The match ended this Saturday morning, around 7:30 a.m. (French time). A meeting dominated by the XV of France, the French outclass the Italians and spin in the semi-finals of the World Cup thanks to their victory (39-3) on the ground of Whangarei in New Zealand.
A more successful second period
In the first half, both French and Italian women got stuck in a false rhythm, for a meeting that took time to go from a sluggish and laborious tone to the more playful and twirling one that the public had the right to expect from a World Cup quarter-final.
It took almost the hour of play for the French to free themselves finally, following a penalty try granted by the referee of the meeting, and that the three quarters tricolor let go of the horses, like the sevenist Joanna Grisez, author of a hat-trick.
Les Bleues will be opposed in the semi-finals to the winner of the second quarter of the day, between New Zealanders, reigning world championsand the Welsh.