friendly in Clermont Ferrand

By: j | July 19th, 2008

Todays friendly in Clermont Ferrand is about to commence. I’ll be filling you in on lineups and highlights -

PSG lineup: Mickaël Landreau, Grégory Bourillon, Ceará, Zoumana Camara, Mamadou Sakho, Sylvain Armand, Clément Chantôme, Jérémy Clément, Jérôme Rothen, Péguy Luyindula et Guillaume Hoarau

The striking combination Péguy Luyindula and Guillaume Hoarau if something to pay careful attention.

Clermont Foot
GK Pierre Bouysse, Baptiste Martin, Christophe Coué,Bruce Abdoulaye, Thomas Mienniel, Guillaume Loriot, Franck Chaussidière, Martin Douillard, Kevin Bru, Mickaël Poté, Mickael Murcy

2 minute Clermont pressing immediately wins the first corner of the match. Falls helplessly
9 minute PSG cannot keep up with Clermont yet as they are controlling play and have a sense of urgency
13 minute PSG wins a corner yet it is an empty vessel
14 minute beautiful one-two with Guillaume Hoarau but the shot drifts helplessly wide
24 minute PSG showing signs of getting their legs back. It has been a very challenging week of training but they are start to move well. Mickaël Landreau has been very wise in his choices and looking full of confidence.
31 minute Grégory Bourillon strike is brought in by Clermont ‘keeper Pierre Bouysse. This is Pierre first season with Clermont has he has just joined them from Sedan
36 minute Guillaume Hoarau who has just joined us on-loan from Le Havre is proving himself to have a tremendous work-rate. Aggressive and tenacious play so-far.
40 minute The collective of Péguy Luyindula and Guillaume Hoarau is definitely promising. Obviously this is the earliest stages of their work together but it is looking very solid as they are starting to gel with Clément Chantôme and Jérôme Rothen as you might have expected
45 minute: the half, nil score
Here it is, what we’ve been waiting for as Stéphane Sessegnon makes his first appearance with Ceará coming out.
50 minute; Mickaël Landreau makes a highlight film stop off Clermont’s Mickael Murcy. Paul le Guen will find many positives today but our ‘keeper is having a stellar day
55 minute; Again Jérôme Rothen and Guillaume Hoarau lead a counter assault. Is this the shape of the season because it is very promising.
58 minute: tempers get a bit riled up. Nothing major though
64 minute: very good movement Péguy Luyindula, Guillaume Hoarau and Jérôme Rothen definitely have a synergistic feel to their attack
65 minute: and of course as I say that Péguy Luyindula and Clément Chantôme are substituted. Don’t they know how hard this is to type of a pda – lol. In come Fabrice Pancrate et Loris Arnaud. Fabrice is no stranger to PSG fans but Loris is a very enterprising young Striker that needs to be watched closely as he has a lot of potential.
66 minute GOAL PSG – Stéphane Sessegnon starts his PSG career off right with a beautiful goal to give PSG a 1-0 lead.
67 minute Jérôme Rothen’s day is down as Sammy Traoré replaces. Very solid day that leaves you will great optimism.
77 minute penalty awarded as Stéphane Sessegnon is taken down
78 minute GOAL PSG – Guillaume Hoarau nets his second goal of the pre-season. PSG leads 2-0
Full-time PSG 2 Clermont Foot 0