Led by an unleashed Hervé Renard, the French women’s team should finish at the top of their World Cup group and (unfortunately) face Germany in the round of 16. For a worse result than under Corinne Deacon?
What bad luck for the French women’s team! Before the 2023 World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, Hervé Renard’s Bleues hoped to finish at the top of their group to avoid Germany in the round of 16. Thanks to a goal from its captain Wendie Renard, the tricolor formation precisely beat Brazil (2-1), last Saturday, in order to take the first place before a 3rd match against Panama. Except that the Mannschaft, surprised by Colombia (2-1), should finish 2nd in their pool!
In the event of such a shock in the eighth (it would be August 8), the French would absolutely not start as favorites against the Germans. This super-powerful team led by Alexandra Popp dismissed (without shaking) Les Bleues exactly a year ago, in the semi-finals of Euro 2022 in England (2-1). Not to mention that France has never won in official competition against Germany (in 5 matches).
Big first for Deacon
Despite the determination of their coach, double winner of the CAN, these Bleues would experience real disappointment by falling from the start of the final table. It would stain when Corinne Deacon has always taken a turn in the two competitions she has experienced at the head of the French selection, falling against Team USA in the quarter-finals at the 2019 World Cup in France and therefore at the euro last year.
Despite the many relationship conflicts in the group (and the sidelining of Amandine Henry and Eugénie Le Sommer), Deacon’s EDFF had reached the last four of the Women’s Euro for the first time in French history. , last year, which Olivier Echouafni failed to do at Euro 2017 or even Bruno Bini in 2009 and 2013. Hervé Renard, inducted last spring, has no objective set by the FFF . But an elimination in eighth would be very disappointing…
