The heavily redesigned French women’s football team struggled but won on Tuesday April 12 against Slovenia (1-0) and won his precious sesame for the 2023 World Cupa welcome qualification at three months of the Euro where it will however have to show a more serene face. In front of some 10,000 spectators at Le MansCorinne Deacon’s players won their eighth victory in as many matches in this qualifying round, clearing the way for Australia and New Zealand where the World Cup will be held, even before the last two meetings. you september qualifiers.
Flawless course
France, at the top of Group I with 8 points ahead of Wales, will fly to Oceania in July 2023 to play the fifth final phase of its history in the World Cup, the fourth in a row, where she will try to do better than in 2011 (fourth) then 2015 and 2019 (quarter-finals). Tuesday, the French women have however struggled for a long time before making Slovenia bend, offering two diametrically opposed faces from one period to another: imprecise and sometimes tender before the break, voluntary and dangerous after. The doubts born before half-time also disappeared as soon as the locker room returned, with a goal scored after just two minutes by Delphine Cascarino. Released, the Blues then pressed on the mushroom and set fire to the Slovenian defense, saved by a post on a Fox head then feverish with each tricolor incursion.
Before the World Cup, the Euro
Three months before their entry into the running in Euro 2022, on July 10 against Italy, the Blues know, however, thatthey will have to raise the level still further to hope to win a first international title. The first period can serve as a useful reminder. There is still work to be done for Les Bleues, whose series of 12 straight victories, unprecedented since the record of 17 consecutive successes achieved between August 2011 and July 2012, may act as a sham.