Far superior to Morocco, the France team easily won its Round of 16 Women’s World Cup 4-0 on Tuesday and will face Australia, one of the two host countries, on Saturday in the quarterfinals. final of the competition.
Arriving first in its World Cup group in Australia and New Zealand, the French women’s team had the chance to see Germany eliminated to everyone’s surprise and thus face Morocco in the round of 16. Hervé Renard’s Bleues easily won (4-0) against the Lionesses led by Reynald Pedros, to reach the quarter-finals of the competition.
The French quickly took the lead. Kadidiatou Diani opened the scoring on a cross from Sakina Karchaoui (15th), for her 4th goal of the competition, before being a decisive passer on the two other achievements of the first period, for Kenza Dali (20th) and Eugénie Le Sommer (24th). In the second half, “ELS” took over a cross from Vicki Becho (71st) for her… 92nd goal for the tricolor!
Wendie Renard and her teammates are now preparing a high-flying quarterback against Australia, which will play in front of 50,000 supporters at Brisbane Stadium on Saturday (9 a.m. in France). In addition to this significant advantage, the Matildas are in great shape (4-0 victory against Canada then 2-0 against Denmark in 8th) and have found their star Sam Kerr. Not to mention that they beat France 1-0 in a warm-up match just before this Oceania World Cup…
