Still looking for its first major title, the French women’s team did not survive the shock this Wednesday in the final of the Women’s Nations League against Spain (2-0). The reigning world champions demonstrated enormous mastery, to the point of pushing Hervé Renard to dare to make a comparison with their male counterparts.
The French team was unfortunately far from the mark. This Wednesday evening, the Blues were dominated head and shoulders by Spain in the final of the Women’s Nations League (2-0). In Seville, the French never managed to shake the reigning world champions.
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“Today there is a team that is number one in the world and, it is my humble opinion, by a long way, confided Hervé Renard at a press conference. “It will once again be the team to beat for these Olympic Games. It won’t be easy, we’ll have to persevere, still progress, learn lessons and continue to move forward. We’ve taken a step but not the second.”
A class away
“I had the chance to play Spain at the 2018 World Cup with Morocco, with an Iniesta-Isco-Busquets midfielder. And I had the impression of seeing the same thing this evening,” concluded the coach of the French women’s team after the match.
Still in search of a first major title, the French women’s team did not succeed in breaking the curse. As against Australia in the quarter-finals of the 2023 World Cup, or in the past against the United States during the World Cup in France in 2019, Hervé Renard’s players could only note that a class of The gap still separated them from the reference nation. All eyes are now on the ultimate goal: the Paris Olympic Games, in five months.