You should almost know how to say hold-up in English, at the end of this quarter-final torn from the inevitable and the bad wind, that the Blues won by bravery and that the English lost by tradition. Since the merit of a team does not only consist in playing well, since collective sport rewards other virtues, it is right to celebrate the presence of the French team in the semi-finals of the World Cup as an achievement. immense, in view of all that fell on her back, of all that she went looking for, and of the strength that she knew how to create, day after day.
Vincent Duluc’s analysis after England-France: “Very good guts”
