No feat and no final for the French team. Thursday evening, the Olympic champions let go against an Italy in a state of grace (3-0: 25-21, 25-19, 25-23), in a white-hot PalaLottomatica in Rome (11,000 spectators).
The Italians, reigning world and European champions, will go in search of a third major title in a row on Saturday against Poland. It will be a remake of the world final won by the Transalpines a year ago in Katowice (1-3). France will try to win the bronze medal against Slovenia.
The game ended in confusion and frustration for the Blues: in a difficult to understand manner, the main referee refused the video challenge on the match point, a service from Earvin Ngapeth judged a fault while on the images, he seemed to have hooked the line.
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