Montpellier moved to within one win of their first trophy in over 20 years on Tuesday as they beat 10-man Paris Saint Germain in their French League Cup semi-final. A header by Olivier Giroud four minutes from the end of extra-time handed Montpellier who won the second of their French Cups [.

PARIS, France — French international striker Andre-Pierre Gignac finally justified his 18-million-euro transfer fee on Sunday when he scored his first home league goal for champions Marseille in a 2-1 victory over Bordeaux. It was only Gignac's second league strike of the season his first was at St Etienne in October although he [.

PARIS, France — Lille kept up their unlikely charge for a first French title in over half a century on Saturday when African strike pair Moussa Sow and Gervinho scored in a 2-0 win at Nice. Lille, whose last league triumph came in 1954, stay a point clear of Paris Saint Germain who defeated Sochaux [.

The New England Revolution today announced the signing of veteran defender Didier Domi. The 32-year-old Frenchman will join the team pending the receipt of his International Transfer Certificate and will occupy one of the team's eight international roster spots.

Domi has spent his entire 14-year career in Europe, playing for France's Paris Saint-Germain, England's Newcastle United and Leeds United, Spain's Espanyol, and most recently Greece's Olympiacos.

PSG vs Lens Coupe de France- January 8, 2011 Final score :- PSG 5-1 Lens (Zoumana Camara, Nene, Guillaume Hoarau*2, Luyindula) PSG ( Paris Saint-Germain) thrashed ten man Lens 5-1 in the French Cup on January 8, 2011. Guillaume Hoaraou scored for a brace for PSG against Lens, who ended the game with ten men [.

Against Caen today, Lyon will compete in the 217th Coupe de France match in its history. So this little known competition goes a long way, and few people know that the Football Club de Lyon played in 1917 already in the final of the very first edition of this competition, against Olympique .. de Pantin (a Paris suburb).